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Your organization needs a disaster recovery plan. The sun may be shining now, but it won't be forever -- disasters are a matter of when, not if. And if disaster does strike, having made a DR plan in advance may mean the difference between smoothly resuming activities, or going out of business. On to...

Lyris Technologies said China-based Alibaba will use its e-mail marketing solution to handle messaging to both Chinese and international members who use the site to import and export goods. Alibaba, the largest e-commerce company operating in China today, will use ListManager to manage its communica...

It used to be that armed guards, locked file cabinets and vaults were the tools for securing currency, as businesses operated in a physical world. Today, information is the currency of the global economy, as consumers pay through electronic card swipes, employees are paid through direct deposit, and...

If you are running serious business applications on the Web, downtime or Web site slowness equals lost dollars. This is true either directly, by missed sales if you are running an e-commerce store, or indirectly, through lost customer trust if you are providing a Web-based solution to clients. When...

A proposed treaty that would expand the rights of broadcasters over what they deliver to consumers cleared a significant hurdle last week at a meeting of an international copyright panel. The panel -- the Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organiza...

It may seem simple, yet it is often overlooked. When it comes to choosing the right Internet hosting provider for their Web sites, the majority of business owners or companies know very little about making the best Internet/Web hosting decisions. What makes a good Internet/Web hoster for a business ...

The size of an organization's data mountain can be expected to double roughly every five years, which can be an overwhelming prospect. For the firm that has implemented effective data management procedures, though, there's gold in them there hills. Interest in GIS-based Web services, such as Google ...

Web analytics have become a critical part of every company's Web presence, but many businesses are often surprised by how time consuming traffic-crunching programs can be. That surprise can be most often pegged to two reasons, according to a report released Wednesday by Forrester Research. "Site own...

Verizon Communications became the second major telecom company in a week to back off a plan to replace a phased-out government fee with a surcharge of its own, after customers complained and regulators questioned its legality. Verizon had sought to charge customers of its high-speed DSL Internet ser...

Over the last decade, many businesses -- long established and newly formed alike -- have made the World Wide Web a key revenue-generating channel. Billions of dollars are transacted each year over the Web. For many, going online to make a purchase or to find information that will lead to a purchas...

Microsoft's efforts to build out its advertising network received a considerable boost with the announcement that Facebook has signed on with the company to receive online advertising services. As part of the multiyear contract, Microsoft will be the exclusive provider of banner advertising and spon...

The debate over net neutrality is getting a bit belligerent online. A senior executive at cable company Comcast is challenging the CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman, to a debate on the topic. A copy of a recent e-mail between David Cohen, executive vice president of Comcast, and Whitman has surfaced on the ...

In a move to attract more local businesses to its brand, Google on Monday launched a service that allows customers to print out discount coupons for local merchants from Google Maps. The new service targets value-conscious consumers with more than 20,000 coupons supplied by Cox Enterprises' ValPak D...

Sprint Nextel plans to invest up to US$3 billion over the next two years to build a fourth-generation wireless network based on the WiMax wireless broadband standard, the company announced Tuesday. Sprint believes that by embracing the emerging WiMax standard, it can be the first to market with an u...

In a market where most registrars have positioned themselves as full-service hosting firms, BulkRegister kept focusing on its original business model. The competitive advantage that it enjoyed by undercutting prices during its growth spurt in 2000 has been neutralized by the evolving business pract...