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Google's Book Search project "systematically violates copyright" and deprives content owners of the opportunity to make money from their creations, according to a top Microsoft attorney. In a prepared speech to be given Tuesday to the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers in New Y...

Intel may have deleted some documents requested by Advanced Micro Devices as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, Intel attorneys said on Monday. In response, AMD accused the leading chipmaker of apparently destroying evidence. In a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Farnan Jr., Intel said ...

Research In Motion will take a $250 million charge to reduce previously reported GAAP earnings going back to 2004 to account for backdated stock options. The Canadian wireless device maker is reshuffling management as a result of the restatement, with co-CEO Jim Balsillie stepping down from his role...

Motorola's board of directors is urging shareholders to be wary of supporting an effort by billionaire investor Carl Icahn to secure a seat on the company's board. Motorola filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday setting the date for its annual shareholder meeting for Ma...

Advanced Micro Devices said Monday it will likely not meet its own already lowered targets for first-quarter sales growth, a sign that the chipmaker is continuing to lose ground to dominant rival Intel. The company did not provide details beyond saying it was "unlikely to meet" its previously stated...

The definitions or descriptions of newly minted terms and acronyms have been flying around this past year. To add to this, I'll contribute another one: Rich Enterprise Application or REA. To be clear from the start, REA is an evolution of Rich Internet Applications or RIA, and not an entirely new ca...

EMI on Friday formally rejected a $4.1 billion takeover bid from Warner Music Group, in the latest music industry attempt to consolidate the few remaining major labels. The world's third- and fourth-largest record labels, EMI and Warner have been flirting with a possible merger for some time. EMI sa...

Beleaguered PC maker Dell posted a 33 percent drop in net profit for its fourth quarter, falling short of even lowered Wall Street forecasts. Dell said it earned $673 million, or 30 cents a share, down from $1.01 billion or 43 cents a share in the same period a year ago. Revenue dropped about 5 perc...

Traditionally, preparation for board meetings has involved an enormous amount of time, expense, and stress. There are always last-minute items that have to be incorporated into the board book -- that heavy package that goes to board members and their support staff before a meeting. A great deal of e...

Remember when outsourcing was thought of in terms of call center operations and IT coding? Not anymore. Now, companies are leveraging offshore partnerships and highly-skilled global talent as a means to deliver innovative products and to stay ahead of emerging customer needs. Traditional Western cen...

The European Commission on Thursday stepped up the antitrust penalties Microsoft could have to pay to a whopping $4 million a day for what the Commission says are unreasonable pricing practices. In a statement of objections sent to Microsoft, the commission said the company had failed to comply with...

Wall Street's Wednesday rebound helped repair some of the psychological damage caused by Tuesday's 416-point loss in the Dow, but questions remain about computer malfunctions that may have contributed to the Dow's plunge. Dow Jones, which collects and reports market data, and the New York Stock Exch...

Information technology service management -- how IT is delivered inside an enterprise as a service -- and a related area, the quickly evolving Information Technology Infrastructure Library, form complementary trends that are helping to mature IT as a customer-focused, quality-of-service activity. IT...

Sprint Nextel on Wednesday reported higher profits in Q4, crediting the gains in part to recent acquisitions of former affiliates, including Nextel Partners. The Reston, Va.-based company earned $261 million, or 9 cents per share, up from $197 million, or 7 cents per share, a year earlier. Sales wer...

Google's YouTube said Monday it had struck a deal to license video from the National Basketball Association for use on the video-sharing site, which is also intended to encourage user development of basketball-flavored content. The deal is a small but symbolic victory for Google, which has struggled...