Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

Amazon.com is testing two new features -- catalog merchant pages and restaurant listings -- in an effort to generate additional revenue and drive more traffic to its Web site The services, introduced last week, give catalog companies and restaurateurs a chance to catch the eyes of Amazon's more than 29 million customers, according to company spokes...

Sun Microsystems recently confirmed that it expects to return to profitability in the second quarter, despite a slight drop-off in orders from the previous quarter On April 18th, Sun executives predicted a slight increase in revenue, gross margins and overall operating expenses -- and the company stood firmly behind those expectations in its intra-...

A recent study has found that online advertising is holding its own compared with traditional advertising revenue. And analysts expect the current steady state to give way to growth as soon as economic news improves Online ad revenue in the United States declined 7.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2001, according to a study released Thursday by P...

The U.S. Copyright Office on Tuesday rejected Webcasting royalty rates proposed by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP). A separate authority, the Librarian of Congress, now has 30 days to issue a final royalty, which need not be based on the panel's recommendation.

Juniper Networks on Monday announced plans to acquire rival Unisphere Networks in a move to compete with dominant telecom equipment provider Cisco Systems The deal had been rumored for months. However, analysts were skeptical because Juniper CEO Scott Kriens previously had taken a hard line against company growth through mergers and acquisitions....

Economic doldrums continue to erode confidence and drive cost-cutting among IT buyers, according to Gartner Dataquest, and all segments of the IT services market will feel the pinch Unprecedented low growth rates will prevail, with IT services revenue growing a meager 2.8 percent to US$557 billion this year, the research firm said.

Dell Computer reported Thursday that first-quarter earnings dropped compared with year-ago figures, although the number two computer maker beat analysts' expectations and saw revenue rise Dell reported first-quarter net earnings of US$457 million on revenue of $8.1 billion, handily surpassing the $7.9 billion it predicted in April....

Microsoft is slashing the price of itsXbox videogame system in a move to compete with Sony'sindustry-leading PlayStation 2 In a price war that is getting hotter by the minute, Microsoft said Wednesday that itwill slash Xbox prices in the United States from US$299 to $199. The $100 price cutmirrors Sony's reduction announced Monday....

Sun Microsystems has forged an alliance that will bring Yahoo's content to its corporate portals The pact between the software maker and the Internet media giant is designed to drive adoption and use of enterprise portals, which allow business users to access corporate e-mail and company information on a single Web site....

Competition in the online travel industry is fueling a trend toward fixed-price options designed to give consumers more control over airfares In an effort to recapture ground lost to such competitors as Hotwire and Orbitz, reverse auction company Priceline has become the latest travel service vendor to climb aboard the fixed-price marketing train.

A federal judge on Wednesday denied a Russian software vendor's motion to dismiss criminal charges that allege the company sells a product designed to break anti-copying technology. Such a practice would represent a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Attorneys for ElcomSoft had argued that the law is vague and undermines legit...

New legislation aimed at improving competition in the broadband industry has revived an old debate between U.S. lawmakers and telecommunications officials The "Broadband Regulatory Parity Act of 2002," introduced Tuesday by Sens. John Breaux (D-Louisiana) and Don Nickles (R-Oklahoma), was designed to spur deployment of high-speed Internet services ...