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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday ordered DRAM chipmaker Rambus to license its technology to third parties and capped the amount the company can charge others for using the technology -- penalties stemming from a long-running antitrust probe ...

In the coming weeks, the US$100 laptop developed by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation will go into wide-scale production. From there, the laptops will be sent by the thousands to emerging economies in Africa, South Asia and South America ...

Boosted by consumer demand for electronics, worldwide semiconductor sales rose to record levels in 2006, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said in a report released Monday ...

Apple Inc. has reached a settlement with the company that manages the Beatles' intellectual property holdings, ending a trademark lawsuit and possibly paving the way for Beatles songs to be sold through the iTunes Music Store ...

Media conglomerate Viacom demanded on Friday that Google's video service YouTube remove from its Web pages as many as 100,000 video clips containing copyrighted material ...

A record holiday season pushed Amazon to nearly US$4 billion in sales in the fourth quarter, but a heavy reliance on electronics sales, continued promotions and shipping discounts ate into profits, forcing executives to defend some of its recent moves into new markets ...

Google further solidified its paid search lead in the fourth quarter, nearly tripling its profit amid a 38 percent jump in revenue as the search giant continued to burnish its reputation as the can't-miss Internet company ...

Media conglomerate Time Warner posted strong fourth quarter results Wednesday, despite a decline in revenue from online unit AOL (America Online). The company's Q4 profits were up 34 percent over the previous year ...

Music label Sony BMG has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges that it violated federal law by installing spyware and digital rights management (DRM) software onto music CDs without telling consumers ...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has announced his intentions to seek a seat on the board of directors of No. 2 mobile handset maker Motorola ...

Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced it will strengthen its existing relationship with software vendor SAP, and plans to offer a range of server and storage hardware, support and services for enterprises that embrace SAP's service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to information technology ...

In a move that could have repercussions for all forms of social networking, especially online user-generated video, YouTube intends to begin sharing its advertising revenue with users who contribute videos ...

Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed Google's YouTube, demanding that the video service release the identities of users who recently uploaded pirated videos of the "24" and "The Simpsons" TV series ...

As it awaits the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft on Thursday posted a second quarter that saw sharply lower earnings for a period marked by continued growth in its entertainment division and little progress in its efforts to catch up with Google on the online search front ...

A former Hewlett-Packard employee facing charges that he stole company secrets from HP has claimed in court papers that HP management tried to obtain trade secrets from rival Dell ...

A strong holiday season rife with hard-to-find gifts helped push eBay to a record fourth quarter, with revenue up 29 percent and profits up 24 percent as the online auction giant soundly beat forecasts and boosted its outlook ...

Web portal and search engine giant Yahoo on Tuesday posted fourth quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates, despite a sharp drop in profit from a year earlier, and said that its long-awaited ad placement system upgrade would roll out a month ahead of schedule ...

Social networking site MySpace is suing a high-profile e-mail marketer, claiming that he violated the site's rules and state and federal laws by deluging members with spam ...

Shares of major overseas Internet gambling companies took a heavy hit Monday after news broke that U.S. investigators had launch a fresh probe into Web-based gambling ...

When President Bush takes to the rostrum in the U.S. Congress Tuesday night to deliver his seventh State of the Union address, most experts anticipate a lengthy speech that will offer little in the way of initiatives aimed at boosting the nation's technology sector ...