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Netscape, the browser company whose rise and fall helped define the first decade of the World Wide Web, is being revamped yet again by parent company AOL, which hopes to fashion it into a news site that leverages some of the hottest trends in today's Web -- social-networking, tagging and blogging. A...

Even with a steady stream of database breaches that lead to potential identity theft making headlines nearly every day, e-commerce continues to grow steadily, with many consumers increasingly sanguine about turning over sensitive information such as their credit card numbers to online merchants. St...

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are the most likely alternatives News Corp. is considering for providing its popular MySpace social networking site with search functionality. MySpace already offers a Web search feature. This April, it was included for the first time in comScore's search engine rankings,...

In the first major pass at realizing e-commerce gains from its US$2.6 billion purchase of peer-to-peer communications firm Skype, eBay said it would begin to offer sellers on its auction platform the ability to let buyers contact them using the Internet text and voice chat technology. eBay is target...

As the utilization of search marketing grows, the perspective from which you view its impact on your organization must also grow. Search engine marketing can no longer be viewed in a silo where its only measure of success is direct response metrics. Whether you like it or not, you must realize that ...

The converging Internet world may be about to see its latest head-to-head battle between Google and eBay, with reports suggesting Google is just days from launching a feature meant to rival the PayPal online payment system. RBC analyst Jordan Rohan predicted Google will launch a program called GBuy ...

A Michigan teenager who tricked her parents into getting her a passport and flew to the Middle East to meet someone she met through her MySpace.com page is back at home, with her misadventure stirring renewed debate about the safety of social networking sites that target a young audience. Katherine ...

Cable television consumers across the nation are halfway to their goal of getting lower prices and better service, thanks to the passage of a cable reform bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. The COPE Act will make it easier for new companies to enter the cable market and compete for consumers...

Several major technology companies -- including semiconductor maker Broadcom and Internet job site Monster -- disclosed Monday that they have established committees to investigate the handling of stock options grants as scrutiny of the practice spreads to include dozens of companies. Also caught up ...

eBay is launching its own contextual ad tool called eBay AdContext in order to build out its third party distribution network -- and shift away from a too heavy reliance on Google. Like similar applications launched by Overture and Google, AdContext is, at bottom, designed to entice online distribut...

Qualcomm said Monday it had asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate what the wireless phone and technology maker says is widespread patent infringement by rival Nokia. The move is just the latest legal maneuver between the two wireless rivals, which are locked in a battle over p...

Many commercial Web sites fail to pass even basic tests for usefulness and usability largely because their architects use faulty reasoning to justify defective decisions. That's one of the conclusions in a report released by Forrester Research, of Cambridge, Mass. "Designers and stakeholders use fal...

Regulators from the New York Stock Exchange are investigating whether short selling helped fuel the decline of Vonage stock in the wake of the Internet calling company's disappointing initial public offering. The NYSE reportedly sent letters of inquiry to investment bankers and others in an attempt ...

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the "Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act of 2006 by 321-101. If it becomes law, the bill will open the cable television market to further competition, allowing phone companies such as Verizon to offer subscription video programming. ...

U.S. Internet companies and other advocates of guaranteed network neutrality suffered a setback Thursday when an effort to tack a net neutrality amendment onto a larger cable reform bill could not muster enough votes. After several hours of debate, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 269 to 152 ...