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A new mobile phone Samsung is making for AT&T will include Napster Mobile, a service that allows owners to search, preview and buy music from Napster's catalog of 5 million songs. The phone, called the "SLM by Samsung," will be available in stores on Nov. 23, said AT&T. The new phone is the ...

A range of factors will drive down software licensing costs in coming years, benefiting enterprises but creating a challenge for leading application vendors to keep profits rising, according to a new report. Information technology departments will seek ways to reduce what they spend on software, dup...

It's just before 3 p.m. on a Friday afternoon and the last meeting of the week is about to start. With nothing to do for a few minutes, you remember that the new complete DVD box set of "The Addams Family" just became available -- so you hop onto Amazon. Naturally, neither you nor I would ever waste...

What's the use of having access to a World Wide Web if you're only going to shop three or four mainstream retailers anyway? To spice up this year's load under the tree and avoid the HoHum doldrums, here are some hot new Web site choices to find the perfect gift for even the zaniest character on your...

Advanced Micro Devices has received a welcome financial boost -- a $622 million infusion of capital from Mubadala Development, a wholly state-owned enterprise of Abu Dhabi. As part of the transaction, Mubadala received 49 million shares at a price of $12.70 per share. After reimbursing Mubadala $14....

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, stripping out a key provision that provided legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with secret wiretapping programs. The move sets up a showdown with the White House, as Pr...

After a stellar month in September with the release of the much anticipated game "Halo 3," Microsoft passed the No. 1 console sales mantle back to Nintendo and its Wii console for October. Consumers scooped up 516,000 Wiis in October, about 30 percent more than the Xbox 360's 366,000 units and more ...

Garmin, the No. 1 maker of portable navigation systems, said it will drop out of what had become a bidding war for the right to acquire the last independent producer of the digital maps that power GPS systems. Garmin had offered $3.3 billion to acquire Tele Atlas, only to have its main rival, TomTom...

When Google announced its Android cellular platform last week, some took that as a sign that it could be moving away from its previously discussed plans to bid in the upcoming Federal Communications Commission auction of 700 MHz wireless spectrum. Recent news, however, suggests otherwise. It looks l...

Spam network operators, otherwise known as "botnet herders," are becoming increasingly proficient at evading detection and harnessing the power of peer-to-peer computing, much to the consternation of spam detection, prevention and IT security specialists, as Part 1 of this series discusses. Botnet o...

GPS-enabled device makers Garmin and TomTom have reached an agreement to settle a slew of intellectual property lawsuits between the two companies. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement settles suits pending in the UK and the Netherlands -- where TomTom is based -- and U.S. cases i...

Sony's pricing gambit has finally helped light a fire under sales of its PlayStation 3 model, with the electronics giant reportedly selling twice as many consoles in the U.S. last week as the prior week. Sony recently launched a 40 gigabyte version of the PS3 priced at $400, more than $100 less than...

Imagine walking into your local supermarket as you normally would. You fill your shopping cart with groceries, and when you get to the checkout line, you see hundreds of abandoned carts loaded with items, strewn haphazardly about, but with no shoppers to be found. Was there a fire? Natural disaster?...

In a move designed to bolster its offerings in the mobile market, Qualcomm will acquire mobile banking provider Firethorn Holdings for $210 million. The acquisition is intended to help financial institutions promote consumer adoption of mobile banking services, Qualcomm said, such as the ability to ...

The European Commission will open an in-depth investigation into Google's proposed purchase of interactive ad giant DoubleClick, dashing the search company's hopes for a swift end to the ongoing regulatory review. The commission now has until April 2, 2008, to render a final ruling on the proposed $...