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When it comes to Web hosting and small business' needs, the old adage, "You get what you pay for," just may apply. This according to Affinity Internet President Jim Collins, who believes there are Web hosting services worth paying for -- and for good reason. Small businesses, he said, need more th...

Bidding to offer a low-cost alternative to the dominant mobile e-mail platform, Yahoo has teamed with mobile carrier Sprint Communications to offer mobile messaging for around US$3 per month. The two companies said the service would be available immediately in all markets where Sprint offers coverag...

There soon will be a central place for Web surfers to dwell in a forbidden cyber land of adult fantasies, sex, dark rituals and total taboos. Finally, ICANN has given in to the pressure and has tossed a big rock across the turbulent e-commerce ocean. It has approved a new suffix, .xxx, for adult-onl...

With two major deals in the past week, the online shopping-search market remains primed for additional consolidation as major players continue to jockey for the lead position in the e-commerce race. On the heels of eBay's US$620 million buy of Shopping.com last week, media conglomerate E.W. Scripps ...

Revving up its marketing engines as it prepares to compete more directly than ever with Yahoo, MSN and Google as a portal open to all, America Online has formally launched its free Web-based e-mail service, known as AIM Mail. AIM Mail offers free unlimited storage to AOL members but also offers 2 GB...

XM Satellite Radio today announced that next year it will offer programming that can play both satellite radio and digitally delivered spoken-word audio provided by Audible, a seller of downloadable audio versions of books, newspapers and other printed matter. The content from Audible, the world's l...

Sprint Communications recently became the latest wireless communications company to turn over its e-commerce efforts to a third party, extending a trend that recognizes the benefits of having a Web sales specialist handle online sales and marketing. Sprint has signed a long-term deal with InPhonic t...

Aiming to grab a bigger piece of the online auction business, Yahoo has said it will eliminate fees charged for using its auction site, a move that seems directly aimed at sellers who would normally turn to eBay to sell their goods. Yahoo is eliminating both the listing fees -- the up-front charges ...

Hoping to use a hybrid technology to provide fast-growing Internet calling services to customers, Covad and EarthLink today said they would begin testing a service that uses existing phone lines to provide high-speed Web access and voice over Internet protocol calling services. The technology uses C...

Microsoft announced software upgrades today that will give Outlook users free access to wireless corporate e-mail on mobile devices. The move means that millions of wireless handset users will no longer have to wait for IT managers to install separate server computers. Specifically, Microsoft is off...

One of the most interesting, though predictable, empirical regularities in the new software exporting nations' (for example, India, Pakistan, etc.) quest for prominence is the importance of diaspora entrepreneurship. The stories of the instrumental role played by successful non-resident Indians (NRI...

Google today announced its latest salvo in the hot competition in the search landscape: a free online service intended to allow webmasters to automatically submit their Web pages to Google to be indexed in a bid to improve the results of online searches. Google Sitemaps is a beta release and is desi...

In a move likely to have reverberations across the Web, online poker site PartyGaming has filed for what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in the recent history of the London Stock Exchange. PartyGaming, which is based in Gibraltar, said it will seek to stage its IPO by the end of...

Are federal computers more secure today than they were in 2002 when the Congress passed the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)? That depends. Some agencies are in various stages of compliance, while others are not as far along. "The task is brutally difficult, at best," said Yvonne ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the oversight group for the World Wide Web, has begun negotiations that could lead to the establishment of a separate domain for pornography sites. ICANN said it has begun to have "commercial and technical negotiations" with ICM Regist...