Or you soon will. America Online Inc.'s acquisition of Time Warner has the potential to create a load of headaches for you. No, not because it means AOL will double your weekly allotment of disks and CDs hawking free online hours, although that is a distinct possibility. The big pain will be competing with Web sites that will be delivering media-rich content to your company's potential customers.
In 1654, when people hand-wrote letters instead of subscribing to e-mail list services, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat exchanged missives that established the basic principles of probability and ushered in the notion of risk management. Pascal's motive was to gain an edge in gambling, but he unwittingly helped improve a CIO's odds at venturing into new operations, such as e-commerce, as much as lending a hand to a chief financial officer's investments.
Adding her voice to those who believe more can be done to stop crime on the Internet, US Attorney General Janet Reno said here on Monday that a new "LawNet" was needed that would be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to coordinate anticybercrime efforts among individual states and even nations.
Steve Jobs, who has dropped the "interim" from his title as CEO of Apple Computer Inc., demonstrated publicly for the first time the client version of Mac OS X and new Internet tools before a packed and cheering auditorium here.
Steve Jobs, who has dropped the "interim" from his role as chief executive officer of Apple Computer Inc., today demonstrated publicly for the first time the client version of Mac OS X and new Internet tools before a packed and cheering auditorium here.
The World Trade Organisation innocently claims that it only wants to foster globalisation through the establishment of free-trade policies. Judging from the recent ruckus in Seattle, it seems many people oppose this ideal, probably because they know that the WTO does much more than wrestle with arcane import tariffs and government subsidies.
Application service providers, which see themselves as replacements for large parts of the IT department at some organisations, are suffering from a lack of profits, and business fragmentation that could stop market growth in its tracks.
In a speech last night to the Silicon Valley chapter of the Federalist Society, Federal Trade Commissioner Orson Swindle called internet commerce "too fragile" for taxation and said he supported Republican presidential candidate John McCain's bill to permanently ban e-business taxes.
SCO and Hambrecht & Quist LLC are expected to announce tomorrow a mutual investment in The Linux Mall, the sole division of WorkGroup Solutions Inc