Christopher Saunders

LAS VEGAS — Intel demonstrated three new brands for the notebook and home theater PC markets. Speaking at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show here, Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini formally unveiled the Core Duo brand — a marketing moniker designed to promote the dual-core nature of its newest line of processors. The brand launch […]

LAS VEGAS — If it hasn’t already been made abundantly clear, Microsoft expects to be at the center of your daily life. At least, that’s the recurring image presented by the company’s chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, during his appearance at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Gates used his […]

Wireless Internet access is sure to be one of the great innovations of the past several years. There’s no need to list the myriad ways in which Wi-Fi has improved our use of the Internet, or indeed, is poised to improve numerous aspects of daily communication and commerce. But if you’re anything like myself, or […]

America Online has taken the wraps off its new shopping site, inStore, which seeks to compete with Shopping.com, Google’s Froogle.com, and other big-name e-commerce aggregators. As with its rivals, AOL’s new site collects and organizes product offerings from a variety of merchants, making those products available to browsers and searchers on the site. The merchant […]

Web giant Yahoo! is gambling that price cuts on its domain name registration and Web hosting products will make it more competitive with discounters in the space — which means that small businesses looking to move online get a sweeter deal through Yahoo!. Yahoo!, of course, offers packages that enable Web merchants and other small […]

eBay merchants could soon be following in the heels of Apple’s iTunes Music Store and other digital music sellers, following the e-commerce marketplace’s announcement this week that it plans to test ways for users to buy and sell downloadable products. This week, the company unveiled a new Digital Downloads product subcategory within its Music product […]

Heavy selling took its toll on technology stocks Tuesday, after a series of earnings warnings and downgrades led by a negative analyst report for tech sector bellwether Intel . As a result of the news, the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index dropped 2.2 percent, to 1,963.43 — its largest one-day decline since March 15. Shares of […]

Small business owners might do well to consider ways to leverage the Internet, since new data indicates that more businesses than ever are moving online — and expect to be more profitable as a result. According to a new survey conducted last month by Harris Interactive, a staggering 70 percent of small businesses in the […]

WASHINGTON — Online auction giant eBay is aiming to garner support on Capitol Hill against an Internet taxation plan that’s gaining momentum. In a speech at the National Press Club on Thursday, eBay President and Chief Executive Meg Whitman blasted the proposed Streamlined Sales Tax Project, or SSTP, and its potential implications for small businesses. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an effort to boost its services and appeal for small businesses, online auction giant eBay unveiled here today a new financing program in connection with GE Business Credit Services. The effort comes in tandem with the site’s “United States of eBay” Small Business Summit event yesterday, which gathered a selection of […]

America Online has officially taken the wraps off the new version of its AOL Instant Messenger application, with its much -anticipated video IM feature — and the surprise addition of compatibility with Apple Computer’s iChat AV. AIM version 5.5’s chief new feature, dubbed Live Video IM, made its way into the software only after the […]

ActiveBuddy, a leader in the field of instant messaging-based “bots,” is changing its name to Conversagent, to better reflect a new focus. The New York-based firm, which markets bots, chat-based interactive agents, and the servers that power them for internal business and business-to-consumer use, said the branding change comes as it seeks to position itself […]