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Article | 21/10/2009 Yahoo revenue down, but income up sharply

Yahoo has reported revenue of US$1.58 billion for the third quarter of 2009, down 12 percent from the same period a year earlier, although net income ...

Article | 20/10/2009 ChoicePoint to pay $275,000 for second data breach

Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security effor...

Article | 20/10/2009 AT&T vs. Google: More than nuns or phone sex

AT&T raised the stakes last week in its recent dust-up with Google over an online voice service, accusing its rival of blocking phone calls to nuns.

Article | 16/10/2009 Companies, lawmakers tell US FCC to dump net neutrality

As the U.S. Federal Communications Commission moves toward developing formal net neutrality rules, some U.S. lawmakers and telecom-related companies h...

Article | 15/10/2009 US lawmakers investigate telecom 'traffic pumping'

Three high-profile U.S. lawmakers have begun an informal investigation into high access charges that some rural telephone carriers charge to competito...

Article | 14/10/2009 Cyber criminals find new ways to attack

Cyber criminals are finding new ways to steal information, including infecting legitimate Web sites with Trojans and creating rogue software packages ...

Article | 10/10/2009 US FCC to launch inquiry into Google Voice

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will launch an inquiry into Google Voice, the Web-based voice service, after complaints that the tech giant...

Article | 9/10/2009 IBM faces DOJ antitrust inquiry on mainframes

IBM is facing an antitrust inquiry from the U.S. Department of Justice for recent actions the company has taken in the mainframe computer market, acco...

Article | 9/10/2009 IBM faces DOJ antitrust inquiry on mainframes

IBM is facing an antitrust inquiry from the U.S. Department of Justice for recent actions the company has taken in the mainframe computer market, acco...

Article | 2/10/2009 New ICANN agreement runs into criticism

A new agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the U.S. Department of Commerce that creates international...

Article | 2/10/2009 Virginia man gets prison time for online threats

An Oakwood, Virginia, man who used a social-networking Web site to make threats of school shootings throughout the country has been sentenced to four ...

Article | 1/10/2009 Survey: US residents don't want targeted ads

Contrary to the claims of online marketers, most U.S. residents do not want to receive Web advertising tailored to their interests, according to a stu...

Article | 1/10/2009 ICANN freed from US gov't oversight

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has reached a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing the nonprofi...

Article | 30/09/2009 US relationship with ICANN may not end

A longtime agreement in which the U.S. Department of Commerce has oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is due ...

Article | 29/09/2009 Former Enron Broadband exec sentenced to prison term

Joseph Hirko, the former co-CEO of Enron Broadband Services, was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison on a wire fraud charge related to false claim...