eMarketing and eMedia

Google called off its proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo just three hours before the US Department of Justice was to file an antitrust complaint on November 5 aimed at blocking it, according to the lawyer that the government hired to pursue the case.

TV network CBS has become the latest big name to have it website used to host malware, a security company has reported.

SAP will extend maintenance for its ERP 6.0 platform and other products until 2017, and in a partial olive branch to angry customers, has sweetened the feature set of its Enterprise Support service, the company said Thursday.

By settling a lawsuit with book authors and publishers this week, Google is looking out for itself and has avoided fighting for and possibly establishing a positive legal precedent for copyright fair use on the Internet.

Users of the micro-blogging site mock the presidential candidate’s decision to “suspend” campaign to deal with the US economic crisis.

The use of search engines as a tool to leverage businesses could certainly be higher, agreed the panelists at a discussion on the future of search engine marketing at the Massive Technology Show in Canada on Wednesday.

In the evolving world of business intelligence, swift and targeted access to reports and analysis is the name of the game. But the frequent inability of employees to locate the results they need from high-end BI applications is prompting several enterprise search vendors to step in and address the challenge.

Business Process Execution Language is an XML-based language that's designed to run a series of Web-based transactions and/or characterize interfaces that are needed to complete Web-based transactions. By Jan Matlis

Though IBM's Bart Lautenbach says e-tailers have made a lot of progress, he says e-business is still in its infancy.

It was an online retailer's worst nightmare. Most customers of the Louisville Slugger Museum's online gift shop arrived by way of Hillerich & Bradsby Co.'s home page for its famous bats, www.slugger.com. But last July, someone uploaded the wrong file to the company's Web site, and for six weeks, all attempts to go to the gift shop from the Louisville Slugger home page were redirected to another company's Web site

There's an old show-business joke about a play that is failing. A potential theatergoer calls the box office to find out when the show starts, and the ticket agent responds, "How soon can you get here?"

You can't simply open a new Web site, sit back, and expect to welcome a horde of visitors showing up at your virtual storefront. If you want your online business to be successful, you must promote your site.

Stratton Sclavos, CEO of VeriSign, says his company didn't intend to break anything on the Internet when it launched its Site Finder wild-card service. In fact, Sclavos told me a few days ago, VeriSign spent months testing Site Finder. And it did conform to existing standards. And when Site Finder went live and some things broke, VeriSign went to work fixing them as quickly as possible.

Slowly but very surely, companies that use the Internet as their primary source of business or rely on it to make a profit are finding ways to make their dot-com endeavors pay for themselves.

There are three system architectures for handling spam: At the desktop, at the mail server, or outsourced.

Instant Messaging is one of those technologies that most network executives are trying to weed out of their network. IM is considered a major time-waster by most businesses.