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With some legal victories and a new technical workaround, the prospects are looking brighter every day that Research in Motion's BlackBerry mobile e-mail service will run without interruption. Still, many businesses have spent part of the past year of legal turmoil and uncertainty searching for alte...

The company behind the console that helped launch the video game industry nearly 30 years ago may be facing a game-over situation. Atari this week reported significant quarterly losses and the departure of a top executive that together paint a bleak picture for the future of the firm. Atari posted a...

Microsoft plans to speed up the expansion of the Redmond, Wash., campus it has called home for most of its 31-year history by spending approximately US$1 billion over the next three years. By 2009, the software giant will build out approximately half of a 20-year plan to grow the facility by more th...

Research In Motion has alleviated -- just a little -- the worries of 2 million or so BlackBerry users who would be affected if the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., should levy an injunction against the service later this month. RIM said on Thursday that it has developed and tested software wor...

Gateway CEO Wayne Inouye -- who took the helm at the company following its merger with eMachines and led it back to profitability -- resigned just days after announcing results that missed profit targets. The company said Inouye intends to "pursue other interests" after almost two years as chief exe...

In the midst of heated competition to attract popular personalities to the satellite radio space, Harpo Radio and XM Satellite Radio on Thursday announced an exclusive, three-year agreement to launch a new channel called "Oprah & Friends." Set to debut in September 2006, it will feature a broad ...

In another sign of the maturation of the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) industry, Vonage filed Wednesday to stage a long-awaited US$250 million initial public offering and also installed a new CEO to guide the company. If it pulls off the IPO, Vonage Holdings Corp. would become the first publi...

Currently, marketers on the national and global scene who are sophisticated and e-commerce-savvy are positioning their brand names with the year 2010 in mind. However, very few are poised to make decent progress in less than five years, so how will they achieve their goals? If you tackle four critic...

If there's anything that can be called heresy in free-for-all cyberspace it's the notion that people should pay for e-mail, but that didn't stop a few heretics this week from offering monetized e-mail initiatives. Although Yahoo and AOL took the lion's share of the limelight with their "certified e-...

Nortel said it has reached an agreement in principle to pay US$2.4 billion to settle shareholder lawsuits stemming from accounting misstatements at the telecom gear maker, moving the beleaguered company one step closer to ending a dark chapter in its history. The settlement would avoid at least one ...

E-mail marketing has grown over time to become one of the most cost-effective methods of marketing used today. The ability to send large quantities of e-mail at almost no cost during the early days of e-mail marketing led to over saturation, deceitful practices and a bad reputation. Because this ind...

AOL and Yahoo are planning to launch a certified e-mail program in the coming months in conjunction with partner company Goodmail Systems. The two Web giants are positioning the service as an additional perk for trusted marketers that want to ensure their e-mails reach their intended recipients. Con...

The news that AOL and Yahoo are planning to roll out a certified e-mail delivery service based on partner company Goodmail Systems' CertifiedEmail methodology is leading some e-mail marketers and related providers of e-commerce services to conclude that a sea-change -- largely unwelcome -- is underw...

Google has banned the German Web site of automaker BMW after it was found to have manipulated the search engine's system to influence its rankings. Google software engineer Matt Cutts disclosed in his blog that Google's so-called Webspam team had found that the pages that Google's Web crawlers saw w...

Microsoft has been promised a late April hearing in Europe's Court of First Instance for its appeal of the European Commission's antitrust sanctions. At the same time, the software giant has agreed to open its source code to competitors in the latest installment of its long-running dispute over how...