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Reflecting businesses' growing need to wring ROI from Web operations, subscriptions to Gomez' Internet Performance Management grew 51 percent in 2003 from the prior year. In addition, the privately held company received two rounds of financing, added 90 new clients and claimed subscription renewal r...

Nintendo and Sony took the stage with competing announcements at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Each game console maker detailed specs of a new portable gaming device, but the proposed gadgets differ in important ways. Nintendo said its dual-screen entrant in this mar...

Powered by a slightly better than expected earnings report and expectations that tech spending will remain strong, Cisco Systems has said it will add 1,000 workers in 2004, in addition to 200 positions it filled during the first quarter. Although it did not provide a specific breakdown, the company ...

In the face of today's attacks on computer information, we should expect legislators to enact laws to protect our privacy. However, any law that fails to recognize three things -- who owns a computer, who uses it and for what purposes -- is unlikely to fit the privacy needs of both corporate and ind...

Microsoft has said it will stop making high-speed wireless networking products, phasing out a family of routers and network interface cards less than two years after it entered the booming WiFi market. Jennifer Hakes, a spokesperson with Microsoft's external public relations agency, said the softwar...

Gateway has filed suit against rival Hewlett-Packard, broadening a patent dispute that arose nearly two months ago. In the claim, the company alleges HP violated five separate patents held by Gateway. Gateway is seeking unspecified damages and asking that all of the claims HP filed in its own mid-Ma...

Small businesses are the true success stories of the Internet revolution, and further attempts to level broad taxes on Web sales and access would harm the ability of entrepreneurs to compete, according to eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Whitman used a high-profile speech before the National Press Club in Wash...

Intel will change its future chip product strategy, moving away from its workhorse and power-hungry Pentium 4 line in favor of the more versatile, mobile-friendly Pentium M design. Several reports said that Intel would announce as early as today that it would not pursue development of some planned a...

For all that Google has done to revive interest in technology and IPOs in recent weeks, it also has provided new fodder for a long-running debate: Is going public the ultimate goal for all companies, or are some businesses better served by staying private? Google's founders say they will remain focu...

In a recent report, Gartner estimated that 57 million U.S. adults received a "phishing" attack e-mail within the past year, and half of those who responded became victims of identity theft. Phishing is a tactic used to get credit card information from consumers who believe they are visiting legitima...

Memory-chip designer Rambus has filed a billion-dollar lawsuit, claiming the four largest manufacturers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips -- Micron Technology, Hynix Semiconductor, Siemens AG and Infineon Technologies -- conspired to squelch demand for its products. The 36-page complaint ...

Sun Microsystems and Capgemini yesterday announced the launch of a jointly developed Radio Frequency Identification system. The system is designed to help enable retail and consumer packaged-goods companies to comply with RFID mandates issued by a growing number of retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Targe...

WebSphere Commerce, IBM's e-business software, got more than a fresh coat of paint and minor tweaks in a recent upgrade to version 5.6. In fact, Steve Gatto, marketing manager for IBM WebSphere Commerce, told the E-Commerce Times that enough improvements have been made to the application that it sho...

At its conference for customers, channel partners and user group members today, Hewlett-Packard announced two new products in its ongoing "adaptive enterprise" strategy. Specifically, the company unveiled an archive and retrieval product as well as a dual-processor module that will benefit its serve...

Microsoft has thrown its considerable clout -- and its 170 million registered e-mail users of Hotmail and MSN -- behind a plan that uses preapproved lists of mass marketers in an attempt to curtail the flood of spam. The company said it has signed on with IronPort Systems' so-called Bonded Sender pr...