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Companies are seeing e-mail usage grow at exponential rates. While the rise in e-mail use can improve employee productivity, it also presents challenges to IT staff, many of whom are struggling to keep pace with the rapid increases as related management, security and storage tasks increase. Some are...

Consumer electronics manufacturers looking to expand their reach with their own brick-and-mortar outlets should weigh the risks of such moves carefully, warns a report released on Wednesday. It cites several temptations for electronics firms like Sony, Dell, Bang & Olufsen, Philips and Pioneer t...

Warner Music Group and EMI have shelved discussion of a potential merger of the two music labels in the wake of a European court ruling on an earlier wave of music industry consolidation. The companies announced they had ceased talks on Thursday, citing a decision that essentially set aside regulato...

Time Warner will unveil a new business strategy for AOL on Aug. 2, hoping to put an end to rampant speculation by outlining how the company plans to take its online services into the future, the company said Wednesday. AOL is expected to announce that it will give away its e-mail and Web services fo...

Regulators from the European Union are examining the licensing strategies behind the two competing next-generation DVD formats in an attempt to determine whether antitrust issues need to be addressed. The European Commission reportedly has requested information from manufacturers of players that sup...

Back in the early days of the Web when bandwidth was at a premium and surfing was considered something you did on your own time, the idea that the Internet would one day transform an entire media industry, challenge established economic models and -- gasp! -- bring people closer together, may have s...

Amazon.com shares dipped to a three-year low Wednesday, hit with backlash from the firm's second quarter results announcement Tuesday. The online retailing giant's earnings for the quarter ended June 30, 2006, fell nearly 58 percent, followed by a 17 percent decline in shares on the Nasdaq stock mar...

In its biggest acquisition since the controversial takeover of Compaq nearly five years ago, Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it would buy Mercury Interactive for US$4.5 billion. HP said the cash deal would let it sell complete data center solutions that include servers, storage and other hardware, as w...

Allies have begun taking sides in a court case that has far-reaching implications for the Internet. At stake is a practice at the heart of the Net: linking information between Web sites. The case pits search Goliath Google against adult entertainment publisher Perfect 10, and is currently before a f...

Amazon.com is remaining tight-lipped about published reports stating that the company plans to launch a digital video download service in August. However, as the public waits for Amazon to reveal details, analysts muse that Apple remains the company with the most potential to succeed in the space. R...

Signaling its intention to refine its social networking tools and leverage them in its search war with Google and others, Yahoo said it had hired a well-known data mining expert to focus on ways to improve social search. Yahoo said it hired Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan into the newly created position of V...

Yahoo said Tuesday it would join forces with PC security firm Symantec to provide a co-branded Web security service, an offering that mirrors those from other Internet firms. The service will give Yahoo customers the option of buying a Web-delivered version of Symantec's Norton Internet Security sof...

Mobile phone shipments grew a vigorous 26 percent year-to-year, reaching an unprecedented 235 million units shipped during the second quarter of 2006. Nokia and Motorola accounted for a massive 55 percent combined market share during the quarter, according to a research report from Strategy Analytic...

As an Arkansas judge considers whether to give his final approval for a settlement in a high-profile suit against Google alleging widespread click fraud, a group of plaintiffs is trying to block the deal, saying the search engine has not done enough to stop the deception. Attorneys for some plaintif...

Advanced Micro Devices said Monday it had reached an agreement to buy ATI Technologies for US$5.4 billion in stock and cash, a deal that creates a considerably more formidable competitor for chip-making leader Intel. ATI is a top maker of graphics processors and related chipsets, with its products i...