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A new survey conducted by Insight Advantage and sponsored by IT security company Workshare, based in San Francisco, shows that organizations are not doing enough to prevent IT data breaches and the loss of "sensitive" data. The survey is based on interviews with 359 executives responsible for securi...

Shares of Microsoft were higher Friday after the software giant reported lower earnings -- due in part to its standoff with European antitrust regulators -- and said it would aggressively move to buy back as much as US$40 billion worth of its own stock. Microsoft said profit for its fourth quarter f...

Google reprised its role as Wall Street darling Thursday, releasing second-quarter earnings that showed strong revenue and profit growth, beating forecast targets and apparently widening the gap between itself and its main rivals. The company posted earnings of US$772 million, or $2.49 per share, on...

In a recent article for the E-Commerce Times entitled "Monetary Unions: Are We on Our Way?, I talked about what I feel are the present dangers to the dollar and whether or not currency consolidation would reduce the risk of a dollar crisis. For that article, I interviewed Morrison Bonpasse, the pres...

E-mail marketers at Time saw a significant increase in the effectiveness of their campaigns when testing a delivery system that certifies the origin of electronic messages. The system, Goodmail, is designed to create a trusted class of bulk e-mail that won't be hampered by spam filters imposed by In...

Seeking to help quantify the Web's impact on the problem of childhood obesity, the Kaiser Family Foundation said in a report issued Wednesday that many top food producers are using the Web to target children with powerful brand messages. In a report titled "It's Child's Play: Advergaming and the Onl...

Online auction and fixed-sales giant eBay reported earnings that largely met expectations and set the outlook higher for the remainder of the year. The company also unveiled plans to raise fees in a bid to further boost revenues. eBay posted earnings of US$250 million, down from $291.6 million in t...

As personal technology goes, Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) are more than just a replacement for tape-based VCRs: They're a boon to TV watchers and the enemy of the traditional 30-second television advertising spot, for decades the single most powerful and lucrative form of brand advertising. Device...

Netflix on Wednesday announced a partnership with NBC in which the broadcast company will offer the online movie rental service's subscribers an advanced screening of the premiere episodes of its upcoming drama series, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and "Kidnapped." The shows will be made available...

Shares of Yahoo traded lower by nearly 20 percent Wednesday morning as investors and analysts digested an on-target earnings announcement overshadowed by word that the launch of its long-awaited self-service advertising platform would be delayed. Yahoo said it earned US$164.3 million, or 11 cents pe...

While nearly 90 percent of computer users have software on their machines to protect them from malware like viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware, almost two-thirds of those users are reluctant to upgrade the software after it's installed. That was the finding in a survey released Monday by security s...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a partnership with Nortel, its latest effort to put its applications in the center of a unified communications approach that combines Microsoft software with Nortel communications gear. The two companies said they had agreed to a four-year alliance that will make Norte...

With debate over the regulation of online gambling continuing in Congress, law enforcement sent a clear message that existing laws would be aggressively enforced Monday by seeking the arrest of both the CEO and the founder of a leading online sports betting site. David Carruthers, CEO of BetOnSports...

Investors are grabbing shares in technology companies, as excellent economic reports keep coming from the U.S. government indicating that the federal budget deficit is down dramatically and tax collections have increased by 25 percent during this fiscal year. Infosys Technologies last week said it a...

Online advertisers beware. Click fraud is on the rise, according to numbers released Monday by the Click Fraud Index, an independent click fraud reporting service. Pay-per-click fraud reached 14.1 percent of all clicks tallied in the second quarter of 2006, slightly higher than the average of 13.7 p...