3Com Corp. next week plans to launch a networking system that uses existing copper-wire telephone lines to provide value-added broadband Ethernet services to hotels, multitenant offices and apartment and condominium complexes.
Starting an e-business can be easy. Taking it apart is painful.
A group of seven technology vendors and Internet companies yesterday proposed a set of business guidelines that they said are aimed at protecting online consumers in areas such as security, privacy and customer service.
A group of seven technology vendors and Internet companies yesterday proposed a set of business guidelines that they said are aimed at protecting online consumers in areas such as security, privacy and customer service.
The liquidation of Boo.com Group Ltd. was essentially completed today with the sale of the European online retailer's domain and brand names to a New York fashion portal.
Lucent Technologies Inc. today agreed to purchase Chromatis Networks, a metropolitan optical networking vendor, in a stock deal worth an estimated $4.5 billion.
If you're an online business that wants to woo Latin American customers, the courtship increasingly may have to be done en Espanol. The days when English-only Web sites could suffice internationally appear to be nearing an end, according to analysts and other industry observers.
With its most valuable asset already sold, the failed London-based online retailer Boo.com Group Ltd. likely won't come close to recouping its costs in an ongoing liquidation.
Spanish Internet giant Terra Network SA's takeover of Lycos Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts, was an unusual case of an old-line European company buying a U.S. dot-com, but it also marked the growing importance of Spanish-speaking markets on the Web.
Users implementing e-commerce projects say managing those projects can pose unique challenges to brick-and-mortar companies, especially those that seek outside help to build an Internet complement to their existing businesses.
Intel Corp. announced yesterday that it would invests billions of dollars over the next two years to help meet the demand for flash chips in wireless communications. Personal computer manufacturer Fujitsu is following close behind with a new flash facility just north of Tokyo.
A government report released last week says women continue to be relatively underpaid and underrepresented in the information technology workforce.
Though it wasn't in time for Mother's Day, a Boston-area chain of flower shops is replacing its dial-up networking connections with a DSL-based wide-area network from a local broadband provider.
U.S. government sources are saying that firewalls have successfully protected the information systems at the Los Alamos National Laboratory - the concrete kind of firewall, that is.
Women continue to be underreppresented in information technology jobs, particularly at the high end of the pay scale, according to a report released today from the president's Council of Economic Advisers.