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AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago. The San Antonio-based company reported net income of $2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago. The San Antonio-based company reported net income of $2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago. The San Antonio-based company reported net income of $2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1...

Yahoo has teamed with digital entertainment company Gracenote to provide supposedly official lyrics to hundreds of thousands of popular songs. Yahoo said the lyrics, for songs from almost 100 music labels, will be free. The company also stressed that, unlike lyrics widely available at other Web site...

Over the last 18 months, how often have you heard rumors that an online music service from Amazon was imminent? Plenty, no doubt, so much so that it seems Amazon has redefined the term "imminent" in much the same way that Google redefined the term "beta." Nevertheless, the rumor has arisen again, re...

How significant is a Web site to your organization? My impression is that for businesses who have devoted the resources to develop and maintain an effective online presence, its Web site's impact is unprecedented, and for the folks who haven't gone down that path, it's value and profitability are ma...

Microsoft on Monday gave the European Union's antitrust regulators more information on its code-sharing program. The company also asked regulators for guidance on how much it can charge rivals for access to its Windows server protocols. The software giant was hoping to avoid fines on top of the near...

Motorola has snapped up Terayon Communication Systems, a digital video processing and networking software maker, for $140 million, the companies announced on Monday. Terayon's video-processing chips will allow Motorola to offer digital ads and graphical overlays on its cell phone displays, which ult...

A private equity consortium led by Affiliated Computer Services founder Darwin Deason has boosted its bid to buy the company and take it private, hoping to convince shareholders to sell despite the reluctance of the information technology services firm's board of directors. Deason and Cerberus Capit...

In this fast-paced world, there is one thing most computer users have in common: We have all lost data at one time or another. For the lucky ones, this is not a painful experience -- just one of inconvenience. Unfortunately for others, the data loss is impacting because the lost data was irreplaceab...

It's time to add another IT category to the official IT lexicon: software development and deployment as a service, or SDDS. This one's a keeper. That's my conclusion after seeing a demonstration of Bungee Labs' new Bungee Connect offering, which combines the virtues of online Web application develop...

The Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Friday that details what they call key privacy problems with Google's and DoubleClick's pending merger. The online privacy ...

Research In Motion's service outage earlier this week occurred because a new BlackBerry storage feature had not been sufficiently tested, the company said on Friday. RIM added the new component to the BlackBerry server environment to streamline the process for storing items on the devices. However, ...

Internet search engine leader Google reported massive quarterly financial gains Thursday, posting a net income of $1 billion in the first quarter of 2007, up from $592 million in the first quarter of 2006, and blowing past Wall Street's expectations. Google's 69 percent growth far surpassed Yahoo's ...

Just two days after it accepted a sweetened merger agreement with a private investment group, Clear Channel announced Friday that it will sell its TV group. Rhode Island-based Providence Equity Partners will buy the group of 56 TV stations for $1.2 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourt...