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Industry leaders in technology, banking, financial services and online auctioneering have joined forces with international law enforcement agencies to form Digital PhishNet, to tackle criminals "phishing" for online identity theft victims. The Digital PhishNet initiative creates a single, unified li...

Every now and then, our society is placed at a crossroads, a kind of a juxtaposition where a leading current technology gets run over by a bulldozer. Simply put, voice over Internet protocols (VoIP) might have found the missing link that would eventually replace the existing telephony. VoIP has made...

Recent activity in the business process management (BPM) space signals a coming of age for an application that until recently was the focus of pure-play BPM providers. So says Chuck Ames, president and CEO of Oak Grove Systems, a BPM software company based in Calabasas, California. JBoss' recent jBP...

Move over all you unsolicited ads for Vicodin and Viagra. Make way senders of ads for phony Rolex watches and new mortgages. You are about to share in-box space with something much more ethereal. Spiritual spam is on the rise. Managed e-mail and Internet security firm MessageLabs has spotted an emer...

Most of us are aware that the U.S. dollar has been struggling lately. Evidence the fact that it has been on a steady decline compared to the euro. In fact, the dollar recently fell to yet another record low against the euro. Besides meaning that your next trip to Europe will be more expensive, what ...

There are thousands of very, very small companies out there who will develop a logo at no cost, a tagline at no cost, get you a free domain name and a free Web site at no cost. I guess the next big thing will be that they also write you a fat check -- all for free. Who are these enterprises and how ...

While there are still a few days left in the holiday shopping season, all signs point to merry profits for portals. In the effort to catch that cash, this year has seen some eye-catching promotions from old favorites and some new players with promising propositions. It's all about the customer's sho...

Why do almost 80 percent of e-commerce and other software development projects undertaken in the U.S. fail to be completed on time, or within budget, or to function as anticipated? What is the biggest cause of these failures? Most problems stem from an unwillingness or inability to develop adequate ...

Much attention has been focused on the promise of enabling large business-to-business transactions over the Internet -- and many corporations can testify to the Web's transforming power to streamline inventory management. However, there's a new revolution coming online, and it's called micro-commerc...

On November 15, Google filed a lawsuit against Texas-based Auctions Expert International (AEI) for engaging in "click fraud" and attempting to force Google's advertisers to pay for fraudulently generated clicks. Google claims, among other things, that AEI constructed its Web site with the sole purpo...

The global population is divided into two major groups: open minds in closed societies and closed minds in open societies. Therefore, the marketing and naming of products must address the issues of sexual connotation with extraordinary depth, care and caution. Suddenly, French Connection of UK went ...

A strange thing happened after Tara Bradford was "Bangalored" and her job was moved to India. She followed it and stayed. In 2003, Tara was working in the U.S. as a trainer of customer service representatives for Earthlink, an Internet service provider. It was her fourth year with Earthlink and she ...

Some people have the erroneous idea that a small business cannot effectively compete against larger competitors. This concept is quite far from the truth. For example, if someone were to ask you, "What is a major source of job formations in America today?," what would you answer? If you said small b...

In the not-too-distant past, search toolbars were risky specialty add-ons offered by Internet marketing mavens. Users who installed search toolbars often were granting permission without knowing it to intruders harvesting data on addresses and surfing habits and opening the backdoor to their compute...

Is this the dawning of the age of branding or just another black hole? The term "Le Branding" started out in the Dark Ages, where marks were burned onto cattle. On ever-so-slowly-evolving minds of the Homo sapiens, this word also made a solid impression and provides a daily dose of comfort. Belongin...