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Regional telecommunications provider Qwest has named a veteran telecom executive with recent experience running a retailer as its new CEO, as the company hopes to gain a fresh start and put an insider trading scandal and years of red ink in its rear view mirror. Edward Mueller will succeed Richard N...

A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for linking to images of its content that have been published without permission by other Web sites. MSN's image search feature links to thumbnails of Perfect 10's content that users can then click on to view in full-size versions, according t...

E-mail and other forms of electronic communications have become pervasive and essential to business growth and operational productivity. Today, with more than 170 billion e-mails and 580 billion IMs exchanged daily, companies have seen a 334 percent annual increase in bandwidth, processing and stora...

Google has begun offering users of its various Web services the option of getting more storage, but that additional capacity will come at a cost. Google will offer users of Gmail and Picasa, its online photo storage and sharing service, the chance to expand the amount of storage supporting their acc...

As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Ve...

As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Ve...

As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Ve...

Universal Music Group will test selling music free of DRM technology, and it plans to make the tracks available through RealNetworks' Rhapsody service and other outlets -- but not through the iTunes Music Store. Universal becomes the second major record label after EMI to begin offering music withou...

"Due to exceptionally high volume, requests may be delayed up to 72 hours." That message may be mundane when posted at most Web sites, but when it's posted at an online bank, it's as dangerous as blood in shark-infested waters. That's because it's tantamount to every banker's worst nightmare: a run ...

Vonage shares surged higher amid a stock market selloff Thursday after the VoIP provider posted better-than-expected earnings. Vonage cut its net loss to $34 million, or 22 cents, in the second quarter, less than half of the losses it posted in the year-ago quarter, when it lost $74 million. Revenue...

Blockbuster will buy film download site Movielink, a bid by the largest video and DVD rental chain to assure it remains a key player in distribution of movies even when DVDs become less prevalent. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Blockbuster has been known to have been in talks with Movi...

John Schappert, who helped create and grow the "Madden NFL" franchise of video games, has taken a position with Microsoft's Live interactive entertainment division. Schappert moves to Microsoft from Electronic Arts, following in the footsteps of his former boss at EA, Don Mattrick, who will now be h...

E-commerce is an important sales channel to businesses of all sizes, but when it's a company's sole meal ticket, the stakes are even higher. Threats to Internet profits often lay hidden and customers rarely stop to point them out. "An increase in help-desk call volume is usually the first indicator ...

Federal prosecutors have drawn first blood in the stock options backdating scandal. Following a five-week trial, Gregory L. Reyes, the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, was convicted of 10 counts of conspiracy and fraud in Federal District Court in San Francisco. Reyes could receive a se...

By 2011, Internet advertising is expected to become the largest advertising segment, surpassing newspapers for the first time, a new study reported Tuesday. The same study predicts overall communications spending to top $1 trillion in 2008, making it the third-fastest-growing sector in the U.S. econ...