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The number of European corporations -- and individual workers -- who are relying on mobile phones continues to rise, especially among the small office and home office segment. A new survey by The Yankee Group, the Boston-based research firm, indicates that there are a number of wireless trends that ...

You can't get much lower on the tech chain than a trailer, right? It's not much more than a box on wheels. However, a growing interest by the transportation industry to bring the lowly trailer into the wired world is firing a hot market in tracking hardware and services. According to a report releas...

A stolen Veterans Affairs employee's laptop containing personal information on 26 million U.S. veterans was recovered this week. Investigators with the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the sensitive data on the laptop's hard drive had not been accessed, according to a "preliminary review of the ...

A new study by ABI Research indicates that an array of semiconductor developers have designed US$10 chipsets for receiving and displaying TV on mobile phones -- a price point that marks the first important benchmark for the growth of mobile phone-based TV and video applications. "This ramp-up in mar...

Yahoo has reached a tentative agreement to settle a class action lawsuit. The portal and search company agreed to pay millions in attorneys fees and potentially may have to refund millions more in advertising revenue. The settlement, which was given preliminary approval Wednesday by U.S. District J...

A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday rejected an amendment that would prevent Internet service providers from charging Web firms more for faster service to consumers. The amendment failed by an 11-11 vote. The "net neutrality" amendment was designed to ensure that telephone and cable companies treat...

Sending a competitive shot across the bow of e-tailers such as Amazon and eBay, Google Thursday launched its long-rumored online payment system, now known as Google Checkout. Checkout launches with a handful of major online merchants having signed up, including Jockey, the Starbucks Store, Levi's, D...

The recent reinvention of marketing has sent the discipline to measure its efforts. With new metrics, expressly communicated goals and number-gathering in ad campaign executions, product launches and channel sales, marketers expect to remake their art as science. However, getting the beakers bubbli...

Stung by the unprecedented number of identify thefts and data losses that have occurred in recent months across academia, the private sector and the government, a group comprised of representatives from each of these areas has formed the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection.

Intel said it will sell off its handheld chip line, the first of what could be several significant changes at the market leading chipmaker as it bids to focus on the most profitable parts of its business. The company announced Tuesday it had reached an agreement to sell its handheld and mobile commu...

Police in Bangalore, India, reported the arrest Tuesday night of the chief suspect in the theft of funds from a score of customers of HSBC bank in the UK. Nadeem Kashmiri is being charged in India with stealing customer data that was sent to Nadeem's accomplices in the UK. Nadeem's accomplices ass...

Reaching the Millennial Generation -- a label nailed to nine- to 28-year-olds, a group which, at some 79 million in the United States, is larger than the Baby Boomers -- poses some real challenges for marketers, especially marketers entrenched in their mass media ways. "The key thing to recognize wh...

Shares of video game producer Take-Two Interactive Software plunged to new lows Tuesday after the company revealed it had been served with grand jury subpoenas as part of an apparent investigation into a host of company activities. At issue is whether company executives knew about explicit sex scen...

In the latest example of the tension between government efforts in the war on terror and the media, the Bush administration is condemning news outlets that revealed details of a program that used the Internet to scan bank records for evidence of terrorism financing. Speaking at the White House, Pres...

In the early days of the Web, smart small Internet businesses could compete with just about anyone by working to make sure their Web pages were found first on search engines. Fast forward 10 years. Search engines have become increasingly sophisticated. Paid search listings have exploded into the pic...