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E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

Bite-Size Licensing for Small Businesses

For a time, small businesses probably felt like little kids getting bumped out of line for the ice cream truck. They would jump up and down, money in hand, trying to catch the attention of software vendors, only to see those vendors choose to do business with larger, stronger, deeper-pocketed enterprises time after time. ...

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Search: The Web’s New Whiz Kid

Investors are lining up to buy Google shares already. There's only one problem: The company hasn't had an IPO yet and, for that matter, hasn't said it's even close to going public. ...

EBay Loses Patent Case, Hit with $35M Verdict

A federal jury in Norfolk, Virginia, has found that eBay and its subsidiary Half.com willfully violated patented technology and has ordered the auction giant to pay US$35 million in damages. ...

AOL Spinoff May Be Back on Table

AOL Time Warner executives may be mulling the possibility of spinning off the company's America Online unit, reviving a discussion that had been considered dead. According to published reports, former chairman Steve Case, who led America Online from its founding to its landmark takeover of Time Warner in 2000, has expressed interest in examining the option.

U.S. E-Commerce Shatters Non-Holiday Record

U.S. e-commerce sales rose more than 25 percent year over year in the first quarter, setting a record level for a non-holiday quarter of nearly US$12 billion. ...

Amazon Signs with Microsoft for Streaming Media

Amazon.com has announced it will use Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series products to boost its ability to stream music samples to customers from its family of e-tail sites, including its own site, CDnow.com, VirginMega.com and Borders.com ...

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Making the Internet Safe – for the Real Crooks

Imagine this: You're driving along, say, five miles an hour above the posted speed, when you see flashing blue lights in your rearview mirror. You stop, and as you hand your license and registration to the police officer, you notice a bank robbery occurring across the street. ...

HP Races Past Targets But Plans More Job Cuts

Hewlett-Packard turned in an impressive second quarter, beating targets for revenue and profits, but said it will continue aggressively cutting costs in the wake of its merger with Compaq by laying off another 3,500 workers by the end of this year. ...

IBM Aims To Connect Deskless Workers to E-Mail

In an effort to boost corporate IT spending by tapping a previously underserved segment of the market, IBM has rolled out an e-mail offering geared toward so-called deskless workers ...

Study: Broadband To Hit Quicksand

In a potential blow to the growth and profit strategies of some key Internet companies, a new study says broadband adoption soared in the United States last year but will be unable to sustain rapid growth going forward ...

Dell Maintains Momentum with Strong Quarter

Computer maker Dell continued its strong recent performance, recording a 31 percent increase in profitability powered by sales growth in certain product lines and in overseas markets. ...

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HP-Compaq: Is It Done Yet?

It has now been more than a year since Hewlett-Packard and Compaq merged. It's been nearly two years since the idea of the deal was made public. ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

Blueprint for Building a Viable B2B Site

After a short run as a buzz phrase during the dot-com surge, business-to-business (B2B) exchanges have fallen below most people's radar screens. In recent years, in fact, B2B sites and online trading hubs have most often found themselves in the headlines for the wrong reasons, such as when Enron's energy-trading site became the focus of attention.

Report: More Seek Microsoft Alternatives

Governments and private enterprises, particularly outside the United States, are stepping up efforts to find alternatives to computer networks that rely on Microsoft products, according to a report from Gartner ...

Report: 2002 Worst-Ever Year for IT Services

Gartner has confirmed what many high-tech firms already believed, releasing a report that labels 2002 the "most difficult year" on record for the worldwide information technology services industry. ...

Google Branches Out Again with Overseas News

Rapidly expanding search engine Google has launched a blitz of overseas initiatives, establishing local news search services in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

E-Business Startup Success Strategies

Just a few years ago, getting an e-business off the ground was as easy as drawing up a business plan and finding the venture capital to fund it. Those days, to put it mildly, are over. ...

U.S. To Probe Microsoft Passport Flaw

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to review whether Microsoft violated a consent agreement with the agency over the privacy of its Passport online password system, following the revelation of a flaw that could have compromised millions of consumers' private data. ...

Report: Many File-Swappers Buying Legit Music

Nearly 31 million U.S. Internet users aged 18 and older have downloaded music in the past month -- but nearly three-quarters of those people also have purchased music either online or in music stores in the past three months, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. ...

OPINION

Bush’s Silicon Valley Flyover

It's time to end the mystery. That blur in the sky over Silicon Valley last week wasn't a bird or a plane. It wasn't a UFO either. It was the president of the United States. ...

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