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Looking to fend off competition from Internet-based entertainment providers and others, DirecTV and XM Satellite radio have signed a deal to offer subscribers of DirecTV access to streaming radio offerings of XM ...

Computer maker Dell is ending its long-standing practice of offering free home delivery of personal computers, a move seen as an effort to protect its historically robust bottom line from price competition ...

Extending a long-running war from the desktop to the mobile handset, RealNetworks unveiled a streaming video offering for mobile operators and said that Cingular Wireless had stepped forward to be the first carrier to offer the service to customers ...

The online brokerage world continues to consolidate at breakneck speed as E*Trade announced its third acquisition in two months, saying it would buy BrownCo from JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a deal worth US$1.6 billion ...

Hoping to usher in a new form of highly portable and more secure digital music, SanDisk has unveiled a new form of flash memory that includes digital rights protection ...

Advertisers sunk nearly US$3 billion into online marketing campaigns in second quarter, with spending on Web advertising jumping 26 percent over the same period last year, according to a new report ...

Saying a consumer that is aware of online threats is essential to a strong U.S. economy, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched its most ambitious effort yet to educate Americans on the dangers lurking on the Web ...

Microsoft is launching an effort to add hundreds of new employees at existing facilities in India, a move that could more than double its head-count there ...

Bidding to enhance its ability to compete with Google and Yahoo in the revenue-generating part of the search marketplace, Microsoft unveiled a paid-search service of its own, one that seeks to take targeting of ads to a new level ...

Looking to add new weapons in their arsenal against illegal file-swapping, movie and music industry groups have begun to offer a free software program aimed at helping users avoid illegally sharing files and are calling on corporations to monitor their own networks for potentially illegal activity ...

Film and television giant Viacom is said to be close to announcing a deal to buy video-on-demand site iFilm, a move that would give it an entirely new distribution channel for its deep well of content ...

In a move meant to help enterprises search existing data deep in legacy systems, Google has launched a partner program that will enable Google enterprise search to be integrated into existing data management and storage programs ...

In the never-ending quest to differentiate themselves from competitors, online retailers often turn to content to set themselves apart and enhance the quality of their Web contact with customers and would-be customers ...

After months of complaints that its Google Library effort constituted a violation of copyright law, Google has been sued by a leading writer's association and three writers who claim that the search giant is infringing on the works of thousands of individual writers ...

Microsoft has filed lawsuits against eight software re-sellers, saying that consumers helped lead them to the firms accused of selling pirated versions of the company's software ...

In a case that underscores the growing pains of the online search business and the Web sector in fast-emerging China, Baidu.com has been ordered to stop providing referrals to music download sites offering certain copyright-protected songs ...

In one of the first major moves since announcing a sweeping restructuring that followed the hiring of a new CEO, Hewlett-Packard said it would buy Peregrine Systems in an all-cash deal worth US$425 million ...

The industry group representing major wireless telecommunications carriers is working on a ratings system for content, a move seen by some as a sign that those companies are preparing for widespread distribution of pornography and adult content to cell phones ...

Attempts by lawmakers to ban Internet gambling by U.S. residents hit a roadblock this week when a bill that would have made it illegal for banks or credit card companies to pay for online gaming was halted ...

For the second time in less than a week, a company has debuted a service and billed it as the eBay for software, with Web services the target this time ...