Beth Cox

One of the top Internet career sites, Monster.com, acknowledging that some of its users are being targeted for identity theft via false job postings, has issued a warning to millions of its registered users. The TMP Worldwide subsidiary sent e-mails to job-seekers warning them about the possibility of attempts to steal personal information from fake […]

Sendo, the privately held British mobile phone maker that dropped Microsoft’s smart-phone software last November in favor of an operating system from Symbian, now has filed suit in the U.S. against the Redmond giant, alleging misappropriation of intellectual property. Sendo, in which Microsoft still has a minority interest, said last month that it was canceling […]

The Federal Trade Commission says it has obtained a U.S. District Court settlement in a case involving a somewhat elaborate scam that resulted in whopping telephone bills for connections to various Internet porn sites. The FTC said that thousands of consumers were billed an average of $127 apiece for so-called “videotext” services that they didn’t […]

There’s lots of competition and not everyone has figured out how to make retail work online, but e-commerce, like a certain bunny, just keeps going and going – to the tune of more than $10 billion in U.S. sales for the second quarter. That’s according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, which says that second-quarter […]

Yet another bug has been found in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, this one said to potentially allow the theft of data from consumers who are banking online or shopping at e-commerce Web sites. Microsoft is investigating, but has yet to make a formal statement or issue a fix. One security expert was quoted as saying […]

You can call them laptops or notebooks or even “mobile desktops,” but regardless of the nomenclature, Datamation.com visitors called the Dell Inspiron 8100 the Product of the Year for 2001 in the Client Systems Laptop Category. The Mobile Intel Pentium III-based computer from Round Rock, Texas-based Dell Computer Corp. garnered 40% of the votes and […]

It’s got an LCD screen that delivers 65,000 colors, it’s got connectivity, it’s got dual expansion technology and the Palm m505 got your votes as Datamation.com’s Product of the Year for 2001 in the Client Systems Mobile category. The handheld from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Palm Inc. garnered 32% of the votes, with 92 of the […]

ISI is one of those companies that just seems to have been made for the Internet – lots of content being accessed by lots of users. The Philadelphia-based outfit is a unit of the Thomson Corp. It provides information and reports to the scholarly research community through its “ISI Web of Knowledge,” an online compendium […]

When you’re running a chain of 982 office supply stores in nine countries and operating two e-commerce Web sites, the influx of sales data can be staggering. In fact, Delray Beach, Fla.-based Office Depot Inc. found itself managing a database of 74 million line items just for its Contract Sales Division alone. Making sense of […]

If you’re operating an international investment banking firm such as Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, every dime you can save on faxes, courier services and business travel can pretty much go straight to the bottom line. The company serves more than 1,100 clients annually, and the international aspects of its business mean that travel expenses […]