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Oracle's first-quarter software sales soared some 35 percent -- the largest year-over-year gain since the dot-com boom -- helping propel it past forecasts and prompting executives to declare that the company is gaining on rivals such as IBM and SAP. Oracle said it earned $840 million, or 16 cents pe...

E-mail greeting card scams popular during the summer months seem to have lost their luster for information highwaymen. "We've seen an awful lot of greeting card malware in the last couple of months, but scammers have moved on to new techniques, simply because there was so much of it about that it st...

President Bush wants to renew and expand the controversial temporary surveillance legislation he rushed into law last month. The law, also known as the "Protect America Act," updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by permitting warrantless surveillance of any targets located abroad, even ...

NBC became the latest television network to plant a stake in its own piece of Internet video turf, saying it would make free downloads of first-run television shows available directly to viewers through its Web site. Known as NBC Direct, the offering has implications affecting various players in the...

It seems that businesses, whether they're small or global 2000 concerns, are buying more supplies using search at some point in the B2B procurement process. Some people begin and end a procurement journey with search. They actually buy the products through a strictly search-dependent process. Yet ma...

MySpace is tapping into its rich universe of content -- that is, its users' profiles -- to bulk up its advertising platform. The ubiquitous social networking Web site will be matching ads to people's profiles so that visitors to, say, a music aficionado's page will see adds for music Web sites. MySp...

Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, Time Warner has no plans to sell AOL, Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons said Tuesday. "We are focused right now on building the best third-party ad platform we can within AOL and at the same time increasing our own inventory," Parsons told analysts at a Gold...

Bidding to turn the widget phenomenon it helped nurture into a revenue producer and convince users and publishers to share ads with each other, Google announced Wednesday it would expand a test of highly interactive ads that run within the Web site plug-ins. Google Gadget Ads is being tested with a ...

The whipping that lenders have taken in the subprime mortgage market could prove beneficial to the nation's technology sector, according to a venture capitalist turned professor. Howard Anderson, a founder of the Yankee Group, as well as two venture capital companies, and now a professor at the Sloa...

Just two months after venture capital firm Bay Partners launched a fund for Facebook developers, Facebook itself and two of its backers have done much the same thing with a new, $10 million program. Dubbed the "fbFund," the program aims to create continuing incentives for the development of Facebook...

Google has launched a mobile version of its AdSense program in several major markets, the latest in a series of high-profile moves that underscore the mounting interest in delivering marketing messages to mobile phones and other devices. Google has been offering a version of its AdWords search marke...

In a move that could reignite the e-mail wars among major Web players, Yahoo said Monday it will buy open source e-mail firm Zimbra for $350 million -- the third splashy purchase made since cofounder Jerry Yang took over as CEO in June and promised to return Yahoo to its roots. Yahoo said Zimbra's e...

While bill payers and many businesses have been slow to adopt cyber billing, consumers are much more accepting of paying their monthly bills electronically. Still, consumers often face a struggle with merchants who don't make e-payments a priority or the process of paying online easy to set up. Acce...

No. 1 handset maker Nokia said Monday it will buy Enpocket, a startup that focuses on creating and delivering targeted brand advertising to mobile phones. Finland-based Nokia did not disclose the purchase price it paid for the privately held firm, but said it will be use the acquisition to "accelera...

The free music download site SpiralFrog.com has finally croaked its first notes. The company's online launch has been in the works since August of last year, and the company missed its well-publicized December 2006/early 2007 launch plans, apparently due to executive shakeups. Today, however, end us...