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For the second time in a month, Apple Computer has filed a lawsuit accusing Singapore-based computer and consumer device maker Creative Technology of infringing on its patents, including those behind the market-dominant iPod portable music player. The suit from Apple comes after Creative, which is t...

Jason Papier started his own personal finance podcast before Apple's iTunes Music Store began peddling podcasts. Today, Papier's show, Pro Money Talk, is the number one rated personal finance podcast on iTunes. Pro Money Talk targets successful people with knowledge, tools and ideas designed to give...

Adding a new twist in the music industry's search for the right way to sell digital tunes and prevent piracy, EMI Music said Tuesday it has agreed to become the first label to make its catalog available on an ad-supported peer-to-peer network. EMI said it would make music from its catalog available ...

IBM said Tuesday it would triple the amount it spends to build out its India operations over the next three years, spending US$6 billion to hire workers and build research labs and other facilities. CEO Samuel J. Palmisano announced the planned investment during a speech to some 10,000 of IBM's 43,0...

An alarming failure rate for new products has corporations looking to consumers to drive innovation in their markets, according to report released by Forrester Research. "In the consumer products industry, upwards of 85 percent of new products fail after a couple of years in the market," the report'...

Last year, in the path of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, thousands of businesses realized too late how vulnerable their data was. Many businesses found themselves down for days, and some never recovered from the data loss. With the 2006 hurricane season under way, company executives who remember the d...

With its initial public offering stumbling badly out of the gate, VoIP provider Vonage has been hit with a suit from a law firm representing shareholders, many of whom were customers who bought shares at a price higher than the stock is now trading. The law firm of Motley Rice LLC said Friday it fil...

The Internet has made it simple for consumers to shop and in some cases to find the best deal when making a purchase. Comparison shopping engines collect information, such as product pricing, feature set and shipment costs, from various vendors, and then present that data to users. While consumers t...

Can you discern a fake e-mail from a legitimate one? Most consumers can't, but erroneously think they can, according to a new study by Bank of America and National Cyber Security Alliance, a copy of which was provided to the E-Commerce Times. The survey showed that 87 percent of consumers polled sai...

Microsoft could soon face another private antitrust suit after talks with Adobe broke down over the level of support Microsoft would include for portable document format (PDF) in its upcoming Office 2007 suite. Reports say Microsoft expects Adobe to file suit, most likely in Europe, where regulators...

Most of us have a subtle, almost subconscious, awareness that the dollar is vulnerable to a currency crisis. Why? Because we realize that our US$4.8 trillion national debt is growing, due to our yearly deficits that have been running in the hundreds of billions. What has kept our dollar strong so fa...

Choosing an e-commerce software system from among the wide variety of vendor offerings available in today's marketplace can be tricky. Once you've settled on a particular application, application package or enterprise system, choosing the form and function that best suits your business needs and org...

In a possible prelude to widespread Internet video offerings, Yahoo has revamped its online video site, creating television-like channels and offering users the chance to publish their own video where it can potentially be seen by millions. Focused for now on enabling viral video to be widely seen, ...

After four straight years of declining revenue, Sun Microsystems said Wednesday it plans to cut 4,000 to 5,000 jobs in the next six months. The layoffs are part of a series of cost-cutting measures the company's board of directors approved to stimulate growth and a return to consistent profitability...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the search company has no plans to develop its own browser, squelching long-simmering rumors that it would develop an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer but stopping short of ruling it out entirely. Speaking during a Webcast update with analysts on Wednesday, S...