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Vonage says its legal woes have severely restricted its ability to add new customers and ultimately could lead to bankruptcy court, according to a regulatory filing. Shares of the VoIP service provider dropped 6 percent after the company warned this week that legal wrangling with Verizon over patent...

AOL is hoping new interactive programs scheduled to be broadcast on its Web portal will snap up valuable advertising dollars that agencies normally shell out on television shows. Time Warner's AOL Internet division on Tuesday announced the production deals for five new Web-based programs in conjunct...

The nation's largest cable TV trade group is dropping eBay from its prime-time lineup, saying it would withdraw from an online advertising exchange program proposed by the auction giant. The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau, which represents big-named networks, said it was the best decision for th...

VeriSign announced Thursday it will raise the fees it charges individuals and organizations to register Internet domain names ending in ".com" and ".net." The firm, which controls the two most popular domain name suffixes on the net, said the annual ante for .com will increase by 7 percent to $6.42,...

A lawsuit brought against Microsoft this week claims the software giant knowingly placed "Windows Vista Capable" labels on a large number of PCs that can run the new operating system only in its most basic form. A consumer who claims to be a victim of "bait-and-switch" sales tactics by Microsoft fil...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has established rules that prohibit telephone and mobile phone carriers from releasing customer records over the phone without a password. In part, the new privacy rules are designed to protect against pretexting, the practice of impersonating a phone custo...

The boardroom of game publisher Take-Two resembled a scene from one of its violent video games as the often embattled firm booted five of six board members who were up for reelection. Among them was chief executive Paul Eibeler, who had the dubious distinction of being removed from both the boardroo...

Computer hackers swiped information from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards of discount retailing giant TJX customers over the course of several years, the company confirmed this week. TJX first reported in January that hackers had breached a system that handles its credit card, debit card...

A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornography on the Web was overturned this week by a federal court, setting up a possible showdown between free speech advocates and the U.S government. Judge Lowell Reed of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia sided with the American Civil Liber...

Google announced Tuesday that it plans to enhance its successful online advertising service by offering clients an alternate business model -- if an ad does not get results, advertisers do not have to pay for it. Now, instead of paying per click, advertisers will be able to experiment with paying ea...

Several radio broadcasters and online media companies are challenging a ruling this week that sets a higher royalty fee structure for music played over the Internet. The Copyright Royalty Board, a body created by Congress to settle royalty disputes in the music industry, has decided on a higher fee ...

CBS on Thursday announced a deal with YouTube to form a new Web channel featuring clips and highlights from the annual NCAA basketball tournament known as "March Madness." The deal comes just days after CBS' former sister company, Viacom, filed suit against YouTube -- and its owner, Google -- seekin...

MTV's parent company Viacom is seeking more than $1 billion in damages from YouTube and its owner Google for thousands of alleged copyright infringements. A complaint filed by the media giant in U.S. District Court in New York contends that almost 160,000 clips of Viacom's programming have been made...

Google plans to provide Web advertisers with more data and tools to combat click fraud, a damaging practice that costs advertisers an estimated $16 billion a year. The new tools are part of an effort to crack down on click fraud and dull its impact on the otherwise highly profitable pay per click on...

Swedish wireless equipment giant Ericsson is hoping to boost its multimedia services for the Internet with the purchase of Tandberg Television. The buy could push Ericsson to the vanguard of IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television, which is likely to be one of the major markets for the telecom industr...

Google, hoping to fend off ongoing criticism and potential legal battles, has decided to tackle copyright issues head on and will soon offer antipiracy technologies to halt unauthorized video-sharing, the company announced this week. YouTube, which Google acquired late last year in a $1.6 billion st...

MySpace and Sentinel Tech are teaming up to help protect children from online predators. The companies announced on Monday that they will donate the Sentinel Safe database technology program, designed to let users identify and remove convicted sex offenders from online communities, to the National C...

President Bush, trying to squeeze some political fuel from his State of the Union address, hit the road Thursday to campaign for an energy plan aimed at reducing Americans' energy consumption habits. After signing an executive order Wednesday to cut down on the federal government's use of gasoline a...

AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses. The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&a...

AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses. The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&a...