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For the second time in less than a week, a company has debuted a service and billed it as the eBay for software, with Web services the target this time. StrikeIron Inc., a North Carolina-based firm that helps commercialize Web services, announced it was creating the StrikeIron Web Services Marketpla...

Each e-mail that you send makes a statement. Every recipient of your e-mails forms an impression of you -- either a good one or a bad one -- and, in some cases, all without even having met you. Since this is the reality, why not make sure that your e-mails, especially business e-mails, are professio...

The portal world was abuzz today after published and broadcast reports linked both Google and Microsoft to possible acquisitions or partnerships with America Online. Time Warner, America Online's parent company, has been known to be weighing various options for cutting AOL loose from the company tha...

Hard drive maker Seagate Technology yesterday announced the acquisition of a company that provides networked digital content protection products for the home and small business markets. Mirra, Inc. is set to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed...

Baidu.com, the search company billed as the Chinese version of Google, saw its stock price take a huge hit this week after two major investment banks that helped underwrite its August initial public offering cautioned that recent share price run-ups were not supported by fundamentals. Both Piper Jaf...

As you read this article, what other things have you been doing online? Sending e-mail? Reading news? Writing a blog? It would be ego-centric of me to presume that the only reason you are online is to read this article. In fact, you probably found this article as the result of other things you were ...

Cisco Systems has unveiled networking software and services that it says will make the implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions more cost-effective for enterprises. The new products include middleware solutions meant to help integrate RF solutions into existing Cisco network...

A year after Asian mobile carriers first launched them widely, consumers are still not rushing to adopt systems that enable mobile phones to be used as electronic payment devices. NTT DoCoMo launched a wallet phone service in its native Japan last year and more carriers have announced plans to follo...

Hoping to spur interest in its hosted platform among non-CRM users and compel more developers to build compatible tools, Salesforce.com has launched an online application marketplace. Known as AppExchange, the marketplace will offer applications developed by Salesforce.com and third parties for ever...

Do you plan to conduct business abroad? If yes, then you need to know how you may be seen by others. Otherwise failure can result. The Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project studied attitudes towards 16 countries across the globe -- analyzing how the United States did in China compared to In...

The industry groups representing movie and music studios have joined Internet2, a consortium using higher-speed networks in college campus settings, saying they would examine possibilities for new content distribution models. The move by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recor...

In a deal harking back to the days of dot-com euphoria, online e-commerce powerhouse eBay announced a US$2.6 billion deal to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype, a pioneer in free Voice over IP (VoIP) services on the Internet. The mega-sale drew fire from some quarters and praise from others. "I think th...

Broadband ads are coming fast and the online marketing industry hopes to be ready. This fall, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) will release a final set of guidelines and specifications for online ad formats that take advantage of broadband speeds to deliver multi-media marketing messages. Greg ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors (NAR), saying that its Internet property listing policies deprived consumers of choice and possible savings. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the DOJ said that even a recentl...

PalmSource, the mobile software maker that has seen its share of the hand-held market eroded by smartphones and other competitors, has agreed to be purchased by a Japanese software firm in a deal worth about US$324 million. Access, best known as the maker of the NetFront mobile device Web browser, s...