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A long-simmering dispute among major wireless carriers took a nasty turn Tuesday when Vivendi announced it had filed a racketeering lawsuit against rival T-Mobile. Vivendi's suit claims T-Mobile "illegally appropriated" US$2.5 billion that Vivendi invested in Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, or PTC, a Poli...

Online advertising, like many novelties that play on the Internet, at first grabbed a great deal of attention from businesses. Online advertising was the new fad, and many people predicted it would overtake traditional advertising forms. Now that the newness of Internet advertising is wearing off, s...

IBM said Monday it has sued Amazon.com, alleging the e-commerce retail giant has infringed on a number of its patents. IBM is seeking unspecific damages and said the suits were filed only after some four years' worth of attempts to negotiate licensing deals between the two companies. Big Blue filed...

Hoping to build on its reputation as the maker of network backbones, Cisco said Monday it would launch a video conferencing solution the company believes will help spark a new era of long-distance collaboration for its customers. Cisco said its Cisco TelePresence solution would "redefine" the experi...

Internet start-ups seeking venture capital support may be in luck, as a second coming of sorts seems to be in full swing for Web-based technology firms, which enjoyed a seemingly endless supply of cash during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. In September alone, General Catalyst Partners invested...

Slumping Dell has lost the label of world's largest PC maker to rival Hewlett-Packard, according to two research firms, with HP grabbing the crown Dell wore for nearly three years. Both Gartner and IDC said HP pulled ahead of Dell in the third quarter, though both firms emphasize the gap was narrow,...

Search leader Google blew away analyst forecasts for profits and revenue Thursday, turning in a third quarter financial performance that seemed certain to put to rest any doubts about the company's short-term growth prospects. Google's revenue came in at US$2.69 billion, up some 70 percent over the ...

The Western World realized decades ago that small and medium enterprises, or SMEs, are really the main drivers of the economy. While big businesses are still necessary to preserve and maintain structure, they face considerable challenges. The mega corporations of the last century have increasingly l...

Amid heavy speculation over possible copyright issues, major record labels are vying to profit from Google's acquisition of YouTube -- as allies. Specifically, three of the world's largest music companies -- Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music and Warner Music Group -- quietly negotiated...

Recognizing the mutual benefit that accrues to helping their online merchants succeed, e-commerce hosting companies, along with e-tailers themselves, are driving demand for software applications that can help them better manage and grow their businesses. This final installment in our five-part serie...

Reporting a quarterly profit of US$2.2 billion, IBM handily beat Wall Street's expectations with its Q3 earnings. Impressive sales of its hardware and licensed software sales were the primary driver of the company's gains. The only cloudy note in the report was the decline in its services unit, whic...

Keynote Systems on Wednesday announced new indices tracking best-in-class e-commerce sites. The new indices track the speed and reliability from the end user perspective of 24 leading online retail sites across three categories: apparel, books and music, and electronics. Conducted by Keynote Competi...

Yahoo said softness in parts of the advertising market led to a 37 percent drop in quarterly profits and prompted a lower-than-expected forecast for the fourth quarter. The Web portal did say its new paid search ad delivery platform, known as Panama, was now up and running and on track to be fully o...

The rise of digital marketing has opened up a world of opportunity to win customers that goes well beyond search engine optimization, banner ads and link exchanges. This is due in part to the evolution of the Internet, which is sparking creative ideas that leverage new online platforms for guerilla ...

Google is planning to deploy a solar electricity system that will have a capacity of 1.6 megawatts at its famed million square foot headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. It will be the largest such installation on a corporate campus in the United States and one of the largest in the world, the compa...