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Each year, a different shining jewel helps define holiday e-commerce. Two years ago, it was PlayStation2. Last year, the DVD player ruled the day, on its way to becoming the fastest-selling electronic appliance ever. What product will be the hallmark of holiday 2002? It may be too early to tell, but...

The world's most-trafficked Web site has announced it will begin offering Web hosting packages aimed at small businesses. For between $11.95 and $39.95 per month, small businesses will receive 10 to 35 e-mail accounts, 50 to 350 megabytes of storage and 20 to 35 gigabytes of data transfer. "We see t...

The general malaise in the economy and in the high-tech sector in particular has been especially hard on the telecommunications industry. Recent signs, though, have pointed toward a slow but welcome recovery for high-tech, raising the question of whether the uptick will spell relief for the telecom ...

IBM has struck a deal to buy Rational Software for $2.1 billion, continuing a lengthy acquisition spree that has focused on the software industry in recent months. Rational makes development tools that are used to customize software running a host of devices, ranging from mobile phones and routers t...

Since IT budgets have been slashed in the economic downturn, many businesses are seeking ways to reduce the burden on overworked staff. One way to do this is to use a SAN, or storage area network, which lowers data management costs, increases hardware efficiency and improves data recovery capabiliti...

Buoyed by stronger-than-expected flash memory sales, number two semiconductor maker AMD has raised its fourth-quarter sales forecast by 15 percent. The company said it is now on track to book sales of $700 million in the fourth quarter. Such a result would represent an increase of nearly 35 percent ...

For enterprises that want to cut IT costs, one answer is to ship some high-tech work overseas, to places like India, Singapore, the Philippines and even Russia or China. "A lot of companies that haven't looked at this already are starting because it is hard to ignore -- especially in this economy --...

Offering a bleak outlook for 2003, AOL Time Warner said advertising and commerce revenue in its AOL online unit could drop as much as 50 percent as it weans itself from old contracts and tries to jump-start growth with new initiatives. Calling 2003 a "transition year," AOL said its bellwether Intern...

With more people adopting broadband, and larger national ISPs swallowing up smaller regional ones, some industry observers think independent ISPs are on the ropes. But executives at small ISPs see a bright future for those that survived the industry consolidation of recent years. Although giant ISPs...

Boosting hopes for a banner e-commerce holiday, a new report says U.S. consumers spent $1 billion more online during the first three weeks of November than in the same period last year. Questions remain about whether these early results can be sustained throughout the shopping season, but Nielsen//N...

Buoyed by purchases of cell phones and other wireless devices, worldwide sales of semiconductors rose a modest 1.8 percent to $12.5 billion between September and October, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization. The figure reflects a larger 19.9 percent gain over October 2...

The weak economy and a shorter-than-usual holiday shopping season have led analysts who focus on the overall retail market to say the only foreseeable aspect of this year's holiday sales is that they will be unpredictable. The same cannot be said of forecasting online holiday sales revenue, however....

CDNow.com has announced it will outsource its Web site operations to Amazon.com, becoming the latest in a string of online merchants to choose to join, rather than fight, the e-tail giant. The deal reportedly will be structured similarly to one with Borders, which tapped Amazon to operate its online...

When Novell reported fourth-quarter earnings recently, the financial press pounced on the company's sizeable loss of $96 million. But most of that loss was a result of one-time charges. Novell actually beat both its own and Wall Street's revenue targets, with $300 million in sales. How has the compa...

In a closely watched case about DVD hacking and Web publishing freedoms, the California state Supreme Court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the DVD Copy Control Association, which had accused Texas resident Matthew Pavlovich of posting a program on his Web site that enabled users to bypass DVD cop...