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In a move to grab a larger share of consumer appliance sales, the world's largest home improvement retailer announced plans today to expand its store-based home appliance business onto the Web. Home Depot is launching a new online initiative that allows consumers to purchase more than 1,800 products...

Variants of the Santy worm have started to appear that use Google -- which is credited with moving quickly to thwart the original attack -- and other search engines to spread, and then infect and deface Web bulletin boards. The original Santy appeared just before Christmas and was meant to use Googl...

So you've landed a business deal. Do you know how to sign the contract and move on? Also, how should confidential data collected during an IT outsourcing project be protected? Contract signing procedures will be covered first, followed by data protection. Contract etiquette varies by country, with N...

Shoppers might not have left the mall completely behind during the 2004 holiday shopping season, but it is clear that consumers did more shopping from the comfort of their living rooms than ever before. Amazon.com was among the first to declare festive earnings in this year's record-breaking holiday...

Revisiting a well-worn trend of consolidation in the information technology analysis industry, Gartner has said it would acquire Meta Group in a deal worth US$162 million. The all-cash deal, which Gartner said it would fund with money it has on hand and a line of credit, values Meta Group stock at $...

Industry leaders in technology, banking, financial services and online auctioneering have joined forces with international law enforcement agencies to form Digital PhishNet, to tackle criminals "phishing" for online identity theft victims. The Digital PhishNet initiative creates a single, unified li...

If someone were to ask you, "What are the most important financial controls for a small business?" what would your answer be? This article looks at the minimum monitors that must be in place in order to protect and preserve the assets of a business. What you should aim to achieve is to have a system...

What does performance mean to your e-business? If you are like most e-business executives, you immediately think about high-level performance metrics such as revenue, costs and customer satisfaction, with varying degrees of emphasis depending on whether your e-business Web site is focused on serving...

Why is Pakistan the hot new offshore information technology (IT) destination? This is because of a combination of favorable economic circumstances. Just when many Western managers are finally becoming comfortable with the idea of working closely with Indian IT firms, along comes Pakistan. Pakistan i...

In a sign that mobile devices might be gaining favor as a target for virus creators, a new Trojan horse aimed at smart phones using the Symbian operating system has been discovered in the wild. The Trojan, known as "MetalGear.a," was discovered earlier this week and attacks the smart phones, which ...

The week of December 13 -- the second of this year's two prime weeks of the online holiday shopping season -- saw a record US$2.2 billion of purchases, and Monday of that week was the top online shopping day of the year, according to VeriSign's latest e-commerce data. The total volume of online sale...

Because people spend a great amount of their time and energy at work, they long to belong to a company that makes them feel better about themselves and makes them feel that they do more than just earn a paycheck -- they want to feel like they have a purpose and make a difference. In addition to the ...

The Washington Post Company announced today that it has reached a deal to acquire the online magazine Slate from Microsoft for an undisclosed sum. "Slate has been a pioneer in Internet publishing, and it is a fine magazine," Donald Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of the Washington Post ...

Microsoft today lost its bid to put European antitrust regulators' sanctions against it on hold -- including requirements that it share its source code and make different versions of Windows available -- while it fights what is expected to be another epic courtroom battle over whether it used its ma...

Every now and then, our society is placed at a crossroads, a kind of a juxtaposition where a leading current technology gets run over by a bulldozer. Simply put, voice over Internet protocols (VoIP) might have found the missing link that would eventually replace the existing telephony. VoIP has made...