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Move over Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and make room for yet another retail-inspired shopping event. Free Shipping Day is here -- or rather, it will be here on Thursday, Dec. 18 -- the last day someone can order a gift online and have it guaranteed to arrive on Christmas Eve with free shipping. Fr...

The technology industry was rocked by more dismal news Tuesday with a Gartner report predicting sales of semiconductors will drop by 16.3 percent to $219.2 billion in 2009 due to the recession and lower consumer spending. The decline in chip sales in 2009 will mark the first time the sector has seen...

Social media outsourcing will be the next big business opportunity for India after business process outsourcing and knowledge process outsourcing, contends Gaurav Mishra, Yahoo fellow in residence at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. "Some functions are best handled by a ...

Consumer electronics giant Best Buy is the latest casualty of the recession and slowdown in consumer spending. The Richfield, Minn.-based company reported a whopping 77 percent drop in year-over-year profit in the third quarter ended Nov. 29 and announced a plan to offer voluntary buyout packages to...

Over the past eight years, HP has quietly built itself a solid constituency in the Software as a Service community. The company offers a huge range of applications hosted in the cloud -- almost its entire IT portfolio, in fact. That is why the company views the current economic crunch with equanimit...

Over the past eight years, HP has quietly built itself a solid constituency in the Software as a Service community. The company offers a huge range of applications hosted in the cloud -- almost its entire IT portfolio, in fact. That is why the company views the current economic crunch with equanimit...

Over the past eight years, HP has quietly built itself a solid constituency in the Software as a Service community. The company offers a huge range of applications hosted in the cloud -- almost its entire IT portfolio, in fact. That is why the company views the current economic crunch with equanimit...

The Federal Communications Commission canceled a meeting scheduled to plan how to divvy up wireless spectrum for a free, nationwide broadband Internet network. The announcement on Saturday came after Democratic lawmakers including Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Rep. Henry Waxman of Califo...

Google is either a major supporter of Net neutrality -- the concept that all Web traffic from all companies should be treated the same -- or is quietly working behind the scenes to set up its own Internet express lane with ISPs. The incoming Obama administration is either a big fan of Net neutrality...

Syncplicity, a startup online data management company, announced last October the closing of its post-seed funding round for $2.35 million. The company offers an automated, all-in-one service for online and offline file syncing, backup and sharing. Silicon Valley-based True Ventures led a group of p...

Syncplicity, a startup online data management company, announced last October the closing of its post-seed funding round for $2.35 million. The company offers an automated, all-in-one service for online and offline file syncing, backup and sharing. Silicon Valley-based True Ventures led a group of p...

Syncplicity, a startup online data management company, announced last October the closing of its post-seed funding round for $2.35 million. The company offers an automated, all-in-one service for online and offline file syncing, backup and sharing. Silicon Valley-based True Ventures led a group of p...

Identity theft has had a crippling effect on more than 9 million Americans, according to the Federal Trade Commission, and businesses that collect or hold identifying information report millions of dollars in annual losses as a result of these crimes. New identity theft regulations for creditors -- ...

The burgeoning netbook market appears to be learning a lesson from the cell phone market: Shave the cost of acquisition from a mobile device by bundling it with a multi-year service contract. Case in point: RadioShack is now offering the Acer Aspire One netbook for US$99.99 with a two-year AT&T ...

Consumers may have turned away from some sectors of the retail industry as the global economic crisis deepened in November; however, the video game market continued its record-breaking year in the U.S., according to the latest sales report from The NPD Group, a retail sales tracking firm. Consumers ...