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Online Gambling Ban: Regulations in Search of a Definition

The Bush Administration pushed through new rules last week that seek to end Internet gambling.The new regulations, issued by the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve system, require banks, credit card companies and wire transfer companies to establish a process to stop payments for settling online bets ...

Sun Cuts 6,000 as Wall St. Cloud Spreads to Tech

Beleaguered server and software maker Sun Microsystems said Friday that it will lay off as many as 6,000 employees, or 18 percent of its worldwide workforce, over the next year ...

YouTube Finds Revenue Model Right at Home

YouTube will begin selling advertising on YouTube search results pages, the company announced Wednesday ...

Microsoft May Skunk Google in Verizon Bidding War

Microsoft and Verizon Wireless are said to be close to a deal that would make Windows Live Search the default search engine on Verizon handsets and expand the number of Verizon devices powered by the Windows Mobile operating system ...

Best Buy Paints Glum Picture for ’09

Just two days after regional consumer electronics chain Circuit City declared bankruptcy, Best Buy has slashed its earnings forecast for the upcoming holiday season and much of 2009 ...

Apple, Dell to Grab Bigger Slices of Smaller Holiday Pie

While other consumer electronics makers are headed for a rough holiday season, two standouts in the industry are expected to rise above the rest -- Apple and Dell ...

Microsoft, Sun Snuggle Up With Search Deal

Four years after Microsoft paid US$1.6 billion to Sun Microsystems to settle an antitrust and patent suit, the once-bitter rivals are teaming up on Internet search ...

FCC Gives Nod to Major Wireless Mergers

The Federal Communications Commission gave its blessing to two large wireless deals Wednesday ...

Google Desertion Leaves Yahoo Swinging in the Breeze

Search engine giant Google has walked away from a proposed ad-sharing deal with Internet portal Yahoo after the U.S. Department of Justice made it clear that it would seek to block the agreement in court ...

Google, Yahoo Ad Deal Whittled Down to a Nub

Search engine powerhouses Google and Yahoo have offered to significantly scale back the depth of their proposed online ad-sharing deal in an attempt to gain the approval of the U.S. Department of Justice, according to press reports ...

Amazon to Save Consumer Fingernails, Tempers With Simpler Wrappings

Consumers will get a break from having to wrestle with tough-to-open parcels this holiday season with the advent of "frustration-free" packaging from Amazon.com ...

Have Pollsters Been Dialing the Right Numbers?

As the U.S. presidential election season winds down, a handful of political polls that include mobile phone users show Democrat Barack Obama beating Republican John McCain by a substantially wider margin than polls that do not include cell phone users ...

Is Yahoo, Google Ad Deal Sliding Off the Rails?

An online ad-sharing deal between Google and Yahoo may be on the verge of collapse ...

ICANN Almost Cracks Down on Spammy Domain Registrar

Just one day after notifying an Internet registrar notorious for allowing massive spamming that it would terminate its registrar accreditation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has given the registrar a temporary stay of execution ...

Motorola’s Financial Health Ebbs With No Cure in Sight

Motorola announced a new round of layoffs as it reported a 15 percent decrease in revenue during the third quarter on Thursday. ...

Will Motorola Bet the Farm on Android?

In its continuing effort to reinvent itself, struggling wireless phone maker Motorola will cut more jobs and focus on designing handheld devices that run Google's new open source Android operating system, according to the Wall Street Journal ...

Christian Science Monitor Stops the Presses

The Christian Science Monitor will cease the weekday print edition of its award-winning newspaper in April after a century of continuous publication. ...

Google Settles Book Search Suits for a Song

Search engine giant Google has settled two copyright lawsuits over its Google Book Search program for US$125 million ...

Microsoft Builds a Stairway to the Cloud

Microsoft announced plans Monday at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles to launch a large-scale cloud computing initiative that could drastically change the way it develops and sells software ...

Cox Cable to Jump Into Cellular Fray

Cable television provider Cox Communications plans to roll out its own cellular network some time in 2009 in an effort to take market share from telephone companies and wireless operators ...

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