Susan Kuchinskas

It's a fine time to be an RFID vendor . A second round of Wal-Mart RFID mandates will kick in on January 1, 2006. It's looking like this RFID thing might

Dad always said, "If a bully is picking on you, make friends with a bigger bully." That seems to be Microsoft's latest tactic in its ongoing wrangles with

Anyone can search the Web. Now, Google aims to create its own invisible Web , which will be invisible to anyone not using Google. Google launched a beta

The Public Patent Foundation (PubPat) asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to re-examine a patent covering the JPEG format. PubPat Executive

Yahoo Shopping introduced "social commerce" in time for the holiday shopping season. Yahoo calls its new offering the "Shoposphere"; like the blogosphere,

The arcane realm of Web analytics is getting hotter -- and, maybe, easier. Any area Google enters immediately sizzles, and this week, the search Goliath

Sun Microsystems released an RFID package focused on helping pharmaceutical companies track and authenticate drugs. Sun's RFID Industry Solution for Drug

Today, the corporate desktop and intranet. Tomorrow, Windows Live. MSN released a new version of its desktop search tool designed for enterprise users.

Reporter's Notebook: Big, rich and smart. That's Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft may be too big, rich and smart for its own good. With a wealth of ideas and

UPDATED: Amazon.com has changed its travel source. SideStep, a meta search engine for travel, announced a deal Thursday with Amazon Services that it will

Review your local dry cleaner, pay $10 million? User reviews are a hot new content area, being used by Google , Yahoo and MSN to sweeten their local

UPDATED: Google flipped the switch on Google Personalized Search on Thursday, turning it on for all users when they create a new Google account.