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In today's marketplace, the word "solution" appears beside the word "software" so frequently that we unconsciously stutter the pair of words rather than one or the other when talking about new purchases or shopping for something to aid our businesses. This is marketing genius. Somewhere, the standar...

Extending a long-running war from the desktop to the mobile handset, RealNetworks unveiled a streaming video offering for mobile operators and said that Cingular Wireless had stepped forward to be the first carrier to offer the service to customers. The service immediately creates a new competitive ...

The online brokerage world continues to consolidate at breakneck speed as E*Trade announced its third acquisition in two months, saying it would buy BrownCo from JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a deal worth US$1.6 billion. The all-cash deal will give E*Trade access to a wealthy and active customer base,...

Hoping to usher in a new form of highly portable and more secure digital music, SanDisk has unveiled a new form of flash memory that includes digital rights protection. SanDisk is touting TrustedFlash as a new, more secure platform for digital music, movies and games. The flash memory cards will be ...

A lawsuit filed against Web sites that allege search engine results on Google.com were rigged by a placement firm is being watched throughout the Internet industry, as possibly having an impact on the free speech rights of bloggers, experts tell the E-Commerce Times. The Las Vegas-based search engin...

Advertisers sunk nearly US$3 billion into online marketing campaigns in second quarter, with spending on Web advertising jumping 26 percent over the same period last year, according to a new report. The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers said Internet advertising revenues for ...

Saying a consumer that is aware of online threats is essential to a strong U.S. economy, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched its most ambitious effort yet to educate Americans on the dangers lurking on the Web. The FTC joined today with cybersecurity experts in government and the private...

Worldwide spending on research and development will reach US$1 trillion in 2006, according to a survey released yesterday by Battelle and "R&D Magazine." The survey, which Battelle, of Columbus, Ohio, has been conducting annually for more than 40 years, showed that much of the growth in R&D ...

Worldwide spending on research and development will reach US$1 trillion in 2006, according to a survey released yesterday by Battelle and "R&D Magazine." The survey, which Battelle, of Columbus, Ohio, has been conducting annually for more than 40 years, showed that much of the growth in R&D ...

Worldwide spending on research and development will reach US$1 trillion in 2006, according to a survey released yesterday by Battelle and "R&D Magazine." The survey, which Battelle, of Columbus, Ohio, has been conducting annually for more than 40 years, showed that much of the growth in R&D ...

Microsoft is launching an effort to add hundreds of new employees at existing facilities in India, a move that could more than double its head-count there. Reports from Indian media say Microsoft is ramping up hiring at the India Development Center (IDC) in Hyderabad and the Global Delivery Center ...

China announced new rules for Internet information within its borders this weekend, requiring any Chinese publisher of online news to have at least five professional news editors with three or more years of traditional media experience and US$1.2 million or more in registered capital, effectively li...

Bidding to enhance its ability to compete with Google and Yahoo in the revenue-generating part of the search marketplace, Microsoft unveiled a paid-search service of its own, one that seeks to take targeting of ads to a new level. Microsoft's MSN formally launched the service, known as adCenter, in ...

This weekend's mass service outage, though troubling, is being overshadowed by the Government of Pakistan's pursuit of permanent restrictions on Internet use in order to raise revenue for the government-owned telephone company there. Consumers in Pakistan were reportedly hit hard by the recent outag...

The FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies are investigating allegations of fraud by small charities -- or organizations posing as such charities -- that arose in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Online bill payment service PayPal, stepping up its security in response to the concerns over onli...