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Consumers have come to accept that songs can be purchased a la carte for 99 US cents via the Internet. That is a result, of course, of Apple's revolutionary introduction of the iPod music player and the iTunes music store several years ago. Before then, consumers had few options for downloading music onto digital music players -- and most of them were illegal...

Sun Microsystems has rejected IBM's offer to acquire it for US$7 billion, a move that took the tech industry by surprise and sent Sun stock plummeting ...

Right now, about 2 percent of the contact center infrastructure market uses Software as a Service, saidinContact CEO Paul Jarman, citing research by Gartner. ...

The Pinup Shoes Web site is moving to the cloud. The decision was a no-brainer for Jim Keough, e-commerce manager for the company. ...

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would give the government dramatic new powers to regulate and enforce federal standards for cybersecurity ...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has launched an app store for its iconic device. BlackBerry App Worldwent live Wednesday morning with some 1,000 applications available ...

There's good news and bad news in the latest Internet Advertising Revenue Report, newly released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The good news is that Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. are still growing, topping US$23 billion in 2008. The bad news: That growth appears to be flattening ...

A group of large and small IT companies and institutions have signed the Open Cloud Manifesto, pledging to work together to establish and promote open standards in cloud computing ...

Every small vendor -- no matter the industry -- dreams of landing at least one big name Fortune 500 client. Such a client, of course, would lend it the necessary street cred -- not to mention revenue -- that all smaller companies need. It also might open the door to new product development and distribution possibilities. ...

Tesla Motors -- a Silicon Valley startup backed by entrepreneur Elon Musk, the South Africa-born cofounder of PayPal -- is making plans to roll out its second electric car. The company has released the details of its Tesla Model S. ...

Even if you were to limit yourself to the iMac product line -- as opposed to the heavy artillery computer graphics workstation, the Mac Pro -- you could easily spend US$1,600 to $3,200 for a souped-up machine. Mac addicts will tell you the price is worth it. What about everyone else, though? The price is steep, but the Apple brand -- strongly tied to the sex appeal and simply beautiful design of the Mac -- has enticed more than one casual buyer to spurn utilitarian Windows-based PCs...

There are reports that Cox and AT&T have begun cooperating with theRecording Industry Association of America's new antipiracy strategy --first announced in December -- of targeting illegal file-sharing activities through Internet service providers instead of through the courts. ...

China reportedly has blocked access to YouTube without providing Google, which owns the video-sharing site, with any official explanation -- or even confirmation that it has indeed turned the site dark. ...

Failed efforts to reach a licensing agreement with Warner Music have led YouTube to unceremoniously yank thousands of user-created videos from the site. YouTube is required to follow intellectual property rights laws, of course. However, critics of the move contend the creators' use of content in many of the videos is allowable under the so-called fair use doctrine, which has made a regular appearance in digital content lawsuits over the last decade. ...

Oracle has acquired Relsys, a small private company that makes drug safety analytics software for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. The terms of the deal were not revealed ...

Salesforce.com has introduced Salesforce CRM for Twitter, a new social media application. ...

Having joined the business software company in 1996, George Klaus, chairman, president and CEO of Epicor, is hardly a newbie by industry standards. However, he tells CRM Buyer that all of his executive team has been with the company even longer -- long enough, in other words, to have weathered several economic downturns, including the tech bubble burst in the early 2000s...

TomTom has responded to Microsoft's allegations of patent infringement with a lawsuit of its own. ...

Sony will be offering 500,000 public domain books that have been indexed by Google on its Sony Reader -- an e-book product that is the primary competitor for Amazon's Kindle, now in its secondgeneration.However, the offering doesn't challenge the sexiest feature of the Kindle -- namely, its ability to download books, magazines and newspapers wirelessly...

Dell has unveiled its version of a high-end ultra-thin portable laptop -- the Adamo. The Adamo, which was derived from the Latin word meaning "to fall in love," will be the flagship product in a line that will focus on design aesthetics and personalization choices. ...