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Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second-largest microprocessor maker, warned Thursday that its fourth quarter results would come in below previous expectations. The news sent the company's shares spiraling and raised questions regarding the overall strength of the technology sector. AMD said rev...

The OpenNet Initiative's mission is to determine where Internet censorship exists and expose it. It accomplishes this through a network of volunteers -- some of whom do the work at great personal risk -- and proprietary technology and software tools developed by the participants. The E-Commerce Time...

Three months after being sued by Transmeta for patent infringement, Intel fired back at the smaller chipmaker this week, filing a countersuit that claims Transmeta is using up to seven of Intel's patented technologies without permission. Transmeta sued Intel in October, filing an action in U.S. Dist...

In the latest development in the Hewlett-Packard boardroom spying scandal, U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan on Wednesday filed criminal charges in San Jose, Calif., federal court against a private investigator accused of illegally accessing a reporter's private phone records. Bryan Wagner was charged wit...

Dell on Wednesday introduced its new "Plant a Tree for Me" program, in which customers can donate a small portion of the purchase price of a Dell product to funds that plant trees around the world. The program, which complements Dell's recycling service it has been offering customers since 2004, is ...

It's taken decades of international cooperation among governments, agencies in the private sector, and a variety of multinational and local organizations, but a multibillion dollar global market has grown up around the issuance, verification and trading of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions...

Visa and Nokia on Tuesday launched a mobile payment platform that aims to turn digital devices into digital wallets. The system allows consumers to swipe a phone across a credit card scanner, which then reads the credit card information on a microchip that is embedded in the handset. Customers autho...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed down a decision that affects the value of licenses for patents. In particular, the decision was a repudiation of an established doctrine set forth by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which held that a patent licensee in good standing cannot generally ...

There are pundits who say loyalty was stillborn on the Internet, but Keynote Systems isn't one of them. The San Mateo, Calif., provider of on-demand test and measurement products for gauging mobile and online performance reports that loyalty to big Net brands solidified last year, as did those brand...

We are at a very important juncture in the evolution of service-oriented architecture. An incredibly important issue right now is whether we are going to win broad acceptance and deep penetration, or whether SOA remains somewhat marginal. There are a number of things going on in the market that dese...

Shares of Sprint Nextel plunged Tuesday after the wireless company warned that its growth for the current year would not meet earlier forecasts. The company also said it planned to slash 5,000 jobs from its payroll. Sprint's warning suggests the company has not yet realized the benefits it had hope...

With sales up more than 20 percent, more e-commerce outlets than ever before and relatively few high-profile snafus compared to previous years, the holiday season of 2006 might be seen as an unqualified success. A closer look, however, reveals both winners and losers in what was a blockbuster holida...

RealNetworks Monday unveiled a slew of partnerships aimed at competing with the likes of Apple and Microsoft to deliver digital content to multiple devices. The announcements came amid a frenzy of product releases from technology giants as the annual Consumer Electronics Show got under way in Las V...

NCR, the world's largest maker of automatic teller machines, said Monday it planned to split itself into two independent public companies by spinning off its fast-growing Teradata Data Warehousing unit. NCR will split by giving shares in the new, stand-alone Teradata to existing NCR shareholders. Th...

One of the last cases to go before the Supreme Court, KSR v. Teleflex, was also one of the most significant, at least to patent attorneys, as the basic standards used to grant a patent are now under review. It was a fitting end to 2006, during which a number of high profile patent disputes made thei...