CIO Insight Staff

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday the company had agreed to keep talking with the U.S. Justice Department about its proposed online advertising deal with Yahoo. Under the deal announced in June, Yahoo would turn over some of its online advertising space for Google to sell. Schmidt had said in August the company […]

Taliban insurgents said Tuesday they had told mobile phone operators to shut down their networks during the day in the Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul, saying signals help track insurgent fighters. The warning comes on top of a Taliban order earlier this year for phone operators to turn off their networks throughout the country at […]

A California train engineer who was sending and receiving text messages was blamed last month for causing one of the worst railroad crashes in U.S. history that killed 25 people. Despite such risks, many Americans send and receive text messages on mobile e-mail devices in dangerous situations, according to a survey released on Tuesday that […]

Google and Yahoo are in talks with the U.S. Justice Department in an effort to head off an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement, The Wall Street Journal said citing lawyers close to the effort. The settlement negotiations are at an early stage and it isn’t clear whether they will resolve U.S. objections or […]

A battle between tech companies like Google and broadcasters over use of soon-to-be vacant airwaves will heat up soon as U.S. regulators release an anticipated report on the issue. The Federal Communications Commission’s report will weigh in as early as Friday on the feasibility of opening up "white spaces"–unused pockets of the spectrum to become […]

The U.S. Department of Justice has ended its probe into potential antitrust violations involving graphics chips makers and taken no action, Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday. The company said the DOJ had informed AMD and ATI Technologies on Friday that it had closed its investigation into ATI Technologies’ pricing and marketing practices in the […]

A Tennessee man has been indicted for hacking into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, turned himself in and will appear before a U.S. judge on Wednesday, the Justice Department said. He faces up to 5 years in prison if convicted. […]

Research In Motion will roll out a touch-screen model of its BlackBerry smartphone later this autumn, thrusting it into direct competition with Apple‘s popular iPhone. RIM said on Wednesday the BlackBerry Storm will be available exclusively to Verizon Wireless subscribers in the U.S. and Vodafone subscribers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand. RIM’s launch […]

EBay plans to cut its work force 10 percent and sees third-quarter revenue hitting the low end of its forecast, though profit will exceed expectations, the online auction Web site said on Monday. EBay also said it would spend more than $1.3 billion to buy companies that bolster its online payments and classifieds businesses as […]

Google and Yahoo have decided to delay implementing a controversial search advertising partnership, Yahoo said on Friday. "The companies have agreed to a brief delay in implementing this agreement to continue our ongoing discussions with the (U.S.) Department of Justice," Yahoo said in a statement. "We have had discussions with regulators and look forward to […]

Microsoft is opening three research centers in Europe as it steps up efforts to catch market leader Google in the field of Internet searching, the U.S. software group said on Thursday. Microsoft, which failed several times to acquire search company Yahoo, said the new European search technology center would have hubs in Paris, London and […]