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The chairman of a powerful Congressional committee filed a bill Thursday that aims to repeal the ban on Internet gambling passed last year. Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, filed the measure Thursday morning. Frank has been a vocal opponent of the ban, which bec...

Looking at the current state of line-of-business applications and how companies use them to track and manage their operations, one can't help but notice how there's a strong resemblance to the days before the networked enterprise, circa 1987. Back then, resources were dispersed in little silos we ca...

Shares of Vonage soared briefly after the beleaguered VoIP firm won a major court victory that will enable it to continue signing up new customers while its appeal of a patent infringement verdict wends its way through the legal system. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington gra...

How do you suppose a professor of computer science and engineering might use Web 2.0 tools? Assisting students to manage an intramural sports league online is probably not the first thing that would come to mind. That, though, is exactly what Yannis Papakonstantinou, a professor at the University o...

Shares of IBM powered higher Tuesday after the technology giant said it would pay a larger quarterly dividend to shareholders and move to buy back up to $15 billion worth of its own stock. IBM said its board of directors had voted to increase its quarterly cash dividend to 40 cents per share, a 33 p...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago. The San Antonio-based company reported net income of $2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago. The San Antonio-based company reported net income of $2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago. The San Antonio-based company reported net income of $2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1...

Yahoo has teamed with digital entertainment company Gracenote to provide supposedly official lyrics to hundreds of thousands of popular songs. Yahoo said the lyrics, for songs from almost 100 music labels, will be free. The company also stressed that, unlike lyrics widely available at other Web site...

Over the last 18 months, how often have you heard rumors that an online music service from Amazon was imminent? Plenty, no doubt, so much so that it seems Amazon has redefined the term "imminent" in much the same way that Google redefined the term "beta." Nevertheless, the rumor has arisen again, re...

How significant is a Web site to your organization? My impression is that for businesses who have devoted the resources to develop and maintain an effective online presence, its Web site's impact is unprecedented, and for the folks who haven't gone down that path, it's value and profitability are ma...

Microsoft on Monday gave the European Union's antitrust regulators more information on its code-sharing program. The company also asked regulators for guidance on how much it can charge rivals for access to its Windows server protocols. The software giant was hoping to avoid fines on top of the near...

Motorola has snapped up Terayon Communication Systems, a digital video processing and networking software maker, for $140 million, the companies announced on Monday. Terayon's video-processing chips will allow Motorola to offer digital ads and graphical overlays on its cell phone displays, which ult...

A private equity consortium led by Affiliated Computer Services founder Darwin Deason has boosted its bid to buy the company and take it private, hoping to convince shareholders to sell despite the reluctance of the information technology services firm's board of directors. Deason and Cerberus Capit...

In this fast-paced world, there is one thing most computer users have in common: We have all lost data at one time or another. For the lucky ones, this is not a painful experience -- just one of inconvenience. Unfortunately for others, the data loss is impacting because the lost data was irreplaceab...