Susan Kuchinskas

SAN FRANCISCO -- The instant messaging client, a mainstay of teen chats, has a new corporate persona as command central for business communications. The

STANFORD -- We all live with a digital doppelgänger that resides in various computer databases -- where major decisions about our lives are made on

Microsoft brass laid out the roadmap for Project Green, the next generation of its business applications, while promising to support the existing

Is Yahoo missing the "long tail" of advertisers? Or does it have bigger fish to fry? If the search engines' pay-per-click ad services were restaurants,

Internet portal Lycos has jettisoned Yahoo's Inktomi search technology. Its major site search is now powered by Ask Jeeves , the companies said on

The long-running patent dispute over browser plug-ins is due for another round, thanks to a ruling delivered on Wednesday in Microsoft's favor in the

BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The key to the speed and reliability of Google search is cutting up data into chunks, its top engineer said. Urs Hoelzle, Google

Microsoft's latest accelerator aims to let businesses improve the way they talk to each other. The launch of the Microsoft BizTalk Server Accelerator for

Head 'em up and move 'em out. Microsoft's Longhorn team has a new trail boss. Michael Sievert, a former AT&T Wireless executive, was named Microsoft's

Sun Microsystems announced a new architecture for radio frequency identification (RFID) applications targeted toward consumer packaged goods (CPG)

Yahoo opened its arms to developers on Tuesday. The launch of the Yahoo! Search Developer Network is a first step on expanding the ranks of developers

Just don't ask Microsoft's lawyers, "What's in a name?" Microsoft, under pressure to comply with a year-old mandate from European antitrust regulators,