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Marking perhaps its most ambitious departure to date from its core search business, Google unveiled its own instant messaging platform yesterday, one that includes voice chat options. Some analysts say the service could become a prelude to an even bigger leap in which Google becomes a provider of Vo...

Looking to fend off Internet access competition from cable companies and entice those still using dial-up onto higher speed connections, Verizon Communications and Yahoo said they would work together to offer a co-branded DSL service at a discounted price. Verizon Yahoo for DSL will be available in ...

Marking perhaps its most ambitious departure to date from its core search business, Google reportedly plans to unveil its own instant messaging platform this week, one that includes a voice chat options. Some analysts say the service could become a prelude to an even bigger leap in which Google beco...

In what could be a preview of an expanded product menu featuring more items delivered digitally, Amazon.com has begun selling short stories and novel excerpts from well-known authors. Amazon Shorts sell through their own storefront on Amazon for 49 cents each and will feature content from top author...

Just as there are precautions that you can take to retain access to e-mail privileges, there are methods which you can use to regain e-mail access. Some ISPs in the U.S. block all e-mail from IP addresses known to be responsible for spam or other forms of Internet abuse. If your ISP is not protectin...

Approximately 10 years old, the affiliate marketing industry is one of the newest in performance marketing. Legalities, best practices and associations are in their infancy stages. That said, affiliate fraud is rampant. Every morning I tackle the previous night's Filinet affiliate signups to run ...

Search giant Google has updated its desktop search software with new features while also addressing privacy and security issues. Industry analysts said the latest version is both a natural extension and a significant improvement. However, there is also likely to be a lot of similar desktop search up...

In what could be a preview of an expanded product menu featuring more items delivered digitally, Amazon.com has begun selling short stories and novel excerpts from well-known authors. Amazon Shorts sell through their own storefront on Amazon for 49 cents each and will feature content from top author...

OK, businesses now have proof of their suspicions: Employees are wasting the boss's time -- billions of dollars of company time, according to a July AOL/Salary.com survey. So, what's a boss to do? Well, contrary to what many guilty employees would like to think, they are not simply sitting back and ...

Microsoft may not change how RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are referred to in a still-in-development version of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, but the software giant's consideration of a name change has sparked a Web-wide debate about what to call the content feeds and whether a new mon...

Hoping to raise awareness of its role as handler of much of the traffic that makes the World Wide Web possible, Akamai Technologies has unveiled a news usage index that shows when and where people are accessing online news sources. The Akamai Net Usage Index will be updated every five minutes to giv...

Google surprised analysts yesterday by announcing that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of more than 14 million class A common shares of stock. The Internet IPO darling has seen its shares triple since going public a yea...

When WorldCom, the telecommunications giant, failed and was put into bankruptcy, the U.S. witnessed one of the largest accounting frauds in history. Former CEO, Bernie Ebbers, 63, was convicted of orchestrating this US$11 billion accounting fraud and was sentenced to 25 years in prison on July 13, 2...

Google surprised analysts today by announcing that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of more than 14 million class A common shares of stock. The Internet IPO darling has seen its shares triple since going public a year ag...

Renting entertainment could be the wave of the future, and Microsoft isn't about to miss it. The company that brought us "Janus," the digital rights management (DRM) scheme that allows subscription music services like Napster On The Go to exist, has announced a deal with Exent, of Bethesda, Md., a p...