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Microsoft said Monday that it has purchased a French firm that makes mobile search technology as the software giant makes a strong push to build a search infrastructure that will work across multiple devices ...

Google stock tumbled Monday following a published report outlining a scenario in which the high-flying Internet company could see as much as half of its market value eroded by increased competition ...

With some legal victories and a new technical workaround, the prospects are looking brighter every day that Research in Motion's BlackBerry mobile e-mail service will run without interruption ...

The Federal Trade Commission is mulling a plan to target companies that advertise through adware and spyware, hoping to shame those companies into discontinuing the practice ...

Microsoft plans to speed up the expansion of the Redmond, Wash., campus it has called home for most of its 31-year history by spending approximately US$1 billion over the next three years ...

Gateway (NYSE: GTW) CEO Wayne Inouye -- who took the helm at the company following its merger with eMachines and led it back to profitability -- resigned just days after announcing results that missed profit targets ...

In another sign of the maturation of the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) industry, Vonage filed Wednesday to stage a long-awaited US$250 million initial public offering and also installed a new CEO to guide the company ...

Nortel said it has reached an agreement in principle to pay US$2.4 billion to settle shareholder lawsuits stemming from accounting misstatements at the telecom gear maker, moving the beleaguered company one step closer to ending a dark chapter in its history ...

Changes to some versions of the Office productivity suite may affect more businesses than originally believed, as Microsoft revises certain versions of the software to address a patent ruling ...

IBM has won a key ally in its quest to turn around the fortunes of its PowerPC processor, which suffered last year whenApple announced it would useIntel chips instead in its machines ...

Google has banned the GermanWeb site of automaker BMW after it was found to have manipulated thesearch engine's system to influence its rankings ...

Tech heavyweight Google andSkype, a subsidiary ofeBay,have invested in a Europe-based startup that hopes to revolutionize the WiFi business, though it has yet to roll out a key part of its technology ...

Firing what could become the opening salvo in a price war for high-speed Internet access, AT&T has launched an online-only offer that provides high-speed home Web access for US$12.99 per month ...

Firing what could become the opening salvo in a price war for high-speed Internet access, AT&T has launched an online-only offer that provides high-speed home Web access for US$12.99 per month ...

Firing what could become the opening salvo in a price war for high-speed Internet access, AT&T has launched an online-only offer that provides high-speed home Web access for US$12.99 per month ...

Struggling automaker General Motors handed out billions of dollars worth of information technology outsourcing contracts, with Electronic Data Systems seen as the big winner even as its revenue from GM continues to slide. IBM and Hewlett-Packard also sealed major, multi-year deals ...

Cambridge, Mass., a city of about 100,000 people located just across the Charles River from Boston, is moving to become the latest U.S. metropolitan area entirely covered byWiFi wireless Internet access. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the major universities that call it home, said it would work with the city to bring Web access to all, including those living in public housing projects...

After months of adverse court rulings in the U.S., Research in Motion (RIM) won a key decision from a patent court in the United Kingdom and may get help from the U.S. government in avoiding an abrupt shutdown of its BlackBerry mobile e-mail service ...

With the frenzy of the November-December holiday crush still ringing in their ears, many merchants may be tempted to schedule vacations for late January and early February. Those that do so may be missing out on the chance to cash in on what could be the second busiest holiday season of the year ...

After five straight earnings disclosures that exceeded analyst expectations, Google missed targets for its fourth quarter profit, sending its high-flying stock into a tailspin and raising new questions about the rate of growth in the Internet advertising sector ...