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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, on Tuesday cut its short-term profit forecast, and said it expected slower growth overall heading into 2007. During its annual Capital Market Days event for industry and stock market analysts in Amsterdam, Finland-based Nokia rolled out a series of fore...

Shares of Palm dropped sharply Tuesday after the hand-held device maker said its quarterly revenue would come in well below earlier expectations. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Palm said it now expects revenue of US$390 million to $395 million for its second quarter, which ends later this week. That's comp...

As the holiday shopping season approaches, most large retailers have already locked down their Web sites as they prepare for a profitable ride. Nonetheless, e-tailers should keep an eye on their search strategies -- and change what is not working -- en route to seasonal sales. Experts recommend cust...

With the Web industry watching closely as it tries to navigate the treacherous waters of online copyright law, Google is facing a lawsuit from a French company that says the search engine did more than just help users find an online copy of its film. Paris-based Flach Film is alleging copyright viol...

Cyber Monday, the recently nicknamed kick-off to the online shopping season, arrived to heavy fanfare Monday and appeared to be greeted by millions of eager and ready-to-buy shoppers, many of whom got the ball rolling early by jumping online last week. Cyber Monday was largely invented by the online...

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T subsidiary, last week acquired e-commerce platform provider Comergent for US$155 million in cash -- further evidence of the rapid development and consolidation taking place in the B2C and B2B market sectors. The merger offers AT&T an opportunity to cross-sell the e...

Throughout history, broad groups of species have undergone periods of rapid evolution and radiation. The same can be said today of digital music technology. From MP3 streaming and live Web simulcasting to the emergence of iPods and the numerous other brands of MP3 player/recorders, to music clips an...

Do you wonder if technology has given us more information than needed? Perhaps, but sometimes it is very helpful, if not invaluable. There is so much good, solid data on the Internet that today, researchers can use it with great comfort and assurance. The days when academics were stuck in libraries ...

Opening up an online high-yield savings account for Jeff Dennis, 57, of Brighton, Mass., was a no brainer. "I deposited $200 into an account and got a $25 bonus at a time when interest rates were in the basement," he told the E-Commerce Times. That was three years ago. Interest rates on savings are ...

By all accounts, the e-commerce sector is poised for another blockbuster holiday season, with forecasters calling for another year of double-digit growth and sales of about US$27 billion for the fourth quarter, according to Forrester Research. Most retailers are already well underway with plans to c...

Disney jumped into the video-on-demand cable arena on Tuesday in a mega deal with Comcast. The long-term distribution agreement, which includes 10 ABC-owned broadcast television stations and the Disney networks, extends the Disney-Comcast relationship into the next decade. The deal will see hit prog...

Some 80 percent of American Internet users say they'll be buying gifts online this holiday season, according to an AOL Shopping/Zogby poll released Tuesday. The same percentage of Web users, the surveyors found, say they'll be spending the same or more than last year on online gifts. What's more, 24...

Dell released its delayed third quarter results Tuesday, posting a stronger-than-expected profit but again warning the financials could change depending upon the outcome of both internal and external probes into past accounting practices. The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker said it earned US$677 mi...

In the retail world, Black Friday has long been a red-letter day on the calendar. The Friday after Thanksgiving, while not always the busiest shopping day of the year, is notable for kicking off the mad-dash toward the finish line of the holiday season. In the world of e-commerce, Cyber Monday has q...

Unveiling a scaled-down version of its ID management software, IBM on Monday tapped into what it sees as a growing demand among SMBs for online collaboration and secure transactions with trading partners. IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway will allow authorized SMB users to secur...