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Seven members of a massive alleged Internet fraud ring have been charged by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York The ring infected more than 4 million computers worldwide with malware and rerouted online searches fraudulently to websites and ads, which then paid the ring's members for those hits, according to authorities....

Rumblefish and APM Music are teaming up to offer an online catalog of popular music and soundtracks to consumers looking to legally add sound to personal video content such as YouTube videos, slideshows or presentations The partnership, announced Thursday, combines Rumblefish's experience with social media users and APM's vast online catalog of pop...

Several cable companies and the U.S. FCC have launched a program that will assist low-income families in getting access to broadband and low-cost computers. The initiative is part of the FCC's push to increase broadband adoption across the U.S. This particular program, in which such companies as Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and o...

A bipartisan trio of Senators has introduced a bill that gives states the authority to collect online sales taxes. The measure, cosponsored by Senators Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Dick Durbin, (D-Ill., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., carves out an exception for small businesses, one of the main objections to this issue in the past. The legislation exempts se...

Apple's iPhone is showing up everywhere this year. Most major competitors have it, and Apple has also knocked on the doors of some of the Tier 2 players. In an interesting twist, C Spire said yes, and U.S. Cellular said no thanks. Why? I thought everyone wanted the iPhone -- but they have their reasons, and this could be good news for both. We all...

Marketers are increasingly embracing the need for customer intelligence to provide them with actionable insight to optimize revenue. But how do you get started? Treating what you have today as actionable insight enables marketers to think about using their existing data as customer intelligence, learn from it, and then incrementally improve upon it over time. ...

Unless you're driving a tricked-out late-model BMW or Mini, you're unlikely to have Internet-based media streaming options built into your vehicle However, there are ways to replicate that Internet media experience -- just without the integrated controls....

Nvidia on Wednesday launched the quad-core mobile Nvidia Tegra 3 processor Formerly nicknamed "Project Kal-El," the Tegra 3 has four main cores and a fifth companion core....

When Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet shows up on Nov. 15, users will be able to choose from thousands of apps available for download at Amazon's Appstore. That's way fewer than the hundreds of thousands iPad owners can get from Apple's App Store. Still, if they're the right apps, who cares? Popular apps like Pandora, Facebook, Twitter and Net...

Adobe announced on Wednesday that it would no longer continue to develop Flash Player for mobile devices after the release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and the BlackBerry PlayBook It will instead switch to HTML5 for mobile devices....

As an observer of the information technology and Internet industries for several decades, I watch with great amusement as new buzzwords surface for old IT concepts. I was rewarded not too long ago, when the term "cloud computing" appeared on the scene. The technology concept behind cloud computing has been around for more than 50 years, and the le...

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo are joining forces to sell unused online ads to each other, a position designed to combat the growing market dominance of Google and Facebook The partnership will allow the companies to buy and sell each other's online inventory of ads. The companies are interested in upping demand by ensuring advertisers that their product...

Questions posed by U.S. Supreme Court Justices to attorneys making oral arguments in United States v. Jones suggest the case could have significant implications for search-and-seizure law and police practices. The justices grilled both the U.S. attorney general and the defense attorney for Antoine Jones, a former Washington nightclub owner who is ...

Accel Partners is launching a US$100 million fund to identify -- and fund -- entrepreneurs at every layer of the big data stack, in particular, those developing projects for the Apache Hadoop platform. The Accel Big Data Fund is aligned with Cloudera, which is pushing development in Hadoop.

If you've been in this business any length of time, you've become accustomed to disruptive innovation. More than anywhere else you can name, the front office has been a hotbed for introducing game-changing new technologies since the mid-1990s, when CRM applications began coming on line. But what's next? We've had our share of net new ideas over t...

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Managing personal finances once involved lots of paper. Then computer programs came along that helped simplify the process. Now a multitude of mobile apps are available to help people attend to money matters on the go ...

Honda recently unveiled the latest version of its Asimo robot in Tokyo The humanoid robot has been equipped with what Honda claims is the world's first autonomous behavior control technology....

A market valued at nearly US$80 billion per year certainly gets the attention of vendors hoping to participate in it. For the information technology sector, the notion that the U.S. government spends about $79 billion per year for IT has gained credence as the figure often cited by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and in references from the federal chief information officer (CIO)...

American Express is extending its financial reach to the wild world of tech startups through a new multiyear digital commerce initiative unveiled on Tuesday. The US$100 million program is designed to help identify and develop innovative technologies to aid the company's digital transformation and strengthen connections to customers around the world. The credit card company is set to make mostly minority investments in early stage startups...