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Hewlett-Packard, the world's third-largest PC maker, on Wednesday reported third quarter profit gains that beat analyst estimates. The firm also announced a plan to buy back US$6 billion worth of shares. Net income for the world's largest printer maker rose to $1.38 billion, or 48 cents a share, fro...

Consumers and small businesses just can't afford to let their network and computer guards down these days. With the growing number of mobile and wireless technologies available to them, and with cybercrooks becoming better organized, focused, and more willing to share resources, the digital world c...

Consumers and small businesses just can't afford to let their network and computer guards down these days. With the growing number of mobile and wireless technologies available to them, and with cybercrooks becoming better organized, focused, and more willing to share resources, the digital world c...

Consumers and small businesses just can't afford to let their network and computer guards down these days. With the growing number of mobile and wireless technologies available to them, and with cybercrooks becoming better organized, focused, and more willing to share resources, the digital world c...

Consumers and small businesses just can't afford to let their network and computer guards down these days. With the growing number of mobile and wireless technologies available to them, and with cybercrooks becoming better organized, focused, and more willing to share resources, the digital world c...

In separate filings, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the World Privacy Forum have asked the FTC to investigate AOL's release earlier this month of search term queries that had been made by 650,000 of its users over a three-month period. "This release was a violation of section 5 of The FTC Ac...

To accommodate the increased use of rich media ads by online marketers, Nielsen//NetRatings is modifying its media intelligence service, AdRelevance. "Clients can now take apart ads that specifically contain video elements," AdRelevance Product Manager Sally Krumholz told the E-Commerce Times. "They...

In a move to attract more local businesses to its brand, Google on Monday launched a service that allows customers to print out discount coupons for local merchants from Google Maps. The new service targets value-conscious consumers with more than 20,000 coupons supplied by Cox Enterprises' ValPak D...

The once promising mobile virtual network operator market -- composed of major consumer brands like Disney, which repackaged the services of local cellular phone companies for its clientele -- is failing to live up to expectations and making a minimal impact on the mobile market. The niche, which on...

News Corp.-owned Twentieth Century Fox on Monday announced a multi-year agreement to provide feature films and television shows on a download-to-own basis across the Fox Interactive Media network. MySpace.com is among the properties FIM parent company News Corp. plans to include in the digital deal...

As critical data continues to leave the office in laptops, PDAs and cell phones, the need for more efficient ways to secure it is growing exponentially. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we examined how serious the issue of mobile device theft has become, and how deeply businesses and government i...

In a first for the evolving home movie industry, Paramount Pictures said it would release "Mission: Impossible III" in three formats at once later this fall, including the two formats competing to claim dominance in the high-definition DVD space. Paramount said "M:I-3" will be out Oct. 30 in standar...

BetOnSports.com, the UK-based online gaming site whose CEO faces accusations of fraud, has shut down its U.S. operations. The site has become a flashpoint in the online gambling debate since the charges were initially filed almost a month ago. A note on the company's Web site says the firm made the...

As more consumers discover the benefits of wireless networking in their homes, their eyes will start opening to the perks of network storage. That awareness will fuel some beefy growth in the market over the next five years, according to a report released Wednesday by ABI Research. The report, writt...

Viacom's MTV Networks continued to make aggressive moves into the Web space, saying Wednesday it would buy Atom Entertainment, known for its gaming and short films sites, for US$200 million. MTV Networks said the buy is an extension of the company's "multiplatform strategy of building an engaging un...