Articles by Keith Regan

The heavyweight patent battle between Qualcomm and Nokia grew more heated Friday, with Nokia responding to Qualcomm's decision to reject a US$20 million payment by saying that it will more aggressively enforce the patents it claims Qualcomm is using in its own mobile phones On Thursday, Qualcomm disclosed that it had turned down an offer of $20 mil...

Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device family, saw its stock fall Thursday even after posting a strong fourth quarter that featured a 65 percent jump in revenue The Waterloo, Ontario-based company added more than 1 million new subscribers to its BlackBerry service in the fourth quarter, growth that helped drive revenue...

Investors in Vonage cheered Thursday after the embattled VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) firm's CEO said he would step down and the company pledged a "broad restructuring." Michael Snyder resigned effective immediately late Wednesday, Vonage said, giving up both his CEO role and his seat on the company's board of directors....

Google nemesis Viacom has struck a deal to have rival search engine Yahoo deliver advertising to its broadband-friendly Web sites Yahoo will become the exclusive provider of sponsored search and contextual ads on 33 Viacom sites, including MTV.com, VH1.com, Nickelodeon.com and ComedyCentral.com. The deal could be expanded to include some 140 more s...

The United States has filed two complaints with the World Trade Organization over China's trade policies, claiming the country is not doing enough to protect the intellectual property of American companies, including software makers, movie studios and music labels The office of U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab on Tuesday filed two requests...

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) firm Vonage will continue to provide service to its 2.2 million customers and sign up new subscribers after an appeals court granted it a stay of an injunction late Friday The stay came after a judge issued an injunction earlier in the day Friday that would have barred Vonage from signing up new customers. That i...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will reduce hiring and cut other expenses in response to a first-quarter revenue miss, a likely sign that larger rival Intel has regained the upper hand in recent months AMD expects to report first quarter revenue of US$1.225 billion, significantly below the $1.5 billion being called for by Wall Street analysts who foll...

Right now, music fans around the world can choose from some 10,000 Internet radio stations, each one streaming a unique mix of music to Web-based listeners. Some of those stations are operated by industry titans such as AOL Radio and RealNetworks; others are the Internet arms of traditional terrestrial radio; and many more are tiny operations feeding their often small audiences a steady stream of hand-picked music...

Vonage can continue to provide its VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service to current customers, but cannot sign up any new subscribers under an injunction issued Friday on behalf of patent plaintiff Verizon Communications The partial injunction bars Vonage from registering new customers but stops short of forcing the Web-calling service to shu...

Qwest Communications International founder and billionaire Phil Anschutz testified on behalf of former company CEO Joe Nacchio Thursday, telling jurors that around the time he was accused of selling stock, a distraught Nacchio was considering resigning because of issues within his family Nacchio told Anschutz on more than one occasion that he was c...

Take-Two Interactive Software on Wednesday said regulators have begun a formal probe of its options dating practices, a move that suggests a recent change of leadership at the company may not have put an end to the options questions The New York-based company disclosed the formal probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a regulatory...

The user who posted a video on YouTube poking fun at Thailand's king apparently has removed the video. However, the country's government says a ban on using Google's viral video site remains in place until all evidence of the offending clip is gone The YouTube ban is staying in place because remaining on the site is a single still frame from what w...

Best Buy edged further ahead of rival Circuit City in the battle for consumer electronics and entertainment spending in the fourth quarter, with high-end TVs and other devices helping drive Best Buy's gains and costs associated with a restructuring plan dragging down Circuit City's Best Buy's profit was up 18.5 percent for the quarter that ended in...

Cable giant Comcast extended its regional reach Tuesday, announcing that it will buy privately held Patriot Media & Communications for around US$483 million in cash The deal gives Comcast control of a tightly focused regional network with about 81,000 video subscribers mainly focused in the central New Jersey area, not far from Comcast's home base ...

Continuing its drive to expand its reach beyond the Web, Google reached a deal to partner with satellite TV provider EchoStar to deliver television spots for its advertising clients Together, the companies will create what they called the first automated system for buying, selling, distributing and measuring the effectiveness of video ads delivered...

Search giant Google may be joining the list of suitors for interactive marketing firm DoubleClick -- reportedly joining Microsoft, Yahoo and Time Warner's AOL in the potential buyer pool Google is in talks with DoubleClick's majority owner, San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday....

The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday said the U.S. ban on Internet gambling is out of line with international trade policy. This ruling gives hope to Web gambling firms that have been battered by U.S. regulatory and law enforcement activity in recent months The WTO ruled in favor of the Caribbean nations of Antigua and Barbuda, which had fi...

Troubled PC maker Dell on Thursday said that an audit into its past bookkeeping practices found errors and evidence of misconduct. Dell said it would seek to push back the filing of its annual report for the fiscal year that ended in early February because the inquiry by its board of directors' audit committee is not yet complete "As we move toward...

An executive manager and member of the executive board of technology and industrial giant Siemens was ordered to remain in the custody of German law enforcement officials Wednesday after being arrested and charged in connection with an alleged bribery scheme Johannes Feldmayer had asked to be "temporarily relieved of his duties" at the Germany-base...

Bidding to take a lead in the mobile search and advertising space, Yahoo on Tuesday said it would invite more publishers to take advantage of its mobile platform The company said it was launching new services aimed at helping publishers get their content onto the phones of consumers and to leverage Yahoo's existing technology for delivering ads alo...