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XM Satellite Radio today announced that next year it will offer programming that can play both satellite radio and digitally delivered spoken-word audio provided by Audible, a seller of downloadable audio versions of books, newspapers and other printed matter. The content from Audible, the world's l...

Sprint Communications recently became the latest wireless communications company to turn over its e-commerce efforts to a third party, extending a trend that recognizes the benefits of having a Web sales specialist handle online sales and marketing. Sprint has signed a long-term deal with InPhonic t...

Aiming to grab a bigger piece of the online auction business, Yahoo has said it will eliminate fees charged for using its auction site, a move that seems directly aimed at sellers who would normally turn to eBay to sell their goods. Yahoo is eliminating both the listing fees -- the up-front charges ...

Hoping to use a hybrid technology to provide fast-growing Internet calling services to customers, Covad and EarthLink today said they would begin testing a service that uses existing phone lines to provide high-speed Web access and voice over Internet protocol calling services. The technology uses C...

Microsoft announced software upgrades today that will give Outlook users free access to wireless corporate e-mail on mobile devices. The move means that millions of wireless handset users will no longer have to wait for IT managers to install separate server computers. Specifically, Microsoft is off...

One of the most interesting, though predictable, empirical regularities in the new software exporting nations' (for example, India, Pakistan, etc.) quest for prominence is the importance of diaspora entrepreneurship. The stories of the instrumental role played by successful non-resident Indians (NRI...

Google today announced its latest salvo in the hot competition in the search landscape: a free online service intended to allow webmasters to automatically submit their Web pages to Google to be indexed in a bid to improve the results of online searches. Google Sitemaps is a beta release and is desi...

In a move likely to have reverberations across the Web, online poker site PartyGaming has filed for what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in the recent history of the London Stock Exchange. PartyGaming, which is based in Gibraltar, said it will seek to stage its IPO by the end of...

Are federal computers more secure today than they were in 2002 when the Congress passed the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)? That depends. Some agencies are in various stages of compliance, while others are not as far along. "The task is brutally difficult, at best," said Yvonne ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the oversight group for the World Wide Web, has begun negotiations that could lead to the establishment of a separate domain for pornography sites. ICANN said it has begun to have "commercial and technical negotiations" with ICM Regist...

Almost since its inception, Monster.com has been the biggest job board on the Internet and number one stop for job seekers in Cyberspace. Yesterday, the Web site, which is the flagship of Monster Worldwide, announced two moves designed to maintain its stature as the leading career site on the Intern...

EBay will buy comparison shopping and search Web site Shopping.com for US$620 million, the auction giant's largest acquisition in nearly three years and one that positions it to compete against Yahoo, Google, Amazon.com and others in the quest to help online shoppers quickly find their e-commerce qu...

You've devised a brilliant opt-in marketing campaign, complete with an educational newsletter that's all the rage. Your sales are spiking and your list is growing. Then it happens -- some spammer uses phraseology that is similar to your corporate name or some malicious code writer launches a virus w...

Aiming to take the popular financial news and information pages of its portal to new levels and target an affluent class of users in the process, Yahoo's Japan subsidiary has announced plans to link with two stock trading brokerages. Yahoo Japan said it struck basic deals with E*Trade Securities, Ja...

Recently, we came out of the age of curiosity, entered the age of scarcity and are now sinking in the age of abundance. Everything is here. Today, all over the world, millions of identical companies are producing millions of identical products and services, and they are pushing identical prices on i...