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EBay has expressed "outrage" over the arrest of the chief executive of its operations in India because a user of its shopping and auction portal, Baazee.com, listed a controversial pornographic video clip ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has announced that its member companies filed a new wave of copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 individual file-sharers ...

After a two-day presentation in court, a federal judge has ruled in favor of Google in a trademark infringement case filed by insurer GEICO. That frees Google to display rival logos when users search under the keyword GEICO ...

The non-profit Mozilla Foundation has placed an ad in today's edition of the New York Times. The open-source advocacy organization is pleading its alternative case with a two-page spread that asks readers the direct question: "Are you fed up with your Web browser?" ...

On the heels of IBM's decision to sell its PC unit to Chinese player Lenovo, Forrester Research is reporting that the number of personal computers in use worldwide will more than double to almost 1.3 billion by the end of the decade ...

The second week of the prime holiday shopping season accounted for US$2.2 billion of online purchases, with the number of transactions up 21 percent over the same week last year, according to VeriSign's latest e-commerce data ...

Microsoft has announced a beta version of its new MSN Toolbar Suite, which includes desktop search functionality designed to help users quickly find virtually any type of document, media file or e-mail message on their Windows-based PC ...

Usage of Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to fall in the United States, dropping 1.09 percentage points to 91.80 percent of the browser market between November 5 and December 3, more than triple the rate of loss of the previous month, a study shows ...

While there are still a few days left in the holiday shopping season, all signs point to merry profits for portals. In the effort to catch that cash, this year has seen some eye-catching promotions from old favorites and some new players with promising propositions ...

In a move to beef up its security for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offerings, 3Com today announced it has agreed to acquire publicly held TippingPoint Technologies, a network security products maker, for about US$430 million ...

Ten days after the successful launch of Nintendo DS, Sony put its PlayStation Portable (PSP) on sale in Japan at a discounted price of 19,800 yen (US$189). It looks like sales are off to a good start ...

While mainstream America is flocking to sites like Amazon.com, Froogle and Yahoo Shopping, ethnic minorities are showing an interest in something different from the online shopping experience ...

Danish security firm Secunia has issued warnings about a vulnerability in most Web browsers that could open the door to hackers hijacking pop-up windows on trusted Web sites to launch phishing attacks ...

In a move to cash in on the growing ring tone market, Napster has announced that it has forged an agreement with Dwango Wireless to go mobile ...

Much attention has been focused on the promise of enabling large business-to-business transactions over the Internet -- and many corporations can testify to the Web's transforming power to streamline inventory management. However, there's a new revolution coming online, and it's called micro-commerce ...

In a move to beef up its services aimed at wireless devices, Yahoo has acquired tech start-up WUF Networks. Company officials confirmed the acquisition this week but declined to disclose the terms of the deal ...

ITT Industries announced today that it has won a seven-year contract that could reach a maximum value of US$2.5 billion from the U.S. Army's Logistics Readiness Center. ITT will produce Single Channel Ground to Air Radio System (SINCGARS) combat radio systems for the Army ...

About a week after Lycos Europe stirred spammers with its anti-spam screensaver, hackers continue to attack the brand, this time with an e-mail that pretends to be Lycos offering the screensaver but which actually is a trojan ...

In an effort to develop a standard approach to building and deploying an enterprise grid computing infrastructure, high-technology heavy hitters have announced a collaborative effort dubbed Project MegaGrid ...

AOL has unveiled a prototype of its revived Netscape browser without half the hype that Mozilla programs like Firefox and Thunderbird have been fetching. However, a new Netscape browser could make a big splash post-beta testing thanks to some cross functionality and security features, according to analysts ...