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Even the current upbeat forecasts for continued strong growth in the Internet advertising sector underestimate its true potential because they fail to account for the impact of Web-based video ads, mobile Web ads and social networking opportunities, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel said Tuesday. Semel said mos...

Bidding to stake a claim in the move toward IPTV, TiVo Tuesday launched a series of upgrades meant to enable its digital video recorder to be used as a central control panel from which viewers can receive and manage cable and broadband Internet video. TiVo said its broadband strategy is meant to "pu...

Save those voice mails. That's the legal takeaway regarding new e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that will become law on December 1, 2006. The amendments make significant changes to the rules of discovery with regard to electronically stored information. For most compan...

Eyeing a growing interest in nuclear power as an environmentally friendly energy source, General Electric and Hitachi announced a partnership that will combine their nuclear power units. The deal -- financial terms were not disclosed -- brings together two of the largest industrial and commercial co...

In a major boost for the world's number two maker of mobile handsets, Motorola said Monday it landed a deal worth $1.6 billion to sell mobile phones in the Chinese market. Motorola said it would supply handsets to China Telling Communications, which is based in Shenzhen. The deal calls for Motorola,...

The power of music to bridge national boundaries and cultural divides has long been recognized, but perhaps has never been as starkly clear as it is today. One need only look at the phenomenal growth of MTV channels in countries around the world during the past decade. The commercialization and spre...

After considerable delays, Sony finally fired its long-awaited salvo in the next-generation gaming console war, launching the PlayStation 3 to anticipated huge demand in its native Japan. Stores began selling the PS3 early Saturday morning, with media outlets predicting long lines and a fast sell-ou...

Remember the tech bubble? If you do, I'm sure that you'll remember the bursting of that bubble in mid 2000. Now, it seems as though the tech run-up is happening again. To give us a little perspective, I want to quote something that CNNMoney ran on Feb. 4, 2000: "Emerge Interactive, an online marketp...

Marketers call them "the influentials," and in a world where word-of-mouth marketing is king, they're royalty. However, they may not be as monolithic a class as hucksters believe them to be, according to a report from JupiterResearch. The "classic" influential is an early adopter with a drive to get...

Businesses that have been advertising online for some time may well have the sensation of being the early arrivers in an increasingly crowded room. As more ad dollars flow online, marketers are increasingly bumping into one another, elbowing for space and bidding up search keywords and other prime ...

In its fifth acquisition of 2006, AOL on Wednesday said it has purchased a financial news and information search technology company. The Relegence Corporation will now join the AOL family. The Internet division of Time Warner closed the deal to buy out the privately-held Relegence on Monday. Financi...

With the dust still settling from its landmark deal to work with Microsoft on new products and support, Novell on Tuesday gave the first look into the financial details of the agreement, saying it would receive as much as US$400 million in direct payments and marketing support from its onetime bitte...

Yahoo has begun testing a program to deliver graphics-laden, banner-style ads to mobile devices, as it bids to advance the still fledgling market for mobile advertising. PepsiCo is among the first advertisers to sign up. The advertising will fit in the smaller screens of handhelds; in some cases, th...

Investments in alternative energy continue to grow at their highest rates since the OPEC crisis of the 1970s. Around the world, the persistence of much higher fossil fuel prices, heightened power demands -- particularly in the fast-developing economies of China and India -- national employment trend...

Eight months after winning a massive cash settlement from the maker of the BlackBerry, NTP is taking aim at Palm for infringing on seven of its patents. On Monday, NTP filed suit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia, claiming that Palm's "products, services, systems and process...