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As the defective laptop battery problem reaches pandemic proportions -- with Toshiba, Fujitsu, Lenovo and IBM among the latest manufacturers to recall their products for fear they might start a fire -- Dell has expanded the recall it initiated on Aug. 15, adding more products to the list. Sony, for ...

The U.S. dollar is still the world's dominant currency. But, there are rumblings that could foretell a great weakening of the dollar and a loss of its hegemony. For example, the European Union is currently gathering both members and economic power. Its combined gross domestic product now exceeds tha...

American Greetings bought BlueMountain.com more than five years ago, scooping up one of the pioneers in the online greeting cards field to build out its own e-cards business. At the time, BlueMountain had built a strong following on the Web, using an artsy approach to cards designs and messages that...

In the latest sign that marketplace demand for branded mobile services is not as strong as once believed, ESPN said it would shut down the Mobile ESPN service and turn its attention to licensing its content to existing carriers. Mobile ESPN launched early this year as a mobile virtual network operat...

The boardroom investigation scandal at Hewlett-Packard claimed another high-profile resignation Thursday, with General Counsel Ann O. Baskins quitting, a move announced just hours before CEO Mark Hurd and other executives were due to testify before Congress. HP announced Baskins' resignation in a fi...

AOL's privacy policy and how it is interpreted by the courts and federal government will be in the spotlight as two separate actions against the company move forward. In the latest reaction to AOL's erroneous posting of some of its members' search term data this past August, two unnamed California ...

Researchers have long recognized that representing large and diverse data sets visually and spatially offers the potential for improving both comprehension and ease of use. With the confluence of work in geographic information systems, enterprise data systems and distributed computing, this potentia...

Facing potentially negative implications for its Zune music service and player, Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against a group of hackers who allegedly infiltrated its digital rights management technology. The software giant claims the defendants gained access to its proprietary source code.

Shares of Red Hat plunged 23 percent Wednesday after the maker of Linux software said its second quarter profit fell on stock options costs. The company also cut its cash-flow forecast for the rest of the year. Red Hat said profits in the second quarter were down more than 32 percent, largely due t...

Transaction failures at a company's Web site can have a significant negative impact on the business' brand, according to a survey released Monday by TeaLeaf Technology and Harris Interactive. "An astounding 91 percent of online consumers who experienced any type of problem when conducting an online ...

Internet advertising revenues reached record levels in the first half of 2006, with sales up some 37 percent over the same period last year, according to an industry group's latest check on the booming sector. Web-based advertising sales reached US$7.9 billion in the first six months of this year, t...

Two employees of Hewlett-Packard and a contractor hired to help investigate boardroom media leaks have been subpoenaed to testify before Congress. Senior counsel Kevin Hunsaker and Global Security Manager Anthony Gentilucci both received subpoenas to testify before House Energy and Commerce Committe...

Customer data integration or, more broadly, customer-centric master data management solutions, are gaining significant momentum, largely because of their ability to help organizations achieve critical cross-functional business imperatives to bolster customer profitability, reduce operational costs, ...

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse says its running tally of data breaches shows nearly 94 million instances of data being exposed in less than two years of tracking such events, a veritable red flag of private information at risk. The PRC said its tally shows the total number of records containing se...

Hoping to turn its reach across various digital platforms into a competitive advantage in its battle with Google, Microsoft said Monday it would launch a cross-platform advertising solution to give marketers access to advertising slots on Xbox video games, Web-enabled mobile phones and personal digi...