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QTel is one of the largest telecommunications firms in New York. With a customer base of 10,000 companies, the firm provides small and medium-sized businesses with a comprehensive array of communications products and services, such as fully integrated broadband data and voice services. One of the la...

Three Internet service providers have agreed to be more proactive in policing the dissemination of child pornography across their networks. In response to some prodding by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Sprint Nextel have agreed to block access to Web sites, b...

An IT career is once again one with a lot of long-term potential. While the market now does not resemble the halcyon times of the dot-com boom, demand is expected to remain steady in the short term and the future looks bright. "From all of the companies that we work with, the message now is, 'full s...

Signaling JetBlue's belief that travelers want to stay connected at all times, its LiveTV unit has agreed to buy Verizon's Airfone business, a move that will enable the discount carrier to offer a bundle of communications services during flight. The handover is not expected to be completed until Jan...

Mukesh Chatter is no stranger to startups. In 1997, he founded Nexabit Networks, a high-speed switch and router maker he sold to Lucent Technologies. He later founded Axiowave Networks. His latest, project, MoneyAisle.com, however, is different, in part because of the inspiration that got it started...

AOL announced Friday it is setting up its Platform-A Internet advertising service in Europe. The expansion is part of the Time Warner unit's effort to extend the reach of its advertising business worldwide by the close of 2009. The move comes less than one year after Time Warner flipped its AOL scri...

Forty-five percent of marketing executives view return on marketing investment as a top driver compelling their organizations to track and measure marketing performance, according to a recent Aberdeen Group survey of 728 companies. This begs the question: Can the implementation of a marketing dashbo...

A coalition of 14 privacy and consumer organizations have charged that Google is violating California law by failing to post a prominent link on its home page to its privacy policy. "Google's reluctance to post a link to its privacy policy on its homepage is alarming," wrote the groups in a letter t...

When Eric Aubertin, founder and CEO of the e-commerce loyalty firm OneBigPlanet, sold his last company, eFundraising, to "Reader's Digest," he had time on his hands to shape the idea behind his next online innovation. He had a notion to develop a new type of consumer platform that would bring commun...

A Delaware judge ruled Monday that Yahoo could not keep secret the details of an investors' lawsuit over its spurning of Microsoft's acquisition efforts. The complaint alleges that Yahoo turned away a $40 per share offer to be acquired by Microsoft in 2007 -- months before the software company went ...

Qore, an interactive monthly program, will launch on Sony's PlayStation Network on June 5, Sony Computer Entertainment America announced Tuesday. Available the first Thursday of each month, Qore is the current console generation's version of the disk giveaways many PlayStation 2 owners may remember....

Beaumont, Texas, has become the testing ground for a new way to charge Internet users for access. It's meant to make heavy users pay more. Time Warner will begin rolling out an experimental program that will meter users' Web usage and bill them extra if they download or upload more than a set amount...

Seeking to further build on its hosted search and cloud computing efforts, Google on Tuesday launched an updated -- and renamed -- version of its hosted business site search solution. The updated version of Google Site Search -- the product was formerly known as "Custom Search Business Edition" -- i...

Though it may seem at times as if the U.S. market is dominated by foreign-made goods, longtime importer Albert Wu believes even more goods could be making their way to consumers. Wu and the others behind Internet startup Silkfair.com have long been involved in the importing business, bringing specia...

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What's Bugging E-Tail Security?

Software security breaches add up in recent headlines alone: $13 million in losses; 45.6 million credit cards stolen; recovery costs at $256 million dollars and mounting; and companies driven into bankruptcy or out of business. Financially motivated targeted attacks are becoming more prevalent, and ...

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