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Taking direct aim at Microsoft, Cisco plans to acquire WebEx Communications for $3.2 billion. Under the agreement, Cisco will purchase all of the outstanding shares of WebEx for $57 per share. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2007. The deal dramatical...

Former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, whose decision to aggressively investigate boardroom press leaks led to a scandal that led to a wave of resignations -- but little collateral damage for the PC maker -- was cleared of all criminal charges Wednesday. Judge Ray E. Cunningham dismissed a...

I'm an early adopter. I don't just analyze technology from the safety of my own cubicle; I bring it into my home and live with it. I find that by doing so, I gain a perspective that would otherwise be lost. About a year ago, I disconnected my traditional landline phone and signed up for VoIP service...

Microsoft confirmed that it plans to acquire Tellme, a privately held speech recognition vendor. The deal gives Microsoft functionality in Tellme's core competencies: voice-activated nationwide directory assistance, enterprise customer service and voice-enabled mobile search. Founded in 1999, Tellme...

In a contentious congressional hearing Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission was accused of overstepping its authority in its recent actions regarding the cable TV industry. At the end of 2006, the FCC -- led by Commissioner Kevin Martin -- approved in a 3-2 vote new video franchising rul...

While Viacom is seeking a cool $1 billion in its suit against Google's YouTube for allegedly using Viacom's copyrighted content without permission, the stakes may be far higher for Google and other Internet companies. Google is expected to argue that the safe harbor provision of the Digital Millenni...

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Enterprises continue to add to their data storage capacity, with external disk storage system sales up 5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006 to $6.9 billion, according to a report released Monday by research firm IDC. IDC's Quarterly Tracker report on disk storage systems found the total disk stor...

MTV's parent company Viacom is seeking more than $1 billion in damages from YouTube and its owner Google for thousands of alleged copyright infringements. A complaint filed by the media giant in U.S. District Court in New York contends that almost 160,000 clips of Viacom's programming have been made...

The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration is setting aside close to $1 billion to help consumers who will be forced to migrate to digital television after February 17, 2009 -- when analog broadcasting is scheduled to cease. The Digital Television Transit...

When implementing a service-oriented architecture or utilizing Web services, organizations can reuse business components -- asset reuse being one of the core drivers of the SOA or Web service ROI calculation. It is critical that companies find an efficient and robust solution that mitigates risk, in...

Cisco and IBM are expanding their long-standing partnership with the extension of their Global Services Alliance into 46 new countries. The two partner firms collaborate on many initiatives and products. The expansion of this particular initiative suggests that it is going exactly as the companies p...

The SEC on Monday filed civil fraud charges against four former executives of troubled telecom gearmaker Nortel Networks, which has spent the past several years embroiled in an accounting mess. The executives had engaged in "accounting fraud to bridge gaps between Nortel's true performance, its inte...

To help meet demand for online streaming video of the upcoming NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship, CBS SportsLine is doubling its bandwidth reserves and offering preregistration. The company, part of CBS Interactive, expects "an even greater audience" for the March Madness games than it e...

Most federal agencies have failed to comply with a decade-old law designed to ease public access to government information over the Internet, according to a report released Monday. A mere one out of every five federal agencies actually complies with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act amendmen...