InternetNews Staff

Personal computers are likely to be among this holiday season’s best-selling gifts as consumers upgrade to higher-performance systems and switch to notebook PCs, but the highest demand is coming from outside the United States. Sales are being driven by falling component prices, entertainment applications such as games, videos and music, growing demand for portable machines […]

Internet media company Yahoo said on Tuesday it is adding media-playing features, large file transfers, new languages and other tools to its instant messaging service. The move comes as a growing number of rivals — from incumbents like AOL to social network sites like News Corp’s MySpace — boost their positions in the market for […]

It’s a big win for struggling chip design company Transmeta. Intel has agreed to pay $250 million to settle charges that it pilfered Transmeta’s chip designs into its microprocessor products, including at least Intel’s Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M, Core and Core 2 product lines. Under terms of the settlement, Intel will make an […]

UPDATED: Microsoft is slashing its licensing fees in Europe and handing over interoperability information on server protocols to open source developers as part of its latest agreement to comply with the EU’s 2004 antitrust ruling. The changes appear to be substantial and could impact the strategic direction of the world’s largest software company. They are […]

Tech stocks had some big earnings releases to sort through after the market closed today. But even with Yahoo meeting expectations, IBM hitting its marks and Intel producing stellar results, other concerns weighed on the market. The Dow closed down by about a half a percent to 13,912.94. The Nasdaq index lost about .58 to […]

Technology industry groups and lobby outfits heaped praise on the U.S. House of Representatives today after it overwhelmingly passed a bill that extends the moratorium on Internet taxes for another four years. House members voted 404-2 to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Amendment Act of 2007, thereby extending the moratorium on levying Internet taxes until […]

Tech stocks soared along with the larger market after the Federal Reserve decided to cut recent market jitters by cutting the overnight lending rate by a half-percentage point. Traders responded by sending stocks and indexes soaring in one of the biggest one-day gains the markets have seen in years. After the Fed moved to lower […]

Microsoft Tuesday quietly posted two updates for Windows Vista that appear to be the first major portions of the company’s upcoming service pack for the newest version of Windows. While a Microsoft  spokesperson would not actually characterize the two updates as parts of Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), similar updates as well as hot fixes […]

Mediabistro.com, which began as a social network with bare bones technology and grew to a profitable, must-visit site for media professionals, is being acquired by Jupitermedia , the parent company of this Web site, in a cash deal worth $23 million. Jupitermedia said the deal includes $20 million in cash and a two year earn-out […]

AOL has put up a $3 million settlement as part of a deal to ease off on how it handles customers who want to leave the dial-up service. If they want to leave the service, they won’t get a hard sell, or lengthy argument — a practice that sparked consumer complaints and the ire of […]

Tech stocks had a strong day as the overall market soared today on retail sales data that shows consumers still happily buying stuff. The Nadaq gained 49.94, or 1.88 percent, to close at 2,701.73. The Dow finished one of its best days in years with a rise of 283.86 (over 2 percent), to reach 13,861.73. […]

Earnings warnings dragged down some tech stocks today. The big loser was Compuware , which lost just over 20 percent, or $2.47 to close at $9.70 today after issuing an earnings warning yesterday that it would just break even in its fiscal first quarter amid a restructuring effort. Further compounding this issue, restructuring costs reduced […]