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Google will bid $4.6 billion or more in the Federal Communications Commission's auction for the 700 MHz band of wireless spectrum, the company announced Friday -- but only if certain conditions are met. Specifically, Google wants the FCC to adopt rules for the auction that it outlined in a July 9 fi...

After months of controversy and global outcry, Google's proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick will undergo congressional scrutiny later this year in a planned closed hearing before the House of Representatives' Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), ...

Battle-weary Intel emerged from the price-war trenches Tuesday to report that its profits increased 44 percent and revenues were up 8 percent in the second quarter. With revenues of $8.7 billion and net income of $1.3 billion for the quarter, the chipmaker also reported that operating income increas...

As the July 15 deadline for new Internet radio royalty rates to take effect sailed by in relative peace, most Internet radio webcasters remained up and running following initial results of compromise talks late last week between webcasters and SoundExchange. Most recently, SoundExchange, the arm of ...

In what could be a blow to rival social networking sites, venture capital firm Bay Partners on Wednesday launched a program to fund developers who write applications specifically for Facebook. Dubbed the "AppFactory," the program will grant awards of $25,000 to $250,000 to Facebook developers using ...

Microsoft will release six security updates next week as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday update, the company announced Thursday. Three of the updates being rolled out on Tuesday have been labeled "critical," two were called "important" and one was named "moderate" in importance. They are for vulne...

From this day forward, consumers who purchase cable TV subscriptions will no longer be forced to lease integrated set-top boxes provided by their cable operators. Instead, as a result of a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that took effect July 1, cable operators must now provide consu...

The Microsoft vs. Google rivalry took a bizarre turn Thursday in the blogosphere as speculation and controversy ran rife about a memo purportedly leaked from Microsoft featuring the impressions of an ex-Google employee about Google's work culture. Apparently in response to a request from a Microsoft...

Internet radio listeners looking forward to another day of their favorite music Tuesday found only silence on many stations, as webcasters and broadcasters nationwide observed a day of silence to call attention to the crisis currently facing Internet radio. Tens of thousands of U.S. webcasters parti...

Viral marketing may be relatively new on the Internet, having emerged roughly a decade ago in its high-tech form, but it's by no means a novel promotional technique, and it certainly doesn't depend on technology. "Viral marketing is about generating buzz," Orvel Ray Wilson, coauthor of the legendary...

Following a 10-day tiff in which eBay pulled out of Google AdWords, the online auctioneer has apparently set its grievances aside and on Friday returned to the pay-per-click advertising program. "We are now slowly turning AdWords back on, in a much more limited way than before," the company said. "W...

The Pentagon took an undisclosed number of computers offline on Wednesday after it detected a cyber-attack on its systems earlier this week, Pentagon spokesperson Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler told the E-Commerce Times. This resulted in some of the Pentagon's e-mail systems being taken down. Peppler ...

A computer failure at United Airlines prevented the takeoff of all the air carrier's flights worldwide for about two hours on Wednesday. Flights scheduled to depart between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. EDT were grounded, causing backups and delays around the globe. Twenty-four domestic flights were canceled, ...

With all the press rogue Internet pharmacies have received in recent months for selling prescription drugs illegally, it's tempting to assume that there must be similar sites -- or maybe even the same ones -- trafficking in illicit drugs as well. After all, with all the anonymity the Internet provid...

Sprint Nextel announced Wednesday that it is acquiring Minnesota-based affiliate Northern PCS for $312.5 million. The deal includes the assumption of Northern PCS's debt, and should close in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approvals, the Reston, Va.-based company said. Northern PCS provides...

It may be against the law for U.S. consumers to import prescription drugs into the United States, but that isn't stopping the growth in rogue Internet pharmacies. In fact, the number of such sites is skyrocketing: The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University found a to...

Two hedge funds are pushing TD Ameritrade Holding to pursue a merger with a rival firm, the online brokerage announced Tuesday. As an attachment to its regulatory filing, TD Ameritrade included a May 29 letter from hedge funds Jana Partners and S.A.C. Capital Advisors, which own an aggregate of abou...

Digital music startup Lala.com has launched an iPod-compatible online music service that allows users to play songs online for free, the company announced Tuesday. In the future, it will reportedly allow users to download individual tracks without digital rights management protection directly to the...

In theory, Internet pharmacies have the potential to offer consumers considerable benefits over their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Convenience and lower prices, in particular, are two of the big ones proponents frequently cite. Unfortunately, the current reality reveals a very different potential....

Google's acquisition of DoubleClick may be under scrutiny for potential antitrust and privacy violations, but that's apparently not stopping the search giant from snatching up another smaller firm -- this time, security software maker GreenBorder. In what's likely an effort to reassure Web users fea...