Internet

Forrester's Doug Washburn is asking a provocative question about green IT, which is all the rage in business organizations around the world. Technology is not green and will never be, he says in a new report, but green efforts present an opportunity for technology departments...

Admiring how British telcos market their network speeds, columnist James Carlini wonders why America doesn't have aggressive network marketing like this. Marketing new network services was never a strong suit of U.S. phone companies, he asserts in this edition of Carlini's Comments, and they could...

Yahoo! and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh will establish a student-staffed technical support center on the Oshkosh campus this fall. The center will employ UW-Oshkosh students and provide technical support to some of Yahoo!'s 17,000 employees. Students will have the opportunity to work part time and...

Some cities and regions are dying because they have not provided the right infrastructure platform to attract and maintain new corporate endeavors, according to columnist James Carlini. That infrastructure not only includes roads, bridges, and rail, but also broadband connectivity....

Kelly Fitzsimmons admitted something that she probably wouldn’t have said to her company’s investors. Fitzsimmons, co-founder and CEO of the Wisconsin-based Comic Wonder, a web site dedicated to the fine art of joke telling, sheepishly confessed that she’s a rotten joke teller. Fortunately, she’s a...

Businesses that rely heavily on Internet marketing and business communications are keenly aware of the Federal Trade Commission's CAN-SPAM act of 2003. After requesting and considering public comments on a number of proposed provisions, the FTC adopted new provisions under CAN-SPAM, which touch on four...

Sometimes an event can be revealing; a rude awakening to a reality that replaces a more innocent, but imaginary, world. Google's recent attempt to acquire Yahoo's search engine and search advertising business is such an event...