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It seems like everybody's talking about e-discovery nowadays -- just take a look at any IT trade journal or IT news source and you're likely to see at least one article about what e-discovery is and how to prepare for it. However, despite all this attention, both in IT and legal circles, there are s...

Yahoo reported financial results for the second quarter of 2007 Tuesday, bringing the company a rise in revenue over the same quarter of last year as well as a significant drop in profit. Overall revenues rose 8 percent for the quarter, up to $1.7 billion, while marketing services revenues rose $1.4

Battle-weary Intel emerged from the price-war trenches Tuesday to report that its profits increased 44 percent and revenues were up 8 percent in the second quarter. With revenues of $8.7 billion and net income of $1.3 billion for the quarter, the chipmaker also reported that operating income increas...

While looking for information about writing for Web pages, you simply cannot avoid the topic "keyword density." Let's start with a definition: Keyword density measures the percentage of keywords and key phrases compared to the total number of words in your Web page body. There are many opinions abo...

Revenue from search-related advertising on mobile phones will crack the $2 billion mark in 2011, according to a report released last week by a market and trend analysis firm. Search-related advertising -- which has made outfits like Google revenue powerhouses -- will grow mightily worldwide during t...

Answers Corp., which owns Answers.com, plans to acquire Dictionary.com for a cool $100 million, the company announced Monday. Technically, Answers will buy Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. In June, Lexico's sites attracted 11.5 million unique mon...

Microsoft's search unit scored significant gains in June thanks to its newly launched Live Search Club, according to new data that also showed Google's share of the Web search market slipping below 50 percent. Google is still the dominant search player, according to data from comScore, accounting fo...

Google's Enterprise unit continued its recent barrage of product rollouts and other moves, unveiling Google Custom Search Business Edition, a paid version of its popular ad-supported site search tool. The service allows users to customize the search results page to match their Web sites' look and fe...

How many times have you read a book and realized that you can't recall a major character? Or, maybe you were left wondering how an important plot came to pass. The average novel contains 50,000 lines of text. Now, imagine a multimillion-line novel written by a team of authors over the course of dec...

As the July 15 deadline for new Internet radio royalty rates to take effect sailed by in relative peace, most Internet radio webcasters remained up and running following initial results of compromise talks late last week between webcasters and SoundExchange. Most recently, SoundExchange, the arm of ...

IBM has landed a $1.4 billion contract to provide outsourced information technology services to pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, a deal that boosts IBM's service arm and enhances its reputation in the key life sciences vertical. The seven-year deal calls for Big Blue to run servers, data storage sy...

Shares of Verizon soared in early trading Monday on the heels of a published report suggesting that UK-based Vodafone was mulling whether to offer as much as $160 billion to acquire the U.S. telecommunications giant. Verizon's stock was up nearly 4 percent Monday after reports said Vodafone had held...

Today's online shoppers may be more cautious than they were two years ago. Some are waiting up to 35 hours before completing a shopping cart transaction. A study of consumers' Internet buying habits suggests that online merchants face stiffer competition and new hurdles in closing sales over the Web...

Hoping to put its run-in with the options backdating scandal to rest, VeriSign said Thursday its chief financial officer would be replaced and said it would restate results for four full years. VeriSign will take a charge of around $160 million to account for the restatement of results from 2002 to ...

Warner Music Group has settled a federal copyright-infringement lawsuit it filed in May against the social networking Web site Imeem. Warner alleged that Imeem had allowed members to illegally download copyrighted material and was operating its site without any sort of copyright compliance or filter...