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As the television-watching world continues to suffer through re-runs and a new crop of hastily concocted reality shows, Hollywood screenwriters and producers continue their standoff. The writers say they deserve additional payments for their work. The producers say they can't afford to make those payments. From the outside, it looks like a typical labor dispute...

Cisco will invest nearly US$1.6 billion on information and communications technology in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the course of the next five years, the company announced Monday. The network vendor will open a new regional headquarters in Dubai in April with a second office set to open in Abu Dhabi in June "This investment demonstrates ou...

Alltel has joined the ranks of service providers offeringmobile customer relationship management functionality to their business customers. The wirelesscompany has introduced SalesNOW, a contact,activity and deal management Web app designed for the BlackBerry mobile device Most of the application's features relate to contact managementor productivi...

Broadband television provider Revision3 has launched "The Digg Reel," a show dedicated to user-generated content Digg, a social networking Web site where users share and submit content, will take the top-rated user-submitted videos and produce a weekly show, which will be hosted by Jessica Corbin. The program, posted each Wednesday, will also inclu...

Sanyo has traded off a little in a crowded mobile technology field to gain a lot in its core business, with the sale of its lagging mobile phone operations to Kyocera The two electronics firms announced the deal -- potentially worth US$472.3 million -- on Monday, with Sanyo transferring its $375 million mobile phone operation to Kyocera. No final p...

Royal Philips Electronics strengthened its lighting and energy business while tapping into emerging world markets to offset big losses in the United States, according to its fourth-quarter earnings report released on Monday ...

Electronic Arts will launch a free Web-based online battlefield game, the first barrage of what may become an advertising-supported blitz which could help change the economics of the game-publishing industry EA's "Battlefield Heroes" will be a free-to-download and free-to-play multi-player personal computer game that will also use back-end technolo...

Dell has released a new M-Series blade solution, the M1000e, that boasts a new balance of performance, ease of use, and more efficient energy consumption -- not to mention environmentally friendly lead-free configurations. Dell says it designed the M1000e "from the ground up" using Dell Energy Smart technologies that resulted in 30 patent applications...

Microsoft has opened up its usability specifications, the User Interface Automation (UIA), to the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA), a group formed to develop standards for making user interfaces more accessible to people with disabilities The 2,600-page specification document, which was released royalty-free, marks the first significan...

HBO will start to make its high-profile catalog of series, films and specials available online this week for some subscribers, a move that underscores the growing comfort content owners feel toward using the Web as a distribution channel The service, known as "HBO on Broadband," will go live on Tuesday in two relatively small test markets -- Milwau...

McAfee announced Monday a security suite that provides enterprise users with host data loss prevention, device management and endpoint encryption to ensure compliance and limit exposure to fines McAfee Total Protection for Data, a solution for data loss and data leakage protection, has full visibility and control of confidential data with scalabili...

E-commerce has been part of the retail world for more than a decade, and today's consumers seem to assume that because of this longevity, their transactions are secure. Beyond this, the average online shoppers are convinced their credit card numbers and other sensitive information are out of reach of attackers with a firewall and antivirus program, combined with shopping at brand-name retail sites...

Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) has recently become more common in corporations large and small. By combining separate voice and data transmissions onto the same line, this new communications option enables companies to lower their telecommunications costs and, after taking advantage of the savings, companies are looking to extend VoIP's benefits...

I kind of felt sorry for Steve Jobs last week because he got a raw deal. Folks seemed to be expecting an iPhone-like announcement and instead got nice improvements on existing products and a wonderful new laptop I personally think the impact of the improvements to Apple TV and seemingly Apple-led move to ultra-thin laptops to be, in combination, po...

Step aside, boob tube. Online videos are becoming the primary form of media entertainment for many people. Web surfers spent about an hour more per month watching videos in November compared with January, according to the latest comScore Video Metrix Specifically, they watched an average of 3.25 hours, or 195 minutes, of online video during the mon...

IBM's relatively robust outlook and the details of its fourth quarter performance have helped restore some investor optimism toward the tech sector after a wild week that saw recession fears rise on weak results from the likes of Intel IBM, which earlier in the week preannounced its earnings, said Thursday that many of its key business lines turned...

New stats confirm what many holiday shoppers already knew: Nintendo's Wii was the most popular game console of the season, with 1.35 million flying off shelves. Its popularity provided a huge boost to the industry, said theNPD Group, which issued the report In 2007, the video game industry hauled in a record US$17.9 billion in sales, 43 percent hig...

There are conflicting reports coming out of Washington surrounding missing White House e-mails as well as conflicting statements coming from the White House press room. A hearing has been scheduled by Democratic Calif. Rep. Henry Waxman to investigate comments from White House spokesperson Tony Fratto asserting that he had no reason to believe any e-mails are missing...

Seeking to streamline in the face of continued customer losses, No. 3 wireless telecommunications carrier Sprint Nextel will cut 4,000 jobs and shutter scores of retail outlets Sprint Nextel described the moves as the "initial plans" and as part of "an ongoing review of operations and market approach," leaving the door open for additional cuts down...

On the heels of Oracle's successful bid to acquire BEA Systems, SAP has provided the market and its customers with the first wave of products -- nine in total -- developed through its own US$6.78 billion acquisition of Business Objects last year. It has also revealed more details about its plans to integrate its product suite with the French business intelligence vendor's applications...