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Would you like to ramp up your e-commerce capabilities? Increase the amount of business you're doing over the Internet? Bring new digital channels into your sales and marketing mix? Or perhaps you would like to better tailor your e-commerce platform to match your business needs and order management ...

With the kaching of ringtone sales still ringing in their ears, music companies are preparing the next wave of mobile music services, with customized snippets of songs providing alerts for a range of phone functions. Ringtone revenues are expected to begin leveling off this year, and labels are prep...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of eBay in a longstanding patent dispute with MercExchange. In particular, the Court reversed the appeals court's interpretation regarding the granting of an injunction in a patent infringement suit. For well over a hundred years, patentees, in additi...

The U.S. Justice Department said it will not pursue complaints raised by Google over Microsoft's decision to build search functionality into the new version of its Internet Explorer browser, a feature that could provide a boost to Microsoft's MSN Search. Antitrust regulators said they had looked int...

In a move to take a slice of iTunes' e-commerce pie, News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment Group and Burger King Holdings have joined forces to bring hit television programming to MySpace.com members. The move marks MySpace's entry into the e-commerce arena as the social networking site seeks to monetize o...

More and more mortgage shoppers are going online to find loans, but when it's time to seal the deal, most prefer to take their business offline, according to a study scheduled to be released Tuesday by Forrester Research and Compete Inc., both based in Boston. Over the past two years, consumers rese...

If retail marketers are going to capture the loyalty of the next generation of spenders, they're going to have to get hip to the new Web, according to a report from Forrester Research. "The 73 million people under the age of 18 in the U.S. represent one thing to marketers and sellers: the next gener...

Debate has swirled recently around the practice of allowing movie lovers to download films from the Internet, burn them onto a DVD, and watch them in the comfort of their own living rooms. Now a controversial segment of the film industry is set to pave the way for more conservative studios that may ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a lower court review of the eBay and MercExchange case, a decision that could have far-reaching impacts for small firms that hold technology patents -- and larger companies that often find themselves locked in patent litigation. The high court's unanimous decision...

Seeking to expand its reach and to lock in more high-value business customers, Qwest Communications said Monday it would buy OnFiber Communications, a provider of custom-built high-speed network solutions for large businesses. Qwest said it would pay US$107 million to acquire privately held OnFiber,...

The music industry isn't what it used to be. The rapid advent of new digital audio technologies has created a wealth of options and opportunities -- as well as panic, consternation and sometimes radical change -- for recording companies, broadcasters and musicians, not to mention the listening audie...

President Bush this week created an "ID theft prevention" task force by executive order, and Internet security executives are reacting positively, if cautiously, to the new federal initiative. "This task force should help improve coordination among federal, state and local authorities. It's a positi...

A report saying that a popular electronic voting machine can be tampered with to alter or erase votes has prompted states that have purchased the devices to order increased security ahead of upcoming elections. On Thursday, Black Box Voting, a nonprofit group, issued a report based on the findings o...

You may have thought there was a television channel for everything and everybody, but DirecTV is the first to launch a channel for viewers too young to complain about the programming. Some child experts, though, are complaining that the viewers are too young to watch television in the first place. A...

Microsoft has strategies in place to deal with the twin competitive threats of Linux and Google, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday, with the software company using innovation, tenacity and time to gain on its rivals. Ballmer said Microsoft planned to use "sheer tenacity" to wrest market share in the o...