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Google has announced that sales of its Google Search Appliance increased 200 percent in the last year. According to Google, high-level business and government entities that have installed the GSA for use on their own intranets and the Internet include the U.S. Army, Nextel, Xerox, Procter & Gamb...

E-mail marketing remains one of the most cost-effective ways to deliver long-term profitability for the online channel, but its existence could be at risk if the flood of spam is not brought under control, according to executives at the eTail2003 conference in Boston, where E-Commerce Times reporter...

The e-commerce landscape may have changed dramatically in recent years, but both pure-play e-tailers and multichannel retailers are still focused on finding ways to convert more surfers to buyers, according to keynote addresses and interviews at the eTail2003 conference, where E-Commerce Times repor...

Although ciphers long have been a staple of spy thrillers and mysteries, data encryption now has gained a real -- and critical -- foothold in the business world. Without this technology, data packets can be easily captured and viewed by unauthorized users. Right now, most enterprises and government ...

Saying it wants to simplify consumer electronics and expand their use, Hewlett-Packard has embarked on an ambitious product rollout, introducing some 100 offerings in the at-home video, digital photography and entertainment spheres. In addition to those products, many of which are focused on HP's tr...

As the latest, most compact iteration of server technology, blade servers are becoming increasingly popular. Although blades currently represent just 1 or 2 percent of total server market share, IDC analyst Mark Melenovsky said he believes they will capture 20 percent or more of server unit sales by...

Broadband adoption is increasing steadily in the United States, but significant hurdles are keeping growth rates lower than they could be. Most rural areas and some suburban areas cannot get broadband, making the service predominantly a city-based one. In fact, the United States is outpaced by sever...

Marking the end of an overseas battle between Internet heavyweights, Yahoo has announced plans to shutter its Australian auction site and direct users to rival eBay. The company said it will close the site, known as Sold.com, later this month. The move comes almost exactly a year after eBay invested...

In a bid to speed development of the next generation of computer chips while also easing the financial burden of related research, IBM has announced it will ally with Chartered Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies to develop 65-nanometer chip-making capabilities, with an eye toward moving to even...

Even in the ever-changing technology world, companies that hold 80 percent market share typically can breathe easy. However, that is not the case at Citrix Systems. The maker of MetaFrame thin-client software, which lets PC users access applications that run remotely on servers, is seeing its long-s...

It's only a matter of time before Yahoo and Google bite the bullet and join forces. After all, with Yahoo scooping up Overture, and most smaller search engines already consumed by larger players, it appears that the immovable object and the irresistible force will have to come together. Would regula...

While declaring that open source has limitations, Sun Microsystems nevertheless is moving to capitalize on the method's popularity, saying it will develop an open-source desktop environment that is a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to Microsoft Windows. Sun unveiled its Project Mad Hatter, which w...

The ability to change prices in the blink of an eye, instantly responding to market fluctuations, seems as if it would be an attractive tactic to online retailers. However, so-called dynamic pricing has not caught on yet in the e-commerce world. As Forrester analyst Noha Tohamy told the E-Commerce T...

SCO has announced that it will sell intellectual property licenses to make it legal for enterprises to run Linux, which allegedly uses portions of SCO's proprietary Unix source code. The company is offering an introductory license price of $699 per CPU until October 15, 2003, after which the price p...

Leading Linux vendor Red Hat has filed suit against The SCO Group, aiming to prove that Red Hat software does not infringe on SCO patents and to stop SCO from making what it called "untrue" statements. The company also announced plans to establish a $1 million legal defense fund to help smaller firm...