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An alarming failure rate for new products has corporations looking to consumers to drive innovation in their markets, according to report released by Forrester Research. "In the consumer products industry, upwards of 85 percent of new products fail after a couple of years in the market," the report'...

It used to be called digital radio before the marketers decided to exploit the high definition craze in broadcasting and recast it as HD Radio, but whatever it's called, it could be just the weapon airwave floggers need to fend off a growing threat for their audience from satellite radio. Satellite ...

More and more mortgage shoppers are going online to find loans, but when it's time to seal the deal, most prefer to take their business offline, according to a study scheduled to be released Tuesday by Forrester Research and Compete Inc., both based in Boston. Over the past two years, consumers rese...

If retail marketers are going to capture the loyalty of the next generation of spenders, they're going to have to get hip to the new Web, according to a report from Forrester Research. "The 73 million people under the age of 18 in the U.S. represent one thing to marketers and sellers: the next gener...

Provisions in a proposed international treaty that civil liberties groups, developing nations and technology organizations claim will threaten the free flow of information on the Internet have been sidetracked by the pact's writers in Geneva. The U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO...

A bill before Congress to revamp how franchises are awarded for delivering television to communities will save consumers US$22 million a day, a panel of telecommunication experts said Wednesday at a press conference in Washington, D.C. "Twenty-two million dollars a day," declared panel member Robert...

A coalition of both right- and left-wing groups called on Congress Monday to "save" the Internet by requiring network neutrality through law. "Whenever you see people on the far left and far right joining together about something Congress is getting ready to do, it's been my experience that what Con...

For anglers, spring is a time for removing the rod and reel from storage and heading to a lake or stream. For phishers of another kind, however, spring is the season for tax scams. Phishing -- the use of phony e-mails and Web sites to obtain personal information about people -- has become such a pro...

Marketers will need to tweak their selling strategies if they want to collar new broadband customers, according to industry experts. Although broadband growth has been strong for the last three years -- nearly doubling from 23.7 million subscribers in 2003 to 40.9 million in 2005 -- the "big pitch" ...

Three computer researchers created a stir Wednesday when they released a paper at a conference in Pisa, Italy, describing how to infect Radio Frequency Identification tags with a computer virus, but the likelihood of a digital disease rampaging through the world's supply chains is slim, at least for...

Despite some chest beating by the entertainment industry Wednesday over the shutdown of one of the biggest index servers on the eDonkey network, a raid by Belgian and Swiss police seems to have had little impact on file-sharing traffic. "We have seen no effect on the eDonkey traffic levels," Andrew ...

Somewhere between no-frills Craigslist and intricate eBay lies the new e-commerce offering introduced by Santa Monica, Calif.-based TagWorld last week. TagWorld, a high-energy social networking space launched last November, is combining the new service of free online classifieds, which includes imag...

Internet companies doing business in countries that suppress civil liberties need a code of conduct to soften the controversy they're fueling by doing business with authoritarian regimes. In an open letter sent to Republican Sen. Gordon H. Smith, whose Congressional subcommittee held hearings Wednes...

If there's anything that can be called heresy in free-for-all cyberspace it's the notion that people should pay for e-mail, but that didn't stop a few heretics this week from offering monetized e-mail initiatives. Although Yahoo and AOL took the lion's share of the limelight with their "certified e-...

North American advertisers spent US$5.75 billion on search engine marketing in 2005, a 44 percent increase over the previous year, according to a report released Monday by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO). The report, based on a survey of 553 respondents and conducted by...

Peddling pornography has always been big business on the Internet, but apparently it isn't lucrative enough for some skin merchants. Pornographers are turning to click fraud to supplement income generated by their Web sites, according to Kessler International, a cybercrime investigations firm based ...

Web surfers are annoyed as hell and they're doing something about it. That's the thrust of the findings in a survey to be released next week by Hostway, a Chicago-based Web site hosting service with more than 400,000 global clients. According to preliminary information from the survey, obtained by t...

For the last several days, Google has set the online and financial worlds buzzing with an expected deal with America Online that could be cut as early as today. Although opinion varies on the wisdom and impact of the move, there's one point on which everyone agrees: The maneuver will add fuel to the...

As the holiday shopping season starts its last leg today, online merchants are smiling and offline retailers are preparing for the annual Saturday surge. Shopping on the Net has been brisk since Thanksgiving. Shopping.com reported yesterday that every day since Black Friday traffic at its site has e...

Online holiday sales are on a pace to crack US$26 billion this year -- an 18 percent leap over last year, according to JupiterResearch in New York City. "Reports we've seen from Mastercard and Visa indicate that online transactions are up sharply during this period relative to last year," Jupiter Se...