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Intel has adjusted its guidance for the third quarter, saying that revenue will fall within the $6.3 billion to $6.9 billion range it previously provided. However, the company narrowed that range, aiming toward the lower end. Paul Otellini, the company's president and chief operating officer, told a...

Pushing into yet another product category, Amazon.com has signed a multiyear partnership with office supply giant Office Depot. The two companies said they initially will offer at-home or in-office delivery of items ordered through Amazon's new Office Products store. According to the companies, cust...

As they gear up for what is expected to be a crucial fourth quarter, e-tailers are anxiously examining the ongoing third quarter for signs of what awaits them in the future. But despite such worries, industry analysts said, the third quarter has been positive for e-commerce, even though many potenti...

At long last, everybody's favorite German media conglomerate, Bertelsmann, has swallowed hard and admitted that it bit off a lot more than it could chew on the Internet. Bertelsmann has decided to put a couple of its online properties, notably its BOL.com bookselling site, up for sale. So line up if...

A coalition of consumer groups has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to step up its efforts to ban spam. The groups told the commission that the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail should be classified as an unfair and deceptive trade practice. "Americans are drowning in commercial spam e...

EBay Real Estate said its "land marketplace" has met with strong demand, with 15,000 parcels of property sold since the offering debuted last year. According to eBay, a parcel of land is sold through its site every 45 minutes. The strong land sales performance report comes just a few months after eB...

A few years ago, CIOs were asked to run a tech-focused shop that could churn out Web sites and lay the groundwork for future initiatives. Times have changed. In today's cloudy economic climate, IT departments are seeing the rise of a new type of executive -- one who can merge technology with busi...

Every code-hogging, patent suit-filing corporation got a reminder this week that it's not always smart to not share your toys. The reminder came from Japan, where Sony said it will stop making the Betamax video player, ending its nearly 30-year effort to win market share with proprietary technolo...

The worldwide server provider router (SPR) market dipped 7 percent in the second quarter of this year, according to a Gartner Dataquest report. Dataquest defines SPRs as carrier-class routers capable of providing multigigabit bandwidth in support of high-speed wide area network interfaces. These ...

A bankruptcy judge has nixed the sale of Napster to Bertelsmann AG, virtually ensuring that the online music service will not reopen its doors anytime soon. The judge questioned whether Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers acted in the best interest of Napster, rather than his former employer, Bertelsmann,...

Though they seem to be everywhere on the Internet, pop-up advertisements are used by less than 10 percent of all companies that advertise online, according to a report from Nielsen//NetRatings. Between January and July of 2002, companies bought 11.3 billion pop-up ad impressions, but that figure ...

One of the most befuddling traits of the Internet economy has been the tendency for companies to recycle executives, no matter how poorly or questionably they have performed, shelling out big bucks in the process. But in the face of scandal and economic failure, companies are taking a harder look...

In a move to beef up its security products, IBM has inked a deal with identity management software provider Access360 to acquire all the assets of that company. IBM executives said the acquisition of the privately held firm will strengthen the tech giant's Tivoli software offerings in the fast-gr...

Noting that corporate clients appear to be more tight-fisted with their IT dollars, Sun Microsystems has lowered its revenue forecast for its fiscal 2003 first quarter, which ends in September. Sun's announcement came as no surprise to industry observers. Tech stocks have been hit especially hard...

In the past, brick-and-clicks and pure-plays have not had that luxury. But as the ins and outs of e-commerce have become better known, many companies have begun to change their practices.