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U.S. consumer confidence took a sharp drop in October, according to a private survey of 5,000 domestic households by the Conference Board. The index fell to 92.8 from 96.7, making October the third consecutive declining month. The new rating is the last one before the U.S. Presidential election next...

Hoping to revive its approach to using sender identification to curb e-mail spam, Microsoft announced it has tweaked its Sender ID specification and that leading Internet service provider America Online has agreed to back it. Less than a month after a lack of consensus about the prudence of making S...

After making two acquisitions of its own over the past few months, Classmates Online is selling its assets to United Online for US$100 million in a move that will boost United's subscriber base. United, which also operates NetZero and Juno services, will add the subscription-based Web site that allo...

U.S. firms outsourcing software development and customer service work to firms overseas are largely doing so without regard to the environmental or labor records of those firms. This is a risky path for U.S. companies to follow, according to Trudy Heller of Executive Education for the Environment. "...

The Federal Communications Commission is poised to announce it will allow Cingular Wireless to purchase AT&T Wireless on the condition that the companies divest themselves of some of the customers and airwaves they now control. The Department of Justice (DoJ), which had been weighing the antitru...

The Federal Communications Commission is poised to announce it will allow Cingular Wireless to purchase AT&T Wireless on the condition that the companies divest themselves of some of the customers and airwaves they now control. The Department of Justice (DoJ), which had been weighing the antitru...

The Federal Communications Commission is poised to announce it will allow Cingular Wireless to purchase AT&T Wireless on the condition that the companies divest themselves of some of the customers and airwaves they now control. The Department of Justice (DoJ), which had been weighing the antitru...

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...

In a move that seems to promise a brutal battle with Google and Microsoft over development of the best Web-based e-mail offering, Yahoo said today it had acquired a startup that offered a searchable e-mail system. Yahoo did not disclose what it paid for privately held Stata Labs of San Mateo, Califo...

In another move to exterminate worms and viruses in networked businesses, Cisco today said it would buy Perfigo for $74 million in cash. Perfigo's CleanMachines is a "shrink-wrapped" network admission control solution that recognizes users, their devices and roles; evaluates the security posture of ...

Search engine and tech darling Google did even more than everyone expected in its first earnings report since going public in August: It blew away estimates and posted triple-digit profit growth as its core search-advertising business continues to expand rapidly -- sending its stock price soaring. G...

Has this thought ever haunted you: "What if one of my big customers goes under?" And, have you ever felt out of control when having such worrisome thoughts? Well, you don't have to sit back and wait for something to happen. You can be proactive. There is a way by which you can protect yourself again...

"Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" has become the second computer game to be a victim of Internet pirates in less than a week. Illegal copies of Rockstar Games' much-anticipated title, its manual and its cover are popping up all over the Web just days before its official release. This follows online pi...

Qwest Communications announced today that it has agreed to a $US250 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The deal concludes a two-and-a-half year investigation of the company for alleged fraudulent accounting practices by former executives that resulted in the imprope...

Security experts are warning of a newly discovered security flaw in several alternative Web browsers, some of which recently have begun to chip away at the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer as users seek more secure alternatives. Secunia issued a warning that the so-called tabbed browsing f...