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I couldn't help but feel a bit of deja vu this morning as I entered the Desert Springs resort in Palm Desert, Calif., to attend eTail 2008. After all, I reported on the event last year in the same venue, and the hotel's atmosphere is as oasis-like as I remember it. This year's event is indeed simila...

Sprint Nextel said Tuesday it would add an investor who has been agitating for changes at the struggling company to its board of directors. Sprint appointed Ralph V. Whitworth, founder and principal of Relational Investors, to its board. Whitworth will take the seat immediately but will have to stan...

Dell has added another member to its growing family of acquisitions, although this latest addition already had the Dell pedigree, in a sense. The computer maker agreed to buy e-mail services provider MessageOne for about $155 million in cash. The addition of MessageOne is largely an all-in-the-famil...

The latest rumors buzzing around beleaguered Yahoo is that it is looking to restart merger talks with AOL, and might look at Google or Disney -- anyone but Microsoft. According to the Times of London, Yahoo and its team of advisers from investment banks Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros. have been evalu...

AT&T will deliver WiFi access in thousands of Starbucks locations across the country as the coffee chain parts ways with former access partner T-Mobile. AT&T will offer both free and paid WiFi connectivity at more than 7,000 company-run Starbucks locations, the companies said Monday. The new...

AT&T will deliver WiFi access in thousands of Starbucks locations across the country as the coffee chain parts ways with former access partner T-Mobile. AT&T will offer both free and paid WiFi connectivity at more than 7,000 company-run Starbucks locations, the companies said Monday. The new...

AT&T will deliver WiFi access in thousands of Starbucks locations across the country as the coffee chain parts ways with former access partner T-Mobile. AT&T will offer both free and paid WiFi connectivity at more than 7,000 company-run Starbucks locations, the companies said Monday. The new...

Microsoft has made a bid for Danger, the mobile software and services provider that designed one of the slickest devices on the market: the T-Mobile Sidekick. Applications on Danger-powered handsets include HTML Web-browsing, instant messaging, games, multimedia, social networking, Web e-mail and pe...

Sony Ericsson has debuted a new handset, the Xperia X1 -- its first to operate on the Windows Mobile operating system. Microsoft announced the collaboration as the Mobile World Congress got under way in Barcelona, Spain. The deal could be a major coup for Sony Ericsson, which holds a 50 percent stak...

Yahoo's board of directors has unanimously voted that Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid is "not in the best interests" of the Web portal, a widely expected move that could put pressure on Redmond to beef up its $44.6 billion offer. Yahoo's board met over the weekend to consider the $31 per share ...

Growing at more than 25 percent per year, e-commerce gives consumers a lot of what they want: broad assortment and convenient shopping any time from anywhere. To successfully compete with the bricks, all e-commerce has to do is stock the "long tail," ensure order accuracy, ensure nearly instant grat...

Amazon's new stock buyback program and its newly stated goals to retire outstanding debt appear to be a good fit for a company that seems to be in an aggressive mode, according to analysts. "It's certainly not going to put a huge dent in their cash coffers," said Michael Souers, a retail analyst wit...

Shares of computer security software maker McAfee surged Friday after it posted higher revenue and, despite a sharp drop in profit compared with the year before, better-than-expected earnings. McAfee's net income fell to $12.2 million, or 7 cents per share, in the quarter that ended in December, dow...

No service provider has been completely successful at micro-tailoring advertising for what is essentially a moving target: mobile device users. Now, though, CBS Mobile has linked up with Loopt to give advertisers a better chance to target these roamers, who thus far have been reachable only through ...

Alcatel-Lucent lost more than $3.7 billion in the fourth quarter and predicted a soft market for its telecommunications gear for much of 2008. The France-based company -- created through a $13 billion merger in 2006 -- also said it would not pay out a dividend to shareholders. However, the company d...