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At the time of its passage in 2002, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the sweeping piece of legislation meant to make publicly traded companies more accountable, rolled through Congress. The reaction to the WorldCom and Enron accounting scandals became law so quickly, in fact, that it took time for both the companies impacted and the technology industry to start to piece together their responses...
With two major deals in the past week, the online shopping-search market remains primed for additional consolidation as major players continue to jockey for the lead position in the e-commerce race On the heels of eBay's US$620 million buy of Shopping.com last week, media conglomerate E.W. Scripps said it would shell out $525 million in cash to buy...
Revving up its marketing engines as it prepares to compete more directly than ever with Yahoo, MSN and Google as a portal open to all, America Online has formally launched its free Web-based e-mail service, known as AIM Mail AIM Mail offers free unlimited storage to AOL members but also offers 2 GB of storage free to any Internet user of AOL Instan...
Sprint Communications recently became the latest wireless communications company to turn over its e-commerce efforts to a third party, extending a trend that recognizes the benefits of having a Web sales specialist handle online sales and marketing Sprint has signed a long-term deal with InPhonic that calls for InPhonic to operate all of Sprint's e...
Aiming to grab a bigger piece of the online auction business, Yahoo has said it will eliminate fees charged for using its auction site, a move that seems directly aimed at sellers who would normally turn to eBay to sell their goods Yahoo is eliminating both the listing fees -- the up-front charges to put an auction item up for sale -- and the perce...
Hoping to use a hybrid technology to provide fast-growing Internet calling services to customers, Covad and EarthLink today said they would begin testing a service that uses existing phone lines to provide high-speed Web access and voice over Internet protocol calling services The technology uses Covad's Line Powered Voice Access (LPVA) technology ...
IBM announced today that it will work with one of the leading human intelligence researchers in the world to map how the brain works, a project that Big Blue said emphasizes the continued importance of supercomputers and could produce advances in both medicine and technology IBM said it will give access to a Blue Gene supercomputer to the Ecole Pol...
In a move likely to have reverberations across the Web, online poker site PartyGaming has filed for what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in the recent history of the London Stock Exchange PartyGaming, which is based in Gibraltar, said it will seek to stage its IPO by the end of June, with shareholders selling some 23 percent of...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the oversight group for the World Wide Web, has begun negotiations that could lead to the establishment of a separate domain for pornography sites ICANN said it has begun to have "commercial and technical negotiations" with ICM Registry about establishing a top-level domain, or TLD, t...
EBay will buy comparison shopping and search Web site Shopping.com for US$620 million, the auction giant's largest acquisition in nearly three years and one that positions it to compete against Yahoo, Google, Amazon.com and others in the quest to help online shoppers quickly find their e-commerce quarry EBay said the purchase would give it and its ...
Aiming to take the popular financial news and information pages of its portal to new levels and target an affluent class of users in the process, Yahoo's Japan subsidiary has announced plans to link with two stock trading brokerages Yahoo Japan said it struck basic deals with E*Trade Securities, Japan's top online stock broker, and Nikko Cordial Se...
The online financial services world finds itself back in the mergers-and-acquisition spotlight today as Ameritrade and TD Waterhouse have confirmed reports that they are talking about merging their online brokerages Ameritrade Holding confirmed that talks were under way with Toronto Dominion Bank, the parent of TD Waterhouse, about a possible merge...
Cingular Wireless has launched a business-focused always-on e-mail service that will compete alongside the popular BlackBerry standard from Research In Motion and could portend additional offerings from carriers eager to lock in corporate users Cingular, the largest mobile carrier in the U.S., said it would link with Good Technology to provide e-ma...
It might be a fad. It may be a trend or something even more permanent. Nonetheless, it's obvious that at least for now, blogging has arrived as a force on the Internet, not only for political discourse and personal ramblings but increasingly as a potentially powerful business tool Any doubt that blogs have business cache has been wiped out by recen...
Striving to keep pace with its larger rivals in the search space even as it becomes part of the InterActive Corp. online empire, Ask Jeeves has debuted two features that it says will result in more accurate search results Ask Jeeves said its features called "Zoom" and "Web Answers" would result in more relevant results and faster searches for users...
Aiming to polish the profile of its Web mail product while also bidding to be a standard-bearer in the security space, Microsoft released a service aimed at helping consumers and Internet service providers (ISPs) alike filter out more spam e-mail Microsoft established the MSN Postmaster Web site to act as a clearinghouse for e-mail information. ISP...
Worldwide mobile phone sales rocketed to record levels in the first quarter, defying predictions of a slowdown in growth for 2005 Research firm Gartner said sales rose 17 percent over the same time period last year to 180.6 million units. The first quarter of 2004 had seen the previous high water mark for handset shipments, at 153.7 million units....
Looking to give users one more reason why they should become and stay loyal Yahoo users, the Web portal has unveiled a test version of a new e-mail service that it says makes it easier and faster to share digital photographs PhotoMail, which debuted in beta form for testing among users of Yahoo Mail, enables users to drag and drop digital pictures ...
In a bid to raise awareness of its free software service for enabling voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calling, Skype is hoping that a tried-and-true approach for online advertising and sales will bear fruit in its battle for market share Skype, which recently announced that it had surpassed 100 million downloads of its program, said it would tr...
Consumer and business demand for wireless networks will drive strong growth in the wireless local area network (WLAN) semiconductor segment for the next four years, according to a new report from research firm IDC In addition to demand for existing technologies, IDC said it sees new technologies in both consumer and business mobile devices creating...
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