Articles by Keith Regan

Microsoft plans to speed up the expansion of the Redmond, Wash., campus it has called home for most of its 31-year history by spending approximately US$1 billion over the next three years By 2009, the software giant will build out approximately half of a 20-year plan to grow the facility by more than 30 percent, thus creating one of the largest cor...

Gateway (NYSE: GTW) CEO Wayne Inouye -- who took the helm at the company following its merger with eMachines and led it back to profitability -- resigned just days after announcing results that missed profit targets The company said Inouye intends to "pursue other interests" after almost two years as chief executive at Gateway. During that time, he...

In another sign of the maturation of the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) industry, Vonage filed Wednesday to stage a long-awaited US$250 million initial public offering and also installed a new CEO to guide the company If it pulls off the IPO, Vonage Holdings Corp. would become the first publicly traded Internet phone service provider and would...

Nortel said it has reached an agreement in principle to pay US$2.4 billion to settle shareholder lawsuits stemming from accounting misstatements at the telecom gear maker, moving the beleaguered company one step closer to ending a dark chapter in its history The settlement would avoid at least one civil lawsuit by a class action of shareholders who...

Changes to some versions of the Office productivity suite may affect more businesses than originally believed, as Microsoft revises certain versions of the software to address a patent ruling Microsoft warned of the upcoming switch last month, saying that corporate customers who move existing software to new computers will have to use modified vers...

IBM has won a key ally in its quest to turn around the fortunes of its PowerPC processor, which suffered last year whenApple announced it would useIntel chips instead in its machines Freescale Semiconductor, which helped develop and proliferate the Power platform, has become the latest company to joinPower.org, an association of technology companie...

Google has banned the GermanWeb site of automaker BMW after it was found to have manipulated thesearch engine's system to influence its rankings Google software engineer Matt Cutts disclosed in his blog that Google's so-called Webspam team had found that the pages that Google's Web crawlers saw when they looked at certain BMW pages were not the sam...

Tech heavyweight Google andSkype, a subsidiary ofeBay,have invested in a Europe-based startup that hopes to revolutionize the WiFi business, though it has yet to roll out a key part of its technology Google and Skype joined venture investors in pouring some US$21.6 million intoFon, a startup that went live about three months ago. Fon offers free Wi...

Firing what could become the opening salvo in a price war for high-speed Internet access, AT&T has launched an online-only offer that provides high-speed home Web access for US$12.99 per month The price is available only to first-time broadband users who are also telephone subscribers. After a year, the price will revert to market rates of about $2...

Firing what could become the opening salvo in a price war for high-speed Internet access, AT&T has launched an online-only offer that provides high-speed home Web access for US$12.99 per month The price is available only to first-time broadband users who are also telephone subscribers. After a year, the price will revert to market rates of about $2...

Firing what could become the opening salvo in a price war for high-speed Internet access, AT&T has launched an online-only offer that provides high-speed home Web access for US$12.99 per month The price is available only to first-time broadband users who are also telephone subscribers. After a year, the price will revert to market rates of about $2...

Struggling automaker General Motors handed out billions of dollars worth of information technology outsourcing contracts, with Electronic Data Systems seen as the big winner even as its revenue from GM continues to slide. IBM and Hewlett-Packard also sealed major, multi-year deals EDS, which was a GM subsidiary for several years before being spun...

Cambridge, Mass., a city of about 100,000 people located just across the Charles River from Boston, is moving to become the latest U.S. metropolitan area entirely covered byWiFi wireless Internet access. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the major universities that call it home, said it would work with the city to bring Web access to all, including those living in public housing projects...

After months of adverse court rulings in the U.S., Research in Motion (RIM) won a key decision from a patent court in the United Kingdom and may get help from the U.S. government in avoiding an abrupt shutdown of its BlackBerry mobile e-mail service In the UK, RIM said a patent court had ruled that patent claims made by a firm called InPro were not...

With the frenzy of the November-December holiday crush still ringing in their ears, many merchants may be tempted to schedule vacations for late January and early February. Those that do so may be missing out on the chance to cash in on what could be the second busiest holiday season of the year Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and merchants ac...

After five straight earnings disclosures that exceeded analyst expectations, Google missed targets for its fourth quarter profit, sending its high-flying stock into a tailspin and raising new questions about the rate of growth in the Internet advertising sector Both revenue -- which came in at US$1.29 billion and matched forecasts from analysts -- ...

Over the years, Super Bowl Sunday has been the launching pad for countless products, services and companies. This year will be no exception. One of the most closely watched launches during the Big Game will come from inside the sports world, as ESPN Mobile goes live nationwide The service, first announced late last year and shown in limited preview...

Pushing forward with a plan to set aside Microsoft Office productivity and document management tools in favor of an open format, Massachusetts has hired a chief information officer to oversee the switch Since the announcement halfway through 2005 that the commonwealth would favor software programs that conform with the OpenDocument Format, controve...

Moving a nearly two-year-long investigation and prosecution closer to its conclusion, Japanese chipmaker Elpida has agreed to pay US$84 million to end charges that it conspired with other firms to fix prices Elpida agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with other manufacturers to set prices of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, chips that were s...

In a move that could lead to a dramatic drop in online cigarette sales, Philip Morris said it reached an agreement with 37 state attorneys general to limit the availability of online tobacco products by shutting off distributors believed to have illegally sold the products in the past The agreement requires new protocols to be established to contro...