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Vegas oddsmakers are missing a golden opportunity. They should start taking bets on who will be the first high-tech executive to whisper the now-dreaded R-word. No, not recession. They toss that one around like a football. We're talking recovery. What's so bad about the R word? It's all about expect...

Even as annual e-commerce sales storm past the $45 billion mark, according to U.S. Census Department figures, companies engaged in an older form of selling soldier on, using TVs and telephones to communicate with potential customers. One of the largest such firms, QVC, was founded in 1986 and earned...

Amazon.com has sued 11 entities in the United States and Canada for forging its domain name in their e-mail spam messages. The lawsuits seek millions of dollars in punitive damages. Gartner research director Maurene Grey told the E-Commerce Times that Amazon would have had a lot to lose from a credi...

To say that Motorola has had a turbulent recent history is something of an understatement. A few years ago, when the semiconductor sector was hemorrhaging money and the handset sector was slumping, the company began to reorganize, with mixed success. There still seems to be a long road ahead, yet wi...

The battle over ownership of open-source Linux source code took a nasty turn as SCO, which claims to own a key part of the code and has aggressively pursued compensation for it, found itself the target of a hacker attack that took down its Web site. In a letter to open-source developers, Open Source...

Following a disastrous quarter in which financial results fell far short of analysts' expectations, Sun is trying to rebound from its slump by pinning its hopes on several new products. "If you'd told Scott McNealy three years ago that he'd be selling an x86 family, he would have told you that you ...

Leading chipmaker and technology bellwether Intel has announced business is improving ahead of schedule, putting it on track to post strong quarterly results that could surpass earlier expectations. However, Intel CEO Craig Barrett, in Taiwan to oversee the opening of a joint research-and-developmen...

At the height of the e-commerce craze, when hundreds of new businesses were going online every week, startups typically overbought Web hosting services. As a result, they often found themselves facing hefty bills for unused server space and unneeded features. However, in today's changed e-commerce e...

E-commerce posted strong double-digit growth in the second quarter, bringing in $12.477 billion total in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau said sales rose 27.8 percent from the second quarter of 2002. By comparison, overall retail sales grew less than 5 percent. The ...

In part 1 of this article, the E-Commerce Times explored the uptake and ramifications of DRM in the consumer market. However, the consumer sector is not the only promising venue for digital rights management technology. DRM is making inroads in business as well. "The reason [enterprises] use DRM is ...

In the month of August alone, Microsoft has had to contend with nearly half a dozen major worms, including MSBlast, two variants of SoBig and Nachi/Welchia, a so-called "good" worm that nevertheless is creating headaches for IT departments. Now, the company has released yet another security bulletin...

Putting the efficiency of its direct-sales model to the test and seeking to capitalize on the recent woes of its main rival Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer has announced it will cut prices on many of its products by up to 22 percent. The move came on the same day HP announced disappointing earnings, ...

Perhaps no industry was as blindsided by the power of the Internet as the music business. The sudden rise of Napster pitted content owners against customers, and now, with the RIAA suing individual file swappers in an effort to stop rampant music piracy, a crisis is in full swing. Enter DRM, or digi...

Had enough yet? Did the Blaster worm send you over the edge? Maybe one of its variants is emptying out your hard drive, or your bottom line is still suffering from a shutdown caused by the SQL Slammer worm back in January. Still, the odds are good that even with all the alternatives in the world, yo...

Hewlett-Packard fell short of expectations with its third-quarter results, posting revenue of $17.35 billion, about $100 million below analysts' predictions. Earnings totaled $297 million, a vast improvement over the year-ago period, when the computer giant posted a massive loss, but also about $200...