Internet Business News

January 14, 2009

What Yahoo Needs from Bartz Right Now

With a new chief executive chosen from well outside its decaying orbit, Yahoo (YHOO) now has one last chance to salvage itself from a slow spiral into irrelevance. On ...

January 13, 2009

Spies in Your Mobile Phone

Just as advertisers and wireless companies are hoping for the business of marketing on mobile phones to take off, consumer groups are raising pointed questions about ...

January 12, 2009

Facebook, Meet the Locals

Victor Donselaar, a Dutchman living in Helsinki, Finland, finds the social network Facebook useful for staying in touch with new friends and business contacts from ...

January 12, 2009

TVs Transform at 2009 CES

No longer a passive box that just displays moving pictures, television got a whole lot more interesting at this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. ...

January 11, 2009

Yahoo!'s Next Frontier: Internet TV

It's easy to lose sight of Yahoo!'s role as a Web pioneer, what with the company's recent management missteps, search-market share losses to Google (GOOG), and the ...

January 9, 2009

Open, Schmopen: Wireless Networks Are Still Closed

Over the past year, there's been a lot of lip service in the mobile-phone industry about making our wireless networks "open." The idea, consumer and open network ...

January 9, 2009

The Real Cost of Delaying Digital TV

The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama wants Congress to push back a planned changeover to digital television. The delay, Obama's team argues, would give...

January 8, 2009

A Digital Ad Blitz for Cable's Disney XD

Remember the good old days when companies launched a new cable channel or TV show with flashy billboards alongside the interstate? Well, the new place for promoting TV...

January 7, 2009

Clearwire's WiMAX Launch

You could hardly turn around in Portland, Ore., in recent weeks without bumping into ads for the new mobile broadband service from Clearwire (CLWR). Product reps ...

January 6, 2009

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Web Sites

A few months ago I was at a technology conference and things were abuzz. The results of a recent survey had just been announced and—gasp—it found that an ...

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 31, 2008

GigaOM Interview: Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor

Heading into 2009, Web-connected consumer electronics are finally on the horizon, and players from Cisco to AT&T are salivating at the opportunity. But in the welter ...

December 31, 2008

Bechtel Rebuilds Its Computer Network from Scratch

Last year, Bechtel Chief Information Officer Geir Ramleth fulfilled what's only a pipe dream for most IT executives: He rebuilt Bechtel Group's corporate data network ...

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

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

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 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, ...