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Throwing a twist into the raging search wars, Amazon's A9.com search site is pushing an open format that allows vertical search results to be widely syndicated in a manner similar to a popular approach for cross-pollinating blogs and news feeds ...

Having rolled out its own search engine in a bid to match rivals Yahoo and Google in terms of technology, Microsoft is now hoping to duplicate their success in the revenue and profit arenas by launching a paid search product ...

Norway-based Fast Search and Transfer (FAST) has launched what it's calling the first ever mobile search engine, a development that could prompt incumbent search leaders to take notice and which could help accelerate the advance of an array of mobile commerce and services ...

Regulators in Europe have cleared the way for Microsoft and Time Warner to acquire a content-protection company that could accelerate the adoption of digital rights management, reduce software piracy and make it easier for content owners to distribute movies and music on the Internet ...

More than 60 percent of Americans now subscribe to wireless calling plans as the cell phone industry continues to post dramatic growth and readies for the next generation of wireless services, according to new data from an industry association ...

Both Yahoo and America Online have struck deals with Research in Motion, the maker of the hugely popular BlackBerry hand-held, to put their respective versions of instant messenger software on the devices ...

Targeting a fast-growing company that addresses a growing business concern, IBM today said it had reached an agreement to buy data integration company Ascential Software in a deal worth about US$1.1 billion ...

Yahoo apparently has its sights set on the fast-growing legions of small Web sites and blogs as potential advertising venues and is planning a network similar to the one Google uses to populate such sites with advertising ...

A court has boosted the chances that Japanese Internet company Livedoor will be able to take over one of the country's largest radio broadcasters in a deal that would also give it a stake in a large television network ...

Eager to expand its reach by honing in on opportunities around the world that its auction platform has missed, eBay has said it will launch a worldwide network of local classified sites ...

Mobile phone makers and carriers are capturing the lion's share of the buzz at the annual CeBIT trade show this week, with vendors rolling out new products aimed at accommodating the next generation of wireless services and the rise of mobile commerce ...

IBM's landscape-altering sale of its personal computer business to China-based Lenovo Group has cleared an important hurdle, with the deal found not to pose a threat to national security ...

Malicious code writers have apparently pounced on a known security vulnerability in MSN Messenger, unleashing a rash of new viruses aimed at Microsoft's instant messenger platform ...

Handset maker Nokia has joined with a slew of European-based partners to launch a test of a mobile television service in the Finland capital city of Helsinki ...

Hoping to put another episode of dot-com era accounting fraud to rest, Homestore said it has finalized a class action lawsuit filed by investors in the e-commerce company over accounting fraud in the wake of the dot-com collapse ...

Online news sources gained more clout in the 2004 elections, eroding the dominance of traditional news outlets such as newspapers and radio, according to a new survey ...

Bringing its massive reach and brand power to a rapidly emerging niche, Yahoo said today it had launched a studio that would focus on developing video games for smartphones and other mobile devices ...

Moving quickly to protect the rights of emerging voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) providers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined a North Carolina-based telecommunications carrier for refusing to accept traffic from Vonage ...

In the latest example of how rapidly search marketing is evolving, Google has said it will feature more editorial-style reviews in its Local Search product ...

Mobile handset maker Motorola has jumped into second place worldwide and is gaining ground on many of its rivals as the market for mobile phones continues to expand rapidly to record sales volume ...