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When Amazon.com announced its second-quarter 2002 results, its outlook seemed promising: Sales of books, CDs and DVDs were up 20 percent compared with the year-ago period. The company's first-quarter report also was positive, showing a 15 percent increase from the first quarter of 2001. However, not...

In a move that will boost production of computer chips found in common consumer electronics equipment, the European Union regulatory board reportedly has approved a joint venture between Germany's Infineon Technologies, Motorola and Agere Systems. Each of those three companies will own one-third of ...

There is little question that the number of home users accessing the Internet via broadband will continue to grow. By the end of 2002, the Yankee Group has estimated, 16 million broadband subscribers will be online in the United States, in addition to 54 million dial-up users. And widespread adoptio...

The sticker price of high-speed Internet access remains too high for a majority of U.S. residents, although the service is now available in most areas of the country, according to a government report. The report also suggested that lack of content geared toward broadband users -- such as video game ...

The online fraud-fighting field is a crowded one, with a variety of commercial and nonprofit organizations involved in educating consumers, setting e-commerce standards for e-tailers and releasing software designed to nab fraudsters. But despite the wide variety of groups attempting to remedy or kee...

Further entrenching itself in the open source software market, IBM has inked a multiyear deal that calls for the technology giant to offer Red Hat's top-of-the-line Linux operating system as an option on all of its eServer machines. As part of the pact, IBM Global Services will expand its support of...

Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to sell products directly to more than 2 million small businesses. Previously, the direct sales model had been reserved for the company's largest enterprise customers. The company said it will release a quarterly catalog that will feature PCs, notebooks, servers, ...

Despite computer makers' best efforts to entice business and consumer spenders with sleek new hardware, upgraded operating systems and bundled software packages, growth forecasts for the worldwide PC market have been slashed again, according to research firm IDC's most recent study. "I don't see a b...

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy told an audience at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo that he expects to see Linux use increase 30 percent each year, and he vowed that Sun will support the operating system and the open source community. But Sun's promise has some industry observers wonderin...

Spending on Web security is expected to triple in the next four years, according to a new report released by research firm IDC. The report predicted that Web security spending will increase 60.5 percent annually to nearly $700 million by 2006, compared with just $65 million in 2001. "The Web pres...

Fearing a monopoly by cable broadband companies and a resultant loss of freedom of speech, civil liberties groups said they will fight federal measures that would let cable Internet providers retain control of their networks and bar competing ISPs from using their lines. "No one is saying they ca...

One in five Internet users in the United States accesses the network with a cable modem, DSL connection or other broadband device, up nearly 25 percent from the beginning of this year, according to a study of Internet usage habits by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. "I know there was...

Consumer protection advocate Ralph Nader has advised the U.S. government to consider curbing its technology spending with Microsoft in order to better control the software giant's "monopoly abuses." "The government is spending a lot of money trying to change the way Microsoft acts. Why wait a dec...

Internet radio advocates have told a U.S. panel that a mandate requiring Web stations to pay for songs they broadcast could put many such stations out of business. But representatives of the recording industry countered that Internet piracy threatens their bottom lines as well. The recording indu...

Sun Microsystems has released its new StarOffice suite of applications, touting the package as an alternative to proprietary software and noting that StarOffice has fewer licensing restrictions. With enterprise pricing as low as $25, StarOffice 6.0 can run on Linux, Solaris and Windows and will reta...

They may be bitter rivals in some ways, but Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Oracle and a host of other tech companies have agreed to cooperate -- at least until they can come up with a set of open standards to ensure Web services compatibility. "The situation was pretty messed up before. Standards were be...

Popular search engine Yahoo! will trade high-profile positioning for dollars under a new agreement with Overture Services -- formerly known as GoTo. Beginning Thursday on Yahoo's main search page, Internet users will see both the company's own keyword matches, compiled by Yahoo! staffers, and the...

The quest to be No. 1 in the online job recruitment space is now essentially a two-party race. The corporate backers of CareerBuilder announced Friday that they are acquiring job site HeadHunter.net in a direct attempt to dethrone the current online job leader, Monster.com. CareerBuilder said ...