Tim Gray

Holiday shopping was robust across the board this year, as consumers spent more money at stores and online. According to a new survey by KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm, more than half of consumers reported making at least one purchase over the Internet. Nearly 40 percent of those surveyed said they spent at […]

It is hard to escape the catchy jingles behind the TV ads, or the banners that festoon countless Web sites promoting Voice over IP service from VC darling Vonage. Now, the VoIP provider is taking out its checkbook as part of its cover-the-earth approach to marketing its service. Beginning Jan. 1 and running through the […]

Satellite radio provider Sirius, the No. 2 pay-radio service in the United States, says it surpassed three million subscriber mark this week, and expect numbers to rise as the company prepares for talk-show host Howard Stern’s Jan. 9 debut. The New York-based Sirius, which has 120 commercial-free stations, had predicted on Nov. 1 it would […]

Members of the “Big Three” television networks continue to discover what Web-savvy netizens have long known: the Internet is a great place to display your product, as well as messages from advertisers. Now add CBS to that mix as the Tiffany Network prepares to offer free streaming video of a pair of comedy programs in […]

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court ruled against Lucent Technologies in a breach of contract and bankruptcy suit originally brought by the trustees for Winstar Communications, Lucent’s general counsel said today. The decision, handed down in federal court in Wilmington, Del., late Wednesday, stems from a case that wrapped up in June. Judge Joel B. Rosenthal ordered […]

Holiday cheer is spilling over the Internet and directly into the ledgers of e-tailers. The latest Goldman, Sachs/Nielsen//NetRatings and Harris Interactive Holiday eSpending Report said online shoppers have spent $18.6 billion in the first six weeks of the 2005 holiday season. So far, this year’s U.S. online spending saw a jump of 16 percent from […]

UPDATED: New Yorkers have come a long way since the last transit strike 25 years ago. In that relatively short timeframe, the city has grown from business capital of the developed world into a true center of global commerce, with untold trillions of dollars in transactions whipping through an unseen network each day. Today, unlike […]

Yahoo’s Japanese subsidiary has formed a broadcast company with Internet services firm Softbank that will stream television programs over the Internet, in an attempt leverage the vast numbers of Japanese users with advanced, high-speed Internet connections. The Tokyo-based Yahoo Japan and Softbank, Japan’s second-biggest provider of high-speed Internet services, said the new streaming video service, […]

Vonage has tucked an additional $250 million in private funding from previous and new investors into its coffers, bringing the total funding war chest of the Internet-based phone service start-up to $658 million. The Holmdel, New Jersey-based company, which has more than 1 million customers and is the nation’s largest provider of phone service that […]

In an attempt to keep pace with Apple and Sony in the digital entertainment space, Microsoft has split its entertainment and devices division into four businesses. The restructuring gives more control to executives that oversaw the creation and launch of the Xbox 360 game console, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The […]

“Google” and “enterprise” are two words that traditionally don’t go together very well. “It doesn’t intuitively make sense,” Google Enterprise general manager Dave Girouard told several hundred audience members today at the Interop conference here. Girouard, who is responsible for Google’s enterprise business, including sales, marketing, product development and customer support, said the company guides […]

NEW YORK — AT&T Chief Information Security Officer Ed Amoroso outlined AT&T’s roadmap for corporate security services today, and announced the company’s launch of a news channel that focuses on Internet security issues for its business and government customers. Internet Security News Network (AT&T ISNN) is a 24/7 video webcast providing enterprises with security news […]