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AT&T announced a deal Sunday that will make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S., surpassing Verizon. AT&T reached an agreement to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about $39 billion. The deal will need approval from the FCC and DoJ to verify it would not violate antitrust l...

The proliferation of social media and the real-time Web has created a significant change in the role of today's marketer. The shift from a traditional marketing mix to a predominantly online marketing focus has placed new expectations on marketers to understand website traffic, generate leads online...

The proliferation of social media and the real-time Web has created a significant change in the role of today's marketer. The shift from a traditional marketing mix to a predominantly online marketing focus has placed new expectations on marketers to understand website traffic, generate leads online...

The proliferation of social media and the real-time Web has created a significant change in the role of today's marketer. The shift from a traditional marketing mix to a predominantly online marketing focus has placed new expectations on marketers to understand website traffic, generate leads online...

Microsoft and federal law enforcement agents have taken down the Rustock botnet, which had about a million infected computers under its control. The botnet was officially considered offline on Wednesday, according to Microsoft. A botnet consists of an infrastructure of computers that have been hacke...

Social shopping site Groupon clearly had bigger aspirations in mind when it spurned Google's $6 billion acquisition offer last year. The company is in discussions with Goldman Sachs about going public -- at a $25 billion valuation -- according to a Bloomberg article citing unnamed sources in the kno...

The New York Times' management is hoping the second time's a charm with a decision to charge for online news access starting March 28. Non-subscribers will be allowed to read 20 articles per month for free, while print subscribers will get full access at no additional charge. "Hooray for The New Yor...

The National Federation of the Blind has filed a civil rights violation complaint with the Department of Justice, asking it to investigate the adoption of Google Apps by New York University and Northwestern University, as well as some schools in the state of Oregon. The use of Google Apps in an educ...

A coalition of information technology and civil liberties organizations is trying to get ahead of congressional lawmakers and the Obama administration in forging a national cybersecurity policy. Members of the coalition met with congressional staffers last week to brief them on the group's just-rele...

An 8.9 Richter Scale-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan Friday has technology experts weighing in on the temblor's possible long- and short-term effects on technology in its many incarnations -- from mobile, social networks and cloud computing to WiFi, mainframes and security. Their analysis is cau...

The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee approved a joint resolution to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's Net neutrality rules on Wednesday. The measure, which passed in a 15-8 vote, still needs to clear the full committee before moving to the House fo...

The explosion of e-commerce has exposed consumers to an unprecedented level of risk regarding personal privacy. Businesses, government agencies and consumer groups agree that privacy protection needs to be drastically improved. However, there is a tug-of-war brewing over how to accomplish that goal ...

Social media is transforming communications, but what many people do not see is how social media impacts litigation. Today at least 95 percent of all information is electronic, and the continued proliferation of social media surely will make that percentage grow. As I pointed out in my recent colum...

Deutsche Telekom is reportedly in talks with Sprint Nextel to sell its T-Mobile USA unit. The terms revolve around a major stake Deutsche Telekom would take in the combined entity. The negotiations have been an on-again, off-again affair, according to reports, and there is no certainty a deal will e...

Sony will be able to proceed with its prosecution of a hacker who published an encryption key allowing PlayStation 3 owners to override Sony's copy-protection software and gain control of their consoles. The hack reportedly was built using earlier jailbreaks to the system. A federal magistrate has g...