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A Congressional committee has backed a plan that would bar major telcos and cable companies from charging Web services companies to accept their traffic, giving the so-called Net neutrality campaign a welcome boost. The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted 20-13 to recommend a ver...

It's fun to think about how far we've come with technology and what the future might look like. For example, consider the Mark series of computers created at Harvard University in 1944 and you'll get some sense of how miniaturized computers have become. The MARK series was 55 feet long and 8 feet h...

What's the best way to reduce the risk of ID theft? Though it sounds counter-intuitive, would you believe that using the Internet more often does just that? A new survey by Javelin Research & Strategy indicates that those who pay their bills online have a lower likelihood of having their identit...

The two most prominent leaders of Enron, the energy company whose dramatic rise and fall become emblematic for one of the darkest chapters in U.S. corporate history, face life in prison after a jury issued numerous guilty verdicts Thursday. Enron Chairman and founder Ken Lay was found guilty on all ...

eBay and Yahoo announced Thursday they will work together on a range of fronts, including search and paid advertising, striking a deal that leverages each company's strengths and one that will undoubtedly send shockwaves across the Internet industry. After several days of swirling rumors that the tw...

Score one for the skeptics. Vonage made its Initial Public Offering on Wednesday in the face of analyst concerns about an ultra-competitive landscape and an unprofitable business plan for the firm. The Internet phone pioneer wound up selling stock below its issue price. Shares were initially priced ...

The Internet is still a very dangerous environment for conducting business. Lurking in the cyberspace shadows are criminal masterminds bent on stealing personal information and credit card numbers to further fund their activities. Almost daily, stories involving new worms, phishing scams or large s...

The company that makes the Morpheus peer-to-peer software has filed a $4 billion suit against eBay and its Skype online phone calling unit, saying others are benefiting from technology that belongs to it. StreamCast Network filed a suit that names eBay as one of 21 defendants, including the founder...

Wired News has waded into the middle of the controversial court case involving AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance operations. An anonymous source provided the news organization with a copy of documents pertaining to the case that the judge had or...

Wired News has waded into the middle of the controversial court case involving AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance operations. An anonymous source provided the news organization with a copy of documents pertaining to the case that the judge had or...

Wired News has waded into the middle of the controversial court case involving AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance operations. An anonymous source provided the news organization with a copy of documents pertaining to the case that the judge had or...

There are two basic options when it comes to deploying, running and maintaining a vendor-supplied e-business system: in-house and hosted. The latter has quickly grown in popularity. Comergent, for example, began offering a hosted platform around two years ago, and it is now the preferred choice of t...

Vonage may not be in the black, but the Internet phone company is nonetheless going public. The Skype competitor plans to price its shares for an Initial Public Offering late Tuesday despite analysts' concerns about the long-term risks of the Voice over Internet Protocol market. Some 31.25 million s...

Google has taken the wraps off plans to sell video advertising online, an ambitious move that could unlock significant additional growth potential for the search giant. The company said it will use a placement system that is similar to the AdWords platform in place for text and graphics ads, but wil...

In a case that emphasizes the myriad ways for digital data to be compromised, files containing information on some 26.5 million U.S. veterans were taken from the home of a government employee during a burglary. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the breach Monday, but said there was no ev...