Articles by Keith Regan

A group of communications technology firms has filed complaints with the European Commission (EC), asking that agency to investigate whether Qualcomm engaged in anti-competitive practices in the licensing of its technology for so-called 3G mobile networks and handsets The companies that filed complaints include Broadcom and Texas Instruments from t...

Riding strong demand for personal computers, Microsoft managed to beat analysts expectations for earnings, with income rising 24 percent, but analysts say the software giant's results had some weak spots, including in the online arena Microsoft said revenue in its first fiscal quarter rose 6 percent to US$9.74 billion compared to $9.19 billion a ye...

AT&T lives. While the company itself is about to be swallowed up by a one-time subsidiary, the AT&T name, long synonymous with phone service in the U.S., will survive SBC Communications, which is on the verge of closing its US$16 billion deal to buy the legendary telecommunications giant, announced it would keep the AT&T name in place for the combi...

AT&T lives. While the company itself is about to be swallowed up by a one-time subsidiary, the AT&T name, long synonymous with phone service in the U.S., will survive SBC Communications, which is on the verge of closing its US$16 billion deal to buy the legendary telecommunications giant, announced it would keep the AT&T name in place for the combi...

AT&T lives. While the company itself is about to be swallowed up by a one-time subsidiary, the AT&T name, long synonymous with phone service in the U.S., will survive SBC Communications, which is on the verge of closing its US$16 billion deal to buy the legendary telecommunications giant, announced it would keep the AT&T name in place for the combi...

Research in Motion suffered a potentially damaging setback when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt lower court proceedings that could result in the BlackBerry maker being barred from selling its hugely popular hand-held e-mail device in the U.S NTP, a firm that first accused RIM of patent infringement in 2001, had won an injunction barring sale...

Google is working on an online listing-collection site that could move it into competition with sites such as Craigslist as well as online person-to-person retail communities such as eBay and also provide content for its various search tools Speculation about a product listing service hit a fever pitch when a site called Google Base appeared briefl...

The Internet's governing body has agreed to settle several outstanding lawsuits involving domain registrar VeriSign, an agreement that will keep that company in charge of the key dot-com domain until 2012 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the settlement is still subject to a final vote of approval from its Board o...

Joining forces in a bid to usher in a new era of ultra-convenient payment systems, Japanese credit cards companies have banded together with wireless phone companies to form a "mobile wallet" alliance JCB Co., the largest credit card underwriter in Japan, and others joined with mobile operators such as KDDI Corp. and Vodafone to build out infrastru...

The Internet's governing body has agreed to settle several outstanding lawsuits involving domain registrar VeriSign, an agreement that will keep that company in charge of the key dot-com domain until 2012 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the settlement is still subject to a final vote of approval from its Board o...

Microsoft has abandoned a plan that would have excluded rival media players from being included on devices that were outfitted with the Windows Media Player Microsoft had proposed that device makers that included a CD with the Windows Media Player with their devices not be allowed to include any competing software. In other words, devices that want...

The third quarter results posted yesterday by Google had even reserved analysts reaching for new adjectives to describe the seven-fold increase in profits, the nearly doubling of revenue and the fact that Google's own Web site is driving a growing amount of advertising income for the company "These results are absolutely staggering," former Interne...

The former chief executive officer of online marketing firm Intermix has agreed to give up profits allegedly made through the distribution of spyware as part of a settlement with the state of New York New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Brad Greenspan, the founder and former CEO of Intermix Media, will pay US$750,000 in penalties and...

IBM said it had created a computerized approach to help the National Football League organize, store and retrieve a massive catalog of game footage, a project Big Blue hopes can become a model for others with similar expanses of data to store The company said the solution, known as Digital Foundation, would make it easier and faster for the NFL to ...

Just days after Nortel Networks said it hired a former top-ranking executive at Motorola as its new CEO, hoping new blood at the top will help complete a lengthy turnaround, Motorola has sued to block the hiring and protect potential company secrets Nortel announced Monday that CEO Bill Owens, who has held that post since April of 2004, would be ...

Google has begun to digitize books in eight European countries, pushing forward on a global scale with a project that has been the subject of fierce criticism and now faces a second lawsuit from publishing interests in the U.S Google said that the scanning of books was under way in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, a...

With the dust still settling from Oracle's US$5.85 billion purchase of Siebel Systems, SAP is taking a run at Siebel customers, hoping to capitalize on what it calls "uncertainties" about the future of Siebel after Oracle takes control But Siebel is going on an offensive of its own, telling customers and re-sellers at its annual sales conference th...

Even as rumors swirl that it might sell part or all of America Online to one or more big-name suitors, Time Warner has formally launched a US$50 million marketing campaign designed to let the world know that much of the once walled-off content of the Internet community is now freely available at AOL.com The major strategy shift away from an Interne...

Adobe Systems moved closer to acquiring Macromedia after the Department of Justice said the US$3.4 billion deal passed anti-trust muster The approval came nearly six months after the deal was first announced on April 18. Over the summer, the Justice Department sought more information on the deal, raising the possibility that it would halt the deal ...

Federal authorities have broken up a massive piracy ring that they say was capable of producing millions of counterfeit music and software CDs Three California men face a range of charges after being indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco on counterfeiting charges. The charges resulted from an investigation and series of raids that autho...