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MTV and RealNetworks have formed a joint venture that will utilize Verizon Wireless' distribution capabilities in an effort to dislodge Apple's vise-like grip on the online music space. As part of the iTunes-killer venture, MTV is merging its Urge music service with RealNetworks' Rhapsody. One of th...

A few days after a federal judge doubled to $39.3 million the damages Qualcomm would have to pay for infringing the patents of rival Broadcom, Lou Lupin gave up his posts as general counsel and executive vice president for the beleaguered firm. Carol Lam, senior vice president and legal counsel, wil...

A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for linking to images of its content that have been published without permission by other Web sites. MSN's image search feature links to thumbnails of Perfect 10's content that users can then click on to view in full-size versions, according t...

Federal prosecutors have drawn first blood in the stock options backdating scandal. Following a five-week trial, Gregory L. Reyes, the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, was convicted of 10 counts of conspiracy and fraud in Federal District Court in San Francisco. Reyes could receive a se...

A tech association representing such industry stalwarts as Google and Microsoft is taking aim at what it sees as a stealth campaign to intimidate consumers from exercising their fair use rights with respect to copyrighted material. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed a c...

Sun Microsystems has chalked up its third profitable quarter in a row, a testament that the company's turnaround plan is taking hold. Profits for the server company's fourth quarter were $329 million, or 9 cents a share -- a significant step up from the 5 cents a share analysts expected. It is also ...

Microsoft announced plans to acquire online advertising exchange AdECN -- its latest move in an aggressive strategy to build out its advertising platform. Although the financial terms of the deal haven't been disclosed, "all of the shareholders are extremely, extremely happy with the deal and acquis...

Google is expanding the size and scope of its newspaper advertising program to include users of its AdWords service. In the immediate term, the expansion will increase the number of marketers using Google's Print Ads service. In the long run, the move could help meld the once-disparate audiences to...

Warner Music Group has settled a federal copyright-infringement lawsuit it filed in May against the social networking Web site Imeem. Warner alleged that Imeem had allowed members to illegally download copyrighted material and was operating its site without any sort of copyright compliance or filter...

Live Earth -- a series of concerts held in cities across the world and streamed live across the Internet -- exceeded its founders' most ardent expectations. The event, held to raise awareness of global warming and climate change, captured more than 10 million video streams -- the most simultaneous v...

Rock concerts for causes took off in the 1970s, electrifying audiences worldwide. However, Live Earth, a series of concerts beginning on July 7 aimed at combating climate change, will go them one better. Live Earth's harnessing of star power to bring attention to a particular problem is hardly uniqu...

"Does negative press make you Sicko?" That's the title of Google ad rep Lauren Turner's post in a new company blog for the healthcare industry. "Sicko" is a reference to Michael Moore's latest documentary, now out in theaters, which examines access to healthcare in the U.S. Given that the readers Tu...

As e-commerce firms invest heavily to develop Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 generation content, the development of unique advertising-related content has lagged. Lures at e-commerce sites -- such as polls, puzzles, trivia questions, games and video clips -- have become mundane for most Web site visitors. The ...

Another voice has chimed in on the controversial and complex debate over net neutrality. In a newly released report, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission urges policymakers to exercise caution in establishing regulations that would require high-speed Internet service providers to treat all content the ...

Google has been ratcheting up its campaign to compel Microsoft to further open its Vista operating system to third-party search engines. Its latest tactic entailed petitioning the judge overseeing Microsoft's antitrust agreement with federal and state governments to extend it past November, when mos...

Earlier this month, it looked for a while as though there might be another wave of multi-jurisdictional investigations against Microsoft reminiscent of the antitrust saga that began in 1998. Google had been complaining -- first behind the scenes, then publicly -- about the lack of access for third-p...

The three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court has upheld a ruling that grants extensive new privacy protections for e-mail users. It is an ambitious decision -- said to be the first for the Circuit Courts -- and one that is almost surely headed to the Supreme Court for review. In Warshak v. Unite...

LG Electronics has filed a countersuit against Hitachi alleging that the firm has infringed seven of its patents relating to plasma display panel technologies. The suit comes in response to similar accusations made by Hitachi against LG Electronics in April -- namely, that LG was improperly using Hi...

Another day, another charge that Microsoft has violated its consent decree -- or so it must seem to the software titan, which has been battling such accusations ever since the mega antitrust case against it ended in 2002. In the latest controversy, though, the company lodging the complaint is none o...

A memo apparently written by a key antitrust enforcement official in the U.S. Justice Department is raising suspicions that the Bush Administration unduly favored Microsoft's positions. Issued by Assistant Attorney General Thomas O. Barnett, a former antitrust partner at Covington & Burlington, ...