Business

It is not unusual for small to medium business managers to emulate Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter, wearing six or eight hats simultaneously in their business efforts. Sometimes, the hat hardest to wear is IT management. All businesses, large and small, run on information. When that information is lost o...

The role and importance of governance is growing. As enterprises embrace governance, risk and compliance platforms, as well SOA governance approaches, are these capabilities headed for a mashup, if not technically than at least operationally? Do they lead to an uber-governance that eventually includ...

Google nemesis Viacom has struck a deal to have rival search engine Yahoo deliver advertising to its broadband-friendly Web sites. Yahoo will become the exclusive provider of sponsored search and contextual ads on 33 Viacom sites, including MTV.com, VH1.com, Nickelodeon.com and ComedyCentral.com. Th...

Although a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit last Thursday, Sun Microsystems now says it will refile the suit against Hynix Semiconductor and other makers of DRAM chips for what it says was illegal price-fixing. Judge Phyllis Hamilton dismissed Sun's complaint because she said she needed more info...

The United States has filed two complaints with the World Trade Organization over China's trade policies, claiming the country is not doing enough to protect the intellectual property of American companies, including software makers, movie studios and music labels. The office of U.S. Trade Represent...

Google has apologized to Sohu.com after the Chinese Web portal accused the search giant of illegally incorporating its data in a recently released Google tool that aims to make inputting Chinese characters easier. The tool is similar to the autofill function in many applications, which suggests a wo...

VoIP firm Vonage will continue to provide service to its 2.2 million customers and sign up new subscribers after an appeals court granted it a stay of an injunction late Friday. The stay came after a judge issued an injunction earlier in the day Friday that would have barred Vonage from signing up n...

Advanced Micro Devices will reduce hiring and cut other expenses in response to a first-quarter revenue miss, a likely sign that larger rival Intel has regained the upper hand in recent months. AMD expects to report first quarter revenue of $1.225 billion, significantly below the $1.5 billion being ...

Right now, music fans around the world can choose from some 10,000 Internet radio stations, each one streaming a unique mix of music. Some of those stations are operated by industry titans; others are the Internet arms of traditional terrestrial radio; and many more are tiny operations feeding their...

The nation's largest cable TV trade group is dropping eBay from its prime-time lineup, saying it would withdraw from an online advertising exchange program proposed by the auction giant. The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau, which represents big-named networks, said it was the best decision for th...

The battle between Nokia and Qualcomm hit a high note Thursday, just days before the licensing agreement between the two combatants is set to expire. Nokia, the No. 1 maker of mobile phone handsets, announced that it had made a $20 million payment to Qualcomm to cover second quarter 2007 licensing f...

Vonage can continue to provide its VoIP service to current customers, but cannot sign up any new subscribers under an injunction issued Friday on behalf of patent plaintiff Verizon Communications. The partial injunction bars Vonage from registering new customers but stops short of forcing the Web-ca...

Qwest founder and billionaire Phil Anschutz testified on behalf of former company CEO Joe Nacchio Thursday, telling jurors that around the time he was accused of selling stock, a distraught Nacchio was considering resigning because of issues within his family. Nacchio told Anschutz on more than one ...

As the evolution of integrated, multimedia wired and wireless networks and services continues apace, be prepared for the rise of mobile marketing -- or m-marketing -- in the United States as telcos open up their platforms to third-party content providers. More companies are developing mobile adverti...

Two of the retail industry's largest trade associations have joined forces with the FBI to develop a network dedicated to fighting organized retail crime. The Law Enforcement Retail Partnership Network, known as LERPnet and due to launch on April 9, is a secure, national database that will allow ret...