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Corporate governance scandals, like Enron and WorldCom, have made boardrooms jittery. In fact, these types of scandals have frightened off otherwise qualified board members from serving on boards of publicly held corporations. To further inflame this situation, many insurers are either not issuing n...

Federal authorities have broken up a massive piracy ring that they say was capable of producing millions of counterfeit music and software CDs. Three California men face a range of charges after being indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco on counterfeiting charges. The charges resulted f...

Eyeing a possible three-way partnership that could dramatically alter the Web portal space overnight, search giant Google and cable company Comcast are reportedly talking about acquiring a minority stake in America Online. Under the reported deal, the two companies would buy a minority stake in AOL ...

Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN have agreed to work to make their instant messaging platforms more compatible, a bid to set aside competitive differences to tackle the continued dominance of America Online's own chat platform. The companies said their agreement represented the first time two major IM pro...

In the golden haze surrounding the mystic city of Tunisia, a small group of elite merchants of the information age will once again try to figure out the future of the Internet. In November, they will fight out their agendas and try hard to make sense out of the ongoing cyber warfare. The entire argu...

Web usability guidelines aim to help you keep and serve your customers, rather than driving them to your competitors' sites out of frustration. Usability is important for every Web site, but becomes absolutely vital when a large portion of your revenue comes from Web sales. Over the years, I've read...

In a move to attract more small business customers, Microsoft is launching a subsidy program to allow this growing business demographic to receive credits toward consulting services when they purchase Microsoft software. Small businesses that purchase a minimum of five copies of Microsoft Office or ...

RealNetworks and Microsoft have reached a set of agreements to end one of the most bitter private antitrust matters in the technology sector, with RealNetworks receiving as much as US$761 million in cash and marketing considerations for its music and games services from the software giant and the tw...

Looking to beef up its PayPal online payment service and enhance its reputation with online merchants outside of its online auction kingdom in particular, eBay said it would acquire the payment gateway system of security company VeriSign. EBay said its PayPal unit, which it took over in a US$1.5 bil...

Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server licensing that allows as many as four virtual instances of the software on one physical server for the same price. The software giant ...

Rising gas prices may be withering consumer confidence these days, but online retailers see a silver lining in the disturbing trend. "People are going to be less inclined to drive to shopping centers," Bernard Baumohl, executive director of the Economic Outlook Group in Princeton Junction, N.J. told...

Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server licensing that allows as many as four virtual instances of the software on one physical server for the same price. The software giant ...

Google unveiled its latest beta product offering -- the Google RSS reader -- at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week. The Google Reader is a Web-based RSS reader designed for the search engine's registered users. Similar to the online service offered by NewsGator, Google Reader allows u...

In a case seen boosting the credibility and profile of blogs as sources of news and opinion, the Delaware Supreme Court this week found that four bloggers accused of defamation had the right to remain anonymous. The court ruled that a lower court was wrong in ordering an Internet service provider to...

Pressing forward on its private anti-trust lawsuit against leading chipmaker Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has subpoenaed records from several Intel customers, including major PC makers and smaller vendors. AMD hopes the records will help bolster its argument that Intel used its market share ...