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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 thisis to use a SAN, or storage area network, which reduces data management costs, increases hardware efficiency and improves data recovery capabilities. With networked storage, any user armed with the proper level of access can search for any piece of data stored within an enterprise...

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

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 Generally, cost savings for a company range from 25 to 40 percent. "A lot of companies that haven't looked at this already are starting because it is hard to ignore -- especially in...

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 Internet service probably will not see a noticeable uptur...

With more and more people adopting broadband, and larger national ISPs swallowing up smaller regional ones, one might think independent ISPs are on the ropes Bob Parker, senior analyst at AMR Research, said that may be true. "We may be seeing the age of the independent ISP going away over time," he told the E-Commerce Times. "From a consumer point ...

Boosting hopes for a banner e-commerce holiday, a new report says U.S. consumers spent US$1 billion more online during the first three weeks of November than in the same period last year. The eSpending report from Goldman Sachs, Harris Interactive and Nielsen//NetRatings pegged holiday sales at $4.5 billion in the time frame, 29 percent higher tha...

Buoyed by purchases of cell phones and other wireless devices, worldwide sales of semiconductors rose modestly in October, a trade group said Friday According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, figures compiled by World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) show chip sales grew 1.8 percent to US$12.5 billion between September and October. T...

Thanks to the weak economy and a shorter-than-usual holiday shopping season, analysts who focus on the overall retail market have said the onlyforeseeable aspect of this year's holiday sales is that they will beunpredictable. The same cannot be said of forecasting online holiday sales revenue, however. "It's getting to be more predictable because ...

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. Amazon spokesperson Kristin Schaefer told the E-Commerce Times that the two companies have reached an agreement, but that details are not being disclosed at thi...

When Novell reported fourth-quarter earnings recently, the financial press pounced on the company's sizeable loss of US$96 million. That loss was fueled by a $125 million write-down on real estate and other investments, including a decision to buy its way out of a pricey Silicon Valley lease. But one-time charges aside, Novell posted improved sale...

In a closely watched case about DVD hacking and Web publishing freedoms, the California state Supreme Court has ruled that the Internet's reach does not erase jurisdictional boundaries. The court threw out a lawsuit filed by the DVD Copy Control Association, which had accused Texas resident Matthew Pavlovich of publishing trade secrets. Pavlovich ...

What if, one day, every person who tried to shop at Amazon.com, eBay or any other online store were turned away by an attack on the Internet's core? In the wake of massive denial-of-service attacks on the Internet's DNS root servers, that scenario seems far more likely than it once did. Although computer users barely noticed the attacks, hackers b...

Compared with a year earlier, e-commerce retail sales in this year's third quarter skyrocketed to their highest dollar value since reporting began in 1999, according to a U.S. Department of Commerce survey released Friday The survey by the Census Bureau of 11,000 stores showed that sales, not adjusted for seasonal, holiday and trading-day differenc...

IT pay has been hammered by the reversal of stock option fortunes, increased overseas outsourcing and the dismal economy in general, but experts say technology workers can still command a decent salary in some fields without becoming CIO Analysts pointed to new technologies and programming -- among them Java, XML, Web services, software on demand a...

AOL has begun selling prepaid Internet access cards and offering more online content, providing a glimpse into parent company AOL Time Warner's strategic plans for jump-starting growth at its online unit. The prepaid cards, similar to those sold for long-distance telephone service, are already for sale at Western Union and Target stores and will b...

Wall Street has battered tech stocks for more than a year, so one might think the Nasdaq would be littered with bargains. But recent gains in the tech sector have wiped away many of the best opportunities, and few stocks are still undervalued, according to analysts, who suggested that even over the long term, tech is unlikely to pay dividends "Tech...

As the battle for online revenue extends into 2002's shortened holiday-shopping season, some e-commerce firms are relying on content other than product details to keep visitors coming back to their sites -- and buying products.Specifically, companies may be considering whether to post uncensored reviews of the products they sell as a way to add unique content and build a sense of community.

IBM has launched the first phase of what executives say will be a complete organizational shift toward on-demand computing and services, saying it will invest US$1 billion to provide customers with access to a team of consultants and researchers. Big Blue said it will staff its On Demand Innovation Services team with 200 IBM research consultants, ...

In his first appearance since the announcement of the landmark Microsoftantitrust settlement, CEO Steve Ballmer told an audience last week at the Brookings Institute that the software giant is taking its new leadership role seriously "As CEO of Microsoft, I can personally assure you that we will commit all the time, all the energy and all the resou...

In what may be its most direct competitive move yet against e-tail giant Amazon.com, eBay has announced plans to consolidate its electronics listings into a single online store and to offer free shipping on some purchases EBay Electronics is aimed at both consumers and business buyers and features new and used items in the computer, networking, tel...