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In a move to cash in on a booming market for local business searches, SBC Communications and BellSouth plan to acquire YellowPages.com. Together, SBC and BellSouth plan to develop a comprehensive, nationwide online business index that leverages the Yellow Pages brand name. The acquisition will combi...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) -- following in the footsteps of its recording industry counterpart, the RIAA -- announced today its intent to file a series of lawsuits aimed at stopping the sharing of films over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. The MPAA claims to lose more than US$3 mi...

Joining forces in the hope of advancing a strategy both companies have been plotting for some time, Microsoft and Intel have said they will work together to promote cutting edge digital home entertainment options. Dubbing the effort "Digital Joy," the companies said they would launch a television, p...

Just over a week after Apple launched its much anticipated photo iPod -- without video capability -- Nokia has announced a smart phone that streams and records video. "Smart phones are now at the heart of the industry," said Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president and general manager of Nokia's mult...

Security's ongoing movement from a technology-dominated discipline to one that falls under the bailiwick of a company's CEO, CFO and COO is good news for Solutionary, a managed security service provider that views security as part of an overall business problem, rather than a gee-whiz technology. Th...

The Source Code Club is back in business, if you can call it that. The anonymous hacker group began peddling proprietary source code last July, disappeared, and now has reemerged with a bargain basement deal of US$24,000 for the source code for Cisco's Pix security firewall. "SCC is proud to announc...

An "information age undercover investigation" led by the U.S. Secret Service has arrested 28 individuals in eight states and six foreign countries who were accused of being involved in a global cyber organized-crime network. Charges against the suspects include identity theft, computer fraud, credit...

Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications announced yesterday that they have agreed to dismiss their pending lawsuits against each other. As part of the settlement, Verizon will drop its opposition to a July ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that awarded a valuable radio-wave spectrum...

Hundreds of separate instances of electronic voting problems were reported in the U.S. during yesterday's elections, enough to give critics of e-voting ammunition for their continued battle against its use, but not nearly enough to affect the outcome of the election, as some had feared. In a press c...

From the Model T to modern cars and from dusty trails to super-highways, historians tabulate the remarkable evolution of transportation -- the good and the bad combined. However, alongside the great wonders of four wheels, there are the traffic jams, the carjackings, the drive-by shootings and the a...

Intel, responding to market demand for ever-faster computers -- and the recent introduction of new 64-bit processors from competitor AMD -- plans to introduce a new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (P4 EE) processor in mid-November. The P4 EE will be enabled by Intel's new 925XE Express chipset, which the ...

New data shows the popularity of alternative browsers continues to erode the once monolithic market share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, even before the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox, which formally hits shelves next week. The latest data from Web analytics firm WebSideStory shows that the ...

Yahoo is hogging the tech media headlines today as observers seek to separate fact from fiction. As the dust settles, it is clear that Yahoo is planning a new search tool, may not be losing its head honcho to Disney, and has wooed a former ABC programmer to its camp. First things first. Yahoo chief ...

Why is Pakistan the hot new offshore information technology (IT) destination? This is because of a combination of favorable economic circumstances. Just when many Western managers are finally becoming comfortable with the idea of working closely with Indian IT firms, along comes Pakistan. Pakistan i...

From New Zealand to India, worldwide tech media is buzzing with headlines about China cracking down on thousands of Internet cafes. In a market that has some 87 million Internet users -- the world's second-largest population of Netizens after the United States -- the implications on e-commerce have ...