Business

Even as annual e-commerce sales storm past the $45 billion mark, according to U.S. Census Department figures, companies engaged in an older form of selling soldier on, using TVs and telephones to communicate with potential customers. One of the largest such firms, QVC, was founded in 1986 and earned...

Amazon.com has sued 11 entities in the United States and Canada for forging its domain name in their e-mail spam messages. The lawsuits seek millions of dollars in punitive damages. Gartner research director Maurene Grey told the E-Commerce Times that Amazon would have had a lot to lose from a credi...

To say that Motorola has had a turbulent recent history is something of an understatement. A few years ago, when the semiconductor sector was hemorrhaging money and the handset sector was slumping, the company began to reorganize, with mixed success. There still seems to be a long road ahead, yet wi...

The battle over ownership of open-source Linux source code took a nasty turn as SCO, which claims to own a key part of the code and has aggressively pursued compensation for it, found itself the target of a hacker attack that took down its Web site. In a letter to open-source developers, Open Source...

Following a disastrous quarter in which financial results fell far short of analysts' expectations, Sun is trying to rebound from its slump by pinning its hopes on several new products. "If you'd told Scott McNealy three years ago that he'd be selling an x86 family, he would have told you that you ...

Leading chipmaker and technology bellwether Intel has announced business is improving ahead of schedule, putting it on track to post strong quarterly results that could surpass earlier expectations. However, Intel CEO Craig Barrett, in Taiwan to oversee the opening of a joint research-and-developmen...

At the height of the e-commerce craze, when hundreds of new businesses were going online every week, startups typically overbought Web hosting services. As a result, they often found themselves facing hefty bills for unused server space and unneeded features. However, in today's changed e-commerce e...

E-commerce posted strong double-digit growth in the second quarter, bringing in $12.477 billion total in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau said sales rose 27.8 percent from the second quarter of 2002. By comparison, overall retail sales grew less than 5 percent. The ...

Putting the efficiency of its direct-sales model to the test and seeking to capitalize on the recent woes of its main rival Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer has announced it will cut prices on many of its products by up to 22 percent. The move came on the same day HP announced disappointing earnings, ...

Perhaps no industry was as blindsided by the power of the Internet as the music business. The sudden rise of Napster pitted content owners against customers, and now, with the RIAA suing individual file swappers in an effort to stop rampant music piracy, a crisis is in full swing. Enter DRM, or digi...

Hewlett-Packard fell short of expectations with its third-quarter results, posting revenue of $17.35 billion, about $100 million below analysts' predictions. Earnings totaled $297 million, a vast improvement over the year-ago period, when the computer giant posted a massive loss, but also about $200...

Electronic Data Systems (EDS), blasted last fall when its stock entered a free-fall from $40 to $10 per share, continues to show signs of recovery, announcing it has been awarded a multiyear contract by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Under the contract, which could be worth as...

No longer a startup with a bright future, Google has become the search engine to beat -- a technologically superior company that has everyone in the industry looking over their shoulders, protecting their flanks and girding for battle. However, even those who say Google is likely to dominate the sea...

In the world of computer security break-ins, the focus has shifted from alleged hacker masterminds to enterprise shortfalls -- unpatched software, poorly secured firewalls and weak computer passwords. However, vulnerability assessment tools are educating IT admins about how to close holes in network...

Dell's fiscal second-quarter numbers demonstrated growth in both its consumer and enterprise operations, with revenue of $9.8 billion, up 16 percent from the year-ago period. In addition, the computer maker reported increased growth and profitability worldwide, bucking overall industry trends. Perha...