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The lawsuit IBM filed against Amazon for multiple patent violations has ended amicably, with Amazon agreeing to pay undisclosed license fees. The legal battle over the disputed technologies began with much fanfare last fall, when IBM filed a complaint alleging that Amazon had infringed five of its p...

Social networking powerhouse MySpace and Photobucket, a photo-sharing site, reportedly have come to terms on a possible buyout deal. A preliminary deal has been reached, and the acquisition of Photobucket will cost MySpace up to $250 million. Photobucket and MySpace, owned by News Corp., have so far...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has fallen short in his bid to win a seat on the board of directors of sagging handset maker Motorola, with the company announcing that preliminary estimates of votes show all incumbent board members re-elected. The results -- which won't be finalized for a few weeks ...

Reigning PC king HP's second quarter results will exceed earlier guidance, thanks to strong sales of PCs and enterprise-class servers, the company announced Tuesday. The news sent the company's stock to a six-year high. HP's revenue for the quarter will be between $25.5 billion and $25.55 billion, w...

Marketers assume that Googling for information is an automatic response the instant a Web surfer opens a browser. For many Internet users, the theory is true. However, many people bypass search engines altogether in favor of a technique called direct navigation. Direct navigation is when a user dire...

Marvell Technology Group announced several changes to its leadership after an internal investigation found that stock options grants were routinely backdated, the company announced Monday. The firm indicated that more changes could be on the way. Marvell's CFO George Hervey has resigned, the company...

Google's YouTube-related legal struggles have mounted in recent days, with NBC Universal and Viacom lending support to a California journalist's copyright infringement suit against the video-sharing site, and a third lawsuit filed by England's top soccer league. Both NBC Universal and Viacom -- whic...

Every interaction an enterprise has with customers, partners or suppliers instigates a new trail of data that can create a deluge effect over a short period of time. Experts predict that within a few years, it won't be uncommon to see enterprises with networks and databases storing over 100 TB of in...

Television once represented the Holy Grail for advertisers. As millions of consumers tuned in to watch their favorite dramas and sitcoms, it presented advertisers with unprecedented opportunities to reach millions of target customers quickly and easily. As technology has advanced, television's grip ...

Following in the footsteps of fellow telecom equipment maker Alcatel, Nokia Siemens Networks will advance plans to reduce its 60,000-person workforce by 15 percent -- 9,000 people -- in the next two-and-a-half years, the company said Friday. The cuts are part of a larger plan to become more competit...

Microsoft and Yahoo have reportedly discussed a possible merger or other strategic alliance, a move that would dramatically alter the online landscape and could provide Microsoft with the weapon it needs to better battle with search and advertising giant Google. The two firms have held preliminary t...

Many people have defined software development as more art than science -- sometimes even a dark art. That's why the business side of an enterprise is often perplexed by the application lifecycle management process. They see what goes in as requirements, and see what comes out as functionality -- but...

An appeals court has denied Vonage's bid for a new trial in its patent spat with Verizon Communications, dashing the VoIP firm's hopes that a recent Supreme Court ruling would pave the way for its case to be reheard. Vonage had asked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to issue an ...

Only careless scholarship, author Geoffrey Pullum claims in his book The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, has propagated the myth of dozens or hundreds of Eskimo words for snow. Aggressive fact-checking, he says, would put an end to the myth. The information security industry might learn a thing or two...

Time Warner has reported first-quarter profits that outperformed Wall Street expectations, mostly on the strength of its rise in new cable video, Internet and phone subscribers, as well as strong online ad sales. Shares of the world's largest media company rose more than 3 percent as it reported a 4...