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Declaring itself the early leader in the race to win market share in the digital music arena, Apple has announced it sold more than 1 million songs in less than four days after launching a Windows version of its iTunes music download site. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said his company's goal is to sell 100 ...

Following a spate of civil suits filed against music consumers in September, the RIAA has launched the next phase of its war on digital piracy. The organization has sent a total of 204 letters to individuals, each of whom, it claims, has made at least 1,000 songs available for upload on peer-to-peer...

For years, Google has been the company to beat in the online search sector. Use of the company's search engine is so widespread that in a recent TV movie, the main character joked that she attended "Google University" to research her health problems. However, Google is not content to rest on its ...

VeriSign has announced it plans to sell its Network Solutions business unit to Pivotal Private Equity, a Phoenix, Arizona-based firm known for acquiring underperforming companies, for approximately $100 million. Gartner principal analyst Ted Chamberlin told the E-Commerce Times that Network Solution...

The SCO Group has landed $50 million in private financing from Baystar Capital, which it said it will use to expand its business and add strength to its multibillion-dollar legal battles with IBM and others. Those lawsuits focus on alleged use of SCO's proprietary Unix code in the Linux operating sy...

Since March, when the SCO Group filed suit against IBM for allegedly using proprietary SCO Unix code in its Linux systems, it has made headlines nearly every week. And in the last 52 weeks, SCO's stock price has soared from as little as 78 cents per share to more than $20 per share. Regardless of in...

Saying it is seeing the most concrete signs to date that an economic recovery is taking hold, IBM has indicated it could reverse more than two years of layoffs by adding as many as 10,000 jobs in 2004. In addition to hiring new workers, Big Blue plans to invest $200 million to train existing workers...

While this bottom-line focus may seem like a return to normalcy for those who entered the workforce before the dot-com boom, twentysomethings who first entered the professional employment arena during those halcyon days have come crashing brutally to Earth. Perhaps for the first time, they are encou...

It's possible that the Cubs and the Red Sox could meet in baseball's World Series this year. The chance of such an unlikely matchup has stirred up a storm of jokes, the most common being that because it's all but impossible to imagine either of the lovable losers actually winning, a seventh game wil...

One of the most important trends in today's data storage market will seem remarkably familiar to any longtime industry-watcher: ATA drive technology is catching on like wildfire in a forest of dry timber. The original version of ATA, also called IDE, has been around for many years, in countless mill...

Executives at Oracle have announced the company is on the lookout for potential acquisitions and even briefly considered buying longtime partner and struggling tech giant Sun Microsystems. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said his company determined the Sun deal would not make sense because the two companie...

Forging its second major partnership involving wireless devices in as many months, Microsoft has said it will work closely with Vodafone to create Web services standards that can extend desktop applications to mobile devices. Specifically, the two companies said their standards, based on XML, will e...

For large and small e-tailers alike, the traditional method of doing business online has been fairly standard. They present a bevy of products, build a secure purchase interface and advertise so that customers will come clicking to their virtual doorstep. In the past couple of years, however, some e...

Napster, the onetime file-swapping nexus that sparked fear in the hearts -- and bottom lines -- of record labels, has officially been tamed and will relaunch as a legitimate online music service, parent company Roxio has announced. Napster 2.0 will be available to U.S. residents on October 29th. Use...

In a bid to reassure customers rattled by a series of headline-grabbing security flaws, Microsoft has said it will launch an initiative to make its products more secure. The push includes another revamp of the company's patch-management process, which has been widely criticized as too cumbersome for...