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On Sunday, the Indianapolis Colts, the team with one of the most potent offenses in the history of the National Football League, will face off against defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots, ending a week's worth of hype and predictions. As the game unfolds on the field, the owners of bo...

In a bid to boost efficiency, Hewlett-Packard today said it has merged its Imaging and Printing Group and its Personal Systems Group, forming the HP Imaging and Personal Systems Group. HP said the goal of the merger is to accelerate profitable growth, leverage the power of its portfolio and strength...

On December 27, 2004, President Bush did something that made Microsoft -- and probably every other software maker in the world -- very happy. Bush signed into law the Anti-Counterfeiting Amendments Act of 2003, also known as H.R. 3632. The new law criminalizes the distribution of genuine authenticat...

Napster today said its bid to turn what was a legendary brand in the underground music world into a contender in the legitimate online music space gained ground last year, fueled by a year-end spurt of new subscribers. Napster said its subscriber base was up 50 percent in the quarter that ended in D...

Revisiting a tactic that has been hugely successful in the past, especially when it bought home WiFi gear maker Linksys, Cisco Systems said it would acquire wireless local area network (WLAN) switch maker Airespace for $450 million. Cisco said the all-stock purchase of privately held Airespace would...

Global competition, legal issues, technological advances, changes in manufacturing and tracking their constantly evolving target markets are more than enough challenges for many companies to deal with. Add to them internal requirements -- human resources, accounting, information technology -- and th...

Like thousands of other online retailers, 2004 was a banner year for PearlParadise.com. And, like thousands of other online retailers, much of the company's success came during the holiday shopping season that many are calling a turning point for e-commerce. Numbers don't lie. The online pearl purve...

Longtime Microsoft Chief Financial Officer John Connors is quitting the company to become a partner in a Seattle venture capital firm, ending a 16-year-run with the software giant, much of it spent as the financial spokesperson while the company underwent major changes. Microsoft did not immediately...

Every corporation has a face, captured by its name identity and its image, including the overall image delivery system to push that name in the marketplace. Whether you like it or not, your corporate image is out there and is fully exposed. Following are the Five Faces of Corporate Image. The questi...

Another mobile virus has been spotted by security researchers, again designed to attack Symbian-based smart phones, but this time able to spread by more than one method. Like the vast majority of mobile viruses, the Lasco worm, as the threat has been dubbed, is aimed at the Symbian operating system....

In their search for ways around anti-spam legislation, some spammers are using unregistered domains to distribute unwanted messages, a tactic experts say is putting additional strain on servers at Internet service providers and on corporate networks. Illegal commercial spammers, wary of being tracke...

First it was Google, then Microsoft and Ask Jeeves. Now Yahoo is getting into the latest search battle with today's announcement of the release of its Desktop Search Beta application. Powered by XI Technologies, the free download indexes the information and content users have on their computer, like...

The Internet revolution has had the unintended effect of decreasing the use of oral communication and increasing the importance of text -- particularly e-mails -- as the primary means of business communications. Why has e-mail become so popular? Why use e-mails instead of phone calls? It is harder t...

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) must proceed with its securities fraud lawsuit on behalf of WorldCom bondholders in federal, rather than state, court, after the U.S. Supreme Court today chose not to review the jurisdictional matter. Two federal statutes disagreed on whic...

Cable television giant Comcast plans to roll out a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to all of its customers by the end of 2005, arriving to the party later than some competitors but bringing with it the type of deep pockets and market reach that could speed adoption of the technology. Eve...