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The board of directors for radio and billboard giant Clear Channel Communications unanimously approved a slightly sweetened US$19.5 billion buyout offer from private equity groups whose prior attempts it recently rejected ...

Simplicity has been an important element in Google's success in the online search world. However, as the company has grown and attempted myriad forays into new ways of finding and presenting information -- images, video, news, maps, etc. -- it has created "silos," perhaps threatening that very simplicity ...

The Defense Department (DoD) is blocking access to 13 Web sites, including MySpace and YouTube. Personnel use of popular social networking and entertainment sites is siphoning too much of its network bandwidth and creating too many security holes, the department said ...

Social networking portal MySpace will host a series of hour-long sessions on college campuses that will allow people to ask questions of presidential candidates both in person and via the Web ...

Another month, another batch of Microsoft security fixes ...

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is attempting to provide some solace to current and former employees whose personal information is on a computer hard drive that was "discovered missing" late last week ...

Cable providers keep piling on the goodies in their quest to sell TV. Comcast's newest enticement is a Web-based dashboard that will allow its triple play customers to easily manage their communication tasks ...

Yahoo Photos' days were numbered once Yahoo purchased Web-based digital photo storage site Flickr in 2005. Now, Yahoo Photos' number has come up ...

Yahoo has introduced a new version of its popular Yahoo Messenger instant messaging service that eliminates the need to download and install software. Still in the beta phase, the new "Yahoo Messenger for the Web" is browser-based ...

Google is partnering with the states of Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia in a joint effort to make it easier for people to find public information via the Web ...

Word that the price of the so-called (US)$100 laptop will now be upwards of $175 per unit is not sitting well with long-time observers of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, who fear the numbers might mean the initiative is in trouble ...

Research in Motion (RIM) has created a new smartphone for world travelers, a unit capable of operating on both CDMA and GSM wireless networks ...

Yahoo has teamed with digital entertainment company Gracenote to provide supposedly official lyrics to hundreds of thousands of popular songs ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will give free credit monitoring to tens of thousands of people whose social security numbers were inadvertently made public on a government Web site ...

The Nintendo Wii outsold both its competitors, the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360, in March, according to the latest figures from the NPD Group ...

Social networking portal MySpace is getting into the news aggregation business as its new MySpace News feature offers users the ability to "rate" stories and control which ones get top billing ...

Comics lovers who couldn't believe Captain America died last month will soon be able to resurrect him on their game consoles ...

Personalized home page pioneer Netvibes is unveiling a way for anybody to become the ruler of their own "Universe," Web 2.0 style ...

In an expected but by no means insignificant move, Google will begin selling 30-second ads to run on hundreds of radio stations operated by Clear Channel Radio ...

Hoping to expand its reach and capture more advertising revenue, CBS has struck deals with ten Internet-related companies that will distribute its content over the Web ...