Internet

“What value are some of these social networking tools or are they just a fad?” questions James Carlini. Do you have Facebook account? (2 Million users) What about TWITTER? Aren't you on NING yet? Are all these a “must-have social networking tool” to conquer...

EBay Inc. said Tuesday afternoon that it is planning an initial public offering for its Skype Internet telephony unit. In a statement EBay said it plans to complete the offering in the first half of next year, though specific timing will depend on market conditions....

Electronic mail is older than tweets, blogs, SMS texts—older even than the entire Internet. Why is it so many people still don't get it right? New users of all ages and experience levels hit the Net every day. They're so new that even the most...

If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer. A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let people...

The number of filers for first-time unemployment claims fell last week, though they remain at very high levels. Tom Koulopoulos, author of "The Innovation Zone," tells Kelsey Hubbard historical periods of high unemployment proceed periods of extremely high innovation....

IBM and InSite today announced a $15 million deal to that will help hospitals, doctors and pharmaceutical companies to use a cloud computing based medical imaging database system. This service will support new ways to use cloud computing to manage anticipated increases in medical...

Washington - This is what you get when politicians keep their comments to 140 characters or less: "We need to cut spending! Holy Cow! A novel idea in Washington." "Have u noticed your take-home pay has gone up? Stimulus at work." "Some think I'm on vacation. I voted...

Spam is no longer merely nuisance e-mail run amok. Spam is electronic junk mail that doesn't have to be malicious to be costly. The loss of productivity alone adds up. Ferris Research, a San Francisco-based information technology market research firm, estimated it costs 4 cents...

Microsoft announced today at HIMSS 09 Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) 2009, the next generation release of the enterprise data aggregation platform that enables hospitals to unlock patient data stored in a wide range of systems and make it easily accessible to every authorized...