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As the holiday shopping season begins in earnest, consumers say they're just as willing to buy from small online retailers as they are from large, national e-commerce providers In addition to this key finding, a new national survey of 2,500 consumers discovered extremely high levels of consumer participation in, and satisfaction with, shopping on t...

The health care industry might be next in line for the type of mega-merger that has already rocked the retail and wireless communications sectors, with Johnson & Johnson reportedly mulling a takeover of Guidant in a deal that could be worth more than US$24 billion Published reports said that J&J has been in detailed talks to buy Guidant, which make...

The health care industry might be next in line for the type of mega-merger that has already rocked the retail and wireless communications sectors, with Johnson & Johnson reportedly mulling a takeover of Guidant in a deal that could be worth more than US$24 billion Published reports said that J&J has been in detailed talks to buy Guidant, which make...

The health care industry might be next in line for the type of mega-merger that has already rocked the retail and wireless communications sectors, with Johnson & Johnson reportedly mulling a takeover of Guidant in a deal that could be worth more than US$24 billion Published reports said that J&J has been in detailed talks to buy Guidant, which make...

AOL has unveiled a prototype of its revived Netscape browser without half the hype that Mozilla programs like Firefox and Thunderbird have been fetching. However, a new Netscape browser could make a big splash post-beta testing thanks to some cross functionality and security features, according to analysts Based on the wildly popular open-source Fi...

If you're already confused by the proliferation of digital music types and don't know the difference between a DVD-R, DVD+R, or DVD-RW, get ready for the next assault. The good news is that digital television and the resulting high-definition DVD technology will be a vast improvement over the images we typically see on TV today. The bad news is that once again there is no standardized format, so compatibility remains an issue...

Leading computer maker Dell said it cut prices on a slew of technology items, from personal computers to servers, a move seen as a competitive thrust aimed at solidifying its growing presence in the enterprise Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said it was simply passing along savings it was seeing in computer components to its corporate customers. The p...

Riding on the Firefox 1.0 fanfare that saw more than 9 million users download the open-source Web browser, the Mozilla Foundation today announced the launch of its Thunderbird 1.0 mail client Thunderbird focuses on new features and settings to help stop spam and prevent viruses, the two biggest problems facing e-mail users today....

As an Australian court considers whether Kazaa's parentcompany should be forced to pay damages for the file sharing that goes onover its peer-to-peer (P2P) network, questions persist about the effectiveness of themusic industry's enforcement efforts Today, the Federal Court in Sydney heard from Leon Sterling, chairman ofSoftware Innovation and Engi...

A strange thing happened after Tara Bradford was "Bangalored" and her job was moved to India. She followed it and stayed In 2003, Tara was working in the U.S. as a trainer of customer service representatives for Earthlink, an Internet service provider. It was her fourth year with Earthlink and she was asked to go to India twice to train her replace...

Loyalty card programs operated by grocery and drug retailers have been focused on rewarding shoppers for isolated activities. Typically, retailers dole out extra points for buying Brand A today or discount the price of Brand B during a given week and not much more. But now these loyalty programs are growing up, and retailers are trying to change the reputations they have for granting only short-term returns...

Every four years, the fall sport becomes following U.S. presidential politics. As any sports fan knows, you have to know the lingo to understand the talking heads. I take politics seriously, so after hearing the expressions "red-state" and "blue-state," I did my research and learned that red is the color of Republican leaning states and blue is the color of Democratic leaning states...

Up to now there hasn't been a connection between cellular and WiFi networks, but that situation is expected to change soon Cell phone vendors are getting ready to deliver new handsets, and carriers are rolling out new services that support the two wireless options. While such services are now starting to arrive, they are not expected to be widely a...

Canary Wireless today announced the release of its Digital Hotspotter device, a WiFi detection and analysis tool with an LCD display that provides essential network information to WiFi users and technology professionals The company says its device is the only one on the market to provide smart signal analysis, including network ID, encryption statu...

Facing customer unease as another product support lifecycle approaches expiration, Microsoft today said it would extend the timeframe during which it makes custom, paid support available for the server version of Windows NT The move, just the latest in a number of tweaks the software giant has made to its product lifecycle roadmap in response to cu...

Cisco today outlined a strategy for its new Internet protocol (IP) networks and gained technical and Japanese market support by striking a deal with Fujitsu The company announced that its "IP NGN" -- IP Next-Generation Networks -- architecture was pushing network convergence to provide various voice, video and wireless capabilities and controls....

Musicians and artists have embraced the Internet as a tool that helps them create, promote and sell their work, according to a just-released study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project However, they are divided about the impact and importance of free file-sharing and other copyright issues....

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is extending its PowerNow technology into theserver and workstation realms, building it into Opteron processors, thecompany announced today PowerNow, already available in laptops and desktop computers, helps keepchips cooler by cutting back on the power supplied to them when they are notin use. The technology, called Co...

With the tech industry still buzzing over its apparent decision to sell its PC business, IBM underscored its ongoing transformation by announcing today that it had landed a contract worth nearly US$1 billion to supply Internet-based telephone and data services to British banking giant Lloyds The seven-year deal carries a price tag of around $969 mi...

Trend Micro is giving away its antivirus and anti-spam software forsmartphones until June, the company announced today, but how necessary that software is remains unclear "It's a solution in search of a problem," analyst Ed Moyle of SecurityCurvetold TechNewsWorld....