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In a move to compete in the growing market for local search services, Amazon.com today launched "A9.com Yellow Pages," a new local business search directory complete with photos. Analysts said if the concept takes off, it could expand the world of e-commerce. Amazon's "Block View" technology aims to...

Using e-mail for personal and business correspondence has become as commonplace today as the VCR and the office water cooler. All three items are often taken for granted. Consumers have come to expect certain constants when it comes to computing: antivirus and firewall software are must-have securit...

Internet service provider EarthLink and South Korean mobile communications company SK Telecom today announced a joint venture to market wireless voice and data services in the U.S. The company will be called SK-EarthLink, and EarthLink founder and director Sky Dayton will serve its chief executive.

Speakeasy, a national broadband Internet service provider (ISP), said it will be the first to distribute a customized version of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser to its customers. The development was immediately being called significant because it stands to open up an entirely new distributi...

Microsoft announced today that it will combat piracy of its flagship product by requiring Windows users to verify that their copy of the operating system is genuine in order to receive timely updates and security fixes. The new initiative, called Windows Genuine Advantage, will phase in beginning in...

For any corporation with plans to hit the markets with an IPO in 2005 or beyond, here are some key points. Just as how your latest technology and other corporate assets are essential to develop great financials for a potential IPO, your corporate image and brand name recognition are equally importan...

As part of a search industry move toward multi-media, Google today launched a new service that enables users to search the content of television programs. Google will let people search for text in closed-captioning of television shows on PBS, the NBA, Fox News and C-SPAN, among others. The news come...

Rumors that Google is actively developing its own browser -- talk that Google downplayed last fall -- have gained new life as the leading search engine hired the engineer most responsible for development of the Firefox browser. Ben Goodger, the lead programmer of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox, wh...

If ignorance is bliss, then that would explain why so many Internet users are happy with the online search experience. A new survey by Pew Internet & American Life shows that while users are extremely satisfied with search engines, they are also strikingly unaware of which results are paid listi...

IBM has agreed to pay US$182 million in cash to acquire hosted applications firm Corio in a move aimed at strengthening Big Blue's line of application services. The deal gives IBM control of Corio's Applications on Demand platform, which targets midsized businesses that need applications quickly but...

Popular style guides such as Strunk and White's 1918 classic The Elements of Style and the original 1906 Chicago Manual of Style were published before the advent of computers or e-mail. As such, their rules are not always relevant to the exigencies of e-commerce and electronic business communication...

Travelzoo, which came to be on the strength of dot-com promotional blitz that included stock giveaways and more recently became a rising star among e-commerce stocks, today said the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating stock market activity by some employees for possible insider...

Microsoft today said it will not appeal a European Union court order to immediately implement antitrust sanctions. The defeat forces the company to remove its Media Player and video software from its Windows platform in the 25-nation block and to give interoperability information to rivals. Microsof...

Bidding to stoke sales in some of the biggest ticket items on its sprawling auction site, eBay has announced a deal to extend direct financing to buyers of automobiles on eBay Motors through Web-based firm E-Loan. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed, and for the time being, the pac...

Amazon.com is giving Web developers free access to data and technology to help them build applications for the online retailer's customers and sellers on its six global Web sites, the company said today. Andy Jassy, Amazon vice president of Web Services, said: "Some developers already have applicati...