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For more than a year, Microsoft has been pushing its Passport identification system -- in which consumers use a single login ID and password to access multiple applications -- as a crucial feature of its .NET platform. ...

In an effort to replicate the Virgin Megastore experience online, Virgin Entertainment has handed control of the company's e-commerce efforts to Amazon.com ...

Enterprise cannot swing an optical mouse these days without hitting a Microsoft product. But despite the software giant's aggressive posturing, enterprise is hardly at its mercy when developing a blueprint for e-commerce ...

Microsoft refused to compromise further with the nine states pursuing antitrust action against the software giant -- just a day after U.S. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly asked Microsoft and the states to find common ground ...

Intel has announced, unsurprisingly, that it is withdrawing from the Web hosting business. ...

Earlier this spring, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he did not foresee economic improvement during the next three months. He was not kidding. Oracle reported revenue of US$9.7 billion for its fiscal year ended May 31st, down considerably from the $10.9 billion recorded last year ...

While other technology stocks fell Thursday, IBM shares rose as Big Blue's strategy to abandon the hard disk drive market drew kudos from analysts and the company announced plans to restate its financials ...

In an attempt to thwart piracy -- and to find an online music strategy thatworks -- two of the United States' Big Five record companies, Sony Music andUniversal Music, have announced they plan to make downloading music from the Web less expensive for listeners ...

An economic downturn means fewer dollars for salaries, business resources and, unfortunately, research and development. But is a poor economy synonymous with a dip in technical innovation, particularly at bellwether companies like Cisco and IBM? ...

Internet media company Terra Lycos has launched a subscription-based online music service, Lycos Rhapsody, with the full cooperation of at least four major record labels. ...

EarthLink announced Monday that it will buy low-cost computer vendor PeoplePC for about US$10 million, but the giant Internet service provider (ISP) left open the possibility that the deal could swell to $14.3 million ...

For all the talk about the World Wide Web, e-commerce is not so worldly after all. The Web may disregard international boundaries, but shoppers still must abide by the laws of their home country -- and then some ...

Intel wounded Wall Street's hopes for recovery Thursday by lowering its forecast after market close. The company said its second-quarter revenue should total US$6.5 billion, rather than the $6.4 billion to $7 billion projected earlier this spring ...

EBay expects to rake in nearly US$1 billion in revenue during 2002, CEO Meg Whitman said at the auction giant's shareholder meeting. ...

Less than a month after Napster said it would sell its assets to Bertelsmann in a deal worth US$8 million, the online music swapping service has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. ...

With surgical precision, IBM has sliced 2,000 jobs from its Global Services unit as it struggles to bring its financials more in line with forecasts ...

Just weeks after Cisco reported that its third-quarter operating profit more than tripled to US$838 million from the year-ago period, the company's shares dropped on reports that analysts from two firms have sounded the alarm over its financial standing ...

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has taken aim at the growing amount of spam plaguing New York consumers by filing suit against online marketing company MonsterHut and two of its executives ...

Sun Microsystems has positioned itself to tackle the Linux marketwith a significant upgrade to its Solaris operating system ...

Microsoft may have thought it could make software upgrades easier for customers -- and secure a steady revenue stream -- by mandating an automatic upgrade plan for applications and operating system software, but the company should rethink its strategy, analysts said. ...