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Gateway has said it will close all of its remaining retail stores, putting some 2,500 people out of work and driving the final nail into the coffin of an ambitious but failed approach to selling computers. The additional layoffs -- which amount to nearly 40 percent of Gateway's remaining workforce -...

Greg Stanger knows how difficult it can be to take a company public, even in the best of times. A former Microsoft employee, Stanger became CFO of Expedia when the travel site was spun off and taken public in 1999. Stanger also knows that even with the recent run-up in technology stocks and the pros...

The pesky Netsky worm dogged Web computers during the month of March, accounting for 60 percent of all malicious e-mail tracked by antivirus firm Sophos. Five of the top 10 viruses tracked during the month, including all of the top three, were variants of Netsky. Some 15 versions of the worm were ac...

Google has confirmed to the E-Commerce Times that its newly announced Web mail service is not an April Fool's hoax, despite Thursday morning speculation. "It's for real," Google spokesperson David Krane said in an interview. The free Gmail service, which will offer users a full gigabyte of e-mail st...

In what may -- or may not -- be its most ambitious foray beyond its core search business to date, Google has announced it will launch a free e-mail service called Gmail that will offer users a full gigabyte of storage space. The tone and timing of the press release, dated April 1st, led some to spec...

In an effort to warp the space-time fabric, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will go back in time to sabotage the Linux operating system, according to an internal memo leaked to the Internet by an unknown Microsoft insider. The e-mail memo, sent by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Gates with a subject li...

Hot dog stand owner Jim McMahon has announced the triumphant return of his company, Piping Hot Dogs.com, from the dot-com graveyard. "We really learned our lesson, man," McMahon said in an interview Thursday. "For a while, dot-com became dot-bomb, you know? It was like a stigma. But things are chang...

SBC Communications, one of the telecom industry's landline leaders, announced Tuesday its plans to roll out "FreedomLink" WiFi hotspot service at UPS Store locations throughout the United States. The announcement is the latest stage in the company's overall FreedomLink strategy, which promises to br...

In the past year, enterprise networks have faced a plague of security issues. Now, many companies are finding themselves forced to channel more time and money toward improving security. From worms and viruses to compliance and patching issues, businesses must develop ever-more complex protocols to k...

More than 100,000 technology jobs have been outsourced from the United States to overseas workers, a trend that will continue for several more years but is actually good for the U.S. economy, a new report from the Information Technology Association of America argues. The ITAA, whose members include ...

Pasadena, California-based Guidance Software is perhaps the leading IT forensics software vendor, with the exception of the U.S. government. Jon Bair, Guidance's senior director of development, joined the company after years spent working as a U.S. Army investigator and developing the protocols and ...

Dell and Intel have been hit with a patent infringement lawsuit that claims the two companies pilfered graphic display technology developed by a small California company. The company, MicroUnity Systems Engineering, claims that technology used in almost all Intel Pentium III and Pentium 4 chips to d...

When most people think about IT forensics, if they think about it at all, they likely imagine a scenario out of the hit TV series CSI. "They make it seem like there's a button that says 'find evidence,'" Robert Shields of forensics software vendor Guidance told the E-Commerce Times. "The way they po...

As a result of stellar sales in the United States, Apple Computer has disappointed European consumers jonesing to get hold of the new iPod Mini. After originally setting an April launch date for the candy-colored portable jukebox, Apple said the iPod Mini will not become available in Europe until Ju...

In a move that highlights the convergence of Web search and online shopping, Yahoo has announced plans to buy European comparison-shopping site Kelkoo for about $575 million in cash. Yahoo cited data showing Kelkoo reaches about 10 percent of all European Internet users and counts some 2,500 individ...