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Of all the protests mounted against the pending ad partnership between Google and Yahoo, the one lodged by Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., is bound to be among the most worrisome Kohl, who oversees the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to continue to monitor the competitive landscape of the online advertising industry ...

Just in time for the 2008 holiday season, Sony unveiled a new addition to its line of e-book readers Thursday. The PRS-700, which features a six-inch touchscreen, will join the PRS-505 on store shelves in November Weighing in at about 10 ounces and capable of storing about 350 average-length digital novels, the PRS-700 also includes an expandable ...

Sprint may be a step closer to selling off its Nextel business. Latin American carrier NII holdings has expressed interest in a purchase, according to The Wall Street Journal -- which cites "people familiar with the matter" as revealing the news. Several private-equity firms such as Cerberus Capital Management have also come forward as potential buyers, the Journal says...

"No scripts, no teleprompter here, no real structure and no Britney Spears," says anchor Heather Nauert on a Sept. 25 edition of Fox News Channel's "Strategy Room." Then again, who needs Spears when you've got five stunning examples of Fox's now-famous efforts to recruit attractive females, all sitting around a table chatting with much energy about Congressional efforts to bail out the country's economy...

Competition for building a profitable Web site is quite fierce. Yet many of us have dreams of a unique concept that will attract viewers, followed soon thereafter by advertisers. I'm not sure what percentage of aspirants succeed in this quest, but I would venture to guess that it's a very low percentage With the evolution of the Web to the Web 2.0,...

The U.S. House Science Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversightreport is referenced as "Questions regarding technical flaws, poor government oversight and potential contractor mismanagement on the National Counterterrorism Center's RAILHEAD information technology program." As that language suggests, it chronicles a series of missteps in a US$...

The financial crisis currently consuming the U.S. has led tech industry leaders, such as Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, to speak out in favor of quick Congressional action. Tech stocks, as well as general stocks, have plummeted, and there is confusion over why this crisis is happening and spreading so fast. One explanation that makes a lot of sense draws on network and information theory...

Nokia introduced its first big touchscreen phone in London Thursday: the 5800 XpressMusic, formerly known as the "Tube." While Nokia isn't positioning the phone outright as an iPhone killer, it certainly shares some similarities of the popular Apple device -- and one that really jabs at Apple's strength: music While Apple has iTunes and its easy in...

Nintendo unveiled its new DSi portable game system Wednesday in Japan. The revamped portable game console reportedly sports a larger screen; not one, but two 3-megapixel cameras, and an audio player. The DSi replaces Nintendo's very popular DS and joins the DS Lite, the company's other handheld gaming device The DSi is 12 percent slimmer than its p...

Google said the United States has a very real opportunity to transform its economy from one running on fossil fuels to one largely based on clean energy -- and to make it happen, Google is pitching a $4.4 trillion proposal that outlines how it can be done by 2030. By spending US$4.4 trillion on building clean energy production and infrastructure, ...

Companies hoping to dial up international business with China may have yet another reason to think twice about privacy concerns, following new revelations that the Communist country has been spying on Skype-based phone calls and text messages Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto-based security and human rights research group, partnered with several...

Take-Two Interactive Software, maker of the immensely popular "Grand Theft Auto" video game series, has decided to remain independent after fielding several acquisition bids over the past few months from other video game software makers -- most notably, Electronic Arts New York-based Take-Two, which also has a popular line of sports titles such as ...

NASA is poised to take a closer-than-ever look at the closest planet to the sun. The space agency's Messenger spacecraft will zoom over Mercury's surface in the wee hours of the morning on Monday, coming within 124 miles of the rocky ground The move marks NASA's second scan of the surface in its first mission to Mercury in decades. Messenger made o...

Traditionally, requests for permanent injunctions were treated similarly in both patent and trademark infringement cases, generally being granted almost automatically any time a patent or trademark owner proved infringement Recent cases, however, have called this parity into question. As reported in the January 2008 KLIP Alert, the Supreme Court re...

All companies have similar problems, with one of the biggest being the ongoing challenge of growing their revenues. In today's declining economy, companies are seeking new ideas, new solutions, and proven advice to fight off competition and stay above water. The most successful organizations are not focused solely on increasing product sales, but also on improving service revenues to stay ahead of the competition...

D-day -- the day television broadcast signals switch from analog to digital -- is less than five months away. While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and broadcasters like ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX have spent recent months informing the viewing public about the switch, there's still a lot of confusion about what it all means among viewers with various ways of receiving programming. U.S. viewers watch on everything from ancient, bunny-eared boxes to 60-inch high-def TVs hooked up to 800-channel satellite subscriptions. Who needs to upgrade by next February? How?...

Wal-Mart will soon shut down the servers controlling reauthorization of purchased DRM (digital rights management)-protected WMA music files, Ryan Halford, the company's computer buyer, indicated on a Wal-Mart blog An e-mail sent to Wal-Mart Music customers, a copy of which was posted on the blog BoingBoing, indicates the shutdown will occur Oct. 9....

Online discovery service StumbleUpon has changed the way its users can access the service. The company announced a new partner program Tuesday and also unveiled a new Web-based toolbar that no longer requires users to register or download the specific StumbleUpon Toolbar, a task that may have turned some would-be users away in the past The changes ...

Sprint Nextel has successfully rolled out Xohm in Baltimore. The new 4G wireless WiMax network runs on 2.5 GHz and delivers downloads at 2 to 4 Mbps -- but it is clear the telecom service provider is still carefully negotiating the industry land mine that has become network management On the same day the company introduced its service, it was also ...

Computing giant HP has announced its intention to acquire storage software company LeftHand Networks for US$360 million in cash The move by Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP is an attempt to shore up its presence in the fast-growing IP (Internet protocol) storage segment of the data storage market. Unlike traditional storage area networks, IP storage netw...