A week after Microsoft called for all major search engines to anonymize search data after six months, Yahoo said it would keep identifiable search data for only three months. Currently, Microsoft keeps search data on... More...
Facebook will add more than 40 safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several US states have announced. The news follows a similar announcement from MySpace after the social... More...
Business software maker Oracle Corporation has agreed to buy BEA Systems Incorporated for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the software company. In October, Oracle suggested... More...
Warner Music Group is making its music available for US downloads from Amazon in MP3 format without copy protection. Warner had been holding out against using the format because MP3 tracks are easier to share... More...
European Union governments agreed Friday to jointly complete the development of the much-delayed Galileo satellite navigation project after mollifying Spain, which had demanded a bigger stake in the venture. Spain was the lone holdout in... More...
Microsoft beat out Google to become the digital mapmaker for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA will use Microsoft Virtual Earth maps to analyze and display data on everything from water and air quality... More...
An antitrust investigation has been opened in regards to the proposed Google/DoubleClick merger. The fact that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating the deal (rather than the Department of Justice) suggests that privacy concerns may... More...
EMI, the music group behind Apple's digital rights management free iTunes, has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Terra Firma for £3.2 billion (US$6.4 billion). The deal values EMI shares at £2.4 billion... More...
It was too good to be true wasn't it? One of the worlds biggest directors joined hands with one of the biggest games of the last generation, only a pesky Italian plumber could put a... More...
"Bowing to pressure from European antitrust regulators and rival security vendors, Microsoft has agreed to modify Windows Vista to better accommodate third-party security software makers. In a press conference Friday, Microsoft said it would configure... More...
Following a number of substantiated online reports of hinge cracks on the recently US-launched Nintendo DS Lite portable, Nintendo of America has opted to offer free repairs to anyone who calls the company's support line... More...
The US request to extradite the British hacker accused of the "biggest military hack of all time" has been granted by the UK Home Secretary John Reid. Gary McKinnon, accused of breaking into US government... More...
The world's largest search engine is reluctant to pull out of China altogether, instead the company will re-launch under Google.cn, and filter content the Chinese government finds objectionable. Google already have... More...
Computer disk drive supplier Seagate Technology has agreed to buy rival Maxtor Corp. for $1.9 billion in stock, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The paper... More...
Samsung, the world's largest memory chip manufacturer, has pleaded guilty to price fixing and agreed to pay a $300 million fine, US officials announced today. The fine is the second largest antitrust settlement and... More...
DELL has agreed to supply documents and other materials in an antitrust case filed by AMD against the chip giant. In the filing, Dell said it has documents and information in electronic form which AMD... More...
Rapper Eminem's music label has agreed to an undisclosed financial settlement with Apple Computer Inc. in a lawsuit over copyright infringement claims. In February 2004, Ferndale-based Eight Mile Style filed a lawsuit in U.S. District... More...
Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, has agreed to pay Gateway Inc. $150 million over four years to settle a legal dispute and the companies will work together on the marketing and development of... More...
Embattled software giant Microsoft has today announced a resolution with the European Union on the name of a new copy of Windows XP. After being found guilty by a court in 2004 of breaking EU... More...
Broadband game delivery proponent Infinium Labs has announced that it has secured a $50 million credit facility from an institutional investor, replacing a previously announced financing deal for $44 million. The new deal, which has... More...
Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it has agreed to cut the cost and ease some restrictions it placed on competitors seeking to view the inner workings of the Windows program under last year's antitrust... More...
The European Commission said on Thursday that software giant Microsoft had agreed to make "radical" changes to its .NET Passport system to ease concerns about data privacy posed by Internet identity systems. "Microsoft... More...
W decided to listen to the AMD Gang of Seven (above) to see if we could separate out the blizzard of reviews of the 2700+ and 2800+ -- future products from the chip firm –... More...
Amazon.com agreed this week to make changes to its privacy policy after coming under scrutiny from consumers and regulators who claimed that the e-commerce giant did not adequately protect customer data. In a... More...
Thanks eth3l for the heads up on this one. Audiogalaxy, a popular Internet file-swapping service, agreed Monday to filter copyrighted works as part of a legal settlement with the recording industry. Under the settlement,... More...