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Just two years ago this summer, there was international alarm that youths, some as young as 11 years old, were signing up, en masse, for online gaming accounts. However, that seedy scenario no longer prevails as the online gambling industry has embraced "effective measures" to promote "responsible g...

With the tech industry still abuzz over the announcement that Bill Gates will step back from the day-to-day operations of Microsoft, the software giant Tuesday acknowledged the immediate departure of one of its top marketing executives. Martin Taylor, 36, regarded as a key advisor to CEO Steve Ballm...

With floor space at large retailers at a premium these days, you'd think the allure of reducing all the aisles occupied by DVD movies to the footprint of a kiosk would be compelling, but that's not the case. According to a studio executive who agreed to talk to the E-Commerce Times on terms of anony...

Less than two weeks after hopes were dashed that the House of Representatives would include strong net neutrality language in a telecom bill, backers of the approach to ensure Web services companies unfettered access to consumers across high-speed networks are pinning their hopes on lawmakers in the...

The loss of personal data on an estimated 26.5 million U.S. military veterans, up to 2.2 million current service members and an unquantified number of spouses continues to generate public controversy. It also provides lessons for how the private sector could prevent and respond to the loss of perso...

Think taking your small business global is mission impossible? Think again. Communications advances are making globalization a reality, and it's the small business owners of the world who are busting borders and realizing greater growth potential. So says Laurel Delaney, CEO of GlobeTrade.com and au...

Powerhouse telecom providers Nokia and Siemens intend to merge their telecom networks businesses to create one of the largest entities in the industry. The 50-50 US$30 billion joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, is expected to generate $20 billion a year in revenue. More significantly, the merger...

The drumbeat of bad news continues for Vonage, with the VoIP startup, whose recent IPO has become something of a train wreck, saying Monday it has been sued by telecom giant Verizon for patent infringement. Vonage said it had received notice that parent company Vonage Holdings Corp. and its U.S.-sub...

With Bill Gates planning to step back in two years from the software giant he founded, the reality is setting in that the technology world is losing one of its most instantly recognizable and polarizing figures. Observers say the change could be a significant one for both Microsoft and the tech sec...

Disaster recovery planning is becoming a core part of business. Yet even when companies prepare for the worst, unexpected circumstances are bound to occur when a disaster actually hits. After such an incident, companies must shift modes -- from bracing for the calamity to planning for business conti...

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wants to sell the entire Illinois lottery -- including the emerging online ticket sales operation -- to fund education for Illinois residents. The plan is generating opposition from expected, and unexpected, quarters, but don't count me among the opponents -- just y...

Hoping to give advertisers greater control over their online campaigns and to match competitors, Google said Friday it had introduced a time scheduling feature to its AdWords platform. Ad scheduling, also known as dayparting, enables advertisers to choose precise times when they want their ads to ru...

Citing strong revenue growth across its major product lines, Oracle said Thursday it would exceed its previous sales and profit forecasts for the current quarter. The announcement from Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle gave investors reasons for optimism that the strength would spread to other tec...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday announced a major transition for the company he founded. Gates will give up his day-to-day role at Microsoft effective July 2008 to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "This was a hard decision ...

Amazon.com, daring to tread on ground where some of the most spectacular dot-com burnouts took place, has begun selling groceries through its sprawling e-tail site. Without formally announcing the move, Amazon added a beta version of a "grocery" category, bringing to 34 the number of different produ...