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Microsoft is taking a bold stance in its seemingly endless Yahoo talks, now saying no further negotiations will take place unless a new board is elected. A public statement issued Monday by Microsoft references recent meetings with billionaire Yahoo investor Carl Icahn, who issued a letter of his own once again urging a leadership change. The newl...

Google and privacy advocates will continue to fight a war over the search giant's use and retention of personal information, but it appears the two sides declared an end to hostilities over the July Fourth holiday weekend regarding the company's privacy policy. Google now will directly link to its privacy information and policy from its homepage "G...

It's been on the radar of USA Credit Union's IT department for three years. They all knew about it. They were watching it every day. They had also heard rumblings that more and more of their industry counterparts had fallen victim to the attackers, Daniel Schneider, the credit union's senior manager of IT, told TechNewsWorld Phishing was definitely...

The Internet is the greatest technical development of the 20th century, and its open competition model has been the envy of other market sectors. Internet advances are being crushed by monopolistic carriers who are more concerned with censoring content than delivering services to customers. Those disparate statements sum up the positions of the two sides squaring off in an increasingly contentious debate about the Internet's future...

There are many things to admire about Apple, but like every company it has a dark side. One of the things I personally find more than annoying is the Apple fan base that will attack you if you honestly don't want to buy an Apple product and talk about your choice. But the thing to be concerned about, because Apple is a company that others now emulate, is its increasing habit of tricking you into paying more than you thought you paid for its products.

Recession talk is all around us, and CRM has a role in helping any company get through the slump. How? Take our quick quiz A recession happens when:...

WiFi was supposed to effortlessly connect us to the world on the run Instead, we're all on the run seeking a connection....

Despite the overwhelming success of e-commerce, there are still consumers out there too terrified to click their cart through a virtual checkout Are they just a silly-nilly group, nutty as a bunch of conspiracy theorists? Or are the rest of us just too naive to get it?...

Depending on which set of criteria you reference, ID fraud either is on a significant decline or will be a lingering threat for several more years The general trend points downward. Overall, 2007 saw a 12 percent drop in ID fraud incidences to US$6 billion, according to Javelin Strategy & Research's report released in February....

A frustrated Best Buy customer has filed a US$54 million lawsuit against the electronics retailer in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Her complaint? Best Buy lost the laptop she had brought in for repair; the tech staff was evasive about its whereabouts; and the store refused to compensate her fully for her loss The last straw for D....

In the world of information technology, businesses turn to servers to manage the storage, flow and backup of just about every bit of important data. What about the family home? Many households around the world have broadband wireless networks, multiple PCs and everything from priceless vacation photos to bank account information stored on individual PC hard drives. Their networks are already in place with PCs in multiple rooms, but where's the central home server to connect and protect them all?...

A new ruling in Viacom's US$1 billion lawsuit against Google has privacy advocates fretting that the case may further erode privacy online, even if it's eventually settled Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court for Southern New York ruled that Google must provide Viacom with information from its database, including users' YouTube login IDs,...

Sony's 2.40 firmware update for the PlayStation 3 video game console ran into problems less than an hour after the company made it available for download Wednesday. Owners began reporting problems as a result of the download on the PS3 Forum, leading Sony to pull the update from availability "A limited number of PS3 users have reported that the XMB...

A new study shows the majority of Americans still on dial-up Internet access are keeping the slow connection by choice. The Pew Internet and American Life Project's "Home Broadband Adoption 2008" report finds only 55 percent of Americans are now using high-speed broadband connections -- up 8 percent from this time last year. Those with dial-up connections -- about 10 percent of the total polled -- largely say they're content and have no desire to upgrade...

These days, I'm often asked about the health of the technology sector. Granted, some people say the economy of the San Francisco Bay Area doesn't reflect the rest of the country, but indications point to the fact that technology industries appear to be relatively unscathed by the economic downturn The Silicon Valley Index, published earlier this ye...

Not all trains run on time, but the Eclipse Foundation has kept to its schedule with its annual release train, this year named "Ganymede." For the third year in a row, the Eclipse community has delivered, on the same day as in previous years, numerous software updates across a wide range of projects....

Best-in-Class organizations are three times more likely to leverage solutions for network simulation and emulation than Laggards, according to data from Aberdeen Group's February benchmark report, "The Roadmap to the Next-Generation Branch Office Networks." Deployment of these solutions resulted in Best-in-Class companies being twice as likely to r...

Two legal groups have filed a lawsuit to get more information on whether the U.S. government may be using Americans' cell phones to pinpoint their locations -- sometimes without any warrant or court oversight The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed their suit on Tuesday urging a federal court to order the Dep...

If the food industry ran its business like the Internet browsing software industry, then consumers would be hurling lawsuits like bad tomatoes at the companies that give us Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari The comparison is existent in a wide-ranging new study showing that approximately 40 percent of the Internet surfing public -- 576 million ...

Microsoft may now be looking at a team-based approach to buying Yahoo. The company has talked with other media corporations about partnering up to split Yahoo's assets, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, which cited sources close to the discussions. Microsoft could buy Yahoo's search business, while MySpace or AOL would take the rest of Yahoo's services, the Journal reported...