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Investors in Vonage cheered Thursday after the embattled VoIP firm's CEO said he would step down and the company pledged a "broad restructuring." Michael Snyder resigned effective immediately late Wednesday, Vonage said, giving up both his CEO role and his seat on the company's board of directors. C...

It is not unusual for small to medium business managers to emulate Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter, wearing six or eight hats simultaneously in their business efforts. Sometimes, the hat hardest to wear is IT management. All businesses, large and small, run on information. When that information is lost o...

Facebook.com, which has attracted legions of 20-something and younger users with its interactive tools and general networking concept, is getting ready to unveil a redesign with new features that make the Web site easier to use. Many of the modifications respond directly to feedback from more than 1...

Advertisers face multiple new challenges today. Consumers' viewing and purchasing habits are changing dramatically, the number of ways to reach potential customers is increasing and new techniques to measure advertising effectiveness are emerging. The confluence of these changes is leading advertise...

The role and importance of governance is growing. As enterprises embrace governance, risk and compliance platforms, as well SOA governance approaches, are these capabilities headed for a mashup, if not technically than at least operationally? Do they lead to an uber-governance that eventually includ...

Google nemesis Viacom has struck a deal to have rival search engine Yahoo deliver advertising to its broadband-friendly Web sites. Yahoo will become the exclusive provider of sponsored search and contextual ads on 33 Viacom sites, including MTV.com, VH1.com, Nickelodeon.com and ComedyCentral.com. Th...

Although a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit last Thursday, Sun Microsystems now says it will refile the suit against Hynix Semiconductor and other makers of DRAM chips for what it says was illegal price-fixing. Judge Phyllis Hamilton dismissed Sun's complaint because she said she needed more info...

The United States has filed two complaints with the World Trade Organization over China's trade policies, claiming the country is not doing enough to protect the intellectual property of American companies, including software makers, movie studios and music labels. The office of U.S. Trade Represent...

Historically, a Web service has been understood to be a software piece that enabled machines to interact over a network. That network may have been a closed-loop enterprise system or the Internet. However, in recent years the term has taken on new meaning. It is frequently applied to online business...

Google has apologized to Sohu.com after the Chinese Web portal accused the search giant of illegally incorporating its data in a recently released Google tool that aims to make inputting Chinese characters easier. The tool is similar to the autofill function in many applications, which suggests a wo...

VoIP firm Vonage will continue to provide service to its 2.2 million customers and sign up new subscribers after an appeals court granted it a stay of an injunction late Friday. The stay came after a judge issued an injunction earlier in the day Friday that would have barred Vonage from signing up n...

Advanced Micro Devices will reduce hiring and cut other expenses in response to a first-quarter revenue miss, a likely sign that larger rival Intel has regained the upper hand in recent months. AMD expects to report first quarter revenue of $1.225 billion, significantly below the $1.5 billion being ...

Welcome to the new frontier of Web 2.0. Imagine sitting in your living room and pulling up a favorite TV show to watch online. Easily distracted -- who isn't these days -- you simultaneously begin a chat with dear friends you've never met in person who live across the country. One tells you about a ...

Right now, music fans around the world can choose from some 10,000 Internet radio stations, each one streaming a unique mix of music. Some of those stations are operated by industry titans; others are the Internet arms of traditional terrestrial radio; and many more are tiny operations feeding their...

The nation's largest cable TV trade group is dropping eBay from its prime-time lineup, saying it would withdraw from an online advertising exchange program proposed by the auction giant. The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau, which represents big-named networks, said it was the best decision for th...