Online auction site eBay Inc. had double the traffic of Amazon.com Inc., its closest competitor among U.S. Web retail sites, at the start of the holiday online shopping season, according to data released on Tuesday.
 
Nielsen//NetRatings, which tracks traffic to more than 100 retail Web sites, said eBay had 11.7

By 2010, 30 percent of homes in the U.S. will exclusively use either cellular phones or voice-over-IP, according to a report released Tuesday by market research firm Gartner.

"It only took more than 125 years but POTS (plain old telephony service) is now on the decline in the U.S.," Ken Dulaney, a

Investor grumbling about Cisco Systems Inc.'s acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta Inc. appears to be gathering momentum. This vocal opposition says bidders may have been ready to pay more for the set-top box company.

Wall Street analysts and sources close to the cable equipment and set-top box maker say that Scientific-Atlanta had other offers on

MANHASSET, N.Y. — NanoDynamics Inc. has announced it would commercialize nanowire fabrication technologies developed by its New Zealand-based partner, Nano Cluster Devices Ltd., to make possible a new generation of nanoscale electronic devices and semiconductors.

NanoDynamics (Buffalo, N.Y.) will deploy technology by Nano Cluster Devices that uses a bottoms-up manufacturing approach with atomic

The number of devices shipped with built-in Bluetooth capabilities has doubled since May, according to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).
The trade group said that about 9.5 million Bluetooth-enabled devices such as cell phones were shipped each week in September. That figure was 4.75 million units per week in May, the

LONDON — Though still a niche market, broadband networking over power lines — whether in the home or in the wider area — could turn out to be a major revenue earner for power utilities, according to a just published report form ABI Research.
 
The researchers say BPL has the

Although Internet domain names may be getting longer or more complex as Web sites creatively squeeze into the crowded ".com" address space, most single-letter names like "a.com" and "b.com" remain unused.
 
That may soon change as the Internet's key oversight agency considers lifting restrictions on the simplest of names.
Read More...   Category: Internet

Unmasked E-mail addresses received over 6,400 spam messages, while only one spam message reached masked E-mail addresses. Masking is the practice of altering an E-mail address so that it's readable by people but not by machines.
  
Trickery and technology both play key roles in managing spam, according to a study

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order requiring full VOIP E911 service takes affect at midnight Monday, and most experts say it's likely that some providers of residential VOIP have fallen short. But on what scale?

To comply with the order, PSTN-connected VOIP providers must be able to connect the 911 calls from

LONDON — Philips Semiconductors has introduced two Nexperia semiconductor platforms for televisions with liquid crystal displays.

The TV810 reference design an integrated analog/digital hybrid system suitable for global analog and digital broadcast TV sets with matrix displays including LCD, plasma, moving-mirror and liquid-crystal on silicon (LCOS) displays, Philips said.

The