EarthLink today announced it is acquiring Vancouver, Washington New Edge Networks, a CLEC known for its small to mid-sized enterprise (SME) data services. EarthLink will pay approximately $144 million for New Edge, reports Telephony. The deal is expected to close

The Hennepin County commissioners on Tuesdayapproved an amendment to scale back parts of the smoking they enacted earlier this year. On a 4-3 vote, the commissioners exempted traditional bars fromthe ban until July 2007.

In brief: Iconfactory today released two free icon sets, "Happy Holidays 2005" and "QuickPix 2005"

Day twenty saw a rush of activity on the Lactivist Blog; comments from readers simply poured in. At the same time, I put up two new milk bank shirts and received not only a generous offer to solve my site...

The much-anticipated Motorola PEBL will launch with T-Mobile as a Web-only exclusive on Wednesday, BetaNews has learned. The move by the nation's fourth largest carrier signifies the beginning of a more aggressive marketing campaign by T-Mobile USA to occur in

The December release of Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool attempts to clean up the mess left behind by Sony BMG's XCP copy protection software, which entered the spotlight in November after the discovery that it installs a rootkit. The tool

Hewlett-Packard's head of U.S. enterprise sales said Tuesday that the vendor is poised to grab market share from rivals with a revamped sales strategy that more closely aligns HP's end user sales force with solution providers. "We are better and

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC's "My Name Is Earl" is typically the highest-rated new show on television among viewers aged 18-49, a demographic traditionally prized by advertisers. But is it enjoying the best so-called "buzz?"

Making sure that your search engine makes it as easy as possible for your customers to find what they are looking for is business-critical

In professional web design circles, the usability testing session has become an essential component of any major project

UCD) is a project approach that puts the intended users of a site at the centre of its design and development

Testing a website for accessibility can be a time-consuming and laborious process.

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David Sifry, the man behind blog search and tagging engine Technorati, has launched an alpha version of a new feature called Explore.

Microsoft on Tuesday released two security bulletins that patched four vulnerabilities its Internet Explorer browser and one in its Windows 2000 operating system. Two of the vulnerabilities were tagged by Microsoft as "critical." As expected, one of the four fixes

A recent Consumer Reports survey shows about one in three Americans are thinking about ditching their current cell phone company. It's not an easy thing to do, so we asked Consumer Reports electronics editor Paul Reynolds for some help. Reynolds

The FTC said it was the largest civil penalty the agency had ever announced in enforcing a consumer protection law.

WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Hollywood's top lobbyist has urged the Chinese to crack down on movie piracy and open its markets to additional American-made films by the 2008 Olympics.