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Apple Inc. has purchased online music company Lala Media Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, in a move it said may signal an expansion of its music strategy. The newspaper said financial terms of the deal could not be...

Internet search and advertising partnership agreement, following a brief delay. Yahoo and Microsoft first announced the agreement in July, but said in October that they were unable to finalize terms of the deal before a scheduled deadline. On Friday, the...

Dell Inc is forming a new business unit focused on communications and mobile devices, the second restructuring for the personal computer maker in the past year. Dell said its new communication solutions unit will be led by Ron Garriques, the...

In one view, Google is our best friend and a noble public servant. In the other, Google may be the darkest force on the Internet...Here's the news: Today Google has begun offering an experimental, but stable, Public Domain Name Server...

Worldwide information technology (IT) spending is expected to achieve modest growth in 2010, returning the industry to pre-recession levels, market research firm IDC said on Thursday.     IDC predicted that global IT spending will rise 3.2 percent next year, bringing the...

Until now, web users have been able to see any online news story — even those hidden behind a website’s “paywall” and otherwise only available on subscription — by searching for it on Google and then clicking on the link....

Microsoft's Bing took a major step forward Wednesday in adding rich mapping and image data to its search engine, but until it assembles more data, pretty pictures aren't enough to beat the Google Maps juggernaut. Bing Maps Beta was released...

The new Bing Maps uses Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia technology to provide a smoother way to zoom in and out of cityscapes that appear as 3D-like images. The beta service also includes Microsoft's answer to Google Street View, which it calls...

Intel showed off an experimental version of a 48-core microprocessor today which the company called a “single chip cloud computer.” With 48 cores, or processing brains, the single chip has 10 to 20 times the number of cores that Intel...

Immediately following Reid’s request, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) took to the floor to object to the transparency proposal. Enzi’s argued that, although the bill appears to lead to greater transparency, “we can also see ways that this can limit the...