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Corporations appear to be spending more time and money on regulatory compliance now than at any other time in recent history. In fact, the largest U.S. corporations spent an average of $4.6 million implementing Sarbanes-Oxley Act section 404 controls in their first year of implementation, and Forres...

The push for high-definition radio received a vote of confidence Tuesday when Sony unveiled the latest additions to its line of audio consumer electronics: a tabletop HD radio and an in-car audio adapter. "Sony is one of the first leading consumer electronics companies to offer quality HD radio-ena...

Domain name registrar and Web site hosting firm GoDaddy has reached an agreement to take over tens of thousands of domain names maintained by a rival firm that is about to lose its accreditation to register and host Web addresses. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based GoDaddy reached an agreement with the Interne...

The Federal Trade Commission reportedly is formally investigating Google's proposed takeover of interactive ad firm DoubleClick, with the agency weighing both the potential antitrust and consumer privacy issues of the blockbuster deal. The FTC has acknowledged receiving complaints about the possible...

Senders of unsolicited electronic messages, also known as spammers, are deploying a new generation of image spam to outsmart e-mail filters and other technologies designed to thwart them. They're cutting corners by linking their spam message to a photo from a popular image-hosting site, instead of s...

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook provide a means for many people to share their lives with others, but are they and other Webposts that are turning the free content of their subscribers into economic gain, a new form of sharecropping? It certainly seems that way, according to Nic...

Google may be violating European Union privacy laws by storing user information on customer queries for prolonged periods of time, advisers to EU regulators informed the company. An independent European Union committee has begun an investigation to determine whether Google adheres to privacy guideli...

The state of Connecticut is suing electronics retailer Best Buy, saying the company deceived customers by using in-store kiosks linked to an employee-only Web site to suggest that bargains posted on the company's public-facing site were no longer available. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blume...

Social networking is the best-known use of the Web 2.0 -- just consider the popularity of MySpace and YouTube. Today, Web sites are so interactive and collaborative we now have a new way of communicating and staying in touch. Because of this, many have been wondering where the Web 2.0 -- the latest ...

Social networking is popular on the Web. So is shopping. Imagine, then, the potential of Net shops that combine the two into a package called "social shopping." Until recently, most designers of e-commerce sites have concentrated on catering to individual shoppers -- what the research firm Gartner c...

Shifting away, at least temporarily, from its once potent direct-sales model, Dell next month will begin selling desktop personal computers in thousands of Wal-Mart stores across North America. Starting June 10, two new Dell desktop models will be available for less than $700 at Wal-Mart, the discou...

More Americans are taking a carefree attitude toward the nuisance of spam clogging their e-mail in-boxes, according to a new study. Better familiarity, spam filtering and a decrease in pornography-laced spam have eased users' concerns over the scourge. "It's starting to become part of life online," ...

Internet advertising grew by about 35 percent in 2006, according to a new study that suggests companies and their advertising agencies are increasingly embracing the Web as a viable place to build brands and sell goods. Online advertising revenue grew to $16.9 billion last year, according to the lat...

HP and the SEC have reached a settlement on charges that HP misled investors by not disclosing that a board member had resigned over the spying tactics used by the former chairman. HP agreed to an SEC order that contains no penalties and admits no wrongdoing but contains a pledge that the company wi...

Complex event processing is a rapidly growing software sector that is creating a new generation of real-time, event-driven business applications. CEP is the engine behind ultra-low latency trading systems in financial services, applications that monitor and proactively manage customer interactions w...