A Congressional commission formed to make recommendations on the future of Internet taxation is hearing a raft of proposals yesterday and today during a conference that may shed some light on the future of electronic commerce tax policy.
A US Congressional commission formed to make recommendations on the future of Internet taxation is hearing a raft of proposals yesterday and today during a conference that may shed some light on the future of electronic commerce tax policy.
VA Linux Systems' share value rose nearly 700 per cent following its initial public offering on Friday, setting a record for a first-day percentage gain on Wall Street.
Experts gathered here to define the identity and expectations of the budding e-generation that is poised to embrace booming Internet commerce. After much soul searching, they discovered the major players are from ... the old Baby Boomer generation?
Intel yesterday demonstrated Bluetooth technology-based hardware and software products designed to enable PC manufacturers to add new wireless communications to notebooks and other PC products.
Lucent Technologies and Sun Microsystems on Wednesday announced a broad collaboration to develop network infrastructure and to offer a series of Internet commerce applications. As part of the agreement, Lucent will purchase $US500 million in servers and other technology from Sun.
AT&T said yesterday it will build and manage global IP (Internet Protocol) networks for General Motors and for Delphi Automotive Systems in contracts worth $US510 million.
Internet portal AltaVista said yesterday it will purchase the financial services Web site Raging Bull, a move designed to allow AltaVista to challenge a similar financial site of rival portal Yahoo.
A gremlin trying to spoil Christmas has released a Melissa-like virus capable of reformatting the hard drive of a computer.
Stock in Linux seller Red Hat soared overnight on the strength of the recent announcement of its purchase of another Linux company, Cygnus Solutions, for $US674 million.
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux open source operating system, pointed to the increased popularity of the open-source movement here at Comdex, and for the first time spoke publicly about the new, secretive company he is working for.
Again showing a keen interest in the wireless communications market, Intel on Friday said it has established a technology research and development centre in Stockholm.
Computer Associates will fight this week's ruling by a US judge that requires three of the software company's top executives to pay back $US550 million they received in executive compensation to CA.
A judge on Tuesday ordered three Computer Associates International (CA) executives, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Charles Wang, to return to the US software vendor about $US550 million out of the $1.1 billion in stocks they had received in a compensation package.
The growth of electronic commerce is in turn fuelling rapid expansion in the Web site development industry, which has reached $US10 billion this year, a research firm reported on Monday.