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Disney today unveiled the Disney Dream Desk PC, a personal computer aimed at children and featuring a Mickey Mouse-shaped LCD monitor and a variety of Disney applications. In unveiling the new PC in New York, Disney President and COO Bob Iger noted, "We've traveled a long way since that first Mickey...

America Online announced the acquisition of Mailblocks, a personal, Web-based e-mail service known for using state-of-the-art technology to block spam and provide a streamlined, efficient e-mail user interface. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mailblocks is best known for its development and de...

In a decision that could have a broad impact on how entertainment is distributed across the Internet, the FCC has given the nominal go-ahead to a TiVo technology that lets users send content over the Internet.

IBM announced that it will not use its patents against Linux, and it encouraged other software companies to make the same vow. As the owner of 60 patents on which the Linux core might infringe, IBM could wreak havoc on Linux if it chose to do so. The new promise, delivered at LinuxWorld, emphasizes ...

The Federal Communications Commission will try to forge a compromise on rules under which local phone companies lease their telephone lines to competitors. FCC Chairman Michael Powell said that he asked other members of the commission to work on finding a compromise that would allow changes to exist...

Russia's Justice Ministry said Thursday that it had revoked permission granted by bailiffs for the beleaguered oil giant Yukos to use previously frozen funds to pay for day-to-day operations. The reports came just a day after Yukos said it had received permission from the ministry's bailiffs service...

TiVo, one of the initial creators of television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has certified TiVo's technology protection of digital broadcast television. The FCC determined that digital broadcast television content shoul...

America Online today announced the acquisition of Mailblocks, a personal, Web-based e-mail service known for using state-of-the-art technology to block spam and provide a streamlined, efficient e-mail user interface. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mailblocks is best known for its development ...

IBM has won the right to build a powerful Linux-based supercomputer for the Department of Defense that will be used to design and test weapons systems, the company announced Tuesday. Nicknamed "Stryker," the machine will run at a speed of 10 trillion calculations per second, placing it among the 20 ...

Most corporations, when giving birth to a new product, behave just like parents jumping in frenzy in a maternity ward. This typical hysterical hoopla of the incubation wing is often replaced by a subtler, cubicle behavior and, at times, becomes a subdued Dilbertish-style revolution. Objects do fly, ...

Halliburton announced today that it has reached a settlement in the investigation by the SEC involving Halliburton's 1998 and 1999 disclosure of and accounting for the recognition of revenue from unapproved claims on long-term construction projects. "We are pleased to bring closure to this matter," ...

Pfizer today announced it has filed a barrage of lawsuits aimed at shutting down online sales of generic, counterfeit or fake versions of Viagra, its copyrighted erectile dysfunction medication. The New York-based drugmaker filed the suits against dozens of what it called "illegitimate online pharma...

Online search engine Ask Jeeves has reached an agreement to start offering Citysearch's local content and business data, with the information expected to start showing up in searches in September. Citysearch's data will complement the local features already offered on Ask Jeeves, including maps, dri...

The Indian government has made various proposals recently to tax foreign firms sending outsourcing work to India and firms that import and resell shrinkwrap software in India. Proposals range from setting a simple 4 percent tax on the value of outsourcing contracts to a more complex system of taxing...

Media giant Viacom and Internet sports content and e-commerce provider SportsLine.com announced today that they have signed an agreement for SportsLine.com to merge with a subsidiary of Viacom. Under the deal, holders of common stock of SportsLine.com will be entitled to US$1.75 per share in cash up...