Tim Gray

Computer giant HP announced Tuesday it agreed to purchase bilderservice.de GmbH, the owner and operator of Pixaco, which is a leading online photo services and products site in Europe. The deal marks the second time in less than a year that the Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP has moved into the online photo service space. In […]

UPDATED:Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL and chief architect behind the company’s merger with Time Warner, says it is time the pair say goodbye. “Although I played a key role in bringing AOL and Time Warner together six years ago, it’s now my view that it would be best to ‘undo’ the merger by splitting […]

E-retailers can forget about Cyber Monday, and stop fretting over Black Friday shopping invoices. Now, the most important date on calendars this holiday season is tomorrow — “Super Tuesday” to the labeling-inclined. That’s because all the research and hoopla over which is the biggest and baddest holiday shopping day on the planet, at least in […]

The worldwide broadband video market is booming and set to explode over the next several years. As consumers continue to clamor for more content over the Internet, growth is expected to reach $16 billion through the end of the decade, according to ABI Research. Both pay and advertising-supported broadband video markets exceeded 100 percent growth […]

Computer security isn’t a technological problem — it’s an economic one. That is the message Bruce Schneier, CTO of Counterpane Internet Security and the author of “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World,” repeated throughout his keynote address here Thursday at the infoSecurity Conference in New York’s Jacob K. Javits Center. Schneier, […]

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge said today ongoing terrorist threats would continue to drive science and technology innovation in the United States and in the process make a better and stronger country. In a keynote address before more than 300 attendees of the InfoSecurity Conference […]

Online shopping got off to a quick start this holiday season, with e-tailers reporting a consumer spending increase of 24 percent over last holiday season, according to a survey. Non-travel online spending reached $9.75 billion during the first month of what is considered the beginning of the holiday shopping season, according to comScore Network’s 2005 […]

AOL announced today it has expanded its video search engine capabilities with an agreement to feature RSS feeds from MTV Networks’ programming services. AOL has made video content a top priority for its ever evolving business, and now the media company has landed a string of highly popular players with this buy, including CMT, Comedy […]

Media conglomerate Liberty Media said today it has agreed to buy e-commerce retailer Provide Commerce for $477 million in cash. Liberty, which owns cable channels Starz, Court TV, and the home shopping network QVC, said the buy will strengthen its e-commerce position and most importantly expand its home shopping network. Under the terms of the […]

Verizon Wireless today said it is working with Qualcomm to broadcast live television to subscribers using a network being built under the direction of Qualcomm’s MediaFlo. Verizon Wireless, the second-leading wireless provider in the United States, said it will introduce the TV service in 2006 to subscribers in more than half its high-speed markets. The […]

America Online today launched AOL Mobile Search Services, which brings search capabilities and local information to mobile users. The service, which has been in beta since July, allows mobile users to perform Web searches just as they would on a desktop computer, as well as access any Web site. It also provides comparison-shopping capabilities for […]

Security firm Sophos is warning Internet users to be a little more wary of the IRS than usual this week after a slew of phishing e-mails disguised as refund notification from the agency were discovered. The phishers are taking advantage of an apparent security configuration error on the real IRS Web site that redirects visitors […]