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Sprint Nextel has filed suit against Vonage Holdings and other voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startups, claiming those companies infringed on patents the telecommunications company holds for delivering VoIP traffic across networks. In addition to Vonage, the action filed by Sprint Nextel in U.S

Sun Microsystems and Google today announced a multi-year deal to promote each other's software, a deal seen by many as the possible groundwork for a direct attack on Microsoft's market dominance in the desktop productivity software space. Under the terms, financial terms of which were not disclosed,...

Symantec has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire an agent-less IT security compliance software company in a US$209 million all-cash transaction. Symantec said the acquisition of BindView Development Corporation would allow it to offer customers an end-to-end solution for p...

Among a business's greatest assets is the information it collects, but only if it can sort through and present that information in a timely fashion. Enterprises collect millions if not billions of bits of data on customers, products and suppliers. Beyond merely storing the data, they must decide whi...

Yahoo has put its money behind a team effort to bulk up the amount of valuable content available on the Web. The search engine company will foster the Open Content Alliance, a consortium set up to digitize materials in the public domain, such as classic books, and those published under the less-rest...

United Kingdom-based music act managers are seeking to pressure Apple on royalty payments, saying too little of the proceeds from each song download is actually reaching the artists that created the songs. Members of the UK chapter of the Music Managers Forum met today to launch a public awareness c...

Sales of digital music soared during the first half of 2005, nearly tripling over 2004 levels, but weren't quite robust enough to help the music industry see overall growth, according to sales figures from international music trade group IFPI. Worldwide, music sales for the first six months of this...

Looking to fend off competition from Internet-based entertainment providers and others, DirecTV and XM Satellite radio have signed a deal to offer subscribers of DirecTV access to streaming radio offerings of XM. The two satellite-based companies said starting in mid-November DirecTV subscribers wi...

Computer maker Dell is ending its long-standing practice of offering free home delivery of personal computers, a move seen as an effort to protect its historically robust bottom line from price competition. Though Dell has remained among the most profitable computer makers, its most recent earnings ...

Even before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the gulf coast, the United States had serious long-term problems with oil availability and pricing. But, nobody was willing to take a hard look at how we were going to overcome our oil dependency. The ramifications of the destruction caused by the hurri...

In today's marketplace, the word "solution" appears beside the word "software" so frequently that we unconsciously stutter the pair of words rather than one or the other when talking about new purchases or shopping for something to aid our businesses. This is marketing genius. Somewhere, the standar...

Extending a long-running war from the desktop to the mobile handset, RealNetworks unveiled a streaming video offering for mobile operators and said that Cingular Wireless had stepped forward to be the first carrier to offer the service to customers. The service immediately creates a new competitive ...

The online brokerage world continues to consolidate at breakneck speed as E*Trade announced its third acquisition in two months, saying it would buy BrownCo from JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a deal worth US$1.6 billion. The all-cash deal will give E*Trade access to a wealthy and active customer base,...

Hoping to usher in a new form of highly portable and more secure digital music, SanDisk has unveiled a new form of flash memory that includes digital rights protection. SanDisk is touting TrustedFlash as a new, more secure platform for digital music, movies and games. The flash memory cards will be ...

A lawsuit filed against Web sites that allege search engine results on Google.com were rigged by a placement firm is being watched throughout the Internet industry, as possibly having an impact on the free speech rights of bloggers, experts tell the E-Commerce Times. The Las Vegas-based search engin...