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A technical error that affected 28 million Windows users in Europe could cost Microsoft billions in penalties. The glitch, which disabled the display of a browser choice screen in Windows, violates an agreement between Microsoft and European Union regulators. The maximum penalty for such a violation...

Microsoft unveiled the new versions of its Office suite and and Office 365 subscription-based service on Monday. The updated Office has an intuitive design that makes it touch- and stylus-compatible, and usable across a variety of devices running Windows, including tablets and smartphones. It's also...

Yahoo's search for a CEO is over: The company has announced that Marissa Mayer, one of Google's most prominent executives, will take the helm at Yahoo. Her recruitment is seen as a major victory for Yahoo, which has churned through a number of CEOs in recent years. After the company's last chief exe...

Overall, the deal between Intel and ASML is pretty straightforward: Intel agreed to commit about $1.0B to ASML R&D programs to accelerate deployment of new technologies for 450mm microprocessor wafers and extreme ultraviolet lithography by as much as two years. The company also agreed to buy 10 ...

The MS part of MSNBC.com has pulled out of the joint venture. This ends the partnership between Microsoft and NBC News, which is now owned by Comcast. In 2005, Microsoft sold its stake in the MSNBC cable channel to NBC, and it now will sell its 50 percent interest in the website for an undisclosed a...

The ever-changing nature of technological consumption, combined with the economic instability experienced since 2007, has given rise to a heightened awareness of risk analysis in the technology sector. As organizations engage in across-the-board belt-tightening, decision makers realize that the pot...

Verizon's $3.9 billion bid for spectrum from a consortium of cable providers could be in jeopardy, with news surfacing Friday of the DoJ's fear that a cross-marketing deal within the larger deal could reduce competition for landline Internet service. DoJ's concern reportedly stems from Verizon's agr...

AMC will stream the first episode in the upcoming fifth season of "Breaking Bad" for Dish customers at a site that greets visitors with the welcoming words, "Dish dropped AMC, so we're offering a special live stream of the premiere for Dish customers, right here." Viewers are invited to begin regist...

Once-prominent social news aggregator Digg has announced its sale to Betaworks, which will fold Digg into its News.me daily briefing service. After Digg's startup launch in 2004, it quickly became one of the most popular social sites on the Web by letting users collect their own assortment of digita...

Not too long ago Amazon had an important card to play as it competed for -- and went on to win -- online customers: "Buy with us," it promised, and "you will not have to pay sales tax." It was a potent argument -- possibly one of the reasons for the etailer's wild success -- and thanks to a murky le...

The complexities of modern life amuse us, confuse us and confound us. The vast majority of people using computers and smartphones have hardly a clue as to their inner workings. These devices are a mystery. They are magical, and we are much like Alice in this technological wonderland. Even more comp...

Personal computer sales are down across the industry as consumers turn toward newer devices such as smartphones and tablets and await the arrival of system upgrades like Windows 8, according to reports from Gartner and IDC. PC sales for the second quarter in the U.S. were down between 6 and 11 perce...

On Thursday a federal judge in New York denied a request by several broadcasters including ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC to shut down startup Aereo's streaming video platform, which utilizes arrays of dime-sized antennas to receive free, over-the-air programming and then streams the content online and even ...

A months-long disagreement over the fees DirecTV should pay to Viacom for some of its most popular programming has turned into steely-eyed brinkmanship between the two companies -- and DirecTV's customers caught in the middle. Viacom proposed increasing the fees DirecTV pays for programming offered ...

Net neutrality boils down to the basic decision we need to make as a country. There are three different tracks we can take, and we have to choose one. One, broadband is just another service from the phone company or cable television company. They control everything, including which sites get the fas...