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Amid harsh criticism from the competition, Sun Microsystems has introduced its first general-purpose Linux server. The play marks a shift in Sun's strategy, which was built on the company's ability to deliver high-end servers running its own Solaris operating system. Forrester analyst Carl Howe t...

Kids and teenagers made up nearly 20 percent of the overall online population in the month of July, highlighting the group's growing importance for Internet commerce and marketing, according to a report from Nielsen//NetRatings. The research firm said that about 20 million of the 100 million peop...

America Online has snubbed rival Microsoft by using Netscape browser technology in the newest iteration of its software for Mac OS X users, a move that could indicate the company might eventually oust Microsoft from its PC offerings as well. "They are certainly thinking about it," Rob Lancaster, ...

Amazon.com has finally turned the corner on the road to profitability, eBay set earnings records in the second quarter, and brick-and-mortar chains are buying into the e-commerce channel in droves. Does this mean that the e-tail shakeout is finally over? That depends on whom you ask. Analysts hav...

Amazon has rolled out the next phase of its five-year partnership with retailer Target, launching an integrated site that offers merchandise from Target, Amazon, Marshall Field's and Mervyn's. The site will give Amazon its first crack at selling clothing online -- just in time for the holiday sea...

They were among the e-commerce sectors given up for dead. But like others before them -- such as online grocery and clothing sales -- they have endured in the face of all adversity, and have even begun to show signs of turnaround. "A lot of sectors have been completely changed from what people th...

Leading travel sites have unveiled a slew of promotions in recent days aimed at boosting their hotel sales, in apparent recognition that long-slumping airline ticket sales might not soon recover. Both Priceline and Expedia unveiled hotel service upgrades targeted at consumers, and Expedia also be...

As though bankruptcy and $3.8 billion in "overstated earnings" were not bad enough, WorldCom has found that another $3.3 billion was improperly reported between 1999 and the first quarter of 2002. The discovery of the additional missing money comes on the heels of a rough period for WorldCom. The...

For Web travelers seeking to lighten their load of usernames and passwords, help has generally been slow to arrive. Some relief for the forgetful has come in the form of functions -- installed on popular operating systems -- that serve to ease the mental burden of those surfing from a single comp...

As if the immediate future did not look dim enough for AOL Time Warner, a group of the company's shareholders has filed what they hope will become a class-action suit against the company for allegedly misrepresenting revenue reaped from online advertising. The shareholders claim that AOL Time War...

Shares of Monster.com parent company TMP Worldwide tumbled to their lowest levels in nearly four years after the company reduced its outlook for the rest of this year and said it will lay off more workers. Specifically, TMP said that in the face of lower revenue and earnings, it will raise its to...

Numerous venture capitalists are nursing wounds sustained when companies collapsed and stopped going public at a record clip. But most of the VC firms that can trace their roots back to the pre-boom era are still hanging on, if not thriving. "Those who came late to the party and tried to grab all...

Saying that their livelihoods might be at stake, Canadian booksellers are taking their battle against the arrival of Amazon.com to court. The Canadian Booksellers Association has joined with Amazon's largest Canadian competitor, Indigo Books, to apply for judicial review of an administrative ruli...

The HP-Compaq union not only was the largest merger in technology industry history, it also signaled the end of an era and the beginning of the next chapter in enterprise computing, according to a new report by the Yankee Group. And the HP product lineup has already started to evolve since the de...

If every cloud has a silver lining, is the reverse also true? It is for Jonathan F. Miller. He landed what once might have been -- and might still be -- one of the world's great jobs. He now heads America Online. Not a bad gig. He certainly won't have to go into any strained explanations at cockt...