electronic

A press release from FaceTime Communications stopped me cold today.

In the United States, companies worth over $1 billion are handling about 147 lawsuits. That's more good news for lawyers, but it's also good news for the data storage and electronic discovery industry that manages and scrounges up data among petabytes of information.

At Fujitsu's Forum 2005, the company announced the arrival of bendable color paper with an image memory function.

Everyday thousands of people are purchasing products on-line from the comfort of their homes.

To help companies and their suppliers rapidly achieve real-time system integration, Oracle introduced the Oracle Supplier Network.

Microsoft Great Plains - Microsoft Business Solutions accounting and ERP system, originally targeted to mid-size - now, with advancements and increasing reliability of its database - Microsoft SQL Server, Great Plains is attractive solution for large corporation.

am a college professor. And beyond classes in marketing management in the business administration department, I also teach the ecommerce and web marketing aspects of the college's ebusiness web development certificate program. And this week, which marked the return to school, I taught the first section of the program -- called "ebusiness basics."

The underlying drive behind the Internet is the speed at which information can be retrieved -- especially at little or no cost. People can literally find out pretty much anything about anything at the simple click of a mouse. They are more informed, more educated and certainly more sophisticated than ever before.