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Last Sunday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed a bill that strengthens California's antispam laws. Senate Bill 1457 amends the current laws by making it an offense to send advertising in a spam e-mail either from California or to a California e-mail under specified circumstances. The new...

Sun Microsystems has unveiled its latest computing-on-demand initiative, offering access to processor power for US$1 an hour, as it becomes the latest major tech firm bidding to make real the vision of computing power as a commodity that can be bought and sold as needed. Sun said it envisions comput...

Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Triton PCS today said that they have signed an agreement -- contingent on the closing of Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless -- that will give Cingular expanded wireless service in Virginia and Triton PCS added coverage in North Carolina and entry int...

Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Triton PCS today said that they have signed an agreement -- contingent on the closing of Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless -- that will give Cingular expanded wireless service in Virginia and Triton PCS added coverage in North Carolina and entry int...

Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Triton PCS today said that they have signed an agreement -- contingent on the closing of Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless -- that will give Cingular expanded wireless service in Virginia and Triton PCS added coverage in North Carolina and entry int...

A very serious fight between Apple Computer and Apple Records of The Beatles is now headed for the ninth round. On this side of the ring is Sir Paul McCartney, with the title of a legendary musical artist and boyish looks with a cute smile. On the other side, yet another youthful boy wonder, Steve J...

Samsung Electronics says semiconductor sales growth will fall sharply next year, making it the latest company to suggest that the highly cyclical industry has seen the current upturn hit its peak already. Samsung said it expects sales growth for the overall chip industry of less than 10 percent next...

The best guarantee of success in outsourcing call center programs offshore is to match the work to be outsourced to the appropriate stage of a facility's lifecycle. Herein is a description of management and technical issues involved in running programs at offshore call centers that have gone beyond ...

Roche, Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals today announced positive results from a phase III study of investigational drug Tarceva (erlotinib) in locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer patients. The study met its primary endpoint of improving overall survival. This study demonstrated a stati...

Internet-based hacker attacks are being developed more quickly, becoming more sophisticated and are increasingly focusing on two high-profile targets -- e-commerce and Microsoft's Windows operating system -- according to a report from leading antivirus firm Symantec. In its "Internet Security Threat...

Consumers have steadily embraced the Web for their retail shopping needs over the last 10 years. Online spending in 2003 was almost US$55 billion and is expected to top $60 billion for 2004, according to reports from eMarketer. Although some shoppers still have concerns about credit card security or...

As Hurricane Ivan bore down on the southeast coast of the United States this week, Wall Street energy traders feared the worst. What if the storm damaged or destroyed oil pipelines or offshore drilling platforms? The price of crude oil spiked as the hurricane roared through the Gulf of Mexico toward...

America Online, the largest Internet service provider, said it would stop using Microsoft's Sender ID technology to filter unwanted e-mail being sent to its millions of members, and instead embrace an open-source friendly alternative. AOL's decision came just days after a subgroup of the Internet En...

Trying to avert a trans-Atlantic trade war over government subsidies to Airbus, U.S. and European negotiators found little to agree on yesterday during a five-hour meeting in Brussels, Belgium. "We had a useful and frank discussion," John Veroneau, general counsel to the U.S. trade representative an...

Qualcomm today projected it will realize higher earnings in the current quarter than previously expected, with revenues up 60 to 62 percent over the same time last year and up 4 to 5 percent for the quarter. A notable part of the increase was attributed to the company expecting to produce more of it...