by Josh Greenberger

How do you get visitors to your website? What pitfalls do you need to avoid when buying traffic so you don't get ripped off?

The internet can provide instantaneous mass marketing capabilities unimagined only two decades ago. It allows you to reach millions of prospective clients in less time than it takes to submit an ad to traditional media.

Little wonder that in 2006 U.S. internet advertising revenue was over $16 billion and in 2007 accounted for approximately 5%...

by Josh Greenberger

So you finally decided to get a website. Now what? What kind of website do you get?

If you thought all websites were the same, think again. Not having certain website features or capabilities can make the difference between getting or not getting a job done.

First, probably the most important feature you need to maintain a website is something called FTP (File Transfer Protocol) access. You need FTP to upload and download (publish) your files to and from the web....

by Josh Greenberger

Does a website come with a domain name? If not, what comes with a website and how do you get a domain name?

New website owners often seem confused about how and when domain names come into play. The questions usually boil down to: "Does a website come with a domain name?" and "If not, how do I get a domain name?"

Web hosting and domain name registration are usually separate services. Although your hosting company may give or sell you a domain name with your...

Microsoft Corp. has filed 26 lawsuits accusing U.S. companies of selling pirated software, the latest move in its ramped-up efforts to boost sales by cracking down on illegal copies.

The world's largest software maker filed the lawsuits Friday in federal courts in Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Colorado, South Carolina, New York and New Jersey. The lawsuits accuse the companies of selling illegal copies of its Windows operating system and Office business software.

The lawsuits are the latest...

Internet users, especially teenagers, are a fleeting lot, flocking and able to make a brand so popular on the one hand, only to leave it in a whimper on another.

One such object of popularity is the MySpace phenomenon, which in a year's time went from zero to the most popular social networking site in the planet by sheer numbers, and daily registrations that beat some of the most popular web destinations, and with pageviews that make marketers weep.

Just when you think there's nowhere...

Kingsoft Corp.'s English-Chinese dictionary program runs on most of China's 60 million PCs. That's the good news. The bad news is that Kingsoft doesn't make any money from it, since 90 percent of the...

For years, the U.S. military has desired a plane that could loiter just outside enemy territory for more than a dozen hours, and on command, hurtle toward a target faster than the speed of sound; and...

Online auction company EBay Inc. said that it would add a "Skype Me" button to certain categories of listings, allowing prospective buyers to contact sellers directly through the Internet phone...

"IBM's Linux Technology Center team in Brazil is fast becoming a worldwide leader in driving innovative Linux and open source technologies into emerging markets," said Jeff Smith, vice president,...

Ten years ago, taking out Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi with F-16s would have been an impossible task. Air strikes were planned days or even weeks in advance. Pilots weren't trained to change missions...