Working to provide solutions that improve automotive claims and collision repair communication, CCC Information Services Inc. now offers the ability to electronically access custom estimating guidelines established and maintained by insurers.

Franchised and independent dealers are using Internet technology developed by Chicago-based vAuto to stock their used-car inventories and generate profits despite rising fuel costs and declining new-model car and light-truck sales.

The U.S. military, with help from Seattle startup Delve Networks, has launched a video-sharing Web site for troops, their families and supporters, a year and a half after restricting access to YouTube and other video sites. TroopTube, as the new site is..

With contemporary music often looking to dissolve artificial boundaries and cross-pollinate with abandon, it shouldn't comes as a surprise to hear progressive rock groups using the same tack.

Most Web searching uses just a few providers. But according to technology writer Erik Sherman, there is a vast territory in the "invisible Web" that refers to databases connected to the Internet but not available for indexing by popular search engines,