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Microsoft has angered Chinese computer users with its latest antipiracy move. On Tuesday, during its Global Anti-Piracy Day, Microsoft turned Windows Genuine Advantage loose on the Chinese people. Other users worldwide are familiar with WGA, which famously labeled legitimate users as pirates and dis...

Just one day after saying it would slash its 15,000-employee workforce by 10 percent, struggling Internet giant Yahoo announced Wednesday that its profit dropped by a whopping 64 percent during the third quarter. It also announced that revenue would be lower than it had expected for the remainder of...

Online auctioneer and retailer eBay has banned the sale of ivory products on its Web site to help protect African and Asian elephants. The policy goes into effect in December, and eBay will begin enforcing it in January. The decision to ban ivory items outright from its site is eBay's second attempt...

Lala.com relaunched its services Tuesday, now billing itself as the first free fully licensed provider of instant, anywhere access to personal music catalogs as well as a full music library with tracks backed from major labels. Cooperating record companies include EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Musi...

As more and more consumers download smartphone applications, it's become increasingly vital for developers, phone makers and wireless carriers to have a deeper understanding of how customers interact with them. That's where a company like Flurry comes in. The San Francisco-based startup has develope...

Internet phone company Vonage has secured $220.3 million in credit in a deal that Wall Street sees as crucial to the struggling company's survival. Proceeds will go toward paying off $253 million in debt on Vonage's books. The $220 million deal, led by Silver Point Finance, comes at a time of unprec...

As Yahoo shareholders and employees await Tuesday's official release of the company's third-quarter financial report, neither constituency has much to be cheerful about: There are unsubstantiated reports that Yahoo will be cutting some 1,000 employees from its payroll. Its earnings are also expected...

Memory chip maker SanDisk announced Monday it will sell a large chunk of its business to Toshiba for about $1 billion. The deal comes at a time when the market for memory chips faces severe oversupply. This is "a multiyear partnership and reflects a couple of different joint ventures," said Ryan Don...

Self-promotion: Some would say that lawyers excel at it, but when it comes to actual advertising and marketing, a lot of them can be a step or two behind other businesses. "In the 1960s, my dad -- who was a lawyer -- sent a note to a client telling him to call if he had any questions about a certain...

Research has shown that the three most important factors influencing whether a customer will purchase from a consumer Web site are security and privacy, ease of navigation and quality of content. Make privacy and security information prevalent on your site and in the purchasing flow -- including bot...

Anyone who's used popular P2P applications such as BitTorrent, Gnutella or Limewire has probably been plagued by network slowdowns that make sharing heavy media files a time-consuming endeavor. However, a consortium of technologists at the Distributed Computing Industry Association has found a way t...

The Federal Communications Commission continues to receive plenty of static from both sides of the television white space debate. Last month it was Google cofounder Larry Page raising allegations of rigged FCC testing of white spaces prototype devices. Now, the National Association of Broadcasters c...

U.S. video games sales were down slightly in September, according to data from research firm NPD Group. Sales of hardware, software and accessories dropped 7 percent from the year-ago period to $1.27 billion. "This is the first true monthly decline the industry has experienced since March of 2006.

Does Microsoft still have Yahoo in its gun sights? Listen to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and it might seem so. At an industry event in Orlando, Fla., this week, Ballmer said a deal between Microsoft and the No. 2 Internet search engine would "still make economic sense" for both companies. Within hou...

Immigration is becoming as nettlesome to high-tech companies as it has long been in the agriculture and construction businesses. Although technology firms don't reach into the same labor pool as do ag comglomerates or building contractors, their problems are converging. The challenge, advocates of i...