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The maker of the batteries that prompted Finnish cell phone maker Nokia to recall up to 46 million handset batteries will pay up to $172 million of the costs associated with replacing them. Japanese electronics giant Matsushita, perhaps best known for its Panasonic brand of electronics gear, agreed ...

SoundExchange has agreed to implement a cap on the royalty rates large Internet radio webcasters must pay, the organization announced Thursday. The Copyright Royalty Board recently ruled that webcasters must pay a $500 minimum fee per station or channel, regardless of the overall number of stations ...

When it comes to sales, Nintendo's Wii continues to lead the pack of current-generation video game consoles, according to NPD Group. However, the real eye-opener, from NPD's perspective, is the unexpected mid-summer sales boom involving just about everything related to the games. Those following the...

In a move heavy with symbolism, Sun Microsystems said Thursday it would change the ticker symbol under which its stock trades on the Nasdaq to "JAVA." Sun will replace its current ticker of SUNW with the new symbol, which is also the name of the widely used software for handling Web applications tha...

The Internet is beginning to overtake TV as the preferred medium of consumers around the globe, according to a new survey sponsored by IBM. In the survey of more than 2,400 households in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and Australia, the IBM Institute for Business Value found that ...

Financial software maker Intuit's longtime CEO Steve Bennett will leave the company at the end of the year, the company said Wednesday as it announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year earnings. The firm named the head of the company's small business efforts to replace him. The firm named the gener...

AMD's head of sales and marketing will leave the company next month, the company said, as the chipmaker finds itself struggling to regain market momentum it enjoyed as recently as last year. Henri Richard, whose title is chief sales and marketing officer, will exit the post sometime in September. Ri...

How to draw the advertising industry into the secondary market for domain names is preoccupying the domain name industry this year. Domain industry convocations have been grappling with the issue, seeing it as providing an opportunity for the secondary market to scale up and achieve sustained profit...

Rumors are flying that E*Trade and TD Ameritrade are again discussing a possible merger, a long-contemplated move that would create an online stock trading powerhouse. The companies reportedly have been in talks for several weeks, but it's not likely that a deal is imminent. Current discussions are ...

Visitors to YouTube will now find advertisements temporarily appearing at the bottom of some videos as the Google-owned site experiments with ways to draw revenue to itself and to those who produce the clips. Initiated with little fanfare, the advertising program currently involves only videos creat...

A data theft revealed over the weekend of some 1.6 million records from Monster.com does not raise issues of identity theft, the employment Web site asserted. "[T]here have been reports of this as an issue of 'identify theft,'" Monster Vice President of Compliance and Fraud Prevention Patrick W. Man...

Wal-Mart, the world's largest music retailer, has entered the DRM-free music download fray. Its decision to sell unrestricted 256 kpbs MP3 songs from record giants EMI and Universal may well be the tipping point that lets consumers easily buy popular, legitimate online music capable of playing on mo...

MTV and RealNetworks have formed a joint venture that will utilize Verizon Wireless' distribution capabilities in an effort to dislodge Apple's vise-like grip on the online music space. As part of the iTunes-killer venture, MTV is merging its Urge music service with RealNetworks' Rhapsody. One of th...

Cisco and Microsoft may be on a collision course in some areas, including the push to bring a single communications platform to businesses, but their CEOs said Monday the two companies will continue to work together to ensure their products remain compatible. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco ch...

Google continues to win the battle for Internet search dominance, according to the latest findings of Web traffic measurement firm comScore. The Reston, Va.-based Internet metrics company said its July numbers show Google leading the field of what it considers the top five search engines. According ...