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Score one for the skeptics. Vonage made its Initial Public Offering on Wednesday in the face of analyst concerns about an ultra-competitive landscape and an unprofitable business plan for the firm. The Internet phone pioneer wound up selling stock below its issue price. Shares were initially priced ...

The Internet is still a very dangerous environment for conducting business. Lurking in the cyberspace shadows are criminal masterminds bent on stealing personal information and credit card numbers to further fund their activities. Almost daily, stories involving new worms, phishing scams or large s...

The company that makes the Morpheus peer-to-peer software has filed a $4 billion suit against eBay and its Skype online phone calling unit, saying others are benefiting from technology that belongs to it. StreamCast Network filed a suit that names eBay as one of 21 defendants, including the founder...

Wired News has waded into the middle of the controversial court case involving AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance operations. An anonymous source provided the news organization with a copy of documents pertaining to the case that the judge had or...

Wired News has waded into the middle of the controversial court case involving AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance operations. An anonymous source provided the news organization with a copy of documents pertaining to the case that the judge had or...

Wired News has waded into the middle of the controversial court case involving AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance operations. An anonymous source provided the news organization with a copy of documents pertaining to the case that the judge had or...

There are two basic options when it comes to deploying, running and maintaining a vendor-supplied e-business system: in-house and hosted. The latter has quickly grown in popularity. Comergent, for example, began offering a hosted platform around two years ago, and it is now the preferred choice of t...

Vonage may not be in the black, but the Internet phone company is nonetheless going public. The Skype competitor plans to price its shares for an Initial Public Offering late Tuesday despite analysts' concerns about the long-term risks of the Voice over Internet Protocol market. Some 31.25 million s...

Google has taken the wraps off plans to sell video advertising online, an ambitious move that could unlock significant additional growth potential for the search giant. The company said it will use a placement system that is similar to the AdWords platform in place for text and graphics ads, but wil...

In a case that emphasizes the myriad ways for digital data to be compromised, files containing information on some 26.5 million U.S. veterans were taken from the home of a government employee during a burglary. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the breach Monday, but said there was no ev...

It used to be called digital radio before the marketers decided to exploit the high definition craze in broadcasting and recast it as HD Radio, but whatever it's called, it could be just the weapon airwave floggers need to fend off a growing threat for their audience from satellite radio. Satellite ...

From enterprise search to Web search, technology is rapidly advancing the ability of users to find information faster and with more accuracy than ever. While millions of dollars are being made on search, there's a strong case to be made that e-commerce search offers the most direct return on investm...

Google continues to gain market share in the search space, but its high-profile efforts to extend its reach into the portal realm have yet to succeed. Outside of its search site, Google is still drawing relatively few visitors. It hasn't made a dent in Yahoo's lead or MSN's second-place position.

Microsoft on Monday unveiled what it bills as the first ever pay-as-you-go personal computing service, a move that the software giant and a cast of industry partners hope can help bridge the digital divide by lowering financial barriers for millions of people in developing nations. The technology, c...

It is both simpler and more complicated, easier and more difficult to make it in the music business these days. Take the Internet radio market, for instance. Digital recording and music broadcasting once required making rather large investments of capital for systems that could only be operated by e...