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Sloth can be a deadly sin, or at least a potentially litigious one, and the rise of blogging on the Internet has peaked concern about this pitfall. The issue arises because bloggers, many or most of them amateurs, often overdose on cut-and-paste editing, which can result in copyright violations, Pau...

Yahoo has launched a self-service ad-placement network that is designed to offer small publishers, including bloggers, access to revenue from contextually relevant advertising, a service already offered by rival Google. Yahoo said the beta version of the expanded Yahoo Publisher Network is aimed at ...

It's no secret that consumers all over the world are far more politically savvy than they were a decade ago. They clearly support or oppose their own country's internal or external governmental policies. Most country's foreign policies, whether straight or sugarcoated, strategically branded or fals...

Casinos in Nevada might become the first to explore a new area of the Internet gambling frontier, enabling users to gamble on mobile devices while they're in and around casinos. A recently passed law makes Nevada the first state in the U.S. to allow the use of hand-held devices for gambling at casin...

Dogpile.com, the most heavily visited meta-search engine on the Web, has said it would add Microsoft's relatively new MSN Search tool to the array of engines it uses and also said that contrary to popular belief, different search engines provide vastly different results. The addition of MSN Search m...

Claria Corp. makes some US$100 million a year selling pop-up advertising on the Internet, but with the launch of its PersonalWeb product this month, it's hoping to hitch a ride on a bigger gravy train. With PersonalWeb, a permission-based vehicle for slotting customized advertising into Web pages, t...

American relations with China may be seen from both a political perspective and in regard to how U.S. firms are seeking to enter the Chinese market. We begin here with the political perspective and then examine strategies for U.S. firms seeking to enter Chinese markets. It can be hard for many peopl...

Seeking to lay claim to a technology that could help create a syndication network for advertising that would be distributed the way blogs and other newsfeeds are now, Google has applied for a patent for its RSS advertising feed. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a widely used technology that ena...

Yahoo today announced agreements with both CNN.com and ABC News in which both news organizations will provide daily video news feeds to Yahoo News starting next month. CNN.com will offer extensive video clips daily and ABC News will offer a robust package of on demand video content. All of the video...

Ask Jeeves launched a new paid listings program today, putting an automated, self-service auction system in place that mimics what search leaders Yahoo and Google offer to advertisers. The company said the Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings system would make it easier for advertisers to buy, manage and o...

Eying expanding opportunities in the corporate mobile data realm, Sybase said today it had agreed to buy a software company that makes middleware for enterprises. Sybase said it would pay about US$71.3 million in cash to acquire Extended Systems, an 11-year-old company whose main product, known as O...

Two reports on the state of the wireless industry indicate strong growth is continuing apace, with handset shipments riding a wave of sales in countries with emerging economies and U.S. mobile carrier subscription rates and mobile data usage continuing to expand. The reports from Strategy Analytics ...

In a snapshot of how competitive the battle has become to capture users' digital photography endeavors -- and the dollars that could follow -- Shutterfly has said it would begin offering its members free Web pages where they can store and share their images. Shutterfly Collections, as the service is...

A new study reveals that today's teenagers are more wired and Web-savvy than ever but also indicates that they are embracing non-traditional means to use the Internet -- bypassing e-mail in favor of instant messaging, for instance -- a trend that experts say will force the e-commerce industry to be ...

Web surfers are annoyed as hell and they're doing something about it. That's the thrust of the findings in a survey to be released next week by Hostway, a Chicago-based Web site hosting service with more than 400,000 global clients. According to preliminary information from the survey, obtained by t...