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Amazon.com is testing two new features -- catalog merchant pages and restaurant listings -- in an effort to generate additional revenue and drive more traffic to its Web site. The catalog pages encompass both consumer and professional products. The restaurant listings, being tested in Seattle, Bos...

Sun Microsystems recently confirmed that it expects to return to profitability in the second quarter, despite a slight drop-off in orders from the previous quarter. "Sun weeded out all the old stuff that would cause the company inventory headaches," Forrester principal analyst Carl Howe told the ...

A recent study found that online advertising is holding its own compared with traditional advertising revenue. And analysts expect the current steady state will give way to growth as soon as economic news improves. "The areas that we see continuing to grow in terms of share of online advertising ...

The U.S. Copyright Office has rejected Webcasting royalty rates proposed by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel. The panel has been working to determine what rates would satisfy the concerns of record companies without shutting down the nascent Webcasting industry. Concerned with the potentia...

Juniper Networks has announced plans to acquire rival Unisphere Networks from its parent company, Siemens AG, in an effort to win market share from dominant telecom equipment provider Cisco Systems. The cash and stock deal is valued at about $740 million. "Juniper paid $380 million in cash for a ...

Economic doldrums continue to erode confidence and drive cost-cutting among IT buyers, according to Gartner Dataquest, and all segments of the IT services market will feel the pinch. IT services revenue will grow a meager 2.8 percent to $557 billion this year, the research firm said. However, Abe...

Dell Computer reported that first-quarter earnings dropped compared with year-ago figures, although the number two computer maker beat analysts' expectations and saw revenue rise. The company reported first-quarter net earnings of $457 million on revenue of $8.1 billion, handily surpassing the $7...

Microsoft is slashing the price of its Xbox video game system from $299 to $199 in a move to compete with Sony's industry-leading PlayStation 2. The $100 price cut mirrors an identical reduction announced Monday by Sony. "Price reductions are part of being successful in this business," John O'Rourke...

Although IBM maintained its top ranking in the overall U.S. server market, rival Sun Microsystems held the lead in UNIX server sales, which represent the most lucrative market segment, according to a study by Gartner Dataquest. IBM spokesperson John Buscemi told the E-Commerce Times that Big Blue do...

Sun Microsystems has forged an alliance that will bring Yahoo's content to its enterprise portals. The pact is designed to drive adoption and use of such portals, which allow business users to access company e-mail and information on a single Web site. "We believe that ... populist apps -- things ...

In an effort to recapture ground lost to such competitors as Hotwire and Orbitz, reverse auction company Priceline has become the latest travel service vendor to climb aboard the fixed-price marketing train. "Moving toward the fixed-price model helps margins," Yankee Group analyst Lisa Melsted to...

A federal judge has denied a Russian software vendor's motion to dismiss criminal charges that allege the company violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by selling a product designed to break anti-copying technology. Lawyers and other free speech proponents said they are "extremely disappo...

New legislation aimed at leveling the broadband playing field has revived an old debate between U.S. lawmakers and telecommunications officials. The "Broadband Regulatory Parity Act of 2002" is designed to spur deployment of high-speed Internet services by subjecting all broadband providers to th...