Articles by Keith Regan

With debate over the regulation of online gambling continuing in Congress, law enforcement sent a clear message that existing laws would be aggressively enforced Monday by seeking the arrest of both the CEO and the founder of a leading online sports betting site David Carruthers, CEO of BetOnSports, was arrested, and an arrest warrant was issued fo...

In a move that could help unlock the potential for selling feature-length movies over the Internet, Movielink Monday said it had reached an agreement to license technology allowing downloaded movies to be burned onto DVDs by users Movielink said it had licensed the technology to allow DVD burning but retain digital rights management (DRM) controls ...

In a move that could help unlock the potential for selling feature-length movies over the Internet, Movielink Monday said it had reached an agreement to license technology allowing downloaded movies to be burned onto DVDs by users Movielink said it had licensed the technology to allow DVD burning but retain digital rights management (DRM) controls ...

Looking to retain its lead in one area where it has a significant advantage on its portal rivals, Yahoo said Monday it would add new features and products as part of a redesign of its Finance site Yahoo Finance remains the category leader, out-drawing MSN's site, a resurgent AOL offering and Google's recently launched site. Yahoo garners about 35 p...

Dell said Thursday it would change the way it prices its personal computers, drastically reducing the number of rebate offers The move does not represent a pure price cut, according to Dell, but instead comes in response to complaints from small businesses and residential customers about confusing mail-in rebate offers....

Shares of German software giant SAP were battered Thursday after the company warned that earnings and revenue would fall short of forecasts. The announcement fed speculation that rival Oracle's aggressive growth-by-acquisition strategy has started to erode SAP's market share SAP shares gave up as much as 10 percent of their value after the company...

The European Union's second-highest court has struck down the regulatory approval of the merger of Sony Music and the music business of Bertelsmann nearly two years after the deal was completed While the decision could force the undoing of the earlier merger, which created Sony BMG, it may also undermine ongoing merger talks between Warner Music Gr...

Antitrust regulators from the European Union (EU) levied a US$357 million fine against Microsoft for failing to comply with an earlier order to reduce the impact of its Windows monopoly The latest fines bring the total financial penalties assessed by the EU against the software giant to close to $1 billion, with an earlier $600 million fine having ...

As expected, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would clear the way for a crackdown on Internet gambling The long-term prospects for the legislation is less clear, however, and the legislation is already being assailed as an election-year ploy by Congressional Republicans seeking to appeal to their conservativ...

Lucent Technologies warned Monday that lower sales in North America would cause its revenue and profit to drop from a year ago for the quarter that ended in June Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent -- which agreed to be bought by Alcatel of France earlier this year in a deal worth US$13.45 billion -- said revenue for its third quarter would be $2.04 bil...

Though well-intentioned, services that scrub potentially offensive material from DVDs and then resell them as family-friendly versions are violating copyright laws, a court has ruled U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch ruled in favor of major Hollywood studios by saying that a number of companies operating DVD scrubbing services -- such as Cle...

The European Commission is poised to raise the limit on daily fines that Microsoft may face if it does not bring itself into compliance with remedies aimed at addressing its past antitrust behavior on the continent Reports say the EC will raise the cap on daily fines to the equivalent of US$3.8 million, more than $1 million more than the previous c...

eBay has determined the Google Checkout system, which launched last week after months of speculation, is not an acceptable form of payment for eBay auctions or fixed-price sales Checkout, which launched amid swirling questions about how a Google payment system would impact eBay's own PayPal, does not appear on a list of acceptable payment methods t...

With the fallout from its messy divorce with Toys "R" Us still reverberating around the Internet, Amazon.com on Thursday launched replacements for what was one of the most popular departments in its virtual mega-store Amazon, which handled online sales for toysrus.com for about five years before the two agreed to part ways in March, announced two n...

Just two weeks after selling a major portion of its mobile communications chip business, Intel said Wednesday it would invest US$600 million into a WiMax services provider that previously had designs on an IPO In a move that offers further insight into how Intel intends to remain a player in the mobile communications market -- even after divesting ...

With legislative attempts to mandate so-called "network neutrality" sputtering,Google said it would use existingantitrust laws to require that cable companies and telcos carry its services to consumers if necessary Google would not hesitate to bring antitrust complaints to the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) if its services should...

In the competitive world of the Internet circa 2006, text is getting plenty of company. In addition to other forms of content that are crowding the printed word, the Internet is rapidly becoming populated with video -- from viral-style clips and home movies to classic TV reruns It's rare to see more than a few days pass without a video-related anno...

Google defended its system of ranking Web pages in search results in court Friday after a competitor claimed its pages were unfairly blocked. A California judge is considering whether to allow a lawsuit to proceed Attorneys for Google argued that the search giant can use any criteria it wants to rank Web sites -- including ranking competitors or si...

Mobile technology developer Qualcomm is facing charges from U.S. based companies that it improperly used its market dominance to squelch competition in Korea, where regulators are probing a fresh batch of complaints Korea's Fair Trade Commission is examining allegations by Dallas-based Texas Instruments and Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom that Qualco...

In a move that could further accelerate the adoption of mobile video, MobiTV said Thursday it would make available a version of its software designed for smartphones and handheld devices running Windows Mobile 5.0 Windows Mobile devices join the list of gadgets that can be loaded with MobiTV software, which is being offered at US$9.99 per month, a ...