Articles by Keith Regan

Most federal agencies have failed to comply with a decade-old law designed to ease public access to government information over the Internet, according to a report released Monday A mere one out of every five federal agencies actually complies with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act amendments, or E-FOIA, the National Security Archive said i...

AT&T wants to renegotiate a long-standing partnership with Yahoo, apparently seeking a scaled-down deal to gain greater control over the content delivered to its broadband customers. The move could cost Yahoo nearly a quarter billion dollars in annual revenue The deal, which Yahoo signed in 2001 with SBC Communications -- now AT&T -- is believed t...

AT&T wants to renegotiate a long-standing partnership with Yahoo, apparently seeking a scaled-down deal to gain greater control over the content delivered to its broadband customers. The move could cost Yahoo nearly a quarter billion dollars in annual revenue The deal, which Yahoo signed in 2001 with SBC Communications -- now AT&T -- is believed t...

AT&T wants to renegotiate a long-standing partnership with Yahoo, apparently seeking a scaled-down deal to gain greater control over the content delivered to its broadband customers. The move could cost Yahoo nearly a quarter billion dollars in annual revenue The deal, which Yahoo signed in 2001 with SBC Communications -- now AT&T -- is believed t...

Internet phone service provider Vonage on Thursday was ordered to pay Verizon US$58 million after a jury found it infringed on three patents owned by telecom giant Verizon Communications The award against Vonage covers both penalties and a percentage of subscriber revenue -- royalty payments to Verizon for use of the disputed technology. Vonage is ...

Online advertising revenues reached nearly US$4.8 billion in the fourth quarter, making 2006 the third straight year in which ad spending set a new revenue record, according to a report released Wednesday The revenue figure for all of 2006 came in at $16.8 billion, 34 percent higher than the previous high-water mark of $12.5 billion set in 2005, ac...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is calling on Congress to create a sweeping privacy law this year which would give consumers increased control over how their personal information is used by third parties Speaking at the annual meeting of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) on Wednesday, Gates also said financial institutions, governments an...

Electronics retailer Best Buy is being investigated for allegedly using two different Web sites to sell merchandise online, including one that may have led to some consumers paying higher prices The office of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is looking into the alleged bait-and-switch tactics, though it has not confirmed that a forma...

Intel may have deleted some documents requested by Advanced Micro Devices as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, Intel attorneys said on Monday. In response, AMD accused the leading chipmaker of apparently destroying evidence In a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Farnan Jr., Intel said some internal e-mail messages relevant to the case ...

Motorola's board of directors is urging shareholders to be wary of supporting an effort by billionaire investor Carl Icahn to secure a seat on the company's board Motorola filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday setting the date for its annual shareholder meeting for May 7. In that notice, which was also distribut...

Advanced Micro Devices said Monday it will likely not meet its own already lowered targets for first-quarter sales growth, a sign that the chipmaker is continuing to lose ground to dominant rival Intel The company did not provide details beyond saying it was "unlikely to meet" its previously stated goal of US$1.6 billion to $1.7 billion in revenue ...

EMI on Friday formally rejected a US$4.1 billion takeover bid from Warner Music Group, in the latest music industry attempt to consolidate the few remaining major labels The world's third- and fourth-largest record labels, EMI and Warner flirted with a possible merger for some time. EMI said its board of directors considered Warner's offer to be in...

Beleaguered PC maker Dell posted a 33 percent drop in net profit for its fourth quarter, falling short of even lowered Wall Street forecasts Dell said it earned US$673 million, or 30 cents a share, down from $1.01 billion or 43 cents a share in the same period a year ago. Sales dropped about 5 percent to $14.4 billion....

The networked home -- complete with "smart" appliances and a range of security and entertainment options -- is becoming increasingly common Many new homes come equipped with centrally controlled entertainment, security and climate systems, and more existing homes are being retrofitted with home theaters and music systems that can, for example, pipe...

China-based computer maker Lenovo said Wednesday that it would recall more than 200,000 batteries manufactured by Sanyo and sold in its ThinkPad computers, including 100,000 sold in the United States The recall covers ThinkPad machines sold between February 2005 and September 2006, spanning the time when Lenovo took over the production of ThinkPads...

Wall Street's Wednesday rebound helped repair some of the psychological damage caused by Tuesday's 416-point loss in the Dow, but questions remain about computer malfunctions that may have contributed to the Dow's plunge Dow Jones, which collects and reports market data, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) indicated Wednesday that system problem...

Sprint Nextel on Wednesday reported higher profits in Q4, crediting the gains in part to recent acquisitions of former affiliates, including Nextel Partners The Reston, Va.-based company earned US$261 million, or 9 cents per share, up from $197 million, or 7 cents per share, a year earlier. Sales were $10.4 billion, up 6.7 percent from the year-ago...

Google's YouTube said Monday it had struck a deal to license video from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for use on the video-sharing site, as well as encourage user development of basketball-flavored content The deal is a small but symbolic victory for Google, which has struggled to convince big-name video content owners to strike licensi...

A consortium of private equity firms agreed Monday to purchase Dallas-based utility TXU for a record US$45 billion, in a deal that was sealed with the help of environmental groups. As part of the buyout plan, TXU will shelve plans to build eight coal-fired power plants and also invest in "green" energy technology Coal-burning electrical generating ...

Last month, Web-security firm MessageLabs said that for the first time ever it had recorded more e-mails bearing phishing attacks than those containing viruses or other malware January's MessageLabs Intelligence Report also found that phishing attacks were becoming increasingly sophisticated, which was attributed to the rise in the number of online...