E-Commerce

"Convergence" is a popular term in information technology. It generally refers to the meshing of separate technology platforms -- telephones, computers and televisions, for instance -- to give users multiple options for accessing information. Convergence is what allows us get some of the same shows ...

The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee approved a joint resolution to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's Net neutrality rules on Wednesday. The measure, which passed in a 15-8 vote, still needs to clear the full committee before moving to the House fo...

Opera Software has opened the Opera Mobile Store -- a device-agnostic app store that offers a catalog of applications for phones based on the Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and soon-to-be-defunct Windows Mobile operating systems. Also available are Java-based apps for feature phones as well as some ol...

Sony will be able to proceed with its prosecution of a hacker who published an encryption key allowing PlayStation 3 owners to override Sony's copy-protection software and gain control of their consoles. The hack reportedly was built using earlier jailbreaks to the system. A federal magistrate has g...

Retailers are quickly realizing the value of adopting technologies that provide insight and analysis of their customers' behavior and experience. There's no ignoring the value of a technology that provides a new generation of intelligence and agility, but the hundreds or even thousands of transactio...

Microsoft's search engine, Bing, launched a new daily deals aggregator on Thursday. The service, called "Bing deals," compiles offers from Groupon, Livingsocial, Restaurant.com and more through a partnership with The DealMap. Bing deals is able to sort by location based on a user's mobile device, al...

With Apple revealing that the second generation of its popular tablet computer-- aka the iPad2 -- will be available for purchase next week, it's a good time to think about mobile devices in general: how they fit into our lives now, and how they may ultimately change our lives in the future. Of cours...

Google removed a slew of apps containing malware from the Android Market on Tuesday. At least 21 of the tainted apps appear to have come from publisher called "Myournet," which copied apps developed by others and modified them to include a Trojan horse before re-uploading them. Before their removal,...

E-commerce is growing, but it's no longer on fire. Forrester Research released two new forecast reports on Monday. The reports project online retail in the U.S. and Europe will grow at a rate of 10 percent per year from 2010 to 2015. The report expects 2015 online retail to reach US$279 billion in t...

Microsoft's search engine, Bing, added a Facebook integration feature on Thursday that will let searchers see which results their Facebook friends have liked. After users connect Bing with their Facebook account, pictures of friends will appear below any relevant results generated in a search. They ...

Another company has lodged antitrust allegations against Google in one of the most feared forums -- at least for U.S. tech companies -- in the world: the European Commission. This time it is French firm 1plusV, a maker of specialized search engines for such topics as law and music, and parent compan...

Amazon on Tuesday announced the launch of video streaming. The service gives Amazon Prime members unlimited, commercial-free instant streaming of more than 5,000 movies and TV shows. In the Past, Amazon's Prime membership program has mostly been about free shipping -- members get free two-days shipp...

The finals of its highly publicized "Jeopardy" tournament found IBM's "Watson" computer system handily winning with a total of $77,147 -- upwards of $50,000 more than the sums amassed by Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, its grand champion adversaries. Watson's $1 million grand prize will be split equal...

Bold claim: Search-based applications are the next generation of search technology to enhance productivity and customer value for specific business processes by streamlining delivery of critical information. Skeptical response: Yeah, but don't most enterprises already have enterprise search, BI and ...

Every corporation has a face. Imagery, shine and style are interlayered into a skin that appears as a mask; uplift captured by a distinct name identity poises it to reach the upper stratosphere of stardom. Corporate masks are just like real people: Some are exciting and some boring; some you remembe...