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America Online announced plans yesterday to offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to its customers within a month. AOL Chief Executive Jon Miller said "it's really time" for VoIP services during his keynote address at the VON Spring 2005 conference in San Jose, Calif. Even though Miller ...

E-commerce is growing in leaps and bounds. Searching on global engines for business names based on "Web" or "Net," like WebCom, WebTech, NetSys or NetWeb, will now result in millions of matches. This signals a crisis for business name identities, corporate images and global cyber-branding. The same ...

Malicious code writers have apparently pounced on a known security vulnerability in MSN Messenger, unleashing a rash of new viruses aimed at Microsoft's instant messenger platform. The outbreak of viruses comes about three weeks after a vulnerability in the platform was published online. That brough...

Handset maker Nokia has joined with a slew of European-based partners to launch a test of a mobile television service in the Finland capital city of Helsinki. Nokia and its partners, including MTV and the Finnish national broadcasting company on the content side, as well local mobile carriers and te...

If you mention travel in Pakistan and India, Americans often think about safety. I'm in my fifth week of travel in Pakistan and recently spent three years living in India. The best safety tip for business travelers is a local cell phone with numbers added to its address book for people whom you are ...

Hoping to put another episode of dot-com era accounting fraud to rest, Homestore said it has finalized a class action lawsuit filed by investors in the e-commerce company over accounting fraud in the wake of the dot-com collapse. The Westlake Village, California-based company said the settlement in ...

Online news sources gained more clout in the 2004 elections, eroding the dominance of traditional news outlets such as newspapers and radio, according to a new survey. The Pew Internet & American Life Project said that 37 percent of the adult population of the U.S. and 61 percent of the online p...

Understanding that retailers prefer to focus on the business of selling their wares rather than becoming experts in the technological guts of an e-commerce site, Demandware recently launched an on-demand, customizable e-commerce solution designed to eliminate the technical headaches often associated...

Bringing its massive reach and brand power to a rapidly emerging niche, Yahoo said today it had launched a studio that would focus on developing video games for smartphones and other mobile devices. The Web portal said the studio is already at work producing its first games for Verizon Wireless and ...

Moving quickly to protect the rights of emerging voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) providers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined a North Carolina-based telecommunications carrier for refusing to accept traffic from Vonage. The action from the FCC came less than a month after Von...

This article will focus on how Europe is handling SOX compliance for their companies whose shares are listed in the United States. Briefly stated, Europe is pretty far behind the U.S. in compliance and it looks as though they might never fully comply with the law in its present form. By now, most of...

In the latest example of how rapidly search marketing is evolving, Google has said it will feature more editorial-style reviews in its Local Search product. The search giant formally launched Google Local today and said it will use its search technology to return more results with Web sites that off...

Mobile handset maker Motorola has jumped into second place worldwide and is gaining ground on many of its rivals as the market for mobile phones continues to expand rapidly to record sales volume. A report from Gartner says that a surge of sales in the fourth quarter, when sales jumped 24 percent, h...

State regulation of e-commerce is currently seeking new territory in the online dating industry. Online dating services are a lucrative and rapidly growing industry that continues to draw concerns about the manner in which its members conduct themselves. An increasing number of U.S. states have resp...

TiVo announced today it has been awarded eight new patents in the U.S. and abroad, with five awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that, the company said, cover important aspects of DVD software and hardware design. TiVo also received three grants from the Chinese and Japanese pat...