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In a move to compete with Verizon, Cingular Wireless today launched its third-generation wireless network. The new service is called Cingular BroadbandConnect, and is available to nearly 35 million throughout the United States. The company said it would continue to extend the network rapidly next ye...

Leet has grown to represent attitudes and subcultures that extend beyond the use of leet as a communication system. Leet is challenging traditional patterns of communication system growth and propagation. Its behavior is uniquely tech driven and tech enabled. New forms of leet are encouraged. L...

Liberty Media, parent company of the QVC home shopping network, became the latest traditional media company to make a strong push into the Internet space, buying food-based e-tailer Provide Commerce, Inc. in a deal worth US$477 million. The all-cash deal gives Liberty Media control of Provide's fami...

In a bid to boost the profile of its subscription streaming music offering by making it available to all computer users, RealNetworks said it is testing a Web-based version of its Rhapsody service. Making a version of Rhapsody work with most Web browsers would make the service more mobile -- users c...

Imagine strolling through the front door of your favorite department store, but instead of finding yourself amid a comforting cacophony of display counters, merchandise, and bustling people, you're instead all alone in a strangely geometric room featuring a series of doors labeled "Women," "Men," "K...

Sales of mobile phones that double as digital cameras have soared during 2005, with nearly 300 million such handsets expected to be sold before year's end, according to new projections from Gartner. Camera phone sales will reach 295.5 million units this year and represent 38 percent of overall mobil...

Raising the possibility that it will change course once again on a hotly debated move meant to give adult content Web sites their own Internet realm, the net's governing body has decided to shelve a plan to discuss how to create a ".xxx" domain. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number...

When Eric Lituchy and wife Gina Ezratty first started talking in the late 1990s about a new dot-com business, the business idea seemed straightforward enough. Sell specialty products over the Internet. Satisfy gift-givers who want to honor life's milestones for special someones. Top off birthdays, e...

Two domain name registration trade groups are suing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign, alleging that a recently reached settlement between the two parties violate anti-trust laws. The legal action is just the latest example of dissent within the domain regi...

Research in Motion is facing added pressure to strike a new settlement agreement to end a patent infringement lawsuit that could lead to the suspension of the firm's popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail service in the United States. A judge yesterday refused to enforce an earlier agreement between RIM a...

Cyber Monday outpaced Black Friday in the online shopping arena once again this year, which comes as no surprise to e-tail analysts who predicted the phenomenon long ago. Nielsen//NetRatings' Holiday eShopping Index saw 15 percent more traffic on Cyber Monday than on Black Friday, drawing a total un...

Just as it helped spawn a movement toward its wireless technology with Centrino, Intel is looking to put the PC in the pole position for home entertainment with its Viiv platform that is now supported by more than 40 software, content and service companies, including TiVo. Intel said its Viiv techno...

Microsoft is testing a service that would enable people to place classified ads and store a host of other information, a service that would follow in the footsteps of Google Base and underscores how online classifieds and related forms of Web-based information organization are rapidly emerging as th...

While the ultimate measure of online performance is whether or not your Web site helps your company to achieve its business goals, such as customer acquisition, conversion or brand-building, there are many other variables impacting this performance. A Web site has to perform well on many levels and ...

In what's become an annual event known as Cyber Monday, millions of shoppers logged onto the Internet from their jobs yesterday for holiday shopping. While not the biggest online shopping day of the season -- in terms of total shopping volume, that often occurs before Thanksgiving, though for some r...