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Scoring a victory in its worldwide efforts to curb piracy of its software, Microsoft said it had agreed to settle a lawsuit with a French company that had allegedly made and sold thousands of unauthorized versions of Microsoft business software. Microsoft said its settlement with MPO Group included ...

AT&T may be forced to offer more concessions to help its US$82 billion merger with BellSouth win approval from the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC remains deadlocked on the deal following the decision of a Republican Commissioner to abstain from voting. Supporters of the merger had h...

AT&T may be forced to offer more concessions to help its US$82 billion merger with BellSouth win approval from the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC remains deadlocked on the deal following the decision of a Republican Commissioner to abstain from voting. Supporters of the merger had h...

AT&T may be forced to offer more concessions to help its US$82 billion merger with BellSouth win approval from the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC remains deadlocked on the deal following the decision of a Republican Commissioner to abstain from voting. Supporters of the merger had h...

Most consumers wouldn't think of paying for an item and leaving a store without it, but that's essentially what's happening with about 10 percent of the gift cards sold each year to the public. "We estimate the overall raw volume in gift cards this year to be (US)$80 billion," Brian Riley, senior an...

Two months after being sued by IBM for patent infringement, Amazon.com is firing back, denying it had stolen IBM technology and asserting that Big Blue's patent claims are too broad to be taken seriously. Amazon is countersuing IBM for stealing its own patents. IBM filed suit against Amazon in the ...

Sony will reportedly launch a video download service for users of its PlayStation Portable devices early next year, a move that could put it into direct competition with Apple's iPod video devices and its iTunes Movie Store. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is in negotiations with several possible c...

With the convergence of security and compliance, businesses will evolve their IT infrastructure to include new technologies, such as database gateways, to achieve the level of data security required. Smart businesses will leverage this new technology to gain a competitive advantage.

Two unfortunately timed product failures could cost Nintendo millions of dollars. The company said it would voluntarily replace 3.2 million straps attached to the controllers of its new Wii game consoles, and it is recalling about 200,000 AC adapters for its DS and DS Lite handheld game machines. Th...

Microsoft said China-based search engine Baidu.com will begin displaying paid search listings on the software giant's Chinese Web sites this month. Such Microsoft sites as MSN and Windows Live will display Baidu's paid search listings, as will other partner sites in Microsoft's network. Baidu is Chi...

The Congressional panel that is looking into Hewlett-Packard's use of pretexting and other tactics during its investigation of boardroom press leaks is now focusing on a stock sale by HP CEO Mark Hurd. Lawmakers from the House Energy and Commerce Committee are interested in Hurd's reasons for cashin...

During 2006, Enron executives were sent to jail for their role in the corporate scandal that rocked the U.S. and brought about sweeping regulatory reforms meant to protect investors and raise the bar among corporation. In passing Sarbanes-Oxley, Congress hoped to avoid such high-level corporate scan...

Hoping to attract and retain top talent as it continues to grow at breakneck pace, Google said Tuesday it would institute a unique program to enable employees to directly sell their vested stock options. Google plans to work with Wall Street banking house Morgan Stanley to establish an online auctio...

Research In Motion is suing hand-held device maker Samsung, claiming the company is causing confusion and diminishing the brand power of RIM's BlackBerry by selling a smartphone known as the BlackJack. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Waterlook, Ontario-...

Antitrust regulators in the U.S., South Korea and Japan are investigating whether major providers of LCD technology engaged in anti-competitive behavior. Shares of LCD makers such as LG.Philips and Samsung Electronics plummeted in overseas trading after news broke that both Japanese and U.S. regulat...