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Nokia and RealNetworks have announced an expansion of their long-term relationship to enable Nokia to ship RealNetworks' media formats on a wide variety of its advanced phones. "The new licensing and development model with Real fully supports Nokia's multi-format strategy and our commitment to resp...

Carly Fiorina, whose name and image became synonymous with tech giant Hewlett-Packard after she overcame numerous challenges to close the acquisition of Compaq three years ago, stepped down today from her CEO and chairman of the board posts at HP. The announcement that Fiorina had resigned after 5 1...

Search engine company Ask Jeeves announced today that is has acquired privately held Bloglines, a free online service for searching, publishing and sharing RSS feeds, blogs and rich Web content. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Bloglines will continue to operate as an independent bran...

It's anything but smooth sailing for COAST these days. Members of the Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology Vendors are dropping like flies. Analysts said a factor in the controversy could be Microsoft's entrance into the multi-million-dollar market. On Friday, Computer Associates International, whi...

Google today said it has not yet decided whether to appeal Friday's ruling by a French court that ordered it to pay US$260,000 plus costs to luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton for breach of trademark. The high court in central Paris also ordered Google to stop displaying advertisements for Vuitton's r...

Webroot Software, a provider of anti-spyware software and other security technologies for consumers and enterprises, announced today that it has secured a US$108 million investment from a syndicate of top venture capital firms to be used largely to expand its enterprise business and its internationa...

The landmark settlement between class action plaintiffs and 10 former WorldCom directors fell apart yesterday after a federal judge rejected a key aspect of the deal. Directors had agreed to pay US$54 million, including $18 million of their own money, to settle the suit. U.S. District Judge Denise C...

Once thought of as the next big thing in the technological evolutionary chain, hand-held devices are quickly being elbowed out of the market by smarter mobile phones that bear many of the same features. A report from market research firm IDC said sales of hand-held devices have fallen for four strai...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will use RFID chips on a trial basis to track the arrival and return of visitors from abroad. The testing phase, which will begin this spring and is expected to last one year, will occur at selected points of entry across the U.S., and it will complemen...

Google stock soared today after the company posted quarterly earnings that far exceeded Wall Street expectations, with growth doubled over a year ago and revenue skyrocketing to US$1.03 billion from $512 million a year earlier. The report said net income came in at $204.1 million, or 71 cents per sh...

Your logo is not that important these days, as most customers have no motivation to remember the subtle intricacies or bizarre approaches to logos that are intended to stimulate demand. They are already flooded with colorful graphic look-alikes and continuously regenerated blasts from every corner.

Internet marketers have to walk a narrow line in pitching messages to potential customers during online visits. While marketers try to gather useful customer information to provide follow-up targeted messages, consumers often provide false answers to personal questions or will leave the Web site wit...

Microsoft and representatives of the European Union (EU) are locked in discussions over exactly how a stripped-down version of Windows that has the controversial Media Player removed will be marketed in Europe. Microsoft previously said it would comply with a ruling that it offer a version of Window...

A clear demand for mobile multimedia services is emerging, according to new consumer studies conducted for cell phone maker Nokia, and analysts said adoption of the services is set to take off in the coming years and will drive new form factors. According to the studies by MORI, a UK-based market re...

SBC Communications said today it will take over its former parent company, AT&T, in a stock-and-cash deal worth around US$16 billion, a blockbuster takeover that marks just the latest major shift in a rapidly evolving industry. Over the weekend, the boards of both companies approved a deal in wh...