Okay, you own a website that is also your business. There are some basics that you must have.

As we all know, visitor traffic is crucial to the success of every Website. If you do not know how many views your pages get, how can you know if anyone is seeing your site, product or service? With an online business, you can not afford to guess at how effective your marketing, content, message or Website design is.

Since new compact discs from the two music distributors use Microsoft’s digital rights management, music can’t be moved to an iPod.

Matching individuals to organizations is a crucial part of success for any company. The match between people and the companies for which they work is determined by the kind of organizational culture that exists. The degree to which an organization’s values match the values of an individual who works for the company determines whether a person is a good match for a particular organization.

Prime Minister Phan Van Khai visited Microsoft Corp.’s Redmond, Washington campus on Monday for a private meeting with Bill Gates regarding Microsoft’s role in developing Vietnam’s information technology.

From the musings of Johannes Kepler to the personal craft of Count Dooku, solar sails have been theorized for centuries.

A drop in the leading index for the month of May follows a period of no change in April for the American economy.

A desire to further research incomplete transactions was cited as the reason for keeping credit card details, leading to the exposure of 40 million credit card numbers.

In case you didn’t know, Saddam Hussein’s nuts. Hiding in holes and spending time in prison hasn’t helped his view of reality much, either. According to GQ magazine, Hussein believes he’s still the president of Iraq and will return to power soon.

Investing in the stock market is not purchasing a stock at 25 dollars a share, hoping it will go to 35 so you can sell it, then hoping it will drop back to 25 so you can buy it back, so that you can sell it again at 35, and so on and so forth.

A problem with XML rendering that hindered Internet Explorer on systems with the new Netscape browser installed has been fixed.

Software company Oddcast will provide ICQ with customizable animated avatars for instant messaging.

Last week Matt Mullenweg asked me a few questions about the Yahoo! Web Search API and Yahoo! Site Search. It turned out that he was looking for a better way to provide search for WordPress.org and thought we had just what he needed.

While the big players in the search industry continue to try and outdo each other by introducing a number of specialty search services, it’s important to remember that a search engine is only as good as its search index.

So, I’m waiting for a session on real-time communication technologies to start. Just sat in on a panel on blogs and wikis for companies. I’m not going blog it, even though it was interesting. Anil Dash from Six Apart was up there, as well as Ross Mayfield from social text and Peter Theony of Twiki. Good stuff, but nothing I didn’t really know.

The search engine company has plans to establish an online payment service similar to PayPal.

A software plug-in for the iTunes Music Store adds a utility to find and download podcasts.

We surveyed 160 Administrative Assistants and Executive Secretaries and asked them to identify the key things salespeople could do to gain their support in reaching their bosses.

A controversial article by the judge overseeing Microsoft’s antitrust ruling appeal may lead to a change.

BBC News interviewed Niklas Zennstrom, the CEO of Skype, on Friday. The wide-ranging interview includes commentary on Zennstrom’s early venture with Kazaa and discusses Skype and its impact on traditional telephone services.

IONA Technologies is planning to make available an open source Java Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the company announced Monday.

Yesterday, an announcement was made that Guidant Corp. is recalling several types of cardiac defibrillators, which are implanted in nearly 50,000 people around the world.