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During the late 1990s, when the online commerce movement was in its infancy, the notion of adding personalization capabilities to one's Web site was a logical extension to the basic concept of online transactions. The premise was simple enough: prompt customers to enter some basic information about ...

Hoping to keep its edge in software in part by producing a torrent of technological innovations, Microsoft is planning to push hard to secure more patents in the coming year. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told analysts at the company's annual meeting yesterday that Microsoft plans...

Hollinger International sold the Telegraph newspaper and related assets to Britain's Barclay brothers Friday for $1.3 billion, the Independent said Friday.

The hosting industry has come a long way since Affinity Internet entered the market in 1996. Hundreds of dot-com companies have disappeared or been reinvented. Clients are more sophisticated, with even the smallest operation demanding better products and more personalized service. Fort Lauderdale, F...

DaimlerChrysler has substantially increased its second quarter operating profit from $0.8 billion to $2.5 billion. The Chrysler Group, Commercial Vehicles and Services divisions significantly improved their earnings, though the operating profits of the Mercedes car group and the other activities seg...

Interactive advertising firm DoubleClick became the latest high-profile Internet company to be hit by hackers as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack knocked out the company's advertising servers for several hours, slowing many of the most popular Web sites as a result. The attack hit Doubl...

IBM today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cyanea, a provider of software that monitors and manages the performance of Web-based business applications. Cyanea is a privately held company based in Oakland, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. Upon closing, Cyanea's ope...

German engineering conglomerate Siemens today posted strong earnings growth for the quarter ended June 30, with net income up 29 percent over the same period last year, profit from operations up 21 percent and orders up 5 percent. At the same time, the company also said it now expects to exceed its ...

U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, recently introduced the Safe Importing of Medical Products and Rx Therapies Act, a bill that will allow for importation of prescription drugs from Canada and a number of Western European countries. The A...

Crude oil prices soared Wednesday, reaching their highest levels in 20 years after another violent day in Iraq and more bad news from Russia's Yukos renewed fears about supplies to the U.S. and other countries being impacted by terrorism. During the trading day, prices for crude futures actually set...

Microsoft said Windows Server and XP upgrades, including 64-bit versions of its most popular software platform that it planned to have available this fall, won't be ready until early next year. Promised 64-bit versions of Windows Server and Windows XP and the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, whic...

The price of crude oil hit a record high of 43 dollars per barrel Wednesday in the NYMEX futures' market. Trading prices dropped again to 42.85 dollars but remained above previous record of 42.45 dollars per barrel, set on June 2. Wednesday's top price, asked for oil to be delivered in September, wa...

BMC Software today announced financial results for its fiscal 2005 first quarter ended June 30, 2004. BMC Software's net earnings excluding special items for the first quarter of fiscal 2005 were $32.1 million, or $0.14 per diluted common share, which compares to $0.03 a year ago and the company's r...

Looking to keep its hold on the top rung among supercomputer makers, IBM landed a contract to build what will likely be one of the five most powerful computers in the world for the U.S. Navy. Known as Kraken, the machine will have a theoretical peak performance of 20 trillion calculations per second...

Two recent "failures" of offshoring projects have been publicized as if offshoring does not work. The most highlighted instance is Dell's return of some support activities to the U.S. The second is Conseco insurance company's 2001-2002 foray into owning its call center in India. These two instances ...