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The battle between Nokia and Qualcomm hit a high note Thursday, just days before the licensing agreement between the two combatants is set to expire. Nokia, the No. 1 maker of mobile phone handsets, announced that it had made a $20 million payment to Qualcomm to cover second quarter 2007 licensing f...

VeriSign announced Thursday it will raise the fees it charges individuals and organizations to register Internet domain names ending in ".com" and ".net." The firm, which controls the two most popular domain name suffixes on the net, said the annual ante for .com will increase by 7 percent to $6.42,...

Vonage can continue to provide its VoIP service to current customers, but cannot sign up any new subscribers under an injunction issued Friday on behalf of patent plaintiff Verizon Communications. The partial injunction bars Vonage from registering new customers but stops short of forcing the Web-ca...

Qwest founder and billionaire Phil Anschutz testified on behalf of former company CEO Joe Nacchio Thursday, telling jurors that around the time he was accused of selling stock, a distraught Nacchio was considering resigning because of issues within his family. Nacchio told Anschutz on more than one ...

As the evolution of integrated, multimedia wired and wireless networks and services continues apace, be prepared for the rise of mobile marketing -- or m-marketing -- in the United States as telcos open up their platforms to third-party content providers. More companies are developing mobile adverti...

Two of the retail industry's largest trade associations have joined forces with the FBI to develop a network dedicated to fighting organized retail crime. The Law Enforcement Retail Partnership Network, known as LERPnet and due to launch on April 9, is a secure, national database that will allow ret...

Take-Two Interactive Software on Wednesday said regulators have begun a formal probe of its options dating practices, a move that suggests a recent change of leadership at the company may not have put an end to the options questions. The New York-based company disclosed the formal probe by the Secur...

The user who posted a video on YouTube poking fun at Thailand's king apparently has removed the video. However, the country's government says a ban on using Google's viral video site remains in place until all evidence of the offending clip is gone. The YouTube ban is staying in place because remain...

Suppliers may be willing to offer you favorable pricing in exchange for your business, but that assumes you have enough control over your spend to direct your purchasing dollars to them. In businesses with multiple locations where purchasing decisions are made at the local level, suppliers have good...

The FBI is reportedly investigating the legal issues associated with virtual casinos in Linden Lab's "Second Life" online world. In "Second Life," millions of registered users can create their own "avatars," or personas, in an online world with its own economy. The virtual world also has its own cur...

A lawsuit brought against Microsoft this week claims the software giant knowingly placed "Windows Vista Capable" labels on a large number of PCs that can run the new operating system only in its most basic form. A consumer who claims to be a victim of "bait-and-switch" sales tactics by Microsoft fil...

Best Buy edged further ahead of rival Circuit City in the battle for consumer electronics and entertainment spending in the fourth quarter, with high-end TVs and other devices helping drive Best Buy's gains and costs associated with a restructuring plan dragging down Circuit City's. Best Buy's profi...

Follow service-oriented architecture to its logical conclusions and you recognize that modern corporations will soon be operated on the equivalent of aviation's "fly by wire." The traditional governance and management means of running a business -- the levers, pulleys, cables and brute muscle -- wil...

Cable giant Comcast extended its regional reach Tuesday with its announcement that it will buy privately held Patriot Media & Communications for around $483 million in cash. The deal gives Comcast control of a tightly focused regional network with about 81,000 video subscribers mainly focused in...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has established rules that prohibit telephone and mobile phone carriers from releasing customer records over the phone without a password. In part, the new privacy rules are designed to protect against pretexting, the practice of impersonating a phone custo...