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Like Apple Computer, Linux vendor Red Hat Software is playing the role of challenger as it tries to convert longtime users of a competing brand to its own products ...

Intel could make a long-term splash in the server market with its new Itanium 2 processor, but first it must make its case to enterprise technology buyers ...

There is life after the bubble for technology and portal providers that serve the business-to-business (B2B) sector of e-commerce. But to enjoy that life, vendors must adjust to a new landscape in which spending and cost-cutting priorities have shifted dramatically in response to tough economic times ...

As prices fall and capacity increases, finding data storage space has become a non-issue for many enterprises. But when it comes to safeguarding important stores of customer information, companies still need to take precautions to ensure that prying eyes do not gain access ...

Purveyors of interactive online games have hit upon an audience-pleasing business model, featuring methods like subscription plans that give users unlimited access for a monthly fee. But gamers are an avid and demanding clientele, and industry experts say firms in other areas of e-commerce will be hard-pressed to emulate gaming companies' success using the same tactics...

Server technology improvements are poised to turbocharge the way companies run their e-commerce operations, ranging from the way they process transactions to the methods they use to snag new sales. In the not-so-distant future -- perhaps even next year -- consumers could begin to see results of this transformation as hardware processing power increases and more companies incorporate broadband capabilities into their servers...

The stock market and the dot-com world may be down for now, but that does not mean launching a new e-business is out of the question ...

E-tailers have come to the costly understanding that providing a general e-mail address ona Web site is no way to handle customer queries, especially when many of those queries arenever answered. ...

As they gear up for what is expected to be a crucial fourth quarter, e-tailers are anxiously examining the ongoing third quarter for signs of what awaits them in the future. Specifically, many observers are focused on the health of online travel and retail firms, because the travel sector in particular has dragged down the overall economy in the past year...

According to recent reports, there are signs that many industries have cut IT spending as much as they can without cutting into the bones of their business. Analysts noted that a long tide of cost cuts is slowly reversing, although IT spending will not roar back to life with a big bang as 2002 draws to a close. Instead, the turnaround is occurring extremely slowly and only in selected sectors...

For all the financial reeling and corporate belt-tightening in many e-commerce sectors, experts say no tears need be shed for the online porn industry. While exact revenue figures are tough to unearth, established players have not been significantly hurt by current economic woes, though competition in the space has intensified ...

Despite occasional but high-profile security breaches, shoppers have not been turned off by the Web experience. Experts say the chances of being financially victimized online are low because of built-in consumer protection and heightened security awareness. However, analysts' consensus is that e-businesses still need to be concerned about a general sense of skittishness among online shoppers.

As consumers seek relief from bleak news about war and the economy, experts say entertainment could spawn the next wave of lucrative niche opportunities on the Web ...

Just as a museum helps visitors learn lessons from the past, a monument dedicated to bad e-commerce ideas -- perhaps called the "hall of e-commerce oblivion" -- might offer a similar kind of education to those who sell on the Web ...

As e-commerce goes mainstream and stands on its own two feet, experts say the industry can no longer count on receiving the kid-glove treatment from the U.S. government. ...

For Web travelers seeking to lighten their load of usernames and passwords, help has generally been slow to arrive. Some relief for the forgetful has come in the form of functions -- installed on popular operating systems -- that serve to ease the mental burden of those surfing from a single computer ...

For the quarter ending August 2nd, Dell expects its revenue to reach US$8.3 billion, up about 9 percent from last year's second quarter, while earnings are expected to increase by 19 percent. ...

Legal professionals face an uphill battle in dealing with thorny new issues raised by the globalization and growth of e-commerce -- from taxes and intellectual property disputes to privacy and cybercrime ...

Consolidations and stock market chaos are causing upheaval among online trading companies, and the ripple effects could continue for some time. Analysts said more mergers and exits from the sector could be in the offing, along with major shifts in the importance that financial firms place on online trading ...

The bursting of the high-tech bubble may already have done away with the weakest players in e-commerce, but experts say the sector's survivors still face tough times in the second half of 2002 and beyond ...