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In a move that could help unlock the potential for selling feature-length movies over the Internet, Movielink Monday said it had reached an agreement to license technology allowing downloaded movies to be burned onto DVDs by users. Movielink said it had licensed the technology to allow DVD burning b...

Looking to retain its lead in one area where it has a significant advantage on its portal rivals, Yahoo said Monday it would add new features and products as part of a redesign of its Finance site. Yahoo Finance remains the category leader, out-drawing MSN's site, a resurgent AOL offering and Google...

eBay's recent decision to ban Google Checkout as an acceptable payment method raised the eyebrows of some in the online community who cried that the restriction is unfair to consumers. Yet the move opens up a debate as to how online merchants should balance the risks and benefits of accepting altern...

Several memory chip makers continue to be penalized for alleged price fixing efforts that did nothing to stem the falling price of their products from the late 1990s to 2002. The chip makers, which include Samsung, Micron, Infineon, Elpida, Hynix, Mosel-Vitelic, Nanya Technology and NEC, are being s...

Dell said Thursday it would change the way it prices its personal computers, drastically reducing the number of rebate offers. The move does not represent a pure price cut, according to Dell, but instead comes in response to complaints from small businesses and residential customers about confusing ...

A revamping of security standards is being prepared by the major payment card issuers and is expected to be announced within the next 60 days. "[MasterCard along] with other payment brands including American Express, Discover, JCB and Visa are currently considering potential, recommended updates to ...

Shares of German software giant SAP were battered Thursday after the company warned that earnings and revenue would fall short of forecasts. The announcement fed speculation that rival Oracle's aggressive growth-by-acquisition strategy has started to erode SAP's market share. SAP shares gave up as ...

The European Union's second-highest court has struck down the regulatory approval of the merger of Sony Music and the music business of Bertelsmann nearly two years after the deal was completed. While the decision could force the undoing of the earlier merger, which created Sony BMG, it may also und...

Threats from hackers are converging -- not just coming in on e-mail, or over the Web, or via Instant Messaging (IM), but through all three media, simultaneously, heightening the threat level that computer users are facing. This week, MessageLabs released its "Q2 2006 Intelligence Report," detailing ...

Antitrust regulators from the European Union levied a US$357 million fine against Microsoft for failing to comply with an earlier order to reduce the impact of its Windows monopoly. The latest fines bring the total financial penalties assessed by the EU against the software giant to close to $1 bill...

Although comparison shopping motivates many a consumer to shop online, it's second fiddle for small businesses shopping on the Net, according to a study released by JupiterResearch last Friday. The most significant factor governing purchases on the Web by small businesses is previous experience or f...

Google is planning to open a new, 1,000-employee facility in Michigan that will handle its highly profitable AdWords operations -- but Google watchers using this particular decision to augur the company's direction are likely wasting their time. Other than reinforcing Google's intention to continue ...

As expected, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would clear the way for a crackdown on Internet gambling. The long-term prospects for the legislation is less clear, however, and the legislation is already being assailed as an election-year ploy by Congressional...

Lucent Technologies warned Monday that lower sales in North America would cause its revenue and profit to drop from a year ago for the quarter that ended in June. Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent -- which agreed to be bought by Alcatel of France earlier this year in a deal worth US$13.45 billion -- sa...

Employees at all levels within the enterprise are privy to a wide range of sensitive and proprietary information, which holds a high risk of damage if handled inappropriately. Those same employees are highly reliant upon e-mail for the effective distribution of information. And yet, for most of the...