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Since March, when the SCO Group filed suit against IBM for allegedly using proprietary SCO Unix code in its Linux systems, it has made headlines nearly every week. And in the last 52 weeks, SCO's stock price has soared from as little as 78 cents per share to more than $20 per share. Regardless of in...

Saying it is seeing the most concrete signs to date that an economic recovery is taking hold, IBM has indicated it could reverse more than two years of layoffs by adding as many as 10,000 jobs in 2004. In addition to hiring new workers, Big Blue plans to invest $200 million to train existing workers...

While this bottom-line focus may seem like a return to normalcy for those who entered the workforce before the dot-com boom, twentysomethings who first entered the professional employment arena during those halcyon days have come crashing brutally to Earth. Perhaps for the first time, they are encou...

Executives at Oracle have announced the company is on the lookout for potential acquisitions and even briefly considered buying longtime partner and struggling tech giant Sun Microsystems. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said his company determined the Sun deal would not make sense because the two companie...

Forging its second major partnership involving wireless devices in as many months, Microsoft has said it will work closely with Vodafone to create Web services standards that can extend desktop applications to mobile devices. Specifically, the two companies said their standards, based on XML, will e...

For large and small e-tailers alike, the traditional method of doing business online has been fairly standard. They present a bevy of products, build a secure purchase interface and advertise so that customers will come clicking to their virtual doorstep. In the past couple of years, however, some e...

Napster, the onetime file-swapping nexus that sparked fear in the hearts -- and bottom lines -- of record labels, has officially been tamed and will relaunch as a legitimate online music service, parent company Roxio has announced. Napster 2.0 will be available to U.S. residents on October 29th. Use...

Last month at the IBLS Strategic Global Summit for E-Commerce, Pauline Reich, an associate professor at Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan, gave a speech entitled "Legal Issues: Internet and E-mail in the Workplace." During her talk, Reich explored the worldwide evolution of procedures ...

For several weeks running, Eddie Bauer has occupied the top slot in Keynote Systems' E-Commerce Transaction Performance Index, handily beating out much larger players like Amazon and Wal-Mart. Troy Brown, divisional vice president of e-commerce at Eddie Bauer, told the E-Commerce Times that there is...

Offering perhaps the strongest evidence to date that Internet companies are poised to enjoy a strong revival, Yahoo beat the Street with third-quarter profits of $65.3 million that more than doubled from a year ago. Revenue in the third quarter rose 43 percent to $356.8 million. The results bolstere...

In part 1 of this story, "Inside the Hidden World of Motherboard Manufacturers," we examined the inner workings of the motherboard industry. Overall, the sector is healthy, but there are several challenges facing it as well. Jeremy Smith, a spokesperson for motherboard maker ABIT, told the E-Commerc...

America Online has announced it will expand its relationship with Google and will use the search leader's technology as the foundation for enhancements to its own search offering. According to the agreement, AOL Search will feature both search results from Google's algorithmic engine and sponsored l...

As chips are inserted into all manner of everyday appliances, from refrigerators to phones, the semiconductor industry is not the only one that will heat up. The market for motherboards, which link all the components of a computing device, including processors, chipsets, memory and peripheral cards,...

In response to its recent loss to Eolas Technologies in a $521 million patent case, Microsoft has announced it will make "modest" changes to Windows and Internet Explorer to address issues raised in the case. Many of the planned code changes will affect various plug-ins, such as Macromedia Flash, Ap...

Consumers finally are gaining more widespread access to WiFi high-speed wireless networks as vendors install this technology in airports, hotels and restaurants across the United States. The main challenge faced by these vendors is economic, rather than technical, in nature. The consumer market is n...