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Sirius Satellite Radio further shrunk its net loss in the second quarter, thanks in large part to 561,493 new subscribers and a revenue growth of 51 percent over the same quarter a year ago, the company reported Tuesday ...

With the Federal Communications Commission due to vote Tuesday on how to auction off the wildly anticipated 700 MHz (megahertz) band of wireless spectrum, speculation is running rampant about the likely outcome ...

As part of its ongoing effort to develop an open search engine that will compete head-on with the likes of Google, Wikia has purchased the Grub Web crawler tool and released it under an open source license, the company announced Friday ...

Ask anyone what comes to mind when they think ofTJX, and they'll almost certainly mention the infamous data breach earlier this year that exposed more than 45 million customer credit and debit cards to hackers ...

Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest Communications convicted of 19 counts of insider trading, was sentenced Friday to six years in prison plus financial penalties totaling US$71 million ...

The European Commission on Friday confirmed that it sent a statement of objections to Intel charging the microprocessor giant with engaging in anticompetitive practices ...

For startup e-commerce companies, protecting customer data doesn't always come naturally. Small matters such as getting a business idea out of the starting gates and into the race -- not to mention winning those very first customers -- tend to overshadow the many liabilities associated with collecting and storing customer data ...

The opposing camps in the high-definition DVD wars were in the midst of a fresh round of fire Thursday, when Microsoft announced a US$20 price drop and free bundled movies on its Xbox 360 HD DVD Player ...

Colleges and universities narrowly escaped being forced to implement campus antipiracy technologies in exchange for funding Tuesday when a scaled-back version of a proposed piece of legislation, substituted at the 11th hour, won Senate approval ...

A joint sting operation by the FBI and the People's Republic of China netted more than half a million dollars' worth of counterfeit software, the FBI announced Monday ...

You don't need Microsoft's high-powered marketing staff or sophisticated statistics to know where the power currently lies in the portable media player market. Very simply, the score reads something like this: Apple's iPod, 100 million units shipped; Microsoft's Zune, 1 million ...

Eyeing an October release, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) announced Monday that it has authorized the mass production of the final beta version of its rugged XO laptop aimed at children in developing countries ...

Wal-Mart is among the retailers now carrying a new US$298 PC from Everex featuring OpenOffice productivity software, Everex announced Friday ...

Google will bid US$4.6 billion or more in the Federal Communications Commission's auction for the 700 MHz (megahertz) band of wireless spectrum, the company announced Friday -- but only if certain conditions are met ...

After months of controversy and global outcry, Google's proposed US$3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick will undergo congressional scrutiny later this year in a planned closed hearing before the House of Representatives' Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee ...

Battle-weary Intel emerged from the price-war trenches Tuesday to report that its profits increased 44 percent and revenues were up 8 percent in the second quarter ...

Harry Potter may have the Marauder's Map to show him where his friends are, but Sprint customers will soon have Loopt to help them find and connect with each other ...

Firefox is gaining ground in Europe, according to a report released Monday by French Web analytics firm XiTi Monitor, and at least some of that progress seems to be coming at the expense of Internet Explorer ...

As the July 15 deadline for new Internet radio royalty rates to take effect sailed by in relative peace, most Internet radio webcasters remained up and running following initial results of compromise talks late last week between webcasters and SoundExchange ...

There's no doubt that the technologies have arrived to make it possible for individual citizens to participate in the legislative process ...