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TUSTIN, CA (MARKET WIRE) The Jewelry Exchange, the nation's leading private direct diamond importer, has launched an aggressive marketing and pricing campaign designed to increase market share and capture some of the business that has been left unattended by the recent decrease in jewelry retail capacity. This campaign is directed at taking market share from well known online operators as well as increasing sales levels at existing brick and mortar stores.

Part 1 of this two-part series on five of the boldest decisions made by technology companies this year explores the launch of Hulu and Amazon.com's decision to go DRM-free with its Amazon MP3 store. Now, for the three remaining genius strokes in the E-Commerce Times' lineup of bold decisions that changed the technology landscape in 2008 ...

SAP's business has been stable since late October when the software giant cut its outlook, a top executive said on Friday, defying signs of a worsening global economy. "It hasn't gotten any worse," SAP co-Chief Executive Leo Apotheker said during a panel discussion in New York.

Some "applications" are misnomers of a sort. "Oddly enough, I'm not sure that true cloud innovation is happening quite yet at the application level," said Charles King, principal with Pund-IT. Still, there are Web 2.0-style online communities and collaboration tools that are supporting some intriguing means for users to seamlessly access and share information.

Copyrights are perhaps the most common type of intellectual property (along with trademarks), and are the first stop when it comes to protecting software-based products. This is because copyrights, which protect a particular expression of an idea, exist automatically upon fixation of an author's work in a tangible medium of expression.

Is Microsoft about to rebrand Live Search as "Kumo"? News reports on Monday had the software giant buying up domain names such as "Kumo.com," "Kumo.net," "Kumo.jp" and the like from CSC Corporate Domains, a domain registrar with which Microsoft often does business. There are two prevailing schools of thought regarding "Kumo" -- Japanese for "cloud" and "spider" -- at the moment.

How closely will competitors follow in this latest digital home pursuit?

All the major studios are on board. Is Apple's iTunes store in trouble?

Last month at BlogWorld Expo '08, I was interviewed by Abby Johnson of WebProNews.com on the importance of blog metrics. This was following my panel discussion on hiring professional...

Movie rental giant Blockbuster announced Tuesday it has teamed with hardware maker 2Wire to launch a content delivery service on the 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player. The set-top box will provide users with direct access to Blockbuster OnDemand content via their televisions. The small set-top box works with either WiFi or a wired broadband connection.