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Device maker Palm and wireless carrier Sprint announced on Tuesday that the new Palm Pre handset will be made available on June 6 for $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate. Much has been expected from the Pre ever since it first surfaced in January. Both Palm and Sprint are in need of a hit -- the former...

Figures from consumer and retail market research firm NPD Group show April game industry sales declined year over year in all categories -- hardware, software, games and game accessories. This marks the second straight month sales have declined in the industry. Nintendo continues to dominate the mar...

Video streaming site Hulu has struck a deal with Disney to make the media conglomerate's programming, including shows from its ABC television network, available online through its channel. In addition to taking a nearly 30 percent stake in Hulu, Disney will put full episodes of its ABC TV subsidiary...

Yahoo announced Wednesday that first-quarter earnings fell by nearly 80 percent and that it will cut 675 jobs as CEO Carol Bartz struggles to revive the ailing Internet company. The news was not generally jeered by investors, however. Between opening time Tuesday, when they stood at $13.94, and mid-...

If it goes through without a hitch, Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems, announced Monday, could fill significant gaps in the database vendor's offerings. In addition to getting technologies in hot areas such as virtualization and cloud computing, Oracle will get access to patents that could prove...

Oracle's announcement Monday that it is buying Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in cash has the potential to rock the hardware and software markets. Oracle expects the deal will boost its earnings considerably over the next few years. The two companies' technologies will likely mesh to make Oracle ...

The music industry cheered as a Swedish court on Friday found the four proprietors of The Pirate Bay guilty of copyright law violation. The Pirate Bay is a torrent tracker site in Sweden that helps users find and download files used to swap movies, music, TV shows, games, books and software via BitT...

Microsoft has reportedly resumed its on-again, off-again talks with Yahoo on teaming up for online search and advertising. The discussions are apparently being held between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his Yahoo counterpart Carol Bartz. Both companies may need each other if they want to grow thei...

It's tax time again, and the online scammers are crawling out of the woodwork. Their goals are to intercept personal information about taxpayers nationwide, and in some ways, they may be benefiting from the IRS' push for people to electronically file their returns. Some scammers are "phishing" taxpa...

Is Google close to making a bid for Twitter? Reportedly, yes, though neither company has made official announcements. Google declined to discuss the issue. "We don't comment on rumor or speculation," Google spokesperson Rachel Nearnberg told the E-Commerce Times. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone ducked t...

The employment picture for high-tech workers is changing dramatically. Last year, the U.S. high-tech sector added 77,000 jobs, mainly in the software services and engineering sectors, according to "Cyberstates 2009," a report published by TechAmerica. However, high-tech manufacturing and communicati...

Google is laying off about 200 staff worldwide in its sales and marketing organizations. The announcement was made in a blog post written by Omid Kordestani, the online search giant's senior vice president of global sales and business development. In his post, Kordestani said Google's rapid growth l...

Spark Capital, one of the early investors in Twitter, Akamai Technologies and Novatel Wireless, has launched a new seed fund for technology entrepreneurs, specifically in the Boston and New York City areas. Called "Start@Spark," the program will provide up to $250,000 in seed money to business start...

VoIP provider Skype announced on Monday the beta version of its business-user-oriented Skype for SIP, which will run on enterprise PBX systems. SIP is a signaling protocol that lets users set up and tear down multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over the Internet. It can a...

Privacy rights organization EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, has asked the Federal Trade Commission to see if Google is misleading consumers. This follows a breach in Google Docs on March 7, which was caused by a software bug that led users to inadvertently share some of their files ...

On the face of it, the tie-in between Sprint and Palm for the upcoming Palm Pre brings to mind two drowning men hanging on to each other for dear life in a rough sea. Pre users will reportedly be offered Sprint's "Everything" line of plans, which covers voice and data. Individuals can pay $69.99 fo...

On Tuesday, HP announced with much fanfare its move into storage virtualization. It unveiled its StorageWorks EVA models 6400 and 8400, and the SAN Virtualization Services Platform 2.1. These will let businesses squeeze more out of their storage resources, which have been sadly ignored in the rush t...

Comcast has lied about how and why it blocks peer-to-peer Internet traffic, and may be lying in its promise to stop some of its practices by year end, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said during a hearing held by a Senate committee on the future of the Internet. The FCC shoul...

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that people have an expectation to privacy online and that the authorities can't just demand citizens' IP addresses from their Internet service providers without a grand jury warrant. The ruling was handed down in the case of a woman who was charged with hackin...

Creating videos in-house means corporations have to either hire contractors who have their own equipment or sink thousands or millions of dollars into hiring trained staff and leasing or buying equipment. Then they have to spend days, if not weeks, editing the videos. Not any more: Veodia offers a l...