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NASA has awarded HP a seven-year contract that could be worth as much as $5.6 billion, HP announced Wednesday. Under the IDIQ contract, HP will deliver desktops, workstations and blade PCs with Linux and Unix capabilities, as well as servers and printers, among other offerings. Government purchasers...

When online advertisers use pay-per-click advertising, as much as 15 percent of the clicks they pay for could be fraudulent, according to the results of a new study announced Friday. Under a pay-per-click agreement, an online advertiser must pay for every time a potential customer clicks on its ad. ...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales unveiled on Monday a comprehensive legislative proposal that would toughen copyright protections, including penalties for the attempt to infringe on a copyright. Speaking before members of the Chamber of Commerce Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy, Gonzales...

Apple, Microsoft, Adobe Systems and Real Networks are the targets of a Santa Cruz, Calif., maker of copyright protection technologies that has sent letters demanding that the tech heavyweights cease and desist "actively avoiding" the use of its products. Media Rights Technologies and its digital rad...

The 2008 presidential campaign season may be gearing up, but there's also another race afoot that has nothing to do with politics. It's the race for consumers' hearts and wallets that's being run by cable companies and telcos, and triple play bundles are the most recent heat. "Over the last several ...

Just one day after Siemens CEO Klaus Kleinfeld announced he would not renew his contract with the company, the German engineering and technology giant admitted Thursday that it is the focus of an expanding, multinational probe over allegations of bribery and corruption. German prosecutors are invest...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago. The San Antonio-based company reported net income of $2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago. The San Antonio-based company reported net income of $2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago. The San Antonio-based company reported net income of $2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1...

Just two days after it accepted a sweetened merger agreement with a private investment group, Clear Channel announced Friday that it will sell its TV group. Rhode Island-based Providence Equity Partners will buy the group of 56 TV stations for $1.2 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourt...

Clear Channel Communications accepted a new, increased bid to buy the company Wednesday, but there is widespread skepticism on whether the offer will be enough to satisfy shareholders. Clear Channel, the largest radio broadcaster in the United States with nearly 1,200 stations, was offered $39 a sha...

As the midnight filing deadline loomed large for America's taxpayers Tuesday, users of TurboTax were frustrated by delays in the software's electronic filing system that caused many to miss the deadline. Luckily for them, the Internal Revenue Service understands. In the third such extension this fil...

Following Google's announcement Friday that it is acquiring online advertising company DoubleClick, its Internet and media rivals began urging regulators to scrutinize the $3.1 billion deal. Microsoft, itself no stranger to competitive complaints both in the United States and abroad, issued a statem...

Although a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit last Thursday, Sun Microsystems now says it will refile the suit against Hynix Semiconductor and other makers of DRAM chips for what it says was illegal price-fixing. Judge Phyllis Hamilton dismissed Sun's complaint because she said she needed more info...

Two of the retail industry's largest trade associations have joined forces with the FBI to develop a network dedicated to fighting organized retail crime. The Law Enforcement Retail Partnership Network, known as LERPnet and due to launch on April 9, is a secure, national database that will allow ret...

The FBI is reportedly investigating the legal issues associated with virtual casinos in Linden Lab's "Second Life" online world. In "Second Life," millions of registered users can create their own "avatars," or personas, in an online world with its own economy. The virtual world also has its own cur...

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users. Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can ...

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users. Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can ...

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users. Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can ...

Internet auction fraud accounts for close to half of all the complaints made to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, according to a report released Friday. Of the 207,492 complaint submissions made to the Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2006, Internet auction fraud accounted for 45 percent,...