Applications

Hoping to convince more enterprises to ditch existing search tools for its offerings, Google is giving away its Google Mini search appliance to companies willing to make the switch to its high-end search tools for business. Customers who sign up to switch to Google Enterprise will be able to receive...

For the second time in less than a week, a company has debuted a service and billed it as the eBay for software, with Web services the target this time. StrikeIron Inc., a North Carolina-based firm that helps commercialize Web services, announced it was creating the StrikeIron Web Services Marketpla...

Bidding to one-up rival Google, Yahoo is rolling out enhancements to its Yahoo Mail search functions, enabling users to search attachments and e-mail text for specific words, phrases and photos. Yahoo said the upgrade is an acknowledgement that many users are stuffing their mailboxes full of message...

Bidding to one-up rival Google, Yahoo is rolling out enhancements to its Yahoo Mail search functions, enabling users to search attachments and e-mail text for specific words, phrases and photos. Yahoo said the upgrade is an acknowledgement that many users are stuffing their mailboxes full of message...

Marking perhaps its most ambitious departure to date from its core search business, Google unveiled its own instant messaging platform yesterday, one that includes voice chat options. Some analysts say the service could become a prelude to an even bigger leap in which Google becomes a provider of Vo...

Marking perhaps its most ambitious departure to date from its core search business, Google reportedly plans to unveil its own instant messaging platform this week, one that includes a voice chat options. Some analysts say the service could become a prelude to an even bigger leap in which Google beco...

Bidding to become a key entry way for the purchase of mobile services and content, America Online has launched a mobile storefront that users can customize to hold features designed for their phones and other hand-held devices. Most of the features will be available to all Web users and the site wil...

Web conferencing and Web-based seminars are taking a bite out of traditional business travel and telephone conference-call budgets, with companies like WebEx, Microsoft, Raindance and Netspoke leading the revolution. Indeed, with the surge in demand around Web conferencing technologies rapidly incre...

Understanding that retailers prefer to focus on the business of selling their wares rather than becoming experts in the technological guts of an e-commerce site, Demandware recently launched an on-demand, customizable e-commerce solution designed to eliminate the technical headaches often associated...

When it comes to developing a presence on the Internet, it takes far more than a catchy or easy-to-remember domain name. While it claims to be the first and largest registrar of domain names on the Internet, Network Solutions is expanding its range of services to meet the demands of both enterprise ...

The Liberty Alliance has released the second version of its identification standards for Web services technology, marking what analysts said is another step toward the convergence of identity specifications that will simplify processing. The global consortium's latest release of ID-WSF 2.0 is a publ...

Web analytics isn't what it used to be. A new breed of tools and technologies has led to a rebirth of analytical hopefuls, and well-known brands are hopping on board. Omniture is the largest stand-alone Web analytics application service provider. The company grew more than 150 percent in 2004, with ...

The hosting industry has come a long way since Affinity Internet entered the market in 1996. Hundreds of dot-com companies have disappeared or been reinvented. Clients are more sophisticated, with even the smallest operation demanding better products and more personalized service. Fort Lauderdale, F...

Today's corporations -- both large and midsize -- increasingly are turning over the operation and support of network- and Web-based applications to managed-hosting companies. These businesses specialize, either solely or through divisions, on providing high levels of uptime, protecting their clients...

At a time when the Internet represents a notable percentage of many organizations' revenue and market presence, it is becoming increasingly crucial for businesses to ensure their Web sites are performing well. Uptime is no longer enough. Today, organizations must make sure customers enjoy their onli...