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In a routine reminiscent of mum at dinner time, thin provisioning forces storage-hungry users to watch their habits.

Media conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp agreed Monday to buy search and portal Web site operator Ask Jeeves in a stock-swap deal the companies valued at around US$1.85 billion.

Here is a subject that's become increasingly important to e-commerce sites: pay-per-click advertising.

Claiming that Internet search engines are increasingly slipping ads into what are supposed to be objective query results, watchdog group Commercial Alert lodged a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Monday, asking the FTC to investigate eight popular search engines.

Channel 7's online division, i7 is unsure what it will do with its domain name, olympics.com.au later this year when the Olympics madness has passed.

AT&T Corp. subsidiary Liberty Digital Inc. will purchase a 50 percent stake in Sony Corp. Pictures Entertainment's Game Show Network in the hopes of developing interactive TV offerings based on shows such as Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!

Never mind the unlikely name, Google leads the charge towards smart search technology

News that Yahoo Inc. is switching the search engine featured on its portal from Inktomi Corp. to Google Inc. might be a marketing coup for Google, but it won't sink Inktomi, which has plenty of other customers and business not related to search.

Electronic transactions are revolutionizing the way people do business, creating virtual exchanges and giving way to a host of alternative forms of currency. Point systems and loyalty programs -- recall the "green stamps" of the old days, which people would collect and redeem for any number of prizes -- are back, and e-currencies are proliferating, with the Web as a new breeding ground.

The struggle to find qualified IT help doesn't appear to be getting any easier. About half of the 1.6 million IT job openings this year will go unfilled because of a dearth of qualified candidates, according to the results of a new survey by the Information Technology Association of America. Companies with 50 to 100 workers will feel the pinch most severely, the study shows. Technical support jobs will account for about one-third of all new positions in the next year, with companies most anxious to find workers with skills in troubleshooting, customer service, hardware and software installation, and systems operation and maintenance. The association conducted 700 telephone interviews with randomly chosen IT managers and released the results of the study at the third annual National Workforce Convocation held in Chicago last week.

If your end users get wind of the latest craze hitting the Net, your network could be in trouble. Tagged "surfing for cash", this latest phenomenon is arousing interest among on-the-job users seeking to make a bit of cash on the side. The problem is, they're doing it when they're not supposed to and they're doing it using your network. As evidenced in a number of sites, users are prepared to compromise the ethical issues that come with surfing for cash while on the job, for anything between $5 to $500 per month. In return, users read and respond to e-mails from advertisers, visit advertiser Web sites and view online ads, all during working hours.