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Shifting away, at least temporarily, from its once potent direct-sales model, Dell next month will begin selling desktop personal computers in thousands of Wal-Mart stores across North America. Starting June 10, two new Dell desktop models will be available for less than $700 at Wal-Mart, the discou...

More Americans are taking a carefree attitude toward the nuisance of spam clogging their e-mail in-boxes, according to a new study. Better familiarity, spam filtering and a decrease in pornography-laced spam have eased users' concerns over the scourge. "It's starting to become part of life online," ...

Internet advertising grew by about 35 percent in 2006, according to a new study that suggests companies and their advertising agencies are increasingly embracing the Web as a viable place to build brands and sell goods. Online advertising revenue grew to $16.9 billion last year, according to the lat...

HP and the SEC have reached a settlement on charges that HP misled investors by not disclosing that a board member had resigned over the spying tactics used by the former chairman. HP agreed to an SEC order that contains no penalties and admits no wrongdoing but contains a pledge that the company wi...

Complex event processing is a rapidly growing software sector that is creating a new generation of real-time, event-driven business applications. CEP is the engine behind ultra-low latency trading systems in financial services, applications that monitor and proactively manage customer interactions w...

Members of the European Union approved a measure Wednesday that would scale back the roaming charges Europeans must pay when using their mobile phones to dial home during their travels across the continent. A final vote has been set for June 29, said EU Secretary of State Joachim Wuermeling, who exp...

NASA has awarded HP a seven-year contract that could be worth as much as $5.6 billion, HP announced Wednesday. Under the IDIQ contract, HP will deliver desktops, workstations and blade PCs with Linux and Unix capabilities, as well as servers and printers, among other offerings. Government purchasers...

The recording industry appears to be changing its tune, now offering to defer hefty new royalty rates for smaller Internet radio stations that might otherwise be forced to tune out due to high costs. However, it doesn't appear the proposed new price structure has won over any fans in the opposition'...

China-based PC maker Lenovo, which altered the personal computer landscape with its purchase of IBM's personal computer line, returned all of its operations worldwide to profitability in the fourth quarter, including the first-ever profit for its U.S.-based business, the company said. Lenovo earned ...

Despite their denials, newspapers all over the world are simply dying. The gravity of the problem is not the result of competition from TV or the Internet. Rather, it's due to the fact that people all over the world prefer moving pictures in the palms of their hands over deciphering or reading betwe...

A lawsuit that began as a quest to reimburse customers for alleged collusion among telecom providers to lock upstart companies out of the market and keep prices high has ended with new restrictions on how such class action suits can be brought into court. Plaintiffs in the class action alleged that ...

XM Satellite Radio fully restored its service Tuesday, the company said, after outages affected an unknown number of subscribers for parts of two days. XM believed all service had been restored by early Tuesday afternoon, more than 24 hours after outages were first reported midday Monday. The compan...

Tapping deeper into one of the fastest-growing segments of the memory chip market, Intel has joined with STMicroelectronics and a private equity firm to establish a new flash memory company. The two chipmakers entered into the agreement to combine existing assets of businesses that last year generat...

The record label home to some of the world's top pop groups, such as the Beatles and Coldplay, has agreed in principle to a $4.7 billion takeover by private equity group Terra Firma Capital Partners. EMI Group spurned a proposal from Warner Music Group earlier this year, but now considers Terra's o...

Google shook up the e-payment market last summer with a ballyhooed entry into this space with its Google Checkout service. While many positioned the move as a salvo against eBay and its PayPal subsidiary, traditional banks may have more to lose if Google is successful as the Internet increasingly re...