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Since IT budgets have been slashed in the economic downturn, many businesses are seeking ways to reduce the burden on overworked staff. One way to do this is to use a SAN, or storage area network, which lowers data management costs, increases hardware efficiency and improves data recovery capabiliti...

Buoyed by stronger-than-expected flash memory sales, number two semiconductor maker AMD has raised its fourth-quarter sales forecast by 15 percent. The company said it is now on track to book sales of $700 million in the fourth quarter. Such a result would represent an increase of nearly 35 percent ...

For enterprises that want to cut IT costs, one answer is to ship some high-tech work overseas, to places like India, Singapore, the Philippines and even Russia or China. "A lot of companies that haven't looked at this already are starting because it is hard to ignore -- especially in this economy --...

Offering a bleak outlook for 2003, AOL Time Warner said advertising and commerce revenue in its AOL online unit could drop as much as 50 percent as it weans itself from old contracts and tries to jump-start growth with new initiatives. Calling 2003 a "transition year," AOL said its bellwether Intern...

With more people adopting broadband, and larger national ISPs swallowing up smaller regional ones, some industry observers think independent ISPs are on the ropes. But executives at small ISPs see a bright future for those that survived the industry consolidation of recent years. Although giant ISPs...

Boosting hopes for a banner e-commerce holiday, a new report says U.S. consumers spent $1 billion more online during the first three weeks of November than in the same period last year. Questions remain about whether these early results can be sustained throughout the shopping season, but Nielsen//N...

Buoyed by purchases of cell phones and other wireless devices, worldwide sales of semiconductors rose a modest 1.8 percent to $12.5 billion between September and October, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization. The figure reflects a larger 19.9 percent gain over October 2...

The weak economy and a shorter-than-usual holiday shopping season have led analysts who focus on the overall retail market to say the only foreseeable aspect of this year's holiday sales is that they will be unpredictable. The same cannot be said of forecasting online holiday sales revenue, however....

CDNow.com has announced it will outsource its Web site operations to Amazon.com, becoming the latest in a string of online merchants to choose to join, rather than fight, the e-tail giant. The deal reportedly will be structured similarly to one with Borders, which tapped Amazon to operate its online...

When Novell reported fourth-quarter earnings recently, the financial press pounced on the company's sizeable loss of $96 million. But most of that loss was a result of one-time charges. Novell actually beat both its own and Wall Street's revenue targets, with $300 million in sales. How has the compa...

In a closely watched case about DVD hacking and Web publishing freedoms, the California state Supreme Court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the DVD Copy Control Association, which had accused Texas resident Matthew Pavlovich of posting a program on his Web site that enabled users to bypass DVD cop...

In the wake of massive denial-of-service attacks on the Internet's DNS root servers, the likelihood of an attack that could crash the Internet -- and bring e-commerce to a screeching halt -- seems far greater than it once did. Every 24 hours of Internet downtime theoretically could mean more than $1...

Compared with a year earlier, e-commerce retail sales in this year's third quarter skyrocketed to their highest dollar value since reporting began in 1999, according to a new U.S. Department of Commerce survey. The survey of 11,000 stores showed that sales, not adjusted for seasonal, holiday and tra...

IT pay has been hammered by the reversal of stock option fortunes, increased overseas outsourcing and the dismal economy in general, but experts say technology workers can still command a decent salary in some fields without becoming a CIO. Giga Information Group vice president Craig Symons told New...

AOL has begun selling prepaid Internet access cards and offering more online content, providing a glimpse into parent company AOL Time Warner's strategic plans for jump-starting growth at its online unit. The prepaid cards are already for sale at Western Union and Target stores and will be available...