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Police in Bangalore, India, reported the arrest Tuesday night of the chief suspect in the theft of funds from a score of customers of HSBC bank in the UK. Nadeem Kashmiri is being charged in India with stealing customer data that was sent to Nadeem's accomplices in the UK. Nadeem's accomplices ass...

Reaching the Millennial Generation -- a label nailed to nine- to 28-year-olds, a group which, at some 79 million in the United States, is larger than the Baby Boomers -- poses some real challenges for marketers, especially marketers entrenched in their mass media ways. "The key thing to recognize wh...

Shares of video game producer Take-Two Interactive Software plunged to new lows Tuesday after the company revealed it had been served with grand jury subpoenas as part of an apparent investigation into a host of company activities. At issue is whether company executives knew about explicit sex scen...

In the latest example of the tension between government efforts in the war on terror and the media, the Bush administration is condemning news outlets that revealed details of a program that used the Internet to scan bank records for evidence of terrorism financing. Speaking at the White House, Pres...

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...

Billionaire investor Warren Buffet is donating the bulk of his formidable personal fortune to charity, and the Reverend Cecil Williams could not be more pleased. Williams is not a direct recipient of Buffet's largesse; the Sage of Omaha will donate US$31 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundat...

Once again, AT&T's actions have sparked a national debate over customer privacy. The company deliberately kicked off a new round of debate with its announcement last week that it was changing -- or as it said, "modifying" -- its privacy polices for Internet and video customers. To be sure, compa...

Hoping to put its software at the center of a unified PC-based communications system that encompasses voice as well as data, Microsoft said it would work with a number of partners in the telecom and tech industries to produce a range of devices -- including IP phones and peripherals. Microsoft said ...

Last week's dismissal of the Metabolite case by the Supreme Court was a welcome relief to the intellectual property community, seemingly besieged with Supreme Court cases, eBay-inspired injunctive denials, patent reforms, Congressional pressures, the Blackberry brouhaha, and other challenges to the ...

In the midst of social networking zeitgeist, many advertisers find themselves torn. The lure of the young demographic that flocks to sites such as MySpace and FaceBook is powerful, but the risks many. The recent case of a 16-year-old being lured into traveling to the Middle East is just the latest ...

The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday became the latest agency to acknowledge that personal data had been placed at risk due to a lost laptop computer, part of a trend that underscores the wide range of threats facing consumers' personal information. The FTC said it would provide free credit moni...

Oracle reported a strong fourth quarter Thursday, saying profit rose 27 percent over a year ago as sales surged 25 percent, with the gains largely attributed to the company's aggressive acquisition strategy. The maker of database products and business applications said revenues from new licenses for...

Sarbanes-Oxley has certainly made quite an impact on corporate governance since its enactment in 2002. Most of us remember the corporate debacles that brought about SOX. In fact, one of them, the Enron failure, is still very much in the news today. Consider some of the ways that SOX has affected cor...

Driven by technology, access to content is TiVo's primary need. To a large degree, however, access to content is precisely what traditional TV and cable broadcasters, as well as film studios, still control. This crucial point has long been recognized, as well as debated, by TiVo management. The co...

Federal regulators on Wednesday agreed to impose or increase universal service fees on wireless and Internet-based phone subscribers. The Federal Communications Commission changed the "safe harbor" percentage for wireless carriers from 28.5 percent to 37.1 percent. The FCC is also requiring Voice ov...