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Many of us have never heard of life insurance settlements. Actually, they have been around for several decades and have become quite popular among investors like Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Berkshire Hathaway and hedge funds. In fact, the annual cash volume of life insurance settlements in the U.S

Today's savvy consumers want products from a business they can trust, learn from, relate to and "be friends" with. The two most popular social networking sites on the Internet -- MySpace and Facebook -- are potential springboards for friendly lead generation. These sites give online business owners ...

Two U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday accused China of hacking into their office computers, bringing a swift denial from the Chinese government the next day. U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R.-Va., a frequent advocate of human rights causes, said that in August 2006 an outside attack was made on four of his office ...

If you've ever wondered what goes on in the inner sanctum of a prospective employer or wondered how your salary compares with others in your field, a new Web site launched Tuesday could have the answer. The site, Glassdoor.com, allows current and recent former employees to anonymously report their s...

The variety of financial, business and operational risks inherent in the highly competitive global market, as well as the large and continually growing number of cross-industry mandates, governmental regulations and industry-specific regulatory guidelines have significantly impacted how organization...

Virtually no one objects to the concept of adopting laws and policies to stem the tide of child pornography proliferating on the Internet. So, the announcement on Tuesday that Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Sprint Nextel have agreed to block access to Web sites that harbor such content was uniformly...

The ground battle in the proxy war between Carl Icahn and Yahoo has begun in earnest, with Yahoo directly urging shareholders to back the board's slate of directors and ignore Icahn's pleas for change. Yahoo filed a copy of the proxy solicitation notice it sent to shareholders with the Securities an...

Microsoft has fired off a slew of federal lawsuits -- 21, to be exact -- against resellers in 14 states. In the suits, Microsoft claimed the resellers are engaging in the sale of pirated software. Some of the lawsuits include eight possible repeat offenders that may not have learned their lessons th...

All over the world, with so many different meanings and perceptions of the word "branding," it appears that it has lost its true meaning; the terminology is more like a walk through a museum with a glorious past. Loose words like "economy" carry different meanings that speak differently to different...

QTel is one of the largest telecommunications firms in New York. With a customer base of 10,000 companies, the firm provides small and medium-sized businesses with a comprehensive array of communications products and services, such as fully integrated broadband data and voice services. One of the la...

Three Internet service providers have agreed to be more proactive in policing the dissemination of child pornography across their networks. In response to some prodding by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Sprint Nextel have agreed to block access to Web sites, b...

An IT career is once again one with a lot of long-term potential. While the market now does not resemble the halcyon times of the dot-com boom, demand is expected to remain steady in the short term and the future looks bright. "From all of the companies that we work with, the message now is, 'full s...

Signaling JetBlue's belief that travelers want to stay connected at all times, its LiveTV unit has agreed to buy Verizon's Airfone business, a move that will enable the discount carrier to offer a bundle of communications services during flight. The handover is not expected to be completed until Jan...

Comcast has launched a trial this month in parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia to see how well its new approach to bandwidth management works. If the pilot is successful, the ISP's customers nationwide may find themselves consuming bandwidth under new business rules. Essentially, Comcast is reducing ...

The Supreme Court on Monday continued its trend toward restricting patent rights with its ruling in the Quanta Computer v. LG Electronics case. In a unanimous opinion, the Court addressed a seemingly simple principle called "patent exhaustion." In other words, what restrictions can patent holders pl...