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Priceline, Travelocity and Cingular have settled a lawsuit over their secret use of adware Internet software programs as marketing tools filed by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. As part of the settlement, Priceline, Travelocity and Cingular agreed to pay $35,000, $30,000 and $35,000, r...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has announced his intentions to seek a seat on the board of directors for No. 2 mobile handset maker Motorola. The company said Tuesday it had received notification from Icahn that he intended to have himself nominated for one of 12 seats on the company's board when i...

SOA is like an orchestra, a root system, a 30-mile wide fungus, an amoeba, a 1930s Hollywood movie studio and perhaps an independent film built from a loosely coupled team. It's an intellectually wild, yet illuminating, ride. Recently, I sat down with a panel of analysts -- independent industry anal...

Despite a 38 percent drop in quarterly profits when compared to its 2005 fourth-quarter results, Verizon Communications' performance exceeded Wall Street estimates for the second consecutive quarter largely due to its strength in the cell phone sector. Verizon said it earned $1 billion in the final ...

In a move that could have repercussions for all forms of social networking, especially online user-generated video, YouTube intends to begin sharing its advertising revenue with users who contribute videos. YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley disclosed the plans during the World Economic Forum in Davos, ...

The Intercontinental Exchange, or ICE, has earned a reputation as a leader and successful innovator in the field of exchange-based energy and commodities trading. Having launched a string of new exchange and over-the-counter traded energy derivatives contracts this past year, the ICE's total 2006 f...

Despite losing an antitrust case in the European Union nearly three years ago, Microsoft is releasing its new Vista operating system in Europe with features similar to those found illegal by the European Commission in 2004, charged a coalition of Microsoft rivals. Microsoft, of course, is still appe...

Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed Google's YouTube, demanding that the video service release the identities of users who recently uploaded pirated videos of the "24" and "The Simpsons" TV series. With the subpoena, which was issued January 18, Fox may be taking a page from the legal playbook of t...

President Bush, trying to squeeze some political fuel from his State of the Union address, hit the road Thursday to campaign for an energy plan aimed at reducing Americans' energy consumption habits. After signing an executive order Wednesday to cut down on the federal government's use of gasoline a...

As it awaits the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft on Thursday posted a second quarter that saw sharply lower earnings for a period marked by continued growth in its entertainment division and little progress in its efforts to catch up with Google on the online search front. For the quarter that e...

20th Century Fox has served YouTube and another video-sharing site, LiveDigital, with subpoenas to hand over information about the user who uploaded episodes of the hit TV series "24" before they aired this month. The user also uploaded recent episodes of "The Simpsons." It is not known how YouTube ...

AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses. The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&a...

AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses. The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&a...

AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses. The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&a...

A former Hewlett-Packard employee facing charges that he stole company secrets from HP has claimed in court papers that HP management tried to obtain trade secrets from rival Dell. Karl Kamb Jr., previously vice president of business development and strategy at HP, was sued by his former employer af...