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Following on the phenomenal success of Apple's iPod, there is a second wave of companies looking to ride the digital music and media convergence waves -- assembling a mix of music artists, private label "indie" music producers, and the giants of the PC and consumer electronics industries. It is too ...

Two major chipmakers said Friday they had received subpoenas from antitrust investigators focusing on the market for graphics processing units and related chipsets. Both AMD and Nvidia announced they had received the subpoenas early Friday and both said they planned to cooperate with investigators f...

A two-month-old shareholder lawsuit alleging that Hewlett-Packard's boardroom spying scandal cost investors millions of dollars was amended this week to add claims of insider trading. The suit, filed in California's Santa Clara County Superior Court on behalf of all HP shareholders, had previously a...

More than a third of shoppers who have a poor experience on a Web site abandon the site entirely, according to JupiterResearch, and 75 percent are likely not to shop on that site again. That's a loud and clear wake up call to e-tailers. Now that you are awake, it's time to find out exactly what "poo...

Intuit, which makes financial management software popular among small businesses and consumers, said Thursday it had agreed to buy Digital Insight, a provider of Web-based banking services, in a deal worth US$1.35 billion. Intuit agreed to pay $39 per share in cash for the Calabasas, Calif.-based fi...

In a setback to Google's efforts to fend off a copyright infringement suit stemming from its ambitious plan to create digital copies of millions of books, rival search engine Yahoo has declined to provide information about its own book digitization efforts. Neither Yahoo nor Google would comment, bu...

From the apparently sudden arrival of Web-based video distribution options to the growing sophistication of TV-like advertising online and the social networking phenomenon, the Internet drew attention and dollars away from newspapers, TV and radio in 2006. This coming of age did not take place overn...

Microsoft lost a key ruling this week in the South Korean Supreme Court, which upheld a finding that the company infringed on Korean-English translation software patents held by a local inventor. The plaintiffs -- the academic who invented the language-switching process and the company representing ...

Wal-Mart said Tuesday it would launch a downloadable video service, a move that could hasten the demise of the traditional DVD and help catapult the retailer into the center of the video-on-demand marketplace. The discount retail giant unveiled plans to launch a download-on-demand test in February 2...

Spending on online video advertising will soar throughout this decade with sales predicted to break the billion dollar barrier in 2008, according to a report released this month by research aggregator eMarketer. This year outlays for Net video ads grew more than 82 percent over 2005, to some US$410...

Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, on Tuesday cut its short-term profit forecast, and said it expected slower growth overall heading into 2007. During its annual Capital Market Days event for industry and stock market analysts in Amsterdam, Finland-based Nokia rolled out a series of fore...

Shares of Palm dropped sharply Tuesday after the hand-held device maker said its quarterly revenue would come in well below earlier expectations. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Palm said it now expects revenue of US$390 million to $395 million for its second quarter, which ends later this week. That's comp...

As the holiday shopping season approaches, most large retailers have already locked down their Web sites as they prepare for a profitable ride. Nonetheless, e-tailers should keep an eye on their search strategies -- and change what is not working -- en route to seasonal sales. Experts recommend cust...

With the Web industry watching closely as it tries to navigate the treacherous waters of online copyright law, Google is facing a lawsuit from a French company that says the search engine did more than just help users find an online copy of its film. Paris-based Flach Film is alleging copyright viol...

Cyber Monday, the recently nicknamed kick-off to the online shopping season, arrived to heavy fanfare Monday and appeared to be greeted by millions of eager and ready-to-buy shoppers, many of whom got the ball rolling early by jumping online last week. Cyber Monday was largely invented by the online...