True or not, there's some good money to be made online - EasyJet, for example, has already sold over one million airline seats online. The networked household is one of those ideas that sounds as though it should catch on, but somehow the timing...
Bricks and mortar company Marks and Spencer is hoping to gain further ground in the B2C marketplace with its recent announcement of partnerships in both the internet, through MSN and Beeb.com, and interactive TV platforms, through Telewest and Open.
US paper industry e-marketplace PaperExchange.com has closed the book on its European operations after an anonymous buyer bought out the company. The closure follows the failure of rival euro online marketplace PaperX which folded in March.
Internet search engine Ask Jeeves has reacted to the economic downturn by announcing it is unlikely to hit profitability in line with earlier expectations. Ask Jeeves had hoped to break even or be profitable by the end of this year, but announced...
He added Java had been the single most important development in the IT industry over the last decade. Phipps said: "Microsoft thinks we've mishandled Java because IBM and BEA are making money out of it.
Oracle later said it planned to support and update the current version of PeopleSoft's applications, which are used by companies to run accounting, human resources and other key operations, for another decade.