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In a move to distinguish itself from its successful travel properties in an increasingly competitive landscape, IAC/InterActiveCorp. will spin off Expedia and its other related travel Web sites next year as a separate publicly traded company, company officials said. "We believe greater value can be ...

Taking a stab at being near the forefront of the mobile commerce and streaming music movements, Sprint today launched Music Choice, a mobile music service that gives users of its multimedia phones access to a catalog of digital music feeds. The service, the first streaming music service available fo...

Recent activity in the business process management (BPM) space signals a coming of age for an application that until recently was the focus of pure-play BPM providers. So says Chuck Ames, president and CEO of Oak Grove Systems, a BPM software company based in Calabasas, California. JBoss' recent jBP...

Cisco Systems today announced plans to buy privately held Protego Networks, part of a year-long acquisition spree aimed at rounding out Cisco's network security offerings. Cisco said it would pay US$65 million in cash for Protego, which was founded in 2002 by two former Cisco executives and makes se...

Microsoft reportedly has sold a Utah-based development studio that makes its sports video games, the second time in recent months that the company has sold off a game-development operation, effectively changing the gaming industry landscape. The studio, known as Indie Built, was sold for an undisclo...

For Microsoft, Christmas might come early this week -- or the ghosts of market dominance past might come back to haunt the software giant -- as a key court ruling is expected Wednesday that will determine whether the penalties assessed by European regulators are set aside while a trial unfolds in co...

EBay has expressed "outrage" over the arrest of the chief executive of its operations in India because a user of its shopping and auction portal, Baazee.com, listed a controversial pornographic video clip. EBay said in a statement that it was "outraged" that Avnish Bajaj, an Indian-born U.S. citizen...

It's that time of year again. Shoppers go into a frenzy trying to juggle all the other chores in their life and yet get gifts for everyone on their list -- especially that last minute gift for Aunt Tilly! But years after its inception, online shopping remains a challenge for retailers and Web users ...

Move over all you unsolicited ads for Vicodin and Viagra. Make way senders of ads for phony Rolex watches and new mortgages. You are about to share in-box space with something much more ethereal. Spiritual spam is on the rise. Managed e-mail and Internet security firm MessageLabs has spotted an emer...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has announced that its member companies filed a new wave of copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 individual file-sharers. A share of this wave of lawsuits filed Wednesday was brought against users of university computer networks. Twenty ind...

The recent wave of mergers crashed into the e-commerce space today when auction giant eBay said it would acquire Rent.com for US$415 million in cash and stock. The purchase extends eBay's already sprawling reach into the rental real estate industry. Rent.com lists apartments and homes for rent, rely...

Cisco Systems said today that it will invest US$12 million to build a research and development center in Tokyo, Japan. The facility is slated to open in February 2005 and work there will focus on the development of Internet Protocol-based networking technologies, including routers and Cisco IOS(R) ...

Cisco Systems said today that it will invest US$12 million to build a research and development center in Tokyo, Japan. The facility is slated to open in February 2005 and work there will focus on the development of Internet Protocol-based networking technologies, including routers and Cisco IOS(R) ...

Cisco Systems said today that it will invest US$12 million to build a research and development center in Tokyo, Japan. The facility is slated to open in February 2005 and work there will focus on the development of Internet Protocol-based networking technologies, including routers and Cisco IOS(R) ...

Most of us are aware that the U.S. dollar has been struggling lately. Evidence the fact that it has been on a steady decline compared to the euro. In fact, the dollar recently fell to yet another record low against the euro. Besides meaning that your next trip to Europe will be more expensive, what ...