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Many publicly held companies have been struggling with SOX (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) since its enactment on July 30, 2002. In fact, some companies have chosen to either de-list as public companies (go private again) or change their listings to the Pink Sheets -- an electronic market where the compani...

Yahoo today became the latest in a line of large, high-profile technology companies planning to buy back shares of their own stock, a move that could bring renewed questions about why the firms don't use their cash to provide stock dividends to shareholders instead. The Internet giant joined the pac...

Computer Associates today named former Novell chief technology officer Alan Nugent to head its Unicenter business unit. Effective April 8, Nugent will become senior vice president and general manager of Unicenter reporting to Russel Artzt, CA's executive vice president of products. CA's largest div...

In a deal that links rivals in the mobile operating system space, Symbian said it will work with Microsoft to enable hand-held devices using its operating system to work with the popular Outlook e-mail program. The licensing deal will enable UK-based Symbian-loaded hand-helds to read e-mail and rece...

In the latest development in an ongoing software soap opera, the European Union today rejected Microsoft's selection of a trustee whose duty would have been to make sure the company complies with EU antitrust laws. "We have officially informed Microsoft that their proposal on the monitoring trustee ...

The war for Web users' eyeballs, hearts and minds -- being fought on numerous battlefields from search to instant messaging -- turned its attention back to the e-mail front today as Yahoo announced it would boost the storage of its free Web e-mail service to 1 GB. The massive storage capability -- f...

As mergers take off in all directions, newly stirred corporate philosophies must be properly captured, realigned and projected through new corporate name personas to ensure the confidence of long-term investors. It is extremely difficult to run a corporation with two faces, two messages and two name...

Staking its claim to leadership in the converging worlds of mobile computing, Web browsing and cellular communications, Samsung has become the latest handset vendor to roll out a WiFi-enabled phone. Samsung said it will make its SPH-M4300 available in its home market of Korea later this month. In ad...

America Online has released the latest version of its instant messaging platform, one that analysts say advances the technology that has the potential to alter both the online and communications landscapes. ICQ 5 includes a number of new features, including an upgraded voice-chat service that uses V...

Phishing is one of the fastest-growing security threats on the Internet, according to the latest Internet Security Threat Report from security vendor Symantec, with the number of phishing incidents rising to 33 million per week. "Attackers are launching increasingly sophisticated attacks in an effor...

Time Warner has reached a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to pay US$300 million in fines to settle a long-simmering investigation into America Online's accounting practices during the height of the dot-com boom. The company said the SEC has formally approved a settlement that ...

The search wars took another interesting twist today as IAC/InteractiveCorp. announced it would buy search engine Ask Jeeves for around US$1.85 billion in stock. The move pairs IAC, a fast-growing e-commerce and social networking conglomerate with a powerful brand in several key online markets, with...

Officials at the European Commission (EC) say Microsoft is falling short of its pledge to cooperate fully with sanctions against it meant to boost competition among software makers in Europe, raising the prospect of additional penalties being levied. In addition to paying the equivalent of US$600 mi...

Insider trading laws have been around for a long time, even before the SEC Act of 1934. Martha Stewart's recent trial and incarceration have brought a higher degree of awareness and caution to investors who are potential beneficiaries of insider trading. This article will define insider trading, ex...

Throwing a twist into the raging search wars, Amazon's A9.com search site is pushing an open format that allows vertical search results to be widely syndicated in a manner similar to a popular approach for cross-pollinating blogs and news feeds. A9.com launched OpenSearch, which it bills as "a colle...