E-Commerce

Unsolicited e-mail is an old Internet nemesis, but spammers have come up with a new twist, and it's causing corporate and individual users alike e-heartburn. It's called "image spam," and it's waiting in an in-box near you. Image spam contains little ordinary text to analyze. Instead, it uses the .g

Digital Insight, a provider of outsourced online banking services, in 2007 will begin offering its on-demand consumer Internet banking and business banking clients Entrust's TransactionGuard, a real-time transaction monitoring fraud detection service. The solution is designed to help security admini...

Two billionaires are burying the technology hatchet this holiday season. Rupert Murdoch and John Malone ended a two-year battle over Liberty Media's stake in News Corp. with a US$11 billion deal. Specifically, Liberty Media has agreed to exchange its 16.3 percent stake in News Corp. for News Corp.'s...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to make it easier and faster for telephone companies to enter markets with television services, clearing the way for a showdown with cable companies for the right to deliver bundles of products into consumers' homes. By a 3-2 margin, the FCC...

In strict chronological terms, e-commerce is still a young adult, but by all accounts it has rapidly matured into an economic force, accounting for billions in online sales and helping consumers make decisions on billions more in offline buying. Still, e-commerce continues to grow by any measure. No...

What is shaping up to be a landmark technology patent lawsuit, KSR v. Teleflex, is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court right now. At its most basic, the decision could redefine the standard of "obviousness" that is used when deciding whether a patent should be granted for a particular invention or...

Scoring a victory in its worldwide efforts to curb piracy of its software, Microsoft said it had agreed to settle a lawsuit with a French company that had allegedly made and sold thousands of unauthorized versions of Microsoft business software. Microsoft said its settlement with MPO Group included ...

Sony will reportedly launch a video download service for users of its PlayStation Portable devices early next year, a move that could put it into direct competition with Apple's iPod video devices and its iTunes Movie Store. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is in negotiations with several possible c...

Microsoft said China-based search engine Baidu.com will begin displaying paid search listings on the software giant's Chinese Web sites this month. Such Microsoft sites as MSN and Windows Live will display Baidu's paid search listings, as will other partner sites in Microsoft's network. Baidu is Chi...

After dominating the business handheld e-mail market, Research In Motion unveiled its follow-up act: high-end consumer smartphones. In September, the company announced the BlackBerry Pearl, its first device equipped with a digital camera and an MP3 player. The shift appears to be a natural progressi...

Hoping to attract and retain top talent as it continues to grow at breakneck pace, Google said Tuesday it would institute a unique program to enable employees to directly sell their vested stock options. Google plans to work with Wall Street banking house Morgan Stanley to establish an online auctio...

IBM and Yahoo on Wednesday introduced new, free enterprise search software with Web search services powered by Yahoo. The idea is to make it easier for corporate searchers to find and act on information stored on networks and across the Web. Dubbed "IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition," the software is an en...

With the holiday shopping season in full swing, many shoppers are turning to their computers to shop online, rather than facing the thousands of shoppers at the malls. Like malls, e-commerce networks are experiencing a glut of holiday traffic. With an increase in online traffic during the holiday s...

Antitrust regulators in the U.S., South Korea and Japan are investigating whether major providers of LCD technology engaged in anti-competitive behavior. Shares of LCD makers such as LG.Philips and Samsung Electronics plummeted in overseas trading after news broke that both Japanese and U.S. regulat...

Opportunities for using new media for the public good have been overlooked in the excitement surrounding the rise of new media itself. The fading of television as a traditional media form, the end of television sets as distinct single-function devices, and the redirection of advertising dollars away...