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Gauging the Google Effect

As Google lurched into its new life as a public company, debuting Thursday as the newest member of the Nasdaq, the impact of the search engine's still-blockbuster IPO on the tech industry as a whole was already being debated. Before the offering was completed, there were some signs that the way Goog...

In a recent decision, a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) domain name arbitration panel dismissed a complaint filed by the Mexican Tourist Board (MTB) against Latin America Telecom (LAT) concerning the domain name "mexico.com." The panel went so far as to find that the complaint was br...

Compuware announced that it has filed an emergency motion in its software piracy case against IBM. Compuware asked the court to levy severe sanctions and provide other relief against IBM for introducing critical evidence after the close of discovery.

Google significantly cut the size of its upcoming initial public offering, lowering the price range it expects shares to sell for and cutting the number of shares in play, dropping the total maximum value of the year's biggest IPO from more than US$3 billion to $1.9 billion. Google dropped the price...

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

Let's Kill the Term 'IT'

During the early dawn of mainframe computers, everyone was in data processing, and most corporations thought that without the word "data" in their corporate naming lingo, they would simply die. Therefore, millions of business names like "Data-This" and "Data-That" came about. All companies, big or s...

PRODUCT PROFILE

Making Tech for Women: Sony's Latest Laptop

Companies have started to focus on women as key influencers in the consumer technology purchase cycle. Volvo has designed a car specifically with women in mind and employed an all female design team that focused on things like places to store a purse or notebook computer, ease of entry into the car ...

In a bid to win customers from market leader and now fierce rival Apple, RealNetworks said Tuesday it would offer 49-cent music downloads, a price-slashing move that the company admitted would cut into its profits. Real said it would cut its prices in half, offering single-song downloads for 49 cent...

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