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DirecTV and XM Forge Alliance

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 ...

Dell Ends Free Shipping to Residential Customers

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 ...

RealNetworks, Cingular Eye Mobile Video Market

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 ...

E*Trade Buys BrownCo From JPMorgan for $1.6 Billion

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 ...

Rolling Stones Flash New Album

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 ...

Online Advertising Continues Rapid Growth

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 ...

FTC Launches Aggressive Campaign to Educate Online Consumers

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 Will Double India Headcount

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 ...

Microsoft Launches Paid Search Service Overseas

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 ...

Music, Movie Industries Tout Software to Block to File Swapping

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 ...

Viacom Mulling iFilm Buy as Web Video Distribution Booms

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 ...

Google Launches Enterprise Partner Program

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 ...

Web Content Management Tools Help Close the Deal

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 ...

Authors Guild Sues Google Over Print Project

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 Files Piracy Suits

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 ...

China Orders Baidu to Stop Download Referrals

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 ...

HP Buys Peregrine With Eye on Enterprise Management

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 ...

Mobile Industry Prepares for Cell Phone Porn

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 ...

Latest US Bid to Ban Online Gambling Suffers Setback

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 ...

EBay-Like Web Services Marketplace Debuts

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 ...

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