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When implementing a service-oriented architecture or utilizing Web services, organizations can reuse business components -- asset reuse being one of the core drivers of the SOA or Web service ROI calculation. It is critical that companies find an efficient and robust solution that mitigates risk, in...

Cisco and IBM are expanding their long-standing partnership with the extension of their Global Services Alliance into 46 new countries. The two partner firms collaborate on many initiatives and products. The expansion of this particular initiative suggests that it is going exactly as the companies p...

The SEC on Monday filed civil fraud charges against four former executives of troubled telecom gearmaker Nortel Networks, which has spent the past several years embroiled in an accounting mess. The executives had engaged in "accounting fraud to bridge gaps between Nortel's true performance, its inte...

To help meet demand for online streaming video of the upcoming NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship, CBS SportsLine is doubling its bandwidth reserves and offering preregistration. The company, part of CBS Interactive, expects "an even greater audience" for the March Madness games than it e...

Most federal agencies have failed to comply with a decade-old law designed to ease public access to government information over the Internet, according to a report released Monday. A mere one out of every five federal agencies actually complies with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act amendmen...

The Association for Retail Technology Standards got busy early this year. The technology standards division of the National Retail Federation, ARTS began in 2007 with the introduction of several e-commerce data and content management standards. Among those standards, ARTS -- in partnership with the...

As part of its crackdown on fraudulent e-mails promoting bogus investments, the Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended securities trading of 35 companies that have been the subject of such e-mails. Sometimes called pump-and-dump schemes, these e-mails typically urge the recipient to buy a ...

AT&T wants to renegotiate a long-standing partnership with Yahoo, apparently seeking a scaled-down deal to gain greater control over the content delivered to its broadband customers. The move could cost Yahoo nearly a quarter billion dollars in annual revenue. The deal, which Yahoo signed in 20...

AT&T wants to renegotiate a long-standing partnership with Yahoo, apparently seeking a scaled-down deal to gain greater control over the content delivered to its broadband customers. The move could cost Yahoo nearly a quarter billion dollars in annual revenue. The deal, which Yahoo signed in 20...

AT&T wants to renegotiate a long-standing partnership with Yahoo, apparently seeking a scaled-down deal to gain greater control over the content delivered to its broadband customers. The move could cost Yahoo nearly a quarter billion dollars in annual revenue. The deal, which Yahoo signed in 20...

The European Union announced Friday it has reached an ambitious agreement to increase the use of renewable energy to 20 percent of all energy usage by 2020. The EU also agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent in relation to 1990 levels over the next 13 years. The objective is to combat ...

Internet phone service provider Vonage on Thursday was ordered to pay Verizon $58 million after a jury found it infringed on three patents owned by telecom giant Verizon Communications. The award against Vonage covers penalties and a percentage of subscriber revenue -- royalty payments to Verizon fo...

The millennium celebrations are long gone, the global Y2K scam has been forgiven and forgotten, the public psyche is in sync with media, and all appears to be going forward normally. Though the masses are oblivious to it, a new storm is clearly visible to global circumnavigators, though. It is kicki...

Online advertising revenues reached nearly $4.8 billion in the fourth quarter, making 2006 the third straight year in which ad spending set a new revenue record. The revenue figure for all of 2006 came in at $16.8 billion, 34 percent higher than the previous high-water mark of $12.5 billion set in 2...

In a modern-day continuation of an ages-old battle, the Turkish government has banned YouTube in Turkey because of offensive content posted by a Greek contributor. Greeks and Turks have been battling on Google's video-sharing site in recent weeks, trading insults in their video posts. When a Greek u...