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It's natural to shrug off the two straight months of slow e-tail growth as the lull before the holiday rush. It's natural as well to believe that once snow starts to fall and Christmas carols fill the air, everything will be all right Basically, it's natural to delude ourselves.
With an eye toward improving its ability to monitor online music downloads, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced Thursday that it is working with other industry groups to develop a standardized system for identifying digital files of songs The new system would create the digital music equivalent of bar codes currently foun...
Scour, Inc., the high-profile Internet entertainment venture backed by Hollywood heavyweight Michael Ovitz, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company announced Thursday The latest casualty of the ongoing dot-com shakeout, the Los Angeles-based company said the filing will allow it to evaluate "various strategic business alliances ...
The use and abuse of spam and the fight over domain names are the subject of two lawsuits gathering steam in the courts that could affect online business conduct in the future, according to published reports A suit against an anti-spamming organization by a New Hampshire business was allowed to proceed Thursday by a Santa Clara, California Superior...
Although well-intentioned, the U.S. government's Internet initiatives are competing unfairly with the private e-commerce sector, according to a report released Thursday by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) The report, "The Role of Government in a Digital Age," calls for a comprehensive review of government activities on the ...
One day after Internet powerhouse Yahoo! rolled out a free Web-based telephone service, rival Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS) launched its own voice-powered portal that will allow users to tap into a suite of information services The service, which is offered under the Lycos Anywhere brand, will initially be available in only five markets: Boston, Massachuset...
German electronics firm Siemens is partnering with three of the world's largest mobile products manufacturers to develop an open and common industry framework for secure mobile electronic transactions, the companies said Wednesday. The alliance, dubbed Mobile E-Business Technologies (MeT), was launched in April by Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola, and is concentrating its efforts on creating a safe and easy way for users to make purchases with a Web-enabled mobile phone...
Despite turbulence in the computer chip sector on the whole, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD), the number-two manufacturer behind Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), reported better-than-expected earnings late Wednesday Sunnyvale, California-based AMD said it earned $219 million (US$) or 64 cents per share for the third quarter, beating Wall Street...
Here's a brief trivia quiz for would-be corporate accountants. How much federal income tax did Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the supreme ruler of the known software universe, and Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), second only to General Electric as the most valuable company in the U.S., pay this past year? Combined or separately, the answer is zilch, nada a...
Adding haze to what is already a cloudy picture, a trio of new reports asserts that slow delivery, security fears and pricing problems will continue to hamstring e-commerce in the United Kingdom One report, released Thursday by the UK's Trading Standards Institute, went so far as to suggest that some customers would be better off making their purch...
Though California's Silicon Valley is famous for being the world's haven for e-business, local governments need to better help industry management and employees deal with the many challenges of life in the area, according to a report released Wednesday by an area non-profit organization Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, which unveiled the "Int...
According to statistics firm PC Data, the pace of business at the top online retailers in September was virtually unchanged from August, marking the second consecutive month of lackluster activity The report comes as e-tailers gear up for the holiday selling season, which many observers view as crucial to the long-term health of e-commerce.
U.S. shoppers will spend $12.5 billion (US$) online during the last two months of the year, more than double last year's holiday spending, a report released Thursday by the NPD Group predicted The estimate from the NPD Online e-Visory report could provide a needed dose of optimism for the e-tail sector, which is staggering after a week of high-prof...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Sony Music Europe said Wednesday they will partner to form a Web-based music video channel for European music fans The partnership calls for videos by Sony artists to be streamed across the Internet using Microsoft's Windows Media software. The service, to be made available through the Redmond, Washington software giant...
Along with three other members of the public, a German hacker and a vocal American critic of the domain name process have been elected to the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the group that oversees the domain name system and Net addressing functions However, the new members will not become offi...
BMG Entertainment announced Tuesday that it will begin offering digital downloads of its albums and singles through a network of partner Web sites The company, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, said its initial offering will consist of more than 100 singles and albums from a variety of BMG artists, including Christina Aguilera, Toni Braxton, Whitney ...
There are people who think that the failure of WebHouse says more about the company itself, and how it spent cash, than the online market for discounts on groceries and gasoline Those people are wrong. Yes, WebHouse attracted its share of discount-seekers during its brief run. And maybe, as the company suggested when it announced its demise, small-...
British businesses are holding their own in key areas of adapting Internet technologies, and are ahead of its European competitors in Germany and Sweden in terms of engaging in e-commerce, according to a report released Tuesday by Britain's Department of Trade and Industry According to the study, which was unveiled by Britain's e-commerce minister ...
On the Web, somewhere between the categories of financial information and pornography, is another key sector where people pay for access: online dating services. Rather than exchanging books or CDs for cash, these sites trade on the quite powerful desire of singles to connect.
Half of small and midsize businesses that implement and supervise their own network security will fall prey to a successful cybercrime by 2003, according to new research released Tuesday by Gartner Group More than 60 percent of those firms will not even detect that their systems have been compromised, Gartner said.
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