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Verizon is upping the wireless broadcasting ante in a partnership with CBS Television, announcing that Verizon's V Cast multimedia service will stream some of CBS Television's most watched programs, including "CSI," "Survivor," David Letterman and "Entertainment Tonight," beginning this month. CBS ...

Research by the consultancy A.T. Kearney's telecom practice indicates that the Federal Communications Commission's proposal for "a la carte" pricing of cable TV programming may have an adverse impact on the development of Internet TV and Internet Telephony. Sweeping changes in telecom regulation cou...

Time Warner has apparently decided not to sell off part or all of America Online, but instead is looking for a new search and advertising partner and may be putting the finishing touches on a deal to switch its search provider from Google to Microsoft's MSN. Despite months of reports and rumors that...

Media giant News Corp. is looking to weigh in bigger online, telling investors this week that it intends to build on the success of its MySpace.com site, will show some of its television programming exclusively on the Internet, and will try its hand at Web search. There was speculation that the sear...

Summer is behind us, but recent memories of credit card processing breaches are still haunting security-conscious consumers, safety-minded merchants and bustling banks. While CardSystems Solutions made media headlines in June after a computer virus captured the private information of millions of con...

In a move to compete with Verizon, Cingular Wireless today launched its third-generation wireless network. The new service is called Cingular BroadbandConnect, and is available to nearly 35 million throughout the United States. The company said it would continue to extend the network rapidly next ye...

Leet has grown to represent attitudes and subcultures that extend beyond the use of leet as a communication system. Leet is challenging traditional patterns of communication system growth and propagation. Its behavior is uniquely tech driven and tech enabled. New forms of leet are encouraged. L...

Liberty Media, parent company of the QVC home shopping network, became the latest traditional media company to make a strong push into the Internet space, buying food-based e-tailer Provide Commerce, Inc. in a deal worth US$477 million. The all-cash deal gives Liberty Media control of Provide's fami...

In a bid to boost the profile of its subscription streaming music offering by making it available to all computer users, RealNetworks said it is testing a Web-based version of its Rhapsody service. Making a version of Rhapsody work with most Web browsers would make the service more mobile -- users c...

Imagine strolling through the front door of your favorite department store, but instead of finding yourself amid a comforting cacophony of display counters, merchandise, and bustling people, you're instead all alone in a strangely geometric room featuring a series of doors labeled "Women," "Men," "K...

Sales of mobile phones that double as digital cameras have soared during 2005, with nearly 300 million such handsets expected to be sold before year's end, according to new projections from Gartner. Camera phone sales will reach 295.5 million units this year and represent 38 percent of overall mobil...

Raising the possibility that it will change course once again on a hotly debated move meant to give adult content Web sites their own Internet realm, the net's governing body has decided to shelve a plan to discuss how to create a ".xxx" domain. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number...

When Eric Lituchy and wife Gina Ezratty first started talking in the late 1990s about a new dot-com business, the business idea seemed straightforward enough. Sell specialty products over the Internet. Satisfy gift-givers who want to honor life's milestones for special someones. Top off birthdays, e...

Two domain name registration trade groups are suing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign, alleging that a recently reached settlement between the two parties violate anti-trust laws. The legal action is just the latest example of dissent within the domain regi...

Research in Motion is facing added pressure to strike a new settlement agreement to end a patent infringement lawsuit that could lead to the suspension of the firm's popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail service in the United States. A judge yesterday refused to enforce an earlier agreement between RIM a...