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Making big moves to extend the portal wars to the wireless Web, Yahoo and Google are launching major pushes to have their extensive menu of Web services available on users' mobile phones. The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo is poised to announce a partnership with SBC Communications in which...

Further blurring the increasingly hard-to-find line between television and the Web, Yahoo and digital video recorder (DVR) maker TiVo said they would team up to offer TiVo's online scheduling features on Yahoo TV. The hookup will enable users of Yahoo TV to use TiVo's scheduling technology to set th...

Jeanson Ancheta, 20, installed pop-up adware on the commandeered computers and rented his "botnet" -- or network of computers compromised by Trojan horses that allow remote control of the infected machine -- to other hackers for profit, prosecutors say. Ancheta is charged with 17 federal counts incl...

EBay founder Pierre Omidyar became the latest Internet billionaire to make a major philanthropic push, donating US$100 million to Tufts University with the stipulation that it be used for so-called microfinancing. Omidyar and his wife, Pam, are hoping the donation -- the largest in the history of th...

Social networking Web site MySpace.com is doing what no other social networking Web site has ever done before -- launched its own record label. MySpace Records is a joint venture with Interscope Records, one of the many recording labels under the Universal Music Group umbrella. MySpace Records will ...

Signaling its intention to be a major player in the online music segment, America Online has purchased MusicNow, a digital music site that specializes in subscription packages. AOL said it reached the deal to buy the firm from electronics retailer Circuit City in late September and closed the purcha...

In today's global economy, more businesses sell products online, in more markets and in more languages, than ever before. According to a recent Forrester Research report, "Web Content Management Adoption in 2005," enterprises are shifting focus from cost containment and internal efficiencies -- to g...

For the second time in four months, Microsoft said it would buy a privately held firm developing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies, this time with an eye toward adding more communications tools to its Office productivity suite. Microsoft said it would pay an undisclosed sum to acquire...

A fruitless prosecution against a teenager in English court highlights the inadequacy of that nation's cyberlaws to cope with denial of service attacks. The youth was accused of sending 5 million e-mails to a former employer, thereby shutting down the company's servers. The case did not fail because...

Their numbers may not jibe but two prominent research firms agree on one thing: the holidays will be merry for online retailers. Forrester Research and JupiterResearch released their holiday sales projections for online retailers this week and both predicted double-digit increases for the period. Du...

Lawmakers have revived legislation that could provide a huge boost to efforts by music and movie studios to curb online piracy by letting federal agencies write rules that outlaw tactics used to copy programs when they are broadcast. Two bills on Capitol Hill dealing with so-called broadcast flags a...

All of a sudden, there is a rush to secure a copyright on any distinct smell from our daily lives and exclusively use it in conjunction with a branded product or a service. The most recent, notably aggressive attempts come by way of Paris, via Eden Sarl, which tried very hard to get the smell of str...

Government -- and industry -- executives are moving forward with plans to increase the use of authentication technologies, and prevent fraud online. The Direct Marketing Association, based in Chicago, two weeks ago issued a set of rules for its members, and the federal government, a few days earlier...

In what is widely expected to be the start of a trend, NBC said it will become the first national network to put the entire broadcast of its evening news onto the Web just hours after it originally airs. MSNBC.com will start hosting downloads of NBC Nightly News on Nov. 7. The downloads will be free...

In the offshore outsourcing field, client relations managers are often found at both the facility and the facility's North American sales office, if one has been established. As described herein, some firms operate without a North American presence, particularly if they are smaller firms. Most ou...