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Hoping to grab as many customers for its wireless broadband service before key competitors push into the market, Verizon Wireless cut monthly prices as it rolled the high-speed service out in several additional cities. The price cuts of 25 percent drop the price of the service, known as BroadbandAcc...

An adult publisher that has sued Google and Amazon for copyright infringement is now pressing for an injunction to stop the companies from linking to unauthorized copies of its soft-porn images. Perfect 10 has asked a court to set a Nov. 7 date for a hearing on its request for preliminary injunction...

America Online will pay New York state US$1.25 million and revamp its customer service approach to settle charges that it continued to bill some customers after they canceled their online access accounts. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said AOL agreed to pay the fine and to reimburse any st...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calling company Vonage Holdings Corp. is reportedly putting the finishing touches on a plan to go public, a move that could help it raise as much as US$600 million in cash as it girds for battle with a slew of competitors. The Daily Deal and the Wall Street Journa...

In a recent decision that might have long-term implications on how Internet search engines run their advertising programs, the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia released its written opinion on Government Insurance Company v. Google, Inc., et al., a case decided a while back. The C...

Just as there are precautions that you can take to retain access to e-mail privileges, there are methods which you can use to regain e-mail access. Some ISPs in the U.S. block all e-mail from IP addresses known to be responsible for spam or other forms of Internet abuse. If your ISP is not protectin...

Microsoft may not change how RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are referred to in a still-in-development version of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, but the software giant's consideration of a name change has sparked a Web-wide debate about what to call the content feeds and whether a new mon...

Google surprised analysts yesterday by announcing that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of more than 14 million class A common shares of stock. The Internet IPO darling has seen its shares triple since going public a yea...

When WorldCom, the telecommunications giant, failed and was put into bankruptcy, the U.S. witnessed one of the largest accounting frauds in history. Former CEO, Bernie Ebbers, 63, was convicted of orchestrating this US$11 billion accounting fraud and was sentenced to 25 years in prison on July 13, 2...

Google surprised analysts today by announcing that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of more than 14 million class A common shares of stock. The Internet IPO darling has seen its shares triple since going public a year ag...

Renting entertainment could be the wave of the future, and Microsoft isn't about to miss it. The company that brought us "Janus," the digital rights management (DRM) scheme that allows subscription music services like Napster On The Go to exist, has announced a deal with Exent, of Bethesda, Md., a p...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will delay a final vote on whether to approve and activate the ".xxx" top-level domain after requests from the U.S. government and others to hold off on a decision, which was to come this week. The domain has already received prelimina...

Fresh off a social-networking buy, traditional media giant News Corp. may be looking to further extend its online reach and has reportedly moved to acquire search engine Blinkx, which has specialized in helping users find music, video and other media online. Neither company would comment, but severa...

Without access to e-mail, many of us would cease to function. If you use e-mail regularly, there is a 100 percent chance that some of the e-mails you send or receive will be blocked. If such e-mails are not important to you, then you might not notice. However, if those e-mails are important, then in...

Once-dominant modem maker U.S. Robotics has agreed to be acquired by a private equity firm that indicated it would make its deep pockets available for expansion and other purchases to help the company find growth again as Internet access technologies continue to evolve. Platinum Equity did not discl...