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Semiconductor sales hit record levels in August, with US$20.5 billion worth of the chips being sold worldwide, according to a report released Monday. The Semiconductor Industry Association said semiconductor sales rose 10.5 percent in August compared to a year ago, when sales hit $18.6 billion. Sale...

Roaming door-to-door salespeople were once American cultural archetypes, exemplars of the struggles of the common man to improve his lot and provide for his family through the art of the sale. For better and for worse, they epitomized the American obsession with commerce, material wealth and well-be...

Yahoo scored another victory in its battle with Google Thursday when Hewlett-Packard said it would pre-install the Web portal's search engine tools on its desktop and notebook computers. The deal gives Yahoo access to prime real estate inside the machines from the world's No. 2 PC maker by volume, a...

Lyris Technologies said China-based Alibaba will use its e-mail marketing solution to handle messaging to both Chinese and international members who use the site to import and export goods. Alibaba, the largest e-commerce company operating in China today, will use ListManager to manage its communica...

Hewlett-Packard's CEO and former Chairman were grilled by members of Congress Thursday on their part in the now infamous investigation into boardroom leaks at the computer maker, but the company may have escaped the embarrassing public grilling without any further damage to its corporate reputation....

As the defective laptop battery problem reaches pandemic proportions -- with Toshiba, Fujitsu, Lenovo and IBM among the latest manufacturers to recall their products for fear they might start a fire -- Dell has expanded the recall it initiated on Aug. 15, adding more products to the list. Sony, for ...

The U.S. dollar is still the world's dominant currency. But, there are rumblings that could foretell a great weakening of the dollar and a loss of its hegemony. For example, the European Union is currently gathering both members and economic power. Its combined gross domestic product now exceeds tha...

American Greetings bought BlueMountain.com more than five years ago, scooping up one of the pioneers in the online greeting cards field to build out its own e-cards business. At the time, BlueMountain had built a strong following on the Web, using an artsy approach to cards designs and messages that...

In the latest sign that marketplace demand for branded mobile services is not as strong as once believed, ESPN said it would shut down the Mobile ESPN service and turn its attention to licensing its content to existing carriers. Mobile ESPN launched early this year as a mobile virtual network operat...

The boardroom investigation scandal at Hewlett-Packard claimed another high-profile resignation Thursday, with General Counsel Ann O. Baskins quitting, a move announced just hours before CEO Mark Hurd and other executives were due to testify before Congress. HP announced Baskins' resignation in a fi...

AOL's privacy policy and how it is interpreted by the courts and federal government will be in the spotlight as two separate actions against the company move forward. In the latest reaction to AOL's erroneous posting of some of its members' search term data this past August, two unnamed California ...

Researchers have long recognized that representing large and diverse data sets visually and spatially offers the potential for improving both comprehension and ease of use. With the confluence of work in geographic information systems, enterprise data systems and distributed computing, this potentia...

Facing potentially negative implications for its Zune music service and player, Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against a group of hackers who allegedly infiltrated its digital rights management technology. The software giant claims the defendants gained access to its proprietary source code. ...

Shares of Red Hat plunged 23 percent Wednesday after the maker of Linux software said its second quarter profit fell on stock options costs. The company also cut its cash-flow forecast for the rest of the year. Red Hat said profits in the second quarter were down more than 32 percent, largely due t...

Transaction failures at a company's Web site can have a significant negative impact on the business' brand, according to a survey released Monday by TeaLeaf Technology and Harris Interactive. "An astounding 91 percent of online consumers who experienced any type of problem when conducting an online ...