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When Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) 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 ...

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 (NYSE: IFX), Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Agere Systems ...

There is little question that the number of home users accessing the Internet via broadband will continue to grow. With promotional packages pushing the convenience of an "always-on" connection, consumers likely will be attracted to this technology in droves ...

The sticker price of high-speed Internet access remains too highfor a majority of U.S. residents, although the service is now available in most areas of the country, according to a government report released by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Technology Policy ...

Detecting and preventing online fraud is like fighting neighborhood crime. Residents can put locks on doors and windows, install a security system to detect intruders, and train a dog to monitor the yard. If a break-in occurs despite those precautions, police will investigate and track down any suspects. A local organization may help deal with the loss and provide educational material to help prepare for the future...

Further entrenching itself in the open source software market, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has inked a multiyear deal that calls for the technology giant to offer Red Hat's (Nasdaq: RHAT) top-of-the-line Linux operating system as an option on all of its eServer machines. ...

Perhaps bowing to a sluggish PC and hardware economy, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) on Thursday announced plans to move to a direct sales model for more than 2 million small businesses. ...

Despite computer makers' best efforts to entice business andconsumer spenders with sleek new hardware, upgraded operatingsystems and bundled software packages, growth forecasts for theworldwide PC market have been slashed again, according toresearch firm IDC's most recent study ...

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said Tuesday that he believes a surge of programmers will cross party lines and begin using Linux in the coming years ...

Spending on Web security efforts is expected to triple in the next four years, according to a new report released by research firm IDC ...

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 Internet service providers (ISPs) from using their lines ...

One in five users in the United States accesses the Internet with a cable modem, DSL (digital subscriber line) connection or other broadband device, up nearly 25 percent from the beginning of this year, according to a newly released study of Internet usage habits ...

Consumer protection advocate Ralph Nader told the U.S. government Tuesday to consider curbing its technology spending with Microsoft in order to better control the software giant's "monopoly abuses." ...

Internet radio advocates told a U.S. panel Wednesday 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 ...

In a campaign to compete directly with Microsoft Office, SunMicrosystems released its new StarOffice suite of applicationsWednesday, touting the package as an alternative to proprietarysoftware and noting that StarOffice has fewer licensing restrictions ...

They may be bitter rivals in some ways, but Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT),IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and a host of other tech companieshave agreed to cooperate -- at least until they can comeup with a set of open standards to ensure Web servicescompatibility ...

Popular search engine Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) will trade high-profile positioning for dollars under a new agreement with Overture Services -- formerly known as GoTo.com ...

The quest to be No. 1 in the online job recruitment space is now essentially a two-party race. ...