Yesterday, Microsoft reported an a 38% increase in net profit for the quarter ended June 30 compared to the same quarter a year earlier, but that didn’t stop the company’s shares from going down.

We’ve all heard it… “Content IS King” and for good reason because it IS as far as the Internet is concerned.

Myth 1. Web Content Theft & Other Internet Copyright Violations Are Hard to Pursue.

As pointed out by many, the competition in the search industry leads to a great deal of emulation. When one company releases a product, a complimentary product from the competition is usually soon to follow.

Vendor Managed Inventory. Electronic Data Interchange. Online Inventory Management.

The number of Web users in China, the world’s second largest Internet market, grew by 9 million people in the first half of this year to hit 103 million, the China Daily said on Friday.

In today’s competitive environment, inventory management can no longer take a traditional approach and be a secondary priority for process improvement. With the demand for faster production schedules, shorter lead times, on-time delivery as well as total cost reduction, antiquated processes will have no place in a fast-paced business environment.

Newly-formed Duquesne Broadband will begin a trial of wireless BPL services on August 8th in Monroeville.

So you think you want to talk to aliens? Well, you might just have your chance and you won’t need Jody Foster to make contact. Florida-based MindComet now offers a service that allows bloggers to send their blogs into space.

Nielsen/NetRatings released the second quarter statistics for the number of searches launched at all the major search engines. AOL and Ask Jeeves both enjoyed double digit growth, but remain pebbles in the search ocean.

The game ratings board has found that Take-Two’s Rockstar videogame studio had adult content hidden in the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas game.

Obviously, the world is not enough. Not for James Bond and apparently not for Google either; who, fresh off of the Google Earth launch, have set their mapping sites on bigger prospects like the solar system.

An issue with third-party extensions has led to a minor update of Firefox and the Thunderbird email client.

Atari plans to release Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure video game in the fall; Peter Vallone says the game will glorify graffiti.

Prudential analyst Mark Rowen gave Google’s stock a price target today of $400. If you were wondering why Google’s stock has rebounded …

Implementing a remote reboot power management solution is a required procedure for assembling a true lights-out data center or co-location facility.

Microsoft announced yesterday they will acquire FrontBridge Technologies Inc., a company that provides managed services for corporate email security, compliance and availability requirements. This adds another set of features to Microsoft’s ongoing war against security problems through archiving, minimizing spam and viruses, and ensuring email availability in case of a disaster.

While I don’t claim to know or predict the future, I do feel like this whole blogging thing is gonna peak sooner or later.

There is an increasing fad towards hiring marketing coaches to educate business owners and decision makers about building their businesses.

My boy sneaky Pete has the skinny on some slick tricks for optimizing your Google AdSense revenue. It’s funny to me because by Google offering up such information it’s going to do two good things.

Major retailers Wal-Mart and Target announced they are pulling copies of the controversial and best-selling video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas after the industry’s own watch dog panel officially changed the rating to “Adults Only (AO).”

NASA said July 26th will be the launch date for STS 114 Space Shuttle Discovery. After a number of setbacks, including the most recent fuel sensor problem, NASA says they’re ready to attempt the launch and countdown will begin on Saturday with liftoff to occur at 10:39 a.m. EDT on Tuesday.