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Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has filed a civil lawsuit against Time Warner Cable, alleging it deceived and ripped off its subscribers, providing inferior service for months The complaint accuses TWC of engaging in numerous fraudulent acts andbusiness practices that resulted in consumers...

Tomonobu Itagaki, renowned producer of the "Ninja Gaiden" series and head of Tecmo's Team Ninja, has resigned effective July 1, 2008 -- obviously timing his announcement to coincide with the release of "Ninja Gaiden 2," Team Ninja's latest contribution to the action/adventure genre of the video game industry. Itagaki is currently suing Tecmo for U...

A new NASA land use agreement is bringing Google -- and, ultimately, the general public -- one step closer to outer space. Google announced a 40-year plan Thursday to build a massive research and development campus within NASA's Ames Research Center. Google will pay US$3.66 million a year for the 42.2 acre as-yet-undeveloped lot in Mountain View,...

Verizon Wireless confirmed Thursday that it will buy Alltel Wireless in a deal worth US$28.1 billion, one that will help it reach new markets and push it ahead of AT&T as the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. The move comes just a year after a group of private equity players took Alltel private. Verizon Wireless will pay $5.9 billion in cash an...

Verizon Wireless confirmed Thursday that it will buy Alltel Wireless in a deal worth US$28.1 billion, one that will help it reach new markets and push it ahead of AT&T as the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. The move comes just a year after a group of private equity players took Alltel private. Verizon Wireless will pay $5.9 billion in cash an...

Verizon Wireless confirmed Thursday that it will buy Alltel Wireless in a deal worth US$28.1 billion, one that will help it reach new markets and push it ahead of AT&T as the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. The move comes just a year after a group of private equity players took Alltel private. Verizon Wireless will pay $5.9 billion in cash an...

IBM researchers, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, have prototyped a new method for cooling microprocessors stacked on top of each other, creating a 3-D processor that could keep Moore's Law running strong for the next decade. Key to the effort is water, which seems to be the only material that can keep the stack from burning up.

Forty-five percent of marketing executives view return on marketing investment (ROMI) as a top driver compelling their organizations to track and measure marketing performance, according to a recent Aberdeen Group survey of 728 companies. This begs the question: Can the implementation of a marketing dashboard help alleviate the pressure related to improving ROMI?...

Jigsaw, a provider of corporate information, sales and marketing leads, is providing some of its contacts for free to customer relationship management vendors under a newly launched Open Data Initiative. Several companies are taking advantage of the open source program and have inked partnership agreements with the Web 2.0 firm, including NetSuite...

Computers have become more complex in recent years as demands on systems have continued to increase in size due to the amount of external devices, software, hardware and communication components. Technical professionals are depending more and more on the Internet, a blog or a peer whenever they need to research complex technologies. But in this digital age, when information is just a click away, how do you know what information can be trusted?...

Bhaskar Rao is known for his discoveries in the realm of space exploration. However, he's never ventured beyond the atmosphere of Mother Earth. His space-related technology expertise lies in innovative advances in the world of signal processing. His explorations resulted in the emergence of MIMO, or multiple input multiple output An electrical engi...

A coalition of 14 privacy and consumer organizations have charged that Google is violating California law by failing to post a prominent link on its home page to its privacy policy "Google's reluctance to post a link to its privacy policy on its homepage is alarming," wrote the groups in a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt dated Tuesday. "We urge y...

In its latest salvo in the battle for platform dominance on specialized devices, Microsoft has released its newest Windows Embedded operating system to developers. At its Tech-Ed North America Developer Conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft Wednesday announced the availability of Windows Embedded Standard in preview or beta form, and said it will...

AMD has released a new mobile processor platform, its latest contender as it battles for market share with archrival Intel. Codenamed "Puma," the offering includes Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile processors with ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series Graphics and wireless networking hardware from Atheros, Broadcom and Ralink....

The Hong Kong domain (.hk) is the riskiest Internet destination for Web surfers, according to a McAfee report released Wednesday Overall, the security firm looked at 265 domains for a variety of unwanted behaviors, and ranked the 74 most heavily trafficked top-level domains. The list includes both country domains, such as .hk, and generic domains,...

Carl Icahn's bid to change the corporate direction at Yahoo -- specifically to push it into the arms of Microsoft -- got an unexpected boost this week when a judge ordered court documents in a shareholder lawsuit unsealed The revelations and accusations in those papers, including that Yahoo turned down a US$40 per share offer from Microsoft more th...

When Eric Aubertin, founder and CEO of the e-commerce loyalty firm OneBigPlanet, sold his last company, eFundraising, to Reader's Digest, he had time on his hands to shape the idea behind his next online innovation. He had a notion to develop a new type of consumer platform that would bring communities, corporations, organizations and social networks together in a new approach to a benefits program...

I once played organized football -- not that I was any good at it, but I played it with relish. My favorite parts were anything that had to do with disrupting the opponent's carefully planned plays, which included covering kickoffs and punts as well as regular defense. This bit of information has almost nothing to do with this column except that it points out an early character trait (some would say flaw) that has perversely influenced my career...

The recent Facebook rumors have come true -- the social networking company is making much of its third-party application development platform open source. The company announced the change one year after it launched Facebook Platform "On the anniversary of our platform launch, we want to give back to the developer community. As Facebook Platform con...

When abstract artist Gina Raphaela wants to get the word out about shows featuring her paintings in her New York loft condo, she turns to her building's social networking site, hosted by LifeAt.com. She sends messages to all of the members of her building's online community, and she reports that plenty of friends and neighbors from the building have been coming to her events...