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Computer hackers swiped information from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards of discount retailing giant TJX customers over the course of several years, the company confirmed this week. TJX first reported in January that hackers had breached a system that handles its credit card, debit card...

Just one look at firms such as Amazon, eBay, Wal-Mart and Target and it's readily apparent that these companies have likely spent millions creating and staffing their respective infrastructures. Businesses like Amazon and eBay at least had to learn to walk before they ran to the top of their market....

PC industry leader Hewlett-Packard filed a patent infringement lawsuit Tuesday against up-and-coming rival Acer. HP alleges that its Taiwan-based competitor has violated five patents that HP acquired between 1997 and 2003. The patents deal with technologies for read/write optical drives, notebook's ...

An executive manager and member of the executive board of technology and industrial giant Siemens was ordered to remain in the custody of German law enforcement officials Wednesday after being arrested and charged in connection with an alleged bribery scheme. Johannes Feldmayer had asked to be "temp...

The navel gazing and gnashing of teeth over the Web 2.0 category reminds me of a chat I had with Joe Firmage back in 1996. He was on the road in Silicon Valley chatting up all the media types and analysts on the extraordinary potential for USWeb, the Web site building and intranet services company h...

Jim Stickley, CTO of TraceSecurity makes his living sneaking into other peoples' businesses and leaving with their data. Stickley robs banks, but unlike conventional thieves, he is not after what is locked inside the vault. Instead, he steals personally identifiable information such as names, addres...

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users. Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can ...

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users. Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can ...

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users. Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can ...

Over-the-air music downloads just got less expensive, at least for Sprint customers. As part of a number of moves to boost its music download business, Sprint announced it will charge 99 cents for all songs purchased from its Sprint Music Store. The price cut, slated to begin early next month, will ...

Bidding to take a lead in the mobile search and advertising space, Yahoo on Tuesday said it would invite more publishers to take advantage of its mobile platform. The company said it was launching new services aimed at helping publishers get their content onto the phones of consumers and to leverage...

Just how is Web 2.0 affecting retailers? Well, retailers are getting absolutely hammered on price, and it's mainly because of the transparency of the Web. In response to increased competition on price, many are cutting prices even further. While there seems to be a fear among online retailers around...

European Union antitrust regulators have given Microsoft more time to prove it is complying with a requirement to fairly license its server software communications protocols. Microsoft now has until April 23 to respond to charges from the European Commission, which has said that Microsoft has yet to...

The stagnant telecom equipment market received a major boost with Verizon Wireless' award of a three-year, $6 billion contract to its primary network infrastructure provider, Alcatel-Lucent. Under the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will supply a range of equipment, software and services to support Verizon...

Chipmaker Intel announced Monday it would build a $2.5 billion wafer fabrication facility in northeast China, the company's latest and largest investment to date in the booming country. The plant -- which will also be Intel's first fabrication plant, or fab, anywhere in Asia -- will be located in th...