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Technology has finally made its impact on medical practices. In order to achieve greater efficiencies within their office and administrative staff, many physicians have now gone from paper to computer. Additionally, diagnoses and delivery of quality patient care are greatly enhanced with the assista...

It's no wonder that industry analysts predict the mobile advertising market will reach $10 billion in just a few short years. The scenario is a marketer's dream: an always on, always with you, two-way device that provides an unprecedented level of user information for the delivery of a device-specif...

A tech association representing such industry stalwarts as Google and Microsoft is taking aim at what it sees as a stealth campaign to intimidate consumers from exercising their fair use rights with respect to copyrighted material. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed a c...

Club Penguin, a quickly growing virtual world targeted at children, is now part of the Disney empire. Disney grabbed the company for $350 million in cash plus up to $350 million more based on the site's earnings over the next two years. Club Penguin is exactly the type of online entertainment proper...

Gadget freaks can finally drop their $500 to $600 on the long-awaited iPhone. One of the largest product launches in electronics history, the sleek device has stirred huge expectations among consumers. Notwithstanding the clever finger-flicked interface and general engineering triumph, the iPhone co...

Time Warner's profits for the second quarter were up about 5.2 percent, thanks largely to the strength of its cable division, the company reported Wednesday. Net profit for the quarter was $1.067 billion, or 28 cents per share, up from $1.014 billion, or 24 cents per share, a year earlier, the compa...

Online video watching is growing rapidly, and where the eyeballs go, you can expect advertisers to follow. Sixty-five percent of U.S. broadband users watch video online at least occasionally -- a substantial increase over last year, when that number was 44 percent, according to a report released las...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...

Sun Microsystems has chalked up its third profitable quarter in a row, a testament that the company's turnaround plan is taking hold. Profits for the server company's fourth quarter were $329 million, or 9 cents a share -- a significant step up from the 5 cents a share analysts expected. It is also ...

Sirius Satellite Radio further shrunk its net loss in the second quarter, thanks in large part to 561,493 new subscribers and a revenue growth of 51 percent over the same quarter a year ago, the company reported Tuesday. Revenue reached $226.4 million, while the number of subscribers rose to 7.1 mil...

Web analytics usage has reached mainstream status, with 82 percent adoption among companies surveyed recently by Aberdeen. However, a vast range of maturity exists regarding analytics process, data analysis and corporate understanding of Web metrics. A fundamental impediment precluding many companie...

Verizon posted strong financial gains for the second quarter of 2007 Monday, calling out its growth in wireless and high-speed Internet subscribers. The diversified phone company's net profit rose 4.5 percent to $1.7 billion, up from $1.61 billion from the same period a year earlier. Verizon's opera...

Google and YouTube are planning to unveil copyright protection technology that goes above and beyond what some observers think is even possible. A Google lawyer told a judge that Google it is creating a database of video "fingerprints" and a system that will match them against uploaded clips to scre...