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Google plans to build a new, $600 million datacenter in North Carolina designed to help support its online operations, the company announced Friday. The site, to be located in the city of Lenoir, is expected to create about 210 jobs over time. North Carolina awarded Google a 12-year job development ...

IBM posted sharply higher profits for its fourth quarter as software and services paced the technology giant, but some weakness in hardware sales led investors to sell off Big Blue shares. IBM said Friday that its net income during the period was $3.54 billion, or $2.31 per share, up 11 percent from...

In the late 1990s, a new application appeared on the World Wide Web. It allowed people from different places and different time zones the opportunity to simultaneously view a slide show, commonly PowerPoint, and to hear a speaker explain the details behind each slide. The viewers also had the opport...

The road ahead for wireless networking promises immense progress -- larger, more extensive networks and access to a diverse set of users via technologies such as WiFi, WiMax and wireless mesh networking. It also promises, however, a path full of obstacles if enterprises choose to ignore how they wil...

TJX, the parent company of national discount chains such as T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, disclosed on Wednesday that identity thieves had breached its security measures and gained access to a computer network on which the company stores its transaction data. The theft could involve consumers from the U....

Increasing the security of eBay's massive and growing auction and fixed-price sales platform will be a top priority during 2007, according to company executives. The recent announcement of an enhanced password program for PayPal users is just one example of a larger effort to curtail phishing and fr...

Some Internet security companies are warning about the dangers they say exist from a new level of cyber attacks based on dynamic code obfuscation. However, makers of top-rated antivirus protection software claim such warnings only amount to a new spin on an old hacker tactic. Dynamic code obfuscatio...

Fierce price competition in the computer chip sector caused market leader Intel to see far lower profits in the fourth quarter, even though sales were up strongly. Intel said Wednesday that revenue for the quarter was $9.7 billion, 5 percent below the same quarter a year ago but up 11 percent from t...

More job seekers than ever descended on employment Web sites during the first week of the new year, according to an online competitive intelligence service. Visits to electronic emporiums for employment climbed 31 percent during the week of January 6 compared to the same period a year ago, Hitwise r...

When your company name is already synonymous with "search the Internet," it's safe to say you're king of that realm. Further proof that Google tops the heap of search engines came Tuesday, as comScore Networks reported the company increased its share of the U.S. Web search pie by 0.4 percent last mo...

The creators of the peer-to-peer VoIP network Skype and the controversial file-sharing site Kazaa have unveiled their latest startup: Joost, an Internet TV company that they claim will revolutionize Internet-based television. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom formally announced Joost Tuesday, after m...

Hoping to keep itself relevant as more consumers seek video on demand via the Internet, Netflix launched a Web initiative Tuesday that gives subscribers the option of downloading and instantly watching movies online. The company will roll out the service to subscribers over the next six months. User...

For better or worse, 2006 is going to be remembered as the year the U.S. court system should have set up a special turnstile for patent cases; litigation in this usually less-than-sexy body of law seemed to continually challenge once-established points of law. The result? Major case law was establis...

A Colorado-based private investigator has become the first person convicted in the Hewlett-Packard boardroom leak and spying scandal. Bryan Wagner, 29, pled guilty to identity theft and conspiracy charges in San Jose federal court, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California f...

Intending to boost consumer confidence in its online payment system -- and to thwart the scourge of phishing attacks aimed at its users -- eBay's PayPal will begin offering customers the option of using a password-generating device to beef up security. The system will use a key fob, known as the Pay...