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In the six years since Musicmatch opened its virtual doors, the online music business has seen some significant changes. Musicmatch CEO Dennis Mudd spoke with the E-Commerce Times about what lies ahead. "Things now are like we expected them to be in '97," he said. "When we put the original business ...

Judging by its strategy, firewall vendor NetScreen is committed to a holistic view of enterprise security, leading the charge to integrate and deepen the firewall beyond its original parameters. The company's recently released Deep Inspection Firewall, for example, is designed to prevent application...

Underscoring the potential it sees in positioning computers as entertainment devices, Intel has announced it will establish a venture capital fund to back startups that develop home entertainment hardware and software. The chipmaker's venture wing, Intel Capital, will oversee the Digital Home Fund, ...

In his latest Macworld keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced a music-creation program called GarageBand, which Jobs described as a pro music tool for everyone, and a 4-GB mini iPod that sports sherbet colors. Perhaps most impressive is the Mini iPod's size: It is approximately as big as a busi...

Last week, the U.S. Congress passed the sweeping "CAN-SPAM" bill, creating the first federal law regulating spam. Advocates of the bill say it is a major step in the fight against the deluge of e-mail ads for pornography, cheap prescription medicine and scads of other something-for-nothing schemes.

As the opening day of Apple's annual Macworld conference approaches, a growing number of iBook notebook computer users are threatening protests and mulling class-action lawsuits. They say the company has not done enough to address, or even acknowledge, serious flaws in the iBook that have caused som...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by America Online against a group of Florida computer technicians, whom AOL had accused of maintaining computer networks that were used to batter its e-mail servers with spam targeting its millions of users. AOL had claimed the defendants violated Virg...

Amid budgetary constraints, enterprise application snafus, and vendors that are slick with their PowerPoint presentations but AWOL with their implementations, the put-upon CIO has become as common a high-tech archetype as the teenage hacker or the jeans-clad, headstrong, bullying CEO "evangelist." W...

As companies have grown more confident in their business process planning, the integration industry has worked to refine its products and services to serve enterprise needs, optimizing relationships between customers, partners and suppliers. As a 25-year veteran in the integration space, Sterling Co...

Saying its business would be much larger today if Microsoft had not pushed to create a "new monopoly" in the media player market, RealNetworks said it has filed a civil suit against the software giant seeking $1 billion in lost revenue and damages. The complaint alleges that Microsoft restricted how...

Just two days after President Bush signed national antispam legislation, Microsoft has announced that a six-month investigation it conducted with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer led to a slew of lawsuits against an e-mail marketing ring believed to be responsible for sending billions of spam...

Continuing its transformation into a network security and services provider, VeriSign has agreed to buy privately held network security firm Guardent in a deal valued at $140 million. The stock-and-cash agreement calls for VeriSign to retail all 150 of Guardent's full-time employees and to maintain ...

With the makings of an economic recovery on the horizon, IT budgets are beginning to grow again, and CTOs finally may be able to translate their mental wish lists into tangible purchases. However, the lessons of the downturn are still fresh in most people's minds, so CTOs likely will keep a tight re...

In a bid to break into the market for alternative online payments, Yahoo has said it will launch an international version of its PayDirect service, using disposable ATM cards as the method of transferring payments. Analysts said while it is unlikely that PayDirect could dislodge PayPal from the top ...

Seeking to retain its edge in the fiercely competitive search engine world by expanding its pool of engineering talent, Google has said it plans to open an R&D facility in India next year. The company has settled on Bangalore, a city often referred to as India's Silicon Valley, as the location f...