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A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornography on the Web was overturned this week by a federal court, setting up a possible showdown between free speech advocates and the U.S government. Judge Lowell Reed of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia sided with the American Civil Liber...

In a widely expected but potentially devastating development, a federal judge Friday issued a permanent injunction barring VoIP firm Vonage from using technology that a jury last week found was first developed and patented by Verizon Communications. Judge Claude Hilton said he issued the injunction ...

The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to halt a lengthy review that could have ended the ban on mobile phone use during airline flights. FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin has begun circulating a motion to full commission that calls for the idea of expanding use of cell phones on planes to ...

A federal judge has overturned the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, a 1998 law that was designed to keep children from viewing pornographic materials on the Internet. Although it was signed by President Bill Clinton, it never took effect. In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a temporary injun...

NBC and News Corp. plan to take on Google's YouTube by forming their own Web-based video outlet to gain exposure for their deep wells of content and partnering with a host of Google competitors to make it happen. The two media giants say their site will instantly be the largest Internet video distri...

Microsoft continues to abuse its market position to gain market share, particularly in the business server software space where earlier antitrust penalties were aimed at boosting competition, the European Union's top regulator told the European Parliament Thursday. The market situation is "not accep...

Motorola on Thursday said it would miss its current quarterly sales growth targets by $1 billion or more and replaced its chief financial officer as part of a restructuring aimed at righting what appears to be a badly listing corporate ship. The company, the largest U.S.-based mobile handset maker a...

Adobe Systems posted better-than-expected guidance for the second quarter, causing its shares to rise by some 5.5 percent. Adobe expects to realize revenue of some $700 million to $740 million in Q2. Non-GAAP earnings, it said, should come in at 34 cents to 36 cents per share. For the fiscal first q...

In its latest move to promote its plan to merge with XM Satellite Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio says it will offer lower-priced packages to consumers if the companies are allowed to join. The goal, Sirius noted in a federal filing, would be to offer customers fewer channels at a price less than the ...

Business software giant Oracle blew past Wall Street targets for profit and revenue in its third quarter, with demand for many of its applications lending further support to its massive acquisition spree. The company's results also may help ease investor concern about the health of technology spendi...

Blockbuster on Tuesday said it had settled its long-simmering pay dispute with Chairman and CEO John Antioco, striking a deal that calls for him to step down later this year with a reduced pay and bonus package. Under the deal, the company will pay Antioco a bonus of $3.05 million for calendar year ...

Cerberus Capital Management has put an offer on the table to take Affiliated Computer Services private in a $5.9 billion buyout. That translates to $59.25 per share, a 15.5 percent premium over the ACS closing price on Monday. ACS, a provider of business process outsourcing and information technolog...

Several radio broadcasters and online media companies are challenging a ruling this week that sets a higher royalty fee structure for music played over the Internet. The Copyright Royalty Board, a body created by Congress to settle royalty disputes in the music industry, has decided on a higher fee ...

Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell called on India to lower its taxes on foreign-made computers, saying the fast-growing market could invite more investment by doing so. Dell, whose namesake company is set to open its first Indian PC production plant in the southern city of Chennai later this year, s...

There is an ever-increasing number of people that are utilizing the Web to support or altogether run their businesses. However, setting up your online storefront is not the last hurdle an e-business owner faces. Once an online presence is established, there is still the matter of marketing your busi...