Internet Business News

December 31, 2008

Ten Stories that Defined Broadband in 2008

With every tick of the clock, 2008 is taking its final steps toward 2009, when the year starts afresh. From a broadband perspective it has been an eventful ...

December 31, 2008

Bringing Broadband to the Urban Poor

Anthony Celestine was a latecomer to the Internet Age. The 40-year-old Harlem resident has owned a small Jani-King commercial cleaning franchise since 2004, but until ...

December 30, 2008

A Modest Blogging Proposal

It all started with a simple question from Forrester Research (FORR) analyst Jeremiah Owyang late in the afternoon on Friday, Dec. 12. A few days earlier, blogger ...

December 30, 2008

Move Over Kindle; E-Books Hit Cell Phones

Adam Parks is an avid reader of digital books. But you won't find him downloading the 20 or so titles he reads each year onto an electronic book device like Amazon's ...

December 28, 2008

SageTV's HD Theater

I like a lot of things about the new SageTV HD Theater, a set-top box that lets you view computer- and Internet-based content on your TV. But if it had access to more ...

December 28, 2008

Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy

It's dawn at a Los Angeles apartment overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Laura Sweet, an advertising creative director in her early 40s, sits at a computer and begins to ...

December 24, 2008

Digital Snoops Have Nothing on Joe Sales Clerk

Even as we plunge into recession, the holiday season brings online merchants a windfall of sorts: billions of new shopping clicks to analyze. We may be just browsing ...

December 22, 2008

Why Netbooks Are Greener than Laptops

It was just over a year ago that small, low-cost netbooks hit the market, and since then they've become one of the hottest technology trends of 2008, with the top two ...

December 22, 2008

The Consumer Electronics Inventory Glut

Automakers aren't the only ones halting production as inventories pile up. The consumer electronics industry is also coming to grips with rising stockpiles of unsold ...

December 22, 2008

The Net Generation Takes the Lead

Editor's note: This is the eighth in an eight-part series of Viewpoints by author Don Tapscott, who draws on the $4 million research project that inspired his new ...

December 20, 2008

What Online Community?

The recent tragic incident involving 19-year-old college student, Abraham Biggs, has unwrapped a host of social, moral, ethical, and legal issues. This American ...

December 19, 2008

E-Books Are on the Rise, But Slowly

With Oprah pushing an e-reader to her audience, Google (GOOG) placing whole books online, and the popularity of programs such as Stanza, which turns the iPhone into a ...

December 18, 2008

How Electronic Arts Lost Its Way

Expectations ran high almost two years ago, when John Riccitiello took the helm of video game maker Electronic Arts (ERTS). Formerly operations chief for EA, ...

December 17, 2008

The Recession: My Facebook, My Therapist

When Ian Schlueter found out he'd be among the casualties of a layoff announced Dec. 11 by global shipper DHL, he was too shaken up to call friends and family. "I ...

December 17, 2008

Message to Yahoo: Merge with Adobe

Microsoft is no longer interested in buying Yahoo! but remains open to acquiring the company's search business, according to press reports and statements from ...

December 17, 2008

Online Marketers Wooing Minorities More

Even as companies rein in marketing spending during a sinking economy, many advertisers are likely to step up efforts to reach minorities online in the coming months, ...

December 16, 2008

The Big Promise of Cloud Computing

When Damian Zikakis' laptop computer was stolen last May, he figured that was the last he would see of it. A thief had broken into the Birmingham (Mich.) offices of ...

December 16, 2008

Tech Stocks for the Stimulus Plan

As businesses hunker down for another year of malaise, a few sectors of the economy are poised to benefit from the incoming Administration's proposed elixir. ...

December 16, 2008

Rethinking Computers in the Classroom

Three fourth-graders sit around a computer in one corner of a classroom at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, a school of 220 students in San Francisco. One 9-year-old ...

December 15, 2008

Focus On the Net Gen Family

Editor's note: This is the seventh in an eight-part series of Viewpoints by author Don Tapscott, who draws on the $4 million research project that inspired his new ...

December 15, 2008

Econ 101 Not Cutting It? Ask the Web for Help

The ins and outs of the current economic situation are somewhat beyond the scope of my freshman-year Principles of Economics class. Credit default swaps? Bailouts? I ...

December 14, 2008

Google's Mayer: Staying Innovative In a Downturn

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded Google (GOOG) 10 years ago, few people imagined the kind of influence it would wield today—not just on the Internet, ...

December 12, 2008

Did Video Startups Not Get the Memo on the Economy?

With the global economy in tatters, what are entrepreneurs to do? Stop believing in themselves? Never! Still, we at NewTeeVee are amazed by the unwavering flow of ...

December 11, 2008

Time for E-Commerce 2.0

Every time I check my e-mail, there's another one: "ONE DAY ONLY!!! Save an EXTRA 50%" "First time ever! TRIPLE INCIRCLE POINTS + Free gift wrap + Free online shipping...

December 11, 2008

Windows Mobile: What Microsoft Needs to Fix

In September, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer spent a week traipsing across Europe and parts of the U.S. schmoozing 17 of the world's largest handset makers ...