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Over the years, Super Bowl Sunday has been the launching pad for countless products, services and companies. This year will be no exception. One of the most closely watched launches during the Big Game will come from inside the sports world, as ESPN Mobile goes live nationwide ...

Pushing forward with a plan to set aside Microsoft Office productivity and document management tools in favor of an open format, Massachusetts has hired a chief information officer to oversee the switch ...

Moving a nearly two-year-long investigation and prosecution closer to its conclusion, Japanese chipmaker Elpida has agreed to pay US$84 million to end charges that it conspired with other firms to fix prices ...

In a move that could lead to a dramatic drop in online cigarette sales, Philip Morris said it reached an agreement with 37 state attorneys general to limit the availability of online tobacco products by shutting off distributors believed to have illegally sold the products in the past ...

Sales of server products powered Microsoft to a more profitable second quarter as the software giant beat Wall Street expectations for earnings, while supply restrictions on the Xbox 360 were seen contributing to a near-miss on the revenue side ...

The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) will pay US$7.4 billion to buyPixar, the groundbreaking animation studio co-founded byApple CEO Steve Jobs. The deal is noteworthy not only for the potential future benefits entailed in an Apple-Hollywood link, but also because it immediately vaults Disney back to the top of the industry it all but invented ...

Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt aren't getting a raise this year. Each is slated to make in 2006 exactly what they took home last year: US$1 ...

Microsoft received both good and bad news on the antitrust front. The European Commission (EC) has granted the software maker extra time to meet specific requirements before facing stiff daily fines. On the other hand, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said the company appeared to be falling behind on compliance with the terms of its U.S. antitrust settlement...

For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by Research In Motion, which was hoping to overturn a lower court ruling that could lead to the demise of itsBlackBerry mobile e-mail service in the U.S ...

The accounting scandal that rocked the Japanese stock market last week escalated Monday with the arrests of the high-profile CEO and other executives ofInternet company Livedoor. Prosecutors charged Takafumi Horie, the 33-year-old founder of the company, and his colleagues with violating securities laws by filing false earnings reports. The arrests came a week after news broke that investigators had raided the company's offices...

Nearly nine out of 10 businesses and other organizations faced some type of computer security incident, a fifth of them were attacked 20 times or more and some US$67 billion was lost as a result of the incursions, according to the 2005 FBI Computer Crime survey ...

The strength of the Razr phone helped pushMotorola to strong fourth-quarter earnings and revenue results -- but, like other tech companies, it failed to meet or exceed expectations ...

Sales of personal computers posted strong growth in 2005, while Dell held onto the crown and captured more market share and the U.S. gave up its title as the largest single PC market, according to reports from two research firms ...

Booming sales of iPods helped Apple score another winning quarter, but a lowered outlook may be raising the stakes for the pending switch to Intel chips in the company's notebook and desktop computers ...

Shares of Yahoo took a hit Wednesday, a day after the portal and search company reported earnings that, while up sharply from a year ago, fell short of expectations ...

For many e-commerce companies, the temptation to revel in the success of the 2005 holiday season is a powerful one ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cast a preliminary vote in favor of new rules that would force public companies to more fully report how much top executives are being paid, with everything from stock grants and bonuses to non-cash perks subject to disclosure ...

The offices of Japanese Web services firm Livedoor Co. were raided by investigators Monday night, sending the company's shares into a nosedive and prompting a reassuring message from company leadership, while potentially casting a new light on other Japanese Internet companies as well ...

Portable devices helped offset weak sales of gaming consoles and drove the video game industry to record sales in the United States last year, according to a report from the NPD Group ...

Apparently eyeing the worn pathway from enterprise technology to the consumer marketplace, Cisco Systems is said to be mulling a plan to produce electronics and related products for home use ...