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Google is about to go head-to-head with Amazon and Apple as it readies an e-book store that will debut before the end of the year. Named "Google Editions," the service will be an outgrowth of its Google Books project that allows users to browse and preview titles. The news surfaced on the Google ...

PCI DSS has evolved substantially since the five major credit card holders got together to publish a consolidated security standard in 2006. The standard has been updated regularly with the most recent version, PCI DSS 2.0, released in October 2010. PCI is here to stay, and the requirements are only...

Level 3 Communications on Monday complained when Comcast demanded the content delivery network pay a recurring fee for transmitting online moves and games to Comcast customers. Level 3 said the move violates the principles of Net neutrality. Comcast notified Level 3 on November 19 that it would begi...

Aiming at the needs of business IT users is no new thing for Dell. The company's groundbreaking use of online sales and "just in time" manufacturing processes were designed for organizations that knew what they wanted in IT solutions but were struggling with the logistics of deploying and managing h...

Rumors are spinning across the e-commerce and investment banking world that Google will snap up Groupon. Though the talk started weeks ago, it has acquired new credibility with a news report claiming an unnamed insider confirmed the deal. Groupon is a shopping website that offers a daily deal on loc...

Competition has been increasing in the cable television world in recent years, and we have been expecting prices to come down, but they haven't. I have been scratching my head wondering why competition from satellite and telephone companies wasn't working. Well, it's taken years, but apparently the ...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- enacted in the waning days of the 20th century -- contains provisions designed to make it evolve over time. The idea was that as technology fostered new ways of creating and distributing copyrighted material such as music, movies and software programs, the law...

Look for an overall bigger holiday spending pie with e-commerce grabbing a bigger slice. ComScore has forecast that Internet retailers will enjoy an 11-percent gain over last year's holiday billing. The firm expects e-commerce spending to total $32.4 billion during the November-through-December peri...

With more than 500 million people around the globe spending 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook, there is no question that it is the most important and pervasive social ecosystem in the world. It's no wonder that brands of all shapes, sizes and offerings are leveraging the user base to connect...

Shares of HP moved up Tuesday -- while most tech stocks were down -- after the company posted strong results. The message boards were upbeat on CEO Leo Apotheker's first earnings call. The drama of Larry Ellison's attempt to subpoena Apotheker for the Oracle vs. SAP trial seems to have left little d...

The New Zealand High Court recently ruled that a former cricketer accused of match-fixing over Twitter can pursue his Twitter libel case. Lalit Modi, a cricketing administrator, took to Twitter to accuse Chris Cairns, a former cricketer, of match-fixing on Twitter. Cairns in turn filed a lawsuit, cl...

Media conglomerate News Corp. is working to create a daily news publication intended for distribution only on iPad devices, according to reports. To be called "The Daily," the iNewspaper will apparently be launched next year. It reportedly won't have any links to or from other websites. Subscription...

Netflix is favoring the trend toward streaming rental videos by introducing a streaming-only plan and raising its prices for discs delivered by mail. The company has launched a monthly subscription plan for streaming-only at $7.99. The cost for a combo of streaming-video plus mail delivery will incr...

The Apple iTunes App Store has generated revenue of more than $400 million revenue since its launch, according to analyst firm Piper Jaffray. Aside from being a successful online e-commerce solution for customers, the App Store has spurred tremendous innovation by Apple's development partners, which...

MySpace and Facebook -- bitter enemies until Facebook left MySpace far in the dust -- have announced new and tighter integrations between the two. The announcement constituted a tacit, but completely unnecessary, concession by MySpace that the social networking wars were over and that Facebook was t...