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AT&T is going to start placing caps on data usage for its DSL and U-Verse customers beginning May 2. Users who exceed a 150 GB data cap will be charged US$10 for every additional 50 GB of data consumed. Most DSL customers use about 18 GB a month, AT&T said, which means only 2 percent of its ...

AT&T is going to start placing caps on data usage for its DSL and U-Verse customers beginning May 2. Users who exceed a 150 GB data cap will be charged US$10 for every additional 50 GB of data consumed. Most DSL customers use about 18 GB a month, AT&T said, which means only 2 percent of its ...

AT&T is going to start placing caps on data usage for its DSL and U-Verse customers beginning May 2. Users who exceed a 150 GB data cap will be charged US$10 for every additional 50 GB of data consumed. Most DSL customers use about 18 GB a month, AT&T said, which means only 2 percent of its ...

The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee approved a joint resolution to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's Net neutrality rules on Wednesday. The measure, which passed in a 15-8 vote, still needs to clear the full committee before moving to the House fo...

Opera Software has opened the Opera Mobile Store -- a device-agnostic app store that offers a catalog of applications for phones based on the Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and soon-to-be-defunct Windows Mobile operating systems. Also available are Java-based apps for feature phones as well as some ol...

Deutsche Telekom is reportedly in talks with Sprint Nextel to sell its T-Mobile USA unit. The terms revolve around a major stake Deutsche Telekom would take in the combined entity. The negotiations have been an on-again, off-again affair, according to reports, and there is no certainty a deal will e...

Sony will be able to proceed with its prosecution of a hacker who published an encryption key allowing PlayStation 3 owners to override Sony's copy-protection software and gain control of their consoles. The hack reportedly was built using earlier jailbreaks to the system. A federal magistrate has g...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken the first steps that could eventually rework -- perhaps significantly -- two programs that provide low-income residents with subsidies for their telephone service. How those subsidies and services might look when all is said and done is unclear. W...

Another company has lodged antitrust allegations against Google in one of the most feared forums -- at least for U.S. tech companies -- in the world: the European Commission. This time it is French firm 1plusV, a maker of specialized search engines for such topics as law and music, and parent compan...

JCPenney's search results on Google have been on a strange trajectory over the past few months. For weeks before the holiday shopping season, just about every related search term -- from "bedding" to "dresses" -- would include the retailer among the top listings. Then, within the last few days, ther...

Worldwide mobile device sales translated into 1.6 billion new units in the hands of consumers in 2010 -- an eye-popping 31.8 percent increase from 2009, according to new figures from Gartner. The firm found also that smartphone sales were up 72.1 percent from 2009, accounting for 19 percent of total...

Nasdaq OMX startled the market this weekend with news that it found "suspicious files" on its computer servers. Hackers have apparently infiltrated the stock exchange's computer systems, gaining access to confidential data on the companies that list on Nasdaq. The files were found in the Directors D...

Google has leveled accusations that Microsoft has been using its search results to improve Bing's listings. Google came to this conclusion based on the results of a sting operation its engineers launched after noticing unusual misspellings were cropping up in both Google and Bing search results. Goo...

Beginning July 1, Facebook will require games on its site to accept payments in its own virtual currency, Facebook Credits. It is not an exclusive requirement -- game developers can use other game currencies as well. Facebook, however, will motivate developers to use its system, dangling such plums ...

Nestled in between the news of some excellent quarterly earnings -- namely a 29 percent increase in profit and revenue -- Google dropped a bombshell on unsuspecting shareholders: Eric Schmidt will turn over the CEO reins to Larry Page, who will handle the company's day-to-day operations. Schmidt wil...

After a year-long review, the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice have approved Comcast's proposed merger with NBC Universal -- but only if a variety of conditions are met. Chief among them is that Comcast must give up management control of the video website Hulu. The mer...

RIM's forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will be entering a highly competitive market burdened with a relatively short-life battery and minimal app store monetization, according to a research note authored by Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu. The company has made "good progress" on the device, he...

Yahoo's grand scheme for repositioning itself is becoming more clear. Earlier this week, news came out that the Internet company was instituting widespread layoffs, with some 4 percent of its staff expected to be let go. It was a tough but necessary call, CEO Carol Bartz reportedly wrote in a memo t...

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a ruling that delights privacy advocates and Fourth Amendment purists: In U.S. v. Warshak, it found that the government should have obtained a search warrant before seizing and searching defendant Stephen Warshak's emails, which were stored by email...

At Google's Chrome OS event and demo on Tuesday, one of the participants was Amazon. The company chose this venue -- a competitor's product strategy launch -- to introduce an upgrade to its own go-to-market approach: the Kindle Web app. Now users can buy and read entire books from their browser with...