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Global competition, legal issues, technological advances, changes in manufacturing and tracking their constantly evolving target markets are more than enough challenges for many companies to deal with. Add to them internal requirements -- human resources, accounting, information technology -- and th...

Like thousands of other online retailers, 2004 was a banner year for PearlParadise.com. And, like thousands of other online retailers, much of the company's success came during the holiday shopping season that many are calling a turning point for e-commerce. Numbers don't lie. The online pearl purve...

Longtime Microsoft Chief Financial Officer John Connors is quitting the company to become a partner in a Seattle venture capital firm, ending a 16-year-run with the software giant, much of it spent as the financial spokesperson while the company underwent major changes. Microsoft did not immediately...

Every corporation has a face, captured by its name identity and its image, including the overall image delivery system to push that name in the marketplace. Whether you like it or not, your corporate image is out there and is fully exposed. Following are the Five Faces of Corporate Image. The questi...

Another mobile virus has been spotted by security researchers, again designed to attack Symbian-based smart phones, but this time able to spread by more than one method. Like the vast majority of mobile viruses, the Lasco worm, as the threat has been dubbed, is aimed at the Symbian operating system....

In their search for ways around anti-spam legislation, some spammers are using unregistered domains to distribute unwanted messages, a tactic experts say is putting additional strain on servers at Internet service providers and on corporate networks. Illegal commercial spammers, wary of being tracke...

First it was Google, then Microsoft and Ask Jeeves. Now Yahoo is getting into the latest search battle with today's announcement of the release of its Desktop Search Beta application. Powered by XI Technologies, the free download indexes the information and content users have on their computer, like...

The Internet revolution has had the unintended effect of decreasing the use of oral communication and increasing the importance of text -- particularly e-mails -- as the primary means of business communications. Why has e-mail become so popular? Why use e-mails instead of phone calls? It is harder t...

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) must proceed with its securities fraud lawsuit on behalf of WorldCom bondholders in federal, rather than state, court, after the U.S. Supreme Court today chose not to review the jurisdictional matter. Two federal statutes disagreed on whic...

Cable television giant Comcast plans to roll out a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to all of its customers by the end of 2005, arriving to the party later than some competitors but bringing with it the type of deep pockets and market reach that could speed adoption of the technology. Eve...

Telephone service provider Alltel has finalized a deal to buy fellow niche carrier Western Wireless for US$4.4 billion in cash and stock as the merger activity in the wireless field moves into the regional space. As part of the deal, Alltel will take on about $1.5 billion in debt that Western Wirele...

Analysts predicted that online shopping would increase 20 percent over the last holiday season. Don't they know that you should never underestimate the (spending) power of a woman? There is no denying that female shoppers are flexing a lot more monetary muscle on the Internet these days. E-commerce ...

Bidding to capitalize on the mobile services trend by extending its powerful brand beyond the bounds of the Internet, MapQuest has launched a service that enables users to send the company's maps to cell phones. The Send to Phone service will be offered as part of the monthly subscription plan to Ma...

EBay has launched a major initiative that brings together leading technology companies, government agencies, environmental groups and millions of eBay users to confront the problem of "e-waste" -- unused or obsolete computers that might pose environmental hazards when disposed of in landfills. The c...

The number of malicious code attacks aimed at mobile phones continues to expand, with the latest threat coming from a variant of the Skulls Trojan. Security firm F-Secure said the variant, which it has dubbed Skulls.D, targets smart phones using the Symbian operating system and disguises itself as a...