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Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$22.7 billion in November, an increase of 11.3 percent from the $20.4 billion in sales recorded during the same month in 2005, the Semiconductor Industry Association announced Tuesday. For the fifth straight month, the industry has set new sales benchmarks...

With its acquisition of BellSouth now closed, AT&T is looking to grow in wireless and advertising across multiple platforms. Integration of wireless, wireline and IP-based networks will be the first order of business after the merger, the company stated, along with combining customer service cap...

With its acquisition of BellSouth now closed, AT&T is looking to grow in wireless and advertising across multiple platforms. Integration of wireless, wireline and IP-based networks will be the first order of business after the merger, the company stated, along with combining customer service cap...

With its acquisition of BellSouth now closed, AT&T is looking to grow in wireless and advertising across multiple platforms. Integration of wireless, wireline and IP-based networks will be the first order of business after the merger, the company stated, along with combining customer service cap...

When many consumers are asked about receiving advertising on their cell phones, they react as if they've bitten into a sour apple. Nevertheless, the mobile universe has begun ripening nicely for marketers, according to a report released last week. The report by Forrester Research noted: "In 2003, Fo...

In the early days of the Web, smart small Internet businesses could compete with just about anyone by working to make sure their Web pages were found first on search engines. Fast forward 10 years. Search engines have become increasingly sophisticated. Paid search listings have exploded into the pic...

Hoping to clear the way for its US$85 billion takeover of BellSouth before the calendar turns to 2007, AT&T has offered additional concessions, including some limited network neutrality guarantees to win Federal Communications Commission blessing for the delayed deal. AT&T had balked at requ...

Hoping to clear the way for its US$85 billion takeover of BellSouth before the calendar turns to 2007, AT&T has offered additional concessions, including some limited network neutrality guarantees to win Federal Communications Commission blessing for the delayed deal. AT&T had balked at requ...

Hoping to clear the way for its US$85 billion takeover of BellSouth before the calendar turns to 2007, AT&T has offered additional concessions, including some limited network neutrality guarantees to win Federal Communications Commission blessing for the delayed deal. AT&T had balked at requ...

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook provide a means for many people to share their lives with others, but are they and other Webposts that are turning the free content of their subscribers into economic gain, a new form of sharecropping? It certainly seems that way, according to Nic...

Apple shares fell again Thursday after a published report suggested CEO Steve Jobs had been granted stock options without the knowledge of the company's board of directors and that the company may have falsified documents to cover up the misdeed. Apple reportedly granted Jobs 7.5 million stock optio...

Unsolicited e-mail is an old Internet nemesis, but spammers have come up with a new twist, and it's causing corporate and individual users alike e-heartburn. It's called "image spam," and it's waiting in an in-box near you. Image spam contains little ordinary text to analyze. Instead, it uses the .g...

Nortel Networks will pay US$2.45 billion to settle shareholder lawsuits stemming from accounting fraud at the telecom gear maker between 2000 and 2005; U.S. judges gave the settlement their final blessing on Tuesday. Though Canadian courts have yet to clear the settlement of suits brought there, the...

Digital Insight, a provider of outsourced online banking services, in 2007 will begin offering its on-demand consumer Internet banking and business banking clients Entrust's TransactionGuard, a real-time transaction monitoring fraud detection service. The solution is designed to help security admini...

It took about an hour before I finally switched from thinking that my initial experiences with Second Life were a waste of time, to actually finding them being productive in new ways. I was one of a 3D flurry of invited "VIPs" to enter an IBM pavilion inside Second Life. With my unique personage ava...