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Showing no sign of letting up in its legal war against music swappers, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed another 761 copyright-infringement lawsuits against individuals. As in the most recent batch of suits filed last month, the RIAA once again set its sights squarely on...

This is the time of year when the small-business owner has to start thinking of year-end strategies for his/her company. Because tax strategies have a large, yet controllable, influence on your business, they should be your main focus as a business owner. The business owner's tax decisions depend on...

Microsoft might be considering some interim updates to its Internet Explorer (IE) browser that would improve the browser's overall functionality before the advent of Windows successor Longhorn, expected in 2006. Previously, the software giant had said it would not offer any substantial updates to IE...

America Online is beefing up security with today's release of AOL 9.0 Security Edition that provides a suite of safety and security features, marking the Internet giant's first version to focus specifically on safety and security. "First among our commitments to our members and the online community ...

Overstock.com announced today it will sell 1.2 million shares of common stock at an expected price of US$57.53 per share. That would give the online closeout retailer approximately $65.3 million in proceeds. The company said underwriters have an option to purchase up to an additional 180,000 shares ...

Search engine leader and stock market darling Google has warned investors that its skyrocketing growth rate is slowing, a development analysts knew was inevitable but one that might be coming sooner than many had expected. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Google said that the...

In one of the largest retail mergers in recent memory that could alter both the world of traditional retail and the e-commerce landscape, Sears Roebuck & Co. has agreed to merge with the resurgent Kmart chain in a deal worth US$11 billion. The result will be Sears Holding Corp., which will becom...

What's the big deal, when every major corporation in the USA searches for an Indian company so they can park all their mundane information management under a banyan tree? Protesters during the industrial age screamed against rapid automation as a serious threat to jobs and a possible destruction of...

Hoping to secure large corporate customers by addressing one of the fastest-growing Internet-related security threats, McAfee has launched an enterprise software product aimed specifically at identifying and eradicating spyware, adware and related programs. McAfee's Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition ...

Your most critical business decisions often come down to prices: how much to charge and how much to pay. Prices have been driven down in the South Asian call center industry in the last two years, thanks to a flood of new entrants into the industry, a glut of low-end capacity, and improvements in te...

On the heels of Red Hat's foray into China last week, Microsoft today announced that it will hire hundreds of new employees at its Indian campus next year. Microsoft currently employs 800 people at its US$400 million 28-acre campus just outside India's high-tech hub of Hyderabad in Manikonda. Compan...

In separate moves that suggest strong desire among media giants to position themselves in the online news and information fields, Dow Jones agreed to buy MarketWatch in a deal worth US$519 million, while Yahoo announced it had hired a former Wall Street Journal Online executive to head its own news ...

Today is the federally mandated deadline for investment companies and other publicly owned firms to be in compliance with internal auditing controls stipulated by the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2004. However, it appears many companies might miss the deadline. Under terms of the SOX law, otherwise k...

In retrospect, it seems obvious to match the capabilities of Windows with secure messaging software. However, in 1995, when Windows NT first burst into the marketplace, IT managers at first did not have many -- if any -- options to help their users easily and safely communicate with each other. This...

Is Yahoo going Hollywood? It's a question that analysts are increasingly asking after the Sunnyvale, California, Web portal's hiring two weeks ago of Lloyd Braun, a former chairman of ABC television. He is charged with overseeing Yahoo's entertainment and media properties, including movies, music, g...