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The boardroom of game publisher Take-Two resembled a scene from one of its violent video games as the often embattled firm booted five of six board members who were up for reelection. Among them was chief executive Paul Eibeler, who had the dubious distinction of being removed from both the boardroo...

Dell on Thursday said that an audit into its past bookkeeping practices found errors and evidence of misconduct. Dell said it would seek to push back the filing of its annual report for the fiscal year because the inquiry by its board of directors' audit committee is not complete. "As we move toward...

The art of copying and stealing other people's content and ideas has settled comfortably into the mainstream across the globe. What formerly would have constituted an act of piracy is now a commonplace occurrence. Isn't it time to give these "borrowers" a tribute, host a gala dinner and hand out awa...

AT&T, Qwest and Verizon won the right to bid for $20 billion in federal telecommunications contracts, the U.S. General Services Administration announced Thursday. Noticeably absent from the list is Sprint, which previously held the rights to bid for U.S. government telecommunications contracts.

AT&T, Qwest and Verizon won the right to bid for $20 billion in federal telecommunications contracts, the U.S. General Services Administration announced Thursday. Noticeably absent from the list is Sprint, which previously held the rights to bid for U.S. government telecommunications contracts.

AT&T, Qwest and Verizon won the right to bid for $20 billion in federal telecommunications contracts, the U.S. General Services Administration announced Thursday. Noticeably absent from the list is Sprint, which previously held the rights to bid for U.S. government telecommunications contracts.

Computer hackers swiped information from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards of discount retailing giant TJX customers over the course of several years, the company confirmed this week. TJX first reported in January that hackers had breached a system that handles its credit card, debit card...

PC industry leader Hewlett-Packard filed a patent infringement lawsuit Tuesday against up-and-coming rival Acer. HP alleges that its Taiwan-based competitor has violated five patents that HP acquired between 1997 and 2003. The patents deal with technologies for read/write optical drives, notebook's ...

An executive manager and member of the executive board of technology and industrial giant Siemens was ordered to remain in the custody of German law enforcement officials Wednesday after being arrested and charged in connection with an alleged bribery scheme. Johannes Feldmayer had asked to be "temp...

Jim Stickley, CTO of TraceSecurity makes his living sneaking into other peoples' businesses and leaving with their data. Stickley robs banks, but unlike conventional thieves, he is not after what is locked inside the vault. Instead, he steals personally identifiable information such as names, addres...

Over-the-air music downloads just got less expensive, at least for Sprint customers. As part of a number of moves to boost its music download business, Sprint announced it will charge 99 cents for all songs purchased from its Sprint Music Store. The price cut, slated to begin early next month, will ...

European Union antitrust regulators have given Microsoft more time to prove it is complying with a requirement to fairly license its server software communications protocols. Microsoft now has until April 23 to respond to charges from the European Commission, which has said that Microsoft has yet to...

The stagnant telecom equipment market received a major boost with Verizon Wireless' award of a three-year, $6 billion contract to its primary network infrastructure provider, Alcatel-Lucent. Under the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will supply a range of equipment, software and services to support Verizon...

Chipmaker Intel announced Monday it would build a $2.5 billion wafer fabrication facility in northeast China, the company's latest and largest investment to date in the booming country. The plant -- which will also be Intel's first fabrication plant, or fab, anywhere in Asia -- will be located in th...

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council launched in September as a joint venture between Visa International, MasterCard Worldwide, Discover Financial Services, JCB and American Express to continuously improve the data security standard. The group couldn't have appeared at a better time....