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Reviving an issue that has dogged the e-commerce industry since its earliest days, at least 18 states are stepping up efforts to collect sales taxes from online merchants, likely meaning more Web shoppers will be paying at least a little extra during the key holiday season. As part of a push to let ...

Bidding to one-up rival Google, Yahoo is rolling out enhancements to its Yahoo Mail search functions, enabling users to search attachments and e-mail text for specific words, phrases and photos. Yahoo said the upgrade is an acknowledgement that many users are stuffing their mailboxes full of message...

If you've ever bought software directly off the Internet, the chances are good that Digital River had a hand in it. The e-commerce company helps many software publishers, retailers and others by managing online sales operations, helping to sell software in the most cost-effective way possible. Today...

Shareholders of StorageTek have approved the sale of the company to Sun Microsystems, helping the buy clear the last major hurdle and turning attention to Sun's ability to effectively integrate the US$4 billion purchase. More than 99 percent of shareholders who voted cast ballots in favor of the mer...

In a move that helps it keep pace and push ahead of rivals such as Google and could help it take on pure voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) companies such as Skype and even traditional telecom companies, Microsoft said it would buy privately held Teleo for an undisclosed sum. San Francisco-based Te...

Today's corporate flat-earth warfare is fast and very black and white, like watching a hockey game on an old television. The entry to skate on this slippery digital platform just requires a deeper understanding of all the cutting edge rules of the game, a very sharp set of cyber-branding skills, tac...

Bidding to one-up rival Google, Yahoo is rolling out enhancements to its Yahoo Mail search functions, enabling users to search attachments and e-mail text for specific words, phrases and photos. Yahoo said the upgrade is an acknowledgement that many users are stuffing their mailboxes full of message...

Publishers continue to line up in opposition to Google's ambitious efforts to digitize and make public the content of several major libraries, saying an olive branch recently extended by Google doesn't go far enough to assuage copyright concerns. Within the past week, the Association of Learned and ...

For many of us, the significance of the spam problem does not become a concern until it results in blocking of legitimate e-mails. Then the global -- and national -- problem of spam can instantly become an individual problem. The 2004 National Technology Readiness Survey estimated that spam costs th...

The change away from the corporate cubicle creates new challenges for managers on several levels, including their comfort level with the situation and the challenge of managing employees that may be scattered around the globe. While companies can and do successfully assess how best to leverage telew...

A new study says that eDonkey has become the most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) network for sharing video files, a sign file-swappers are changing tactics and technology amid a crackdown on unauthorized sharing of copyrighted material. Cambridge, England-based CacheLogic said that P2P traffic makes up ...

Hoping to grab as many customers for its wireless broadband service before key competitors push into the market, Verizon Wireless cut monthly prices as it rolled the high-speed service out in several additional cities. The price cuts of 25 percent drop the price of the service, known as BroadbandAcc...

With more than 40 million recently compromised credit cards available to fraudsters, merchants are faced with the challenge of preventing the use of these cards on their Web sites. What once was considered a rather insignificant cost of doing business online, has become a highly organized and profit...

An adult publisher that has sued Google and Amazon for copyright infringement is now pressing for an injunction to stop the companies from linking to unauthorized copies of its soft-porn images. Perfect 10 has asked a court to set a Nov. 7 date for a hearing on its request for preliminary injunction...

Some 72 percent of the businesses evaluated by a Boston-based research firm scored poorly on their policies for re-using their customers' personal data for marketing purposes, but the researchers maintain that more companies are sensitive to privacy issues than ever before and are acting on that awa...