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A Russian court acquitted Denis Kvasov, chief of now-closed online music site AllofMP3.com, of copyright violations in a case widely seen as a test of Russia's commitment to protecting intellectual property under global agreements. The site sold individual music tracks at below market value without ...

The bad news just keeps on coming for Take 2 Interactive, parent company of Rockstar Games. The firm revealed Wednesday that following a year-long informal investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into the handling of certain stock options grants, the company received a Wells call on ...

Sprint Nextel formally announced plans to make a major bet on WiMax, a next-generation technology for high-speed wireless Internet communications that the telecom and wireless company plans to invest as much as $5 billion in over the next 10 years. Sprint announced it will market its WiMax offering ...

The Bush administration is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th District in San Francisco to dismiss a lawsuit filed by consumers and privacy advocates against AT&T for its role in a program that enables eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, saying allowing the case to proceed would ...

The Bush administration is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th District in San Francisco to dismiss a lawsuit filed by consumers and privacy advocates against AT&T for its role in a program that enables eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, saying allowing the case to proceed would ...

The Bush administration is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th District in San Francisco to dismiss a lawsuit filed by consumers and privacy advocates against AT&T for its role in a program that enables eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, saying allowing the case to proceed would ...

The competitive environment that characterizes today's broadband and value-added services landscape should certainly grow a variety of digital lifestyle products and services, including home networking. Consumers are also primary beneficiaries of increased competition among carriers. Case studies re...

Application infrastructure firm Citrix will buy open source virtualization company XenSource for $500 million, a deal announced just hours after another virtualization firm made a dazzling debut on Wall Street. Citrix will pay a combination of cash and stock for Palo Alto, Calif.-based XenSource, a ...

E-mail and other forms of electronic communications have become pervasive and essential to business growth and operational productivity. This new dependency on messaging has created a whole new spectrum of major risks, vulnerabilities and requirements for companies of all sizes. "Postini customers t...

If you're looking for a credit card and a pleasant experience on the Web, the place to go is Capital One -- at least, according to Web site evaluation firm Change Sciences Group. That's because when it comes to credit card cyber-stops, the "What's in your wallet?" folks have created a site that's ea...

Google's YouTube is seeking to depose high-profile comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as part of its defense of a $1 billion copyright infringement suit filed by Viacom, parent company of the Comedy Central network where they serve up their fake news and political digs. Stewart, who hosts "Th...

VMware, the server virtualization firm spun off by EMC with the help of some high-profile industry backers, made an impressive debut on Wall Street Tuesday, with the company's shares rising 90 percent in early trading. VMware shares priced at $29 late Monday -- the high end of a $27 to $29 range -- ...

One of the hard realizations that most new e-commerce companies must make sooner or later is that simply creating a Web site does not mean customers will visit it. Sure, there are hundreds of millions of potential customers online, but there are also billions of other Web sites competing for their a...

Completing its largest acquisition ever, Microsoft closed its $6 billion purchase of digital advertising player aQuantive, then created a new business unit to encompass aQuantive and its three companies: Avenue A | Razorfish, Atlas Solutions and DRIVE Performance Solutions. Formed in 1997 and based ...

Regulators from the European Union have given their blessing for a plan by Intel and STMicroelectronics to spin off and combine their respective flash memory chip units. The proposal, which also calls for a major cash infusion from a private equity firm, would not pose an unfair risk to competition ...