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The Christian Science Monitor will cease the weekday print edition of its award-winning newspaper in April after a century of continuous publication. The plan is to move the weekday publication to an online-only format while rolling out a new weekend print magazine. The Monitor has a storied history...

Search engine giant Google has settled two copyright lawsuits over its Google Book Search program for $125 million. In two separate lawsuits, the New York City-based Author's Guild and McGraw-Hill sued Google in 2005, alleging it had violated copyright laws through its scanning and online distribu...

For those who are hungry for some good economic news, venture capitalists apparently are seeing green in clean technology. Indeed, so-called green technology -- everything from eco-friendly auto parts to alternative fuels to smart buildings to streamlined manufacturing processes -- appears to be blo...

Cable television provider Cox Communications plans to roll out its own cellular network some time in 2009 in an effort to take market share from telephone companies and wireless operators. The Atlanta-based company has already spent $550 million to acquire wireless spectrum so it can offer cellular ...

The job of the modern Web site is more important and more difficult than ever, especially when it comes to a multichannel sales strategy. Visitors arrive at your Web site through a variety of online channels: pay-per-click and organic search, e-mail offers and print ads. Once there, they need to ful...

"SOA transition" is buzz term growing in popularity among IT managers, especially when they meet with corporate boardroom residents. Businesses are transitioning into service-oriented architecture by tapping into the increasing number of SOA products software makers are creating to meet this new int...

Samsung reported a steep drop in Q3 profits with the release of its quarterly earnings report. Profits fell 44.4 percent compared with a year earlier -- a number that, not surprisingly, sent the company's share price tumbling by 14 percent. Although some product lines performed respectably -- mobile...

The vote is set for Nov. 4, and the activism is approaching historic -- some say hysteric -- levels. Phone calls, e-mails and press releases are flying in attempts to sway opinions; there are charges and countercharges of questionable political tactics and quotes taken out of context, along with a l...

Microsoft reported better-than-expected financial results Thursday but also warned that the economic downturn will cut into top-line revenue and profits for its current fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2009. For the first fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30, Microsoft reported $4.37 billion in earnings, u...

The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service has slammed the door on Google. The search engine giant was trying to buy a local online advertising company, Zao Begun, but FAS officials decided to block the deal. Google first announced its intent to acquire the Russian company, which is owned by Rambler M...

Caution: Just because your company has a payment card industry compliance certificate, don't assume your data is perfectly safe and secure. You can still suffer a breach. That's the lesson recently learned by retail clothing company Forever 21. Company officials posted a notice on their Web site las...

Comcast announced late Wednesday that it will launch faster broadband Internet service speeds over the next few weeks to more than 10 million homes and businesses. The new service will give Comcast subscribers access to speeds of up to 50 megabits per second in parts of New England, Boston, Philadel...

Netflix and Samsung announced a partnership Thursday that will bring the video rental service's streaming movies to the hardware maker's Web-connect Blu-ray disc players. Netflix subscribers can receive Blu-ray and DVD discs by mail with the added option of streaming movies and TV shows instantly fr...

The Internet has opened up information sharing in unprecedented and ever-expanding ways. This new world is great for creativity and communication, but it's also brought intellectual property rights into question. It's vital that online retailers understand intellectual property law so that they don'...

Shares of memory chip maker SanDisk plummeted nearly 31 percent to $9.91 per share after the bell on the news that Samsung has dropped its offer to acquire the troubled semiconductor company. Samsung first made its $26 per share offer six months ago in a letter to SanDisk's board of directors, which...