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A lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general against Vonage -- which claims the company misled VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) customers about 911 emergency service -- brings up one of the problems with emergingtelecommunications technology ...

IBM today released a free download of a new spam filtering tool, FairUCE (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail), which it admits is not a full-fledged solution but a technology foundation that could one day reachthe marketplace ...

Oracle and its CEO, Larry Ellison, have won the battle to acquire retail software maker Retek, signing a definitive merger agreement announced today. SAP, Oracle's rival in the quest to buy Retek, bowed out of the bidding ...

While there's been no official word from either company, confirmation is outon the Web that Yahoo has acquired Flickr, the photo sharing company. Rumorsof such a deal have been circulating for weeks ...

The ample media coverage of the U.S. release of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) makes two things clear: It's a great gaming machine but not a great convergence device; and Sony operates a fabulous buzz machine ...

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), once nicknamed "Terminator" for his 2003 comment thatthe recording industry should be allowed to remotely destroy the computersof file-sharers, was named today to head a new Senate subcommittee onintellectual property ...

Oracle bumped up its bid to acquire Retek late yesterday, in the second round of its battle with SAP for the retail applications developer ...

SAP took another shot in its battle with Oracle, raising to US$11 a share its bid for Retek. SAP had been set to buy the retail applications provider for $8.50 a share, then Oracle countered at $9 ...

Novell's chief technology officer, Alan Nugent, has left the company, LinuxInsider has learned ...

RIM announced today that it has settled a years-long patent fight by agreeing to pay US$450 million to NTP, a U.S. patent-holding company. In exchange, RIM will be allowed to continue operating its BlackBerry wireless business ...

Computer users who suffer from hand tremors often find it difficult tonegotiate a computer because shaking disturbs the smooth flow of the mouse.IBM today announced that its researchers had developed an Assistive MouseAdapter that compensates for the involuntary motion and allows normal mouseuse ...

Google's news site, perpetually in beta, got an upgrade this week with the addition of a customization feature. ...

Software developer SAP and chip designer Intel said today at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, that they would collaborate on technology to allow companies to integrate data collected from RFID chips ...

Five months after a preview version of CherryOS was released to cries that it was merely a copy of the open-source PearPC, software distributor Maui X-Stream has done it again. The Hawaii-based company re-released a final version of CherryOS on Tuesday to a similar reception ...

Oracle, never a company to shy from head-on competition, announced todaythat it would outbid rival SAP in its attempt to buy software maker Retek,offering US$9 per share. SAP had agreed last week to pay $8.50 a share ...

For the second time in less than a month, Americans are finding out that their private information may be in the hands of identity thieves ...

While Internet piracy and copyright infringement are usually thought ofas federal crimes, one University of Arizona student found that that is notalways the case ...

In an attempt to cut down on the exponential growth of phishing scams, Sen.Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, introduced a bill yesterday that defines the penaltiesfor perpetrators ...

Craigslist announced today that it would expand theodds of finding true love, a vintage couch or a long lost pal by beaming itsads into outer space ...

Sony Ericcson has dusted off the Walkman name and attached it to its latestmultipurpose device: the W800, which contains a phone, a 2megapixel camera and a music player ...