Blame Net's Long Tail for Drop in UAL Stock

A Web crawler is the latest culprit behind the resurfacing this week of a 2002 article about a United Airlines bankruptcy filing, causing some investors who thought it was new news to panic, and plunging UAL shares by 25 percent....

Does Social Notworking Hurt Business?

Internet Saves College Students Money

Many students commute to college because living on campus is too expensive. But now with soaring gasoline prices, even driving to and from campus is becoming a financial burden. So, more students are enrolling in online classes to save money....

Is the Long Tail Theory Rubbish?

A Harvard Business School researcher suggests the Long Tail theory in which business profits from selling a large number of unique items in small quantities is malarkey....

Cheating Your Way to an IT Career

Here's a sorry story: At least 1,000 students worldwide have offshored their homework to coders for India, some for as little as $10, British academics contend....

Will Google Search Rescue Porn Defendant?

Results from Google searches that purportedly shows that community standards in Pensacola, Fla., aren't as puritanical as they seem will be introduced at an obscenity trial next month....

Open-Source Innovation Set to Evolve to Next Stage

The idea of employing open-source software methods to collaborate on creating products isn't new, but its hasn't received widespread adoption, yet....

Beyond Personalization: Morphing Websites for Profit

Websites that morph to suit different types of visitor could boost a site's sales by 20 percent....

Who Need Pros to Get the Story Fast?

Within an hour of the collapse of a crane on Manhattan's Upper Eastside on Friday morning, The New York Times was soliciting its online readers for photos of the accident....

Cloud Computing's Naysayers

Cloud computing isn't ready for primetime, at least for larger enterprises, at least now....