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Traditional retailers pulled out all the stops to drive traffic and sales to brick-and-mortar stores on Black Friday. But online retailers have set their sights on what is expectantly known as Cyber Monday. Both days revolve around Thanksgiving and both days mean big bucks for retailers. The day aft...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and BitTorrent yesterday announced a collaborative effort to curb film piracy. BitTorrent Founder and CEO Bram Cohen's technology allows Web sites to make large content files available online. The MPAA was concerned that the technology is frequently u...

A flaw in Google Sitemaps is allowing users to see the statistics for AOL, MSN, and any other Internet property with a Google Verification File on its server, according to Search Engine Roundtable, a search engine and marketing forum. The flaw allows users to view the top search queries and top sear...

Keynote Systems today announced the winners of the 2005 Keynote Performance Awards. Keynote said the annual awards program has two purposes. The first goal is to recognize and honor Web sites across a range of vertical industries. The second goal is to foster an environment of healthy competition am...

Google today announced that its hosted Web analytics service, Google Analytics, is now free. Formerly known as Urchin from Google, Google Analytics is designed to help businesses use performance data to improve their online marketing campaigns and Web sites. Google Analytics is already used by many ...

When it comes to outsourcing customer service tools, some companies have found it difficult to get a positive return on investment. Indeed, cross-channel customers who use the Web and phone independently have posed problems for firms: They drive up service costs, are harder to satisfy, and can't be ...

Amazon is making moves to beef up its "Travel" section. The behemoth bookseller has signed an agreement with a travel search engine to help its customers find and discover the best travel values. SideStep announced today that it will provide its travel search engine to Amazon's travel store beginnin...

Social networking Web site MySpace.com is doing what no other social networking Web site has ever done before -- launched its own record label. MySpace Records is a joint venture with Interscope Records, one of the many recording labels under the Universal Music Group umbrella. MySpace Records will ...

Sprint Nextel today announced plans to launch a digital music download service as part of an effort to build its entertainment, information and communication services that will operate on its high-speed Vision Network. Sprint's timing is good, with research group Ovum predicting the U.S. wireless mu...

The office of U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman initiated a special process under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules today to obtain information on China's intellectual property (IP) enforcement efforts. The United States is exercising a process established under WTO Agreement provisions on Tr...

Information management and storage vendor EMC yesterday announced a definitive agreement to acquire a document imaging technology provider. EMC will purchase Captiva Software for US$22.25 per share in cash, or approximately $275 million net of Captiva's cash balance. EMC said input management softwa...

In a move to attract more small business customers, Microsoft is launching a subsidy program to allow this growing business demographic to receive credits toward consulting services when they purchase Microsoft software. Small businesses that purchase a minimum of five copies of Microsoft Office or ...

Google unveiled its latest beta product offering -- the Google RSS reader -- at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week. The Google Reader is a Web-based RSS reader designed for the search engine's registered users. Similar to the online service offered by NewsGator, Google Reader allows u...

It's party time in blogland. So say analysts in the wake of two successive blog-related acquisitions this week. First, yesterday AOL said it would acquire Weblogs, Inc. Today, Verisign said it has purchased Weblogs.com. VeriSign purchased the company and its ping service from Scripting News in a US$...

Symantec has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire an agent-less IT security compliance software company in a US$209 million all-cash transaction. Symantec said the acquisition of BindView Development Corporation would allow it to offer customers an end-to-end solution for p...

Verizon Wireless yesterday announced it has partnered with with Vodafone to introduce a new service designed to give business travelers mobile versatility. Dubbed GlobalAccess, the service offers Verizon Wireless business customers with a two-card solution that gives them secure connection to the In...

Hard drive maker Seagate Technology yesterday announced the acquisition of a company that provides networked digital content protection products for the home and small business markets. Mirra, Inc. is set to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed...

Phishing scams seeking to steal donations earmarked for Hurricane Katrina victims may have started a week ago, but security experts said to expect a spike in this fraudulent activity in the weeks to come. Scam artists often prey upon the sympathy for tragedy victims by sending out millions of spam m...

After months of speculation, Microsoft has inked a deal with Hollywood to make a movie based on its popular science-fiction video game series "Halo." Universal Studios and Twentieth Century Fox agreed to pay Microsoft US$5 million plus up to 10 percent of domestic box office receipts. Universal wil...

Google surprised analysts yesterday by announcing that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of more than 14 million class A common shares of stock. The Internet IPO darling has seen its shares triple since going public a yea...