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Cisco Systems released fourth quarter and fiscal year results that heartened technology investors and, according to the networking giant's CEO, reflected "great execution across the company." For the year, Cisco reported net sales of $34.9 billion, a 23 percent increase over its 2006 sales figure, a...

Sprint Nextel said Wednesday its second-quarter earnings fell sharply in part due to costs associated with the merger creating the third-largest national telecom carrier. Sprint Nextel still managed to beat Wall Street estimates with net income of $19 million, or a penny per share, compared with a p...

Hoping to use social networking to compete with auction giant eBay, Buy.com on Tuesday launched Garage Sale, a service that lets users sell goods and services from within their home pages on sites such as Facebook. The Internet retailer said its service would be immediately available to users of Fac...

A California state law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors was declared unconstitutional Monday by a U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment. The law, which was signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005 but had not yet been implemente...

The Bush administration upheld the International Trade Commission's ban on the import of cell phones containing Qualcomm chips Monday, prompting vendor Qualcomm to announce that it will appeal and renew once again its request for a stay on the ban. "I have decided to permit the limited exclusion ord...

A federal judge has handed Microsoft a huge victory in years-old patent spat with telecom giant Alcatel-Lucent focusing on how personal computers running Windows play back MP3 music files, setting aside a $1.5 billion jury award granted after the software giant was found to have infringed on two dig...

While Apple's iPhone clearly is aimed squarely at the consumer market, that hasn't stopped business users from coveting it as well -- and putting it to work. Independent software vendors are jumping in, making integration solutions and applications that work with the iPhone. NetSuite, for example, h...

Arming for battle in the digital music space, Amazon.com has invested in a startup that attempts to blend digital music sales with social networking. AmieStreet.com, a digital music store that prices music based on its popularity among visitors to the site, said Amazon was the lead investor in its f...

President Bush on Sunday afternoon signed into law a controversial measure giving U.S. government officials increased authority to listen in on international communications without first obtaining a warrant. S. 1927 updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by permitting warrantless surveill...

EMI Group, the UK-based record label that is awaiting a takeover by a private equity firm, posted lower revenue for its second quarter as CD sales plunged but indicated its DRM-free music experiment with iTunes is off to a fast start. EMI's revenue was down 5.1 percent overall, in line with its own ...

The online retail game has changed -- again. Your customers' expectations are increasing. Will you meet them? Or will you miss them? A revolution is taking place online. New Web technologies are providing a more interactive shopping experience and putting the power of shared community in your custo...

Lately, corporate interest in Web services has been rising -- and justifiably so. The advent of this new way of building applications promises to almost magically allow organizations to exchange information within their own systems with partners and customers. While the potential benefits are notewo...

Not content to sell everything from video downloads to cosmetics to furniture, Amazon.com quietly rolled out a new service Wednesday called "AmazonFresh," a grocery store and home delivery site. Currently stating availability only in the Seattle area, the grocery service appears to offer similar ser...

Microsoft is launching a pilot program to test a free, advertising-funded version of Microsoft Works, the company confirmed Friday. Dubbed "Microsoft Works SE 9," the ad-supported version of the entry-level software will be distributed preinstalled on computers manufactured by a select group of part...

A federal grand jury in San Diego has indicted 18 people involved in an Internet pharmacy that took in $126 million from the illegal sale of prescription drugs, Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Karen Hewitt ann...