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Marvell Technology Group announced several changes to its leadership after an internal investigation found that stock options grants were routinely backdated, the company announced Monday. The firm indicated that more changes could be on the way. Marvell's CFO George Hervey has resigned, the company...

Google's YouTube-related legal struggles have mounted in recent days, with NBC Universal and Viacom lending support to a California journalist's copyright infringement suit against the video-sharing site, and a third lawsuit filed by England's top soccer league. Both NBC Universal and Viacom -- whic...

Every interaction an enterprise has with customers, partners or suppliers instigates a new trail of data that can create a deluge effect over a short period of time. Experts predict that within a few years, it won't be uncommon to see enterprises with networks and databases storing over 100 TB of in...

Television once represented the Holy Grail for advertisers. As millions of consumers tuned in to watch their favorite dramas and sitcoms, it presented advertisers with unprecedented opportunities to reach millions of target customers quickly and easily. As technology has advanced, television's grip ...

Following in the footsteps of fellow telecom equipment maker Alcatel, Nokia Siemens Networks will advance plans to reduce its 60,000-person workforce by 15 percent -- 9,000 people -- in the next two-and-a-half years, the company said Friday. The cuts are part of a larger plan to become more competit...

Microsoft and Yahoo have reportedly discussed a possible merger or other strategic alliance, a move that would dramatically alter the online landscape and could provide Microsoft with the weapon it needs to better battle with search and advertising giant Google. The two firms have held preliminary t...

Many people have defined software development as more art than science -- sometimes even a dark art. That's why the business side of an enterprise is often perplexed by the application lifecycle management process. They see what goes in as requirements, and see what comes out as functionality -- but...

An appeals court has denied Vonage's bid for a new trial in its patent spat with Verizon Communications, dashing the VoIP firm's hopes that a recent Supreme Court ruling would pave the way for its case to be reheard. Vonage had asked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to issue an ...

Only careless scholarship, author Geoffrey Pullum claims in his book The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, has propagated the myth of dozens or hundreds of Eskimo words for snow. Aggressive fact-checking, he says, would put an end to the myth. The information security industry might learn a thing or two...

Time Warner has reported first-quarter profits that outperformed Wall Street expectations, mostly on the strength of its rise in new cable video, Internet and phone subscribers, as well as strong online ad sales. Shares of the world's largest media company rose more than 3 percent as it reported a 4...

New York-based Cablevision Systems has agreed to sell itself for more than $10.5 billion in cash to the family who founded the company. The Dolan family, which founded the company in 1973, will assume Cablevision's debt on top of the $10.5 billion price tag, bringing the total to $23 billion. During...

Online advertising and marketing firm 24/7 Real Media saw its shares soar to a 52-week high on the strength of rumors that Microsoft was nearing a deal to buy the company for about $1 billion. Shares of 24/7 Real Media jumped more than 24 percent to a yearly high of $13 Tuesday on rumors that the so...

Every year, global friends and foes of the United States await the publication of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's Special 301 report on intellectual property protection overseas. The report highlights areas of weakness in most of the major markets, which can range from lax enforcement ...

The 2008 presidential campaign season may be gearing up, but there's also another race afoot that has nothing to do with politics. It's the race for consumers' hearts and wallets that's being run by cable companies and telcos, and triple play bundles are the most recent heat. "Over the last several ...

Joost, the video-on-demand site boasting the world's first broadcast-quality Internet television service, hung out its open sign Tuesday with the announcement of its commercial launch. The site also entered the final beta stage, allowing beta testers to issue an unlimited number of invitations to fr...