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As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Ve...

As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Ve...

Universal Music Group will test selling music free of DRM technology, and it plans to make the tracks available through RealNetworks' Rhapsody service and other outlets -- but not through the iTunes Music Store. Universal becomes the second major record label after EMI to begin offering music withou...

"Due to exceptionally high volume, requests may be delayed up to 72 hours." That message may be mundane when posted at most Web sites, but when it's posted at an online bank, it's as dangerous as blood in shark-infested waters. That's because it's tantamount to every banker's worst nightmare: a run ...

Vonage shares surged higher amid a stock market selloff Thursday after the VoIP provider posted better-than-expected earnings. Vonage cut its net loss to $34 million, or 22 cents, in the second quarter, less than half of the losses it posted in the year-ago quarter, when it lost $74 million. Revenue...

Blockbuster will buy film download site Movielink, a bid by the largest video and DVD rental chain to assure it remains a key player in distribution of movies even when DVDs become less prevalent. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Blockbuster has been known to have been in talks with Movi...

John Schappert, who helped create and grow the "Madden NFL" franchise of video games, has taken a position with Microsoft's Live interactive entertainment division. Schappert moves to Microsoft from Electronic Arts, following in the footsteps of his former boss at EA, Don Mattrick, who will now be h...

E-commerce is an important sales channel to businesses of all sizes, but when it's a company's sole meal ticket, the stakes are even higher. Threats to Internet profits often lay hidden and customers rarely stop to point them out. "An increase in help-desk call volume is usually the first indicator ...

Federal prosecutors have drawn first blood in the stock options backdating scandal. Following a five-week trial, Gregory L. Reyes, the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, was convicted of 10 counts of conspiracy and fraud in Federal District Court in San Francisco. Reyes could receive a se...

By 2011, Internet advertising is expected to become the largest advertising segment, surpassing newspapers for the first time, a new study reported Tuesday. The same study predicts overall communications spending to top $1 trillion in 2008, making it the third-fastest-growing sector in the U.S. econ...

Cisco Systems released fourth quarter and fiscal year results that heartened technology investors and, according to the networking giant's CEO, reflected "great execution across the company." For the year, Cisco reported net sales of $34.9 billion, a 23 percent increase over its 2006 sales figure, a...

Sprint Nextel said Wednesday its second-quarter earnings fell sharply in part due to costs associated with the merger creating the third-largest national telecom carrier. Sprint Nextel still managed to beat Wall Street estimates with net income of $19 million, or a penny per share, compared with a p...

Hoping to use social networking to compete with auction giant eBay, Buy.com on Tuesday launched Garage Sale, a service that lets users sell goods and services from within their home pages on sites such as Facebook. The Internet retailer said its service would be immediately available to users of Fac...

A California state law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors was declared unconstitutional Monday by a U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment. The law, which was signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005 but had not yet been implemente...

The Bush administration upheld the International Trade Commission's ban on the import of cell phones containing Qualcomm chips Monday, prompting vendor Qualcomm to announce that it will appeal and renew once again its request for a stay on the ban. "I have decided to permit the limited exclusion ord...