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Qwest Communications International founder and billionaire Phil Anschutz testified on behalf of former company CEO Joe Nacchio Thursday, telling jurors that around the time he was accused of selling stock, a distraught Nacchio was considering resigning because of issues within his family Nacchio told Anschutz on more than one occasion that he was c...

As the evolution of integrated, multimedia wired and wireless networks and services continues apace, be prepared for the rise of mobile marketing -- or m-marketing -- in the United States as telcos open up their platforms to third-party content providers In addition, a wide range of companies are developing mobile advertising, e-billing, payment an...

Some 204 million mobile phones, or 14 percent of the world market, will be running on Linux by 2012, according to a report released this week from the London office of ABI Research "Linux in the cellular phone is not a question of if, but when," declared ABI Research Director Stuart Carlaw....

Part 1 of this three-part series focused on the Internet's rise in importance on political campaigns, especially fund-raising. The second part looked at how online campaigns are building on the fund-raising theme and making the sites more interactive. This third part focuses on the increased use of social networking and online games to expand candidates' political presence...

Two of the retail industry's largest trade associations have joined forces with the FBI to develop a network dedicated to fighting organized retail crime The Law Enforcement Retail Partnership Network, known as LERPnet and due to launch on April 9, is a secure, national database that will allow retailers to share information on organized retail cri...

Mozilla Labs is working on the next generation of browser innovation, and it's all about integrating massively popular social networking features directly into the browser Mozilla Labs, a virtual research and development organization stemming from the Mozilla Foundation, is calling its latest project "The Coop," and it comes from one of the most co...

The Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling has environmentalists jubilant, and if they are willing to admit it, Bush administration critics indulging in a bit of Schadenfreude, or gloating In a 5-4 decision, the Court found that the EPA in fact does have the authority to regulate automobile emissions, contrary...

Take-Two Interactive Software on Wednesday said regulators have begun a formal probe of its options dating practices, a move that suggests a recent change of leadership at the company may not have put an end to the options questions The New York-based company disclosed the formal probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a regulatory...

Google has unveiled a way for users of its popular Maps application to create and share maps they make themselves, creations that can include all sorts of digital content including videos, text and photos The new Google My Maps tab, found on the Google Maps page, simplifies the integration of user-created maps with other media such as photos and vi...

A December 2006 geomagnetic storm from the sun wreaked havoc on the Global Positioning System (GPS), a satellite-based navigational system used widely by the U.S. military, scientists and civilians, researchers reported Wednesday The solar storm interfered with a variety of technologies including wireless communications networks....

The user who posted a video on YouTube poking fun at Thailand's king apparently has removed the video. However, the country's government says a ban on using Google's viral video site remains in place until all evidence of the offending clip is gone The YouTube ban is staying in place because remaining on the site is a single still frame from what w...

Intervoice has just introduced new self-service voice products based on SCXML (State Chart XML) -- a dialogue language that can be used in multiple contexts and, most intriguingly for vendors and end users, multiple modes In Intervoice's case, it has incorporated a runtime-service-orchestration engine based on SCXML in its latest iteration of its I...

Part 1 of this three-part series focused on the Internet's rise in importance on political campaigns, especially fund-raising. This part looks at how online campaigns are building on the fund-raising theme and making the sites more interactive The Home Front...

Suppliers may be willing to offer you favorable pricing in exchange for your business, but that assumes you have enough control over your spend to direct your purchasing dollars to them. In businesses with multiple locations where purchasing decisions are made at the local level, suppliers have good reason to be skeptical of your ability to deliver corporatewide volume...

Although digital still camera manufacturers are making great strides in improving the video capabilities of their products, they still have some distance to go before they catch up with conventional camcorders Sure, we'd all like to haul around less tech when documenting our lives, but for now, two cameras are still better than one. The good news, ...

It didn't take long for the U.S.EPA to react to the Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency ruling The agency announced that California can move forward with its plans to reduce tailpipe emissions from cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles -- in effect, setting the nation's first standards in this area. Prior to the...

The FBI is reportedly investigating the legal issues associated with virtual casinos in Linden Lab's "Second Life" online world In "Second Life," millions of registered users can create their own avatars, or personas, in an online world with its own economy. The virtual world also has its own currency, known as Linden dollars, that can be exchanged...

Josh Wolf, an independent and freelance video blogger who refused to turn over his footage of a San Francisco street protest and testify about it to a grand jury, is now out of jail after spending a record-setting 226 days behind bars. Wolf spent more time in jail than any other journalist being held in contempt To get out, Wolf had to cut a compro...

Intel introduced the latest member of its quad-core family of microprocessors Tuesday at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif. The Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5335 and E5345 are the first, the company said, to bring the Intel architecture-based quad-core performance to the embedded market The new arrivals are part of the 11 quad-core produc...

A lawsuit brought against Microsoft this week claims the software giant knowingly placed "Windows Vista Capable" labels on a large number of PCs that can run the new operating system only in its most basic form A consumer who claims to be a victim of "bait-and-switch" sales tactics by Microsoft filed the class action suit in U.S. District Court for...