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A federal judge in Houston and the U.S. Attorney's office for that region are wrangling over just how much information the government can garner from a phone call without a warrant for a wiretap. The case involves a request by U.S. Attorney Donald J. DeGabrielle Jr. for a pen register and a trap and...

With legislative attempts to mandate so-called "network neutrality" sputtering, Google said it would use existing antitrust laws to require that cable companies and telcos carry its services to consumers if necessary. Google would not hesitate to bring antitrust complaints to the attention of the U....

In the competitive world of the Internet circa 2006, text is getting plenty of company. In addition to other forms of content that are crowding the printed word, the Internet is rapidly becoming populated with video. It's rare to see more than a few days pass without a video-related announcement fro...

Google defended its system of ranking Web pages in search results in court Friday after a competitor claimed its pages were unfairly blocked. A California judge is considering whether to allow a lawsuit to proceed. Attorneys for Google argued that the search giant can use any criteria it wants to ra...

Mobile technology developer Qualcomm is facing charges from U.S. based companies that it improperly used its market dominance to squelch competition in Korea, where regulators are probing a fresh batch of complaints. Korea's Fair Trade Commission is examining complaints from Dallas-based Texas Instr...

The number of European corporations -- and individual workers -- who are relying on mobile phones continues to rise, especially among the small office and home office segment. A new survey by The Yankee Group, the Boston-based research firm, indicates that there are a number of wireless trends that ...

You can't get much lower on the tech chain than a trailer, right? It's not much more than a box on wheels. However, a growing interest by the transportation industry to bring the lowly trailer into the wired world is firing a hot market in tracking hardware and services. According to a report releas...

A stolen Veterans Affairs employee's laptop containing personal information on 26 million U.S. veterans was recovered this week. Investigators with the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the sensitive data on the laptop's hard drive had not been accessed, according to a "preliminary review of the ...

A new study by ABI Research indicates that an array of semiconductor developers have designed US$10 chipsets for receiving and displaying TV on mobile phones -- a price point that marks the first important benchmark for the growth of mobile phone-based TV and video applications. "This ramp-up in mar...

Yahoo has reached a tentative agreement to settle a class action lawsuit. The portal and search company agreed to pay millions in attorneys fees and potentially may have to refund millions more in advertising revenue. The settlement, which was given preliminary approval Wednesday by U.S. District J...

A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday rejected an amendment that would prevent Internet service providers from charging Web firms more for faster service to consumers. The amendment failed by an 11-11 vote. The "net neutrality" amendment was designed to ensure that telephone and cable companies treat...

Sending a competitive shot across the bow of e-tailers such as Amazon and eBay, Google Thursday launched its long-rumored online payment system, now known as Google Checkout. Checkout launches with a handful of major online merchants having signed up, including Jockey, the Starbucks Store, Levi's, D...

The recent reinvention of marketing has sent the discipline to measure its efforts. With new metrics, expressly communicated goals and number-gathering in ad campaign executions, product launches and channel sales, marketers expect to remake their art as science. However, getting the beakers bubbli...

Stung by the unprecedented number of identify thefts and data losses that have occurred in recent months across academia, the private sector and the government, a group comprised of representatives from each of these areas has formed the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection.

Intel said it will sell off its handheld chip line, the first of what could be several significant changes at the market leading chipmaker as it bids to focus on the most profitable parts of its business. The company announced Tuesday it had reached an agreement to sell its handheld and mobile commu...