The troubled economy and weak retail sales notwithstanding, Amazon Inc has reported a 9 percent increase in its fourth-quarter profits.

Charter Communications is all set to launch the fastest internet services in the US. The internet connection with a proposed speed of 60 Mbps has defeated the plans of Verizon and Comcast.

HealthCentral Network has acquired fast-growing Web health community Wellsphere which would boost the size of its online audience from 6 million monthly unique visitors to 10 million.

According to CNET reports, Cox Communications will soon be testing a new technology, by the use of which it intends 'regulating' internet traffic on a discriminatory basis.

Broadband users and researchers would now be able to gauge the performance of Internet connections – thanks to network neutrality tools released by Google and its partners. The tools will be of great help to computer users in testing connection speed as well as determining whether an ISP – internet service provider - is obstructing or throttling particular applications.

Spammers are active again with their ways of sending junk mails – spam is surging; that’s what a Google Message Security report has found. On Monday, the experts at Google Message Security reported that they have found a 156 % surge in spam since McColo went offline.

You will now be able to access, read, write, and search Gmail messages even when not connected to the Web. It sounds unbelievable, but it’s true.

Microsoft has made public its first release candidate RC1 - Release Candidate 1 - of its new, updated browser Internet Explorer 8. Packaged with an array of latest features, the browser is so designed that it aims at making Web browsing with IE easier, safer and better attuned to international standards.

Aiming to regain some of its lost ground, the Redmond, Washington based software giant, Microsoft released its Internet Explorer 8's near-final "release candidate" version on Monday.

After the illegal access of the database of Monster. com - the second instance in the last year and a half - a wealth of personal data of countless job-seekers has gone down the drain!