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US Senate restarts .XXX debate
Talkback Lets make it so not only are porongraphic websites relegated to their own domain but every redirect or porn pop up ment to carry you off the the galaxy of porn already waiting for you on the dot coms and dot nets can no longer operate in these...
[August 7, 2006, 18:42]
First Tuesday networking returns
News Smith added that the proliferation of broadband, the lack of which hampered many rich-media dot-coms such as Boo.com back in 2000, as well as the growth in the number of people online, means the technology is also more favourable for entrepreneurs...
[February 7, 2006, 9:10]
From boom to bust and back again
News But not all dot-coms were brought down by the bust. It was only in 1999 that dot-coms started blossoming in the Indeed, it appears that dot-coms might not be completely extinct today. Its co-founder, Richard Fan, agrees that learning from the dot...
[November 29, 2005, 14:25]
Sex.com conman caught after five years flight
News Kremen lost his rights to the Sex.com domain name in 1995, when Cohen contacted Network Solutions, the company that administrated all dot coms, and convinced the registrar to authorise transfer of the domain to himself.
[October 28, 2005, 18:25]
Universities leading search research
News The business has not only bolstered the likes of Yahoo and Google with billion-dollar annual revenues to be spent in new areas but it's also revived hundreds of smaller dot-coms and inspired leagues of upstarts to venture into areas of specialty...
[August 16, 2005, 11:40]
Fanfare for new search launch
News Dot-coms coming back now seem to be much stronger," Oscar said. A Web search upstart is cutting the ribbon on a new service with the celebrity muscle of Bill Clinton, a sure sign that dot-com hype is back.
[December 7, 2004, 12:55]
Industry tries to dampen RFID hype
News But the chief question is whether businesses are ready to spend big on new technology again, after reining in budgets in recent years and watching flaky dot-coms go under, according to Sarah Friar, vice president of Goldman Sachs.
[September 30, 2004, 12:25]
What has broadband done for us?
News The Age of Broadband is nigh. It might not have arrived in time to ride the wave of the Internet boom, but the spread of high-speed connections has achieved something more important: critical mass. By the end of this year, some 1.8 million...
[March 31, 2004, 12:15]
Gates sees 'mini bubble'
News A "mini bubble" has emerged among Internet companies, but it is not likely to reach the level of the previous dot-com boom, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said. Gates' comments follow recent filings for public offerings by several dot-com companies...
[March 29, 2004, 8:20]
Lastminute.com: Forget Google - we're the innovators
News While US dot-coms such as Google, Amazon and eBay have been praised for their technical innovation, UK Web survivor Lastminute.com has shuffled around in the shadows -- seen as functional but not exactly cutting-edge.
[March 2, 2004, 9:55]
Search payments cause a wave of concern for surfers
News Overture and Google are the leaders in this mode of marketing, licensing results to portals, Internet service providers and other dot-coms, which split the fees from clicks. The Federal Trade Commission remains concerned that consumers may not be...
[October 14, 2003, 15:15]
Getting back to basics
News Unlike some of the flakier home-grown tech firms and dot-coms, Autonomy has a business proposition that seems to fulfil a genuine need -- the ability to search and manage the mountains of unstructured data businesses are increasingly inundated with.
[October 8, 2003, 16:55]
High-tech firms gingerly approach IPOs
News Profitability is almost an IPO prerequisite these days, with investors still skittish about the flaky dot-coms that burned them a few years ago, experts say. A successful IPO would be a coup for companies like Salesforce and NetSuite, which dodged...
[October 6, 2003, 14:45]
The return of the tech IPO?
News Initial public offerings, or IPOs, were all the rage in the 1990s as technology companies and dot-coms rushed to raise funds to fuel their ambitious expansion plans, and to cash in as investors threw money at the sector.
[August 11, 2003, 17:40]
New top-level domain goes .pro
News Many doctors and lawyers were getting .coms, but there have been a lot of imposters," Gaon said, noting that a number of people with .com addresses had posed as doctors to sell Viagra and similar products online.
[August 8, 2003, 12:05]
Playboy does mobile deal with 3
News Porn Web sites were also one the first businesses to pioneer a subscription model for content and digital streaming technologies, and remain among the most profitable dot-coms. After extending its reach into print, broadcast and the Internet, adult...
[May 22, 2003, 8:29]
Execs talk up Web successes
News What's hot in an industry that's cooled? The Internet sector has been beat up over the last three years, and some have left it for dead. But a couple of industry titans offered their perspective on Tuesday on what's working on the Web and what it...
[May 7, 2003, 12:10]
Shutters come down on free photos for MSN
News A few years ago as many dot-coms went bust, some storage companies simply folded, meaning people who lost their files were out of luck. Attention MSN Photo users: you have two weeks to subscribe to MSN 8 or download your photos if you don't want to...
[May 7, 2003, 8:26]
Amazon makes Web-ad patent bid
News Like many dot-coms, AdAuction and others went belly up. The e-commerce giant, which sells limited advertising space on its Web site, recently filed with the United States Patent and Trademark office for a patent that deals with Internet ads.
[March 25, 2003, 9:34]
Downturn claims 5,000 dot-coms
News In the three years since the peak of the dot.com frenzy, nearly 5,000 internet companies have either been acquired or shut down in a massive sector consolidation, says a new study of mergers and acquisitions.
[March 17, 2003, 12:45]
