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I'll be brief. Time is precious, after all, which is why everything moves so fast in the digital age. Why we moved from snail mail to e-mail to instant messaging. Instant. The word itself conveys an adrenalized fervor. But maybe it's time to give an old aphorism new meaning: speed kills ...

Scour, Inc. has laid off all but a fraction of its workforce, saying pending lawsuits have scared away investors lined up to fund the file-sharing network ...

Despite growing consumer fears about online privacy, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) will notify its 23 million customers that it has revised its policy to reflect the fact that customer information may be sold as an asset ...

For a long time, we were told it was coming. Soon we would be gliding across the Internet at warp speed. We'd be downloading crisp video on demand, seamlessly streaming television and radio broadcasts. High-quality teleconferencing would make traveling to business meetings a thing of the past ...

Ask a thousand people on the street to tell you the first person they think of when they hear the name "Madonna," and you're likely to get a pretty overwhelming response in favor of the bump-and-grind pop singer. At least that's the claim of her publicist ...

A dream team of high-tech heavyweights -- led by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, NEC and Intel -- is joining forces to find new ways for the Linux operating system to be used in high-powered corporate networks and on the Internet ...

Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) suffered a setback in its bid to produce ever-speedier microprocessors Monday when it announced it would halt production of its fastest version to date of the Pentium III chip ...

It wasn't so long ago that e-mail belonged to a relatively small in-group who knew it as a fun, fast and cheap way to communicate. The technology made it possible to chat with co-workers while looking busy, to talk to people outside work without tying up the phones, and to communicate across time zones without waking anyone ...

With American television unable to offset a massive time-zone gap, the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia is likely to draw more Internet users than any other event in the Web's history, according to lead technology sponsor IBM ...

In an ironic twist in the online privacy debate, TRUSTe, an organization that monitors Internet privacy issues, was caught violating its own privacy policy Thursday through the use of a third-party software program ...

Some dot-com failures seem to come out of the blue, with few public indications of struggle before the companies actually fail. But in other cases, the slow and painful descent unfolds under a hot spotlight as the whole world watches ...

I once hoped -- without any good reason, really -- that the world of online retail would somehow distinguish itself in one small but significant way: I hoped it would obey the calendar. The Roman calendar. The one that has been completely folded, spindled, mutilated and ignored by real-world retailers ...

Hoping to gain exposure for its wireless handheld device business, 3Com has announced that it will loan free Web appliances to fans at National Football League (NFL) games in San Francisco, California starting early next month ...

Three months after hailing its proposal to offer UK Internet users a flat rate for unlimited Web access as the second great online revolution, AltaVista has shelved the proposal indefinitely ...

A strong majority of U.S. Internet users want a guarantee from Web sites that their private information will not be resold, and more than 90 percent favor punishment for executives responsible for privacy violations, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project ...

Web portal Lycos took a big step toward making the wireless Internet more accessible when it hooked up with Boston, Massachusetts-based Mobilee to develop a voice portal to the Net. The companies plan to unveil the talking portal before the end of the year ...

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's too bad, because I'd like to be around in a thousand years or so when a more highly evolved human race pokes through our dismal digital remains and concludes that we were clearly out of our minds ...

Responding to a judge's order to expedite the release of information related to Carnivore, its controversial e-mail snooping technology, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is preparing to hand over as many as 3,000 pages of documents to the Internet privacy watchdog group that has been among the system's most outspoken critics ...

Industry giant IBM (NYSE: IBM) and e-commerce software company Kana Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: KANA) announced plans Wednesday to help companies that do business on the Internet improve their customer service ...

To the casual surfer, the Internet may seem like a limitless ocean, but to e-tail firms whose cash is swirling down the drain, it may seem more like a little fish tank that is fast losing its water. The situation is about to get a lot worse: The land sharks are coming ...