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Two executives from Village Voice Media, parent company of The Village Voice and other alternative newspapers, were arrested Thursday night on a misdemeanor charge for revealing in The Phoenix New Times that they had been subpoenaed for a raft of reporters' notes and documents as well as information...

September was a very good month for the console game industry, which recorded $1.36 billion in total sales in the U.S. for both video game hardware and software, according to the NPD Group. The big winner for the month was Microsoft's Xbox 360 exclusive, "Halo 3," which sold 3.3 million units. The t...

Amid a sea of largely positive technology earnings, Advanced Micro Devices posted mixed results Thursday, with acquisition costs denting profits even as the company shipped a record-high number of processors for a third quarter. AMD did manage to beat Wall Street estimates for revenue, posting sales...

The New England Patriots NFL football team now has customer information from ticket reselling service StubHub. The team gained access to a reported 13,000 records of people who purchased, sold or bid on Patriots tickets on the site after taking StubHub to court. Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Al...

One quarter after delivering a rare earnings miss, Google promptly returned to form Thursday, trouncing analyst expectations with strong revenue and earnings growth for its third quarter. Google said profit rose 46 percent to $1.07 billion on a 57 percent rise in sales to $4.23 billion. It was the 1...

A group of heavy-hitting media and Internet players have hammered out a plan to thwart the uploading and Web publication of copyrighted material, particularly video clips. Key to the plan's effectiveness is technology that will determine if content being posted to Web sites, such as MySpace and Veoh...

The music industry switched gears last week in its legal campaign to squash piracy of its intellectual property and filed a lawsuit against Usenet.com which it calls "a haven for those seeking pirated content." In recent months, the industry, through its trade organization, the Recording Industry As...

Worldwide shipments of personal computers grew more than 14 percent in the third quarter, according to two reports, with HP and Apple posting strong market share gains. PC shipments rose 14.4 percent in the quarter to 68.5 million units, according to Gartner. Rival market research firm IDC, meanwhi...

Sony is shuffling its Cell Broadband Engine deck chairs in an effort to cut losses related to production of PlayStation 3 game consoles and improve the units' efficiency and pricing. The company is selling to Toshiba its fabrication facilities in Nagasaki, Japan, a deal expected to take place by the...

A massive write-down in the value of its Skype Internet calling subsidiary sent eBay to its first quarterly loss in its nearly decade-long history as a public company, but the auction giant otherwise managed to beat expectations and boosted its outlook. eBay had warned it would take the hit on its S...

There are many reasons why a company might opt to conduct virtual meetings rather than face-to-face ones. Cost is one, particularly with fuel costs soaring; having a widely dispersed base of employees, clients or partners is another common one. An increasing number of companies are also meeting up i...

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and Facebook announced Tuesday an agreement that calls for increased enforcement of safeguards aimed at protecting children and adolescents on the site from sexual predators, obscene content and harassment. Under the terms of the settlement, Facebook will be...

Bolstered by a 20 percent increase in mobile product revenues, Intel late Tuesday issued a strong third-quarter earnings report that discussed record-level shipments of processors, chipsets and flash memory. The Santa Clara, Calif., company's Q3 revenues came in at $10.1 billion, a 15 percent increa...

IBM's hardware sales fell in its third quarter, but stronger software sales and service contracts helped the company post positive results. Big Blue attributed the drop in hardware sales -- revenue fell 10 percent in total and 6 percent when adjusted for the sale of its printing line to $4.9 billion...

Millions of MySpacers will be able to jazz up their profile pages with streaming videos and select audio material from Sony BMG artists, MySpace announced Tuesday. The deal between the No. 1 social networking site and Sony, the second largest recording label, will make content from artists including...