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As Internet titans Microsoft Corp. and America Online Inc. (AOL) go head-on in their battle over market share, a report released Thursday by Gartner Inc. indicates that Microsoft has the advantage in at least one key respect

PC shipments in Latin America significantly slowed in the second quarter compared to last year, as regional economic factors put the brakes on spending, particularly in the home computing market, according to a report released this week by Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc.

In-house Web hosting is on its way out, according to a recent report by Jupiter Media Metrix Inc., as U.S. companies discover that they can save big bucks and potential time and money-eating errors by outsourcing Web-hosting tasks.

Playing on the diverse assets of the recently merged company, AOL Time Warner Inc. (AOLTW) announced the creation of a new Interactive Video division Thursday, hoping to accelerate the growth of video-on-demand, interactive television, and other related services.

Playing on the diverse assets of the recently merged company, AOL Time Warner Inc. (AOLTW) announced the creation of a new Interactive Video division Thursday, hoping to accelerate the growth of video-on-demand, interactive television, and other related services.

After being quelled by the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) organization and the Recording Industry Association of America Inc. (RIAA) earlier this year, a research paper on how to crack digital music encryption is due to be presented at the USENIX Security Conference in Washington D.C. Wednesday.

Broadband services provider AT&T Latin America Corp. (ATTL) reported widened losses for the second quarter last week, as the region's economic troubles nipped at its revenue, although growing Internet and data demand helped keep the company from a more severe slide.

The worldwide workstation market, smarting from a soft economy and dried up demand, continued to stumble during the second quarter of the year, with shipments sinking almost 15 per cent from the same period last year, according to preliminary results from a study by Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc.