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As eBusiness drives more business, it is attracting more sophisticated marketers who bring with them classic training in marketing research methods from places like P&G. These marketers understand how critical customer research is in guiding their decisions in product development, messaging and ...

A host of gaming developers are using the Electronic Entertainment Expo to herald the widespread availability of direct-download games for mobile phones, a sign that gaming could join digital music and other services at the forefront of the mobile commerce trend. Electronic Arts, which is touting ei...

In the clearest sign yet that it wants to compete with rivals such as Yahoo and MSN in the portal business as well as pure search, Google has given users the ability to customize their Google home pages. The Google personalization feature enables users to fold a dozen different types of content into...

In a move that could at once spur the emergence of a fast-rising technology and possibly give an upper hand to traditional telecommunications companies, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted today to require most providers of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service to offer enhanced ...

America Online may have hit on the perfect way to get the name Netscape back into the midst of the browser wars with Netscape 8.0, unveiled today. At least one analyst has said that Web users should seriously consider switching to the browser, which has been in public beta testing since March. "In s...

Wal-Mart and Netflix have struck an agreement that calls for the retail giant to bow out of the online DVD rental business, a potentially huge victory for Netflix, but one that might only forestall the inevitable decline of the rental business amid the rise of video-on-demand. Under the agreement, N...

In a bid to beef up its instant messaging product and provide users with another reason to make it their Web portal of choice, Yahoo has rolled out an upgraded version of its Yahoo Messenger tool that features enhanced PC calling services. Yahoo launched what it's calling a "public beta" of its upgr...

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down some states' regulations limiting out-of-state shipments of wine. The ruling could help spur some e-commerce sales of wine, at least among individual vineyards. However, such sales are a small fraction of the overall market for wine, by most acco...

Pushing the boundaries of Internet video, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), has announced plans to test a program that would make full-length versions of its television shows available for download. The TV programs, which would be available free of charge, would be protected with digital right...

Hoping to spur wider use of mobile data services, especially among its key business customers, Verizon has rolled out support for a new high-end smartphone model and lowered the fees it charges enterprises to use hand-held devices to retrieve e-mail and perform other remote tasks. Verizon said it wo...

Do you have a startup that never made it off the ground? What happened? Did you not have all the technical components that you needed? Was your scope too broad? Were your sales and marketing strategies too weak? Did a key individual become distracted by issues in his or her personal life? Did you si...

Vonage, one of the early leaders among independent providers of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, is reportedly working out the final bugs in a WiFi-compatible service that could launch at any time. A Vonage spokesman did not return calls seeking comment, but several published reports say...

In what could be a huge boost for some e-commerce players, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down state laws barring consumers from buying wine and having the seller ship it across state borders. The 5-4 decision, handed down early today, dealt directly with state laws in Michigan and New York but...

Marketers have always wanted to track their customers' every move. Now, new scanning technologies linked to the Internet, may enable them to do so. Earlier this month ratings service Arbitron, Inc. and advertising specialty producer VNU disclosed that they have agreed to deploy during the next nine ...

Microsoft pulled back the curtain on its next generation console, Xbox 360, and announced some impressive features, but that and the fact that it beat its rivals to the public's eye, may not give it an edge in the market, one analyst said. "The market is going to be more evenly split this round -- r...