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Online Holiday Sales Set to Hit $26 Billion Target

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 ...

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Voodoo Brings Luxury to the Laptop

Listen. Do you hear that yowling?No. That's not your neighbor's cat in heat. It's mainstream computer makers taking a gander at the latest margin figures on PCs ...

Security Firm Reports Malware Threats Jump 48 Percent

Threats from malware -- viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and such -- climbed 48 percent in 2005, compared to the previous year, according to the annual Sophos Security Threat Management Report ...

Microsoft Not Out of Bay State Woods Yet

In recent days Massachusetts has softened its tough stance on what file formats it will store its documents in -- a stance that placed it squarely at loggerheads with Microsoft -- but, according to one state legislator, the software giant should not start breathing easy yet ...

Black Friday Golden Day for Net Merchants

High oil prices. Natural disasters. Slumping economy. Pink slip epidemics. None of that appeared to bother shoppers as they stormed Web outlets on the day after Thanksgiving, the day that's become known as Black Friday ...

SOFTWARE TOOLBOX

Software Tool Fights Information Overload

Electronic information has its advantages over paper, but it has its share of snags, too. One of them is finding saved items ...

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Bloggers Cautioned on Copyright Concerns

Sloth can be a deadly sin, or at least a potentially litigious one, and the rise of blogging on the Internet has peaked concern about this pitfall ...

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What Is Happening to Your Personal Data?

Some 72 percent of the businesses evaluated by a Boston-based research firm scored poorly on their policies for re-using their customers' personal data for marketing purposes, but the researchers maintain that more companies are sensitive to privacy issues than ever before and are acting on that awareness ...

New Virus Strain Spreads Swiftly Through E-Mail

One in every 74 e-mail messages on the Internet yesterday carried a new strain of the Sober virus, estimates one security analyst ...

SOFTWARE TOOLBOX

Don’t Sweat Slideshows in Flash

The software universe is teeming with programs for creating slideshows from digital images. Many of these applications fulfill their appointed task very well. But one snag for me when creating slideshows has been their file size ...

Lawsuits, Copyright Pilfering Allegations Added to Sony CD Snafu

What began as a promising way to protect CDs from piracy has become a public relations nightmare for Sony BMG Entertainment and its digital rights management (DRM) partners, First 4 Internet (F4I) and SunnComm ...

Marketers Cautioned About Web-Based E-Mail

Use of Web-based e-mail is on the rise and online marketers should be wary about it ...

Podcasts Perk Up Hosting Competition

Podcasting changed the face of audio on the Web and now it's altering the face of hosting, too ...

Less Than Half of Consumers Feel Safe Shopping Online

Less than half the consumers using the Internet feel safe shopping online, according to a survey expected to be released today by Symantec, a maker of anti-virus and security software ...

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Bringing Legitimacy to the Free Music World

The United States Supreme Court dealt online file sharing a body blow in June when it ruled that makers of peer-to-peer (P2P) software could be held liable for illegitimate uses of their applications. Since that decision was handed down in MGM v. Grokster, the P2P world has been floundering, bobbing in a sea of uncertainty over its future prospects...

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This Keyboard’s Easy on the Hands – and Eyes

There aren't many tech outfits that can rival Apple Computer when it comes to industrial design, but in the keyboard department, there's one company that can give the Cupertino crew a run for their money ...

New Web Service Ties Blogs, Photos, Bookmarks Into Neat Package

As the potential of that indefinitely defined technology called Web 2.0 becomes more and more apparent, new applications seem to be appearing on an almost daily basis ...

Online Retailers Expecting Double-Digit Increase

Their numbers may not jibe but two prominent research firms agree on one thing: the holidays will be merry for online retailers ...

Rivals Unworried by Microsoft On-Demand Offensive

Microsoft's expected announcement today that it was broadening its presence in the on-demand software market isn't causing leading players in the arena to quake in their code ...

Study: Design Critical to Mobile Satisfaction

Ease of use and design -- not features -- are critical components to consumers' satisfaction with their cell phones, according to a study released yesterday ...

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