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MySpace has launched a pilot project that will help the popular social networking site identify uploaded content that may infringe on someone's copyright. Its new content management and antipiracy system, which it licensed from Audible Magic, can recognize certain uploaded copyrighted content, match...

Yahoo on Monday broadened the nascent world of cell phone advertising by launching a mobile ad platform in 19 countries. The service, which was first offered in the United States in November, allows companies to run interactive advertisements on the Yahoo Mobile Web home page. The company said it si...

The Internet has presented previously unimaginable opportunities for enterprises of all types, including financial services institutions. Online transactions are at an all-time high as enterprises enthusiastically cultivate the Internet as a vital sales channel. Careful examination of consumer beha...

Xerox's legendary Palo Alto Research Center said Friday it would license Internet search technology to Powerset, a relatively young startup that aims to build a better search engine than Google. PARC lays claims to some of the most important inventions of the digital era, including Ethernet, laser p...

Music company EMI Group is reportedly in talks with online retailers about providing its digital music catalog in an unprotected MP3 format, allowing downloaded songs to be played on multiple devices. The company is in talks with RealNetworks, eMusic, MusicNet and Viacom's MTV Networks. This follows...

Cisco announced Thursday that it will purchase social networking software maker Five Across, a developer of technology that enables companies to easily add social networking features to their Web sites. The sale price was not disclosed. "With the acquisition of Five Across, Cisco is taking an impor...

Alcatel-Lucent, the telecom gear-making giant created by their recent merger, said Friday it would slash its payroll by 3,500 more workers than previously planned after posting a sizeable loss for the fourth quarter. The Paris-based company reported earnings for the first time since the $11.4 billio...

Change is the order of the day in the m-commerce market. New smartphones and other handheld digital devices are hitting the marketplace in a torrent, as media convergence accelerates the drive toward "quad play" devices and network services. The telecom and media industries are undergoing a fundamen...

Six months after pulling the plug on efforts to become a mobile virtual network operator, ESPN Mobile has agreed to make its video, scores and other content available on the network of Verizon Wireless. The two companies said Mobile ESPN content would be made available to V Cast phones through an ex...

In response to Tuesday's open letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs calling for major record labels to stop requiring digital rights management technology on music sold online, the Recording Industry Association of America is now calling on Apple to license the antipiracy technology it uses to protect mu...

Eastman Kodak announced Thursday it would cut 3,000 more workers from its payroll, bringing the total number of layoffs close to 30,000 as the once dominant photography company tries to reinvent itself in the digital age. At a meeting with investors, Kodak laid out plans to generate "profitable digi...

Information infrastructure giant EMC is selling, through an initial public offering, a sliver of its highly successful VMware subsidiary, a move that should strengthen VMware's position in the growing virtualization software market. EMC said it will retain ownership of about 90 percent of VMware and...

Coming off a record-setting year, momentum continues to build at the Intercontinental Exchange as it moves into 2007. The ICE has become a leader and successful innovator in the field of exchange-based energy and commodities trading. The Atlanta-based exchange last year carried out a series of signi...

The vow Tuesday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs -- that he would willingly remove copyright protection from songs sold at his company's iTunes store -- was cheered by those who've been arguing that digital rights management systems are a failure. Advocates for music-sharing freedom said they expect music la...

Networking gear giant Cisco Systems on Tuesday posted strong quarterly earnings and issued an upbeat forecast, which drove the company's shares higher and may raise expectations for the technology sector as a whole during 2007. Cisco said it earned $1.92 billion, or 31 cents per share, in the quarte...