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For years, the U.S. Internet and e-commerce industries resisted any push for a national online sales tax on the grounds that it would harm e-tail sales growth. However, at least some retailers that finally have transitioned to full-scale tax collection say the move has had little or no impact on their top or bottom line True, savvy shoppers can sti...
Apple did it. Gateway did it. Even HP did it. Now Dell is finally doing it What's the company doing? Getting into consumer electronics, of course. Long viewed with skepticism by PC makers that wanted to cater to the business crowd, consumer electronics is poised to become a life buoy for companies with sagging computer sales....
One of the Recording Industry Association of America lawsuits, launched this month against 261 accused illegal file traders, has been dismissed by the industry group, calling its technical tracking of alleged song swappers into question The RIAA said it has dismissed a suit against 66-year-old Sarah Ward of Boston after the retired teacher denied e...
Making a strategic investment designed to ensure its access to a steady supply of basic memory chips at stable prices, Intel has agreed to buy a 5 percent stake in Micron Technology The company said it spent US$450 million to buy 5.3 percent of all outstanding shares of Micron stock. The investment marks the second time Intel has made a major equit...
Microsoft's .NET Passport, one of the largest online authentication services in operation, has more than 200 million active accounts and handles more than 4 billion authentications per month, Adam Sohn, product manager for the Platform Strategy Group at Microsoft, told TechNewsWorld. As a whole, Microsoft's .NET Passport service is a collection of...
"Doesn't work well with others." Whether written on a grade-school report card or an adult's annual performance review, this simple phrase can serve as a red flag highlighting a significant personality flaw. In today's culture, from the classroom to the boardroom, teamwork has become a must-have virtue This teamwork trend also rings true in the IT ...
Sending the unwanted e-mail solicitations known as spam to Californians likely will become a lot more expensive, thanks to a new law that will fine spammers and advertisers as much as US$1 million per incident. Described as the toughest law in the country, California's rule was signed into law today by Gov. Gray Davis, who warned spammers and adve...
Hewlett-Packard has announced it will indemnify users of its Linux-based solutions from legal action being pursued by The SCO Group. The move seeks to reassure potential customers while possibly making HP hardware more attractive to lawsuit-wary enterprises. HP could not immediately be reached for comment, but according to published reports, HP vi...
Maybe it's a sign that e-commerce is getting up there in years. After all, before you've seen it all once and then start to see it again, you have to be around for a while. Whatever the reason, the fall of 2003, though just hours old, is shaping up to be back-to-the-future time, with the battle for the hearts, minds and eyeballs of U.S. online sho...
Commercial search-engine providers could soon face a serious competitor if the vision of some open-source developers materializes. A team of open-source programmers recently launched a project called Nutch to provide search-engine software for free Doug Cutting, president of the Nutch Organization, told TechNewsWorld that Nutch eventually will prov...
Unanticipated Web site traffic can be tough for any IT administrator to handle, and sometimes a major surge can highlight a company's online weak points in sharp relief. Fortunately, many spikes can be predicted and, even more importantly, faced with a sound strategy Whether a company is expecting a click bonanza in the upcoming holiday season or i...
Microsoft has announced it is releasing a beta version of Windows XP for AMD's new 64-bit processor. That's both good news and bad news for AMD The good news is that Microsoft is showing significant support for the new processor by making a version of XP for it....
Internet search leaders Overture and Google both are testing services that deliver local results as they seek to bolster the already burgeoning market for Web searches Earlier this month, Pasadena, California-based Overture became the first major search engine to begin testing a service that incorporates the geographic location of the user when del...
In a bid to beef up its online shopping offerings, Yahoo has announced it will roll out an integrated shopping portal that combines traditional algorithmic searches with paid-ranking techniques. The initiative, which is the first salvo in the all-important holiday e-commerce ramp-up, builds on the company's recent acquisition spree in the search space...
Is it an urban myth, or is it really true that NASA sent the first men to the moon with less computing power than what sits inside today's average desktop? The answer largely depends on how you define "computing power." But however you define it, today's typical PC packs more punch than a 1960s mainframe Back in the slide-rule days, space flight an...
Amid all the publicity WiFi has received in the last year, another high-speed mobile networking technology, known as 3G, appears to have been overlooked as a viable means for transmitting data wirelessly over the same types of air interfaces used in cell phones Yet 3G was once an industry darling -- and the center of a bandwidth feeding frenzy that...
Linux remains overmatched in the 32-bit world on the desktop. There is just too large a base of Windows users and related applications for Linux to dominate the market in a reasonable period of time. However, transitions breed change, and the industry is about to take a big step into the 64-bit world, where the playing field is either level or actually might favor Linux...
Beneath all the noise generated by the latest security holes in Microsoft's Windows operating system, experts have warned of two open-source security flaws that could allow intruders to corrupt memory, take control of systems and launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack Software affected by the most serious flaw includes releases of the widely used ...
Consternation over VeriSign's plan to redirect mistyped or nonexistent domain name requests has progressed to a call from the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to suspend the service and a US$100 million lawsuit from a company claiming damages from it VeriSign's new "wildcard" service, called SiteFinder, is intended t...
Hoping to train customers to view one of the most-used office productivity suites as more than just word processing and presentation software, Microsoft has unveiled a program to accelerate development of new software that can help enterprises get more out of Office. The company hopes the initiative not only will demonstrate that the value of Offi...
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