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NETWORKS ARE DANDY when they hum along behind the scenes, but all too often they fail. When your printer goes AWOL or your Skype calls break up every time your […]

THE LOWLY BROWSER is becoming the most powerful piece of software on your computer. Despite the promises of chip makers and PC manufacturers, a Web application like Gmail running on […]

Using the Internet, shoppers can locate the products they want, spot the best prices and sidestep sleazy retailers--in short, speed up and eliminate the hassles from shopping. Right? Not necessarily. […]

You can't find Hogwarts ... yet. Or Middle Earth, for that matter. But Google Maps is geographic coordinates with directory information to forge new, improved views of the Earth and, […]

The booming mobile search advertising will grow 112 percent within five years, making it imperative for market leader Google to take steps to defend itself against a search-hungry Microsoft, according […]

If your company doesn't have a Web site, you can stop reading now. But if you do, and you want more customer traffic, let me tell you about a topic […]

Byline: Carol Wilson Social networks began, like so many things, with the teen-aged population who made MySpace and Facebook the fastest-growing sites on the Internet and a seemingly instant global [...]

Like many of you, probably, I tire-kicked Google Spreadsheets when it first arrived on the scene, then forgot all about it. A nice bit of AJAX hackery, I thought, but […]

Byline: Brian Quinton Nothing in the online advertising space has attracted more attention recently than the phenomenon of social networking. And judging by the audience numbers for these online communities, [...]

AOL on Aug. 7 blamed an internal 'screw-up' for the embarrassing release of detailed keyword search data for roughly 658,000 anonymized users. Dulles, Va.-based AOL's mea culpa comes in the […]

Internet Fraud Boys will scam, be scammed If Internet fraud were a battle of the sexes, men have the upper hand as both perpetrators and hapless victims. That's just one […]

The folks at Google are getting a lot of attention lately with their in-your-face recruiting of the world's most competitive geeks. The company's billboards ask mathematical questions whose answers are […]

Here we go again. It was actually exhilarating to get a load off of my mind in last month's column, critiquing the mistakes press relations staff makes in handling--or mishandling--trade […]

Are we moving toward a world with a universal library service available to all, carrying all existing knowledge, accessible to all, 'round the clock, 'round the calendar? Read this month's […]

IMAGINE THE CHANCE for your students to make friends from around the world. Or receive music lessons from leading composers. These opportunities are part of the future of K-12 education, […]

NEW YORK In late 2004, Wahoo CEO Terry Semel, speaking at the Association of National Advertisers, used a familiar metaphor for the company's strategy: a digital theme park that tempts [...]

NEW YORK When AKQA built a brand Web site for a Visa Signature campaign that launched this month, its media plan included a first for the account: a search component. [...]

We've been pretty busy lately, launching four distinct sites in the last 30 days. And while we're keeping up a fairly hectic pace, we're always mindful of how quickly great [...]

Charging for information isn't enough -- it also has to get to your customers The Internet's promise of information everywhere to everyone has gone the way of the Edsel. In […]