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In what is being hailed as a landmark decision, a Bavarian state court ruled earlier this week that AOL Germany is responsible for allowing users to swap pirated music files via its online service. The court's action may finally give the music industry a powerful weapon against Internet piracy The case originated in 1998, when Hit Box Software sued...
E-commerce giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and four other Internet sites that employ music sampling features were slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit Friday by Intouch Group, Inc., a San Francisco, California-based provider of in-store kiosks and Internet music sampling technology Joining Amazon in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Di...
Internet delivery service Kozmo.com was sued Thursday by the Equal Rights Center, a Washington D.C.-based civil rights group, and two African-American co-plaintiffs who claim the company refused to deliver merchandise to their homes because they reside in predominantly African-American neighborhoods The suit alleges that "Kozmo refuses to contract ...
Internet-only computer maker Netpliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: NPLI) announced Wednesday that it has landed a deal with online auction giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) that will allow users to access the auction site with one push of a button Under the agreement, Netpliance will install a "hot key" linking directly to eBay on all of its i-opener devices. The mini...
The MIT Sloan School of Management's 2nd annual eBusiness Awards program gave the industry a chance to shine the spotlight on some huge successes Wednesday, in a year that has been marked by some equally stunning failures In a rite of spring that is establishing itself as the Internet equivalent of the Academy Awards, online auction site eBay, worl...
As widespread consolidation prepares to sweep the e-commerce landscape, brick-and-mortar beauty queen Estee Lauder announced Wednesday that it has acquired struggling cosmetics e-tailer Gloss.com Estee Lauder will introduce a content-rich, multi-brand site that will offer prestige brands of beauty products sometime early next year. The company alre...
E*Trade Group, Inc. reported quarterly results this week that far exceeded Wall Street estimates in an atmosphere where revenues -- not profits -- still rule Analysts seemed ecstatic with the number two Internet broker, in spite of what should have been one sobering detail: E*Trade lost $23.2 million (US$), or 8 cents a share, in its second fiscal ...
America Online surged ahead of Amazon.com in online transaction volume for the month of March, according to the NextCard eCommerce Index, a monthly listing of online merchants with the greatest number of transactions by NextCard customers Transaction volume was measured among the top 30 online merchants, with a number of nuances noted by the compan...
In a rare show of bipartisan unity, 42 U.S. governors attacked the final report of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) Wednesday in a scathing letter to Congress. The governors say that if accepted, the recommendations would have the potential to reduce state and local tax revenues by more than $30 billion (US$) per year The lette...
In a decision that could have a chilling effect on online auctioneers, Internet Service Providers and e-commerce companies, a German judge has ruled that AOL Germany violated copyright law by taking no action to prevent subscribers from swapping pirated digital music files The suit, which was filed in 1998 by Hit Box Software, requested $50,000 (US...
In a move typical of its well-established independent corporate philosophy, Volkswagen announced Tuesday that it will forgo joining an online auto parts marketplace with the Big Three U.S. automakers in favor of a similar strategic partnership with IBM The Wolfsburg, Germany-based Volkswagen, which is also working with i2 Technologies and Ariba to ...
Data from a new geographic Internet usage report released by Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT) indicates that the pattern of Net usage in the top 20 U.S. markets does not correspond with population size The report focuses on total size of an Internet market, the percentage of residents using the Internet, how long they stay on, how their Web use a...
Hot on the heels of an International Data Corp. (IDC) report stating that wireless computing will dominate the Web by 2001, three of the largest manufacturers of mobile products announced Tuesday that they have joined forces to develop an open and common industry framework for secure mobile electronic transactions The three partners, Nokia, Ericsso...
The quest for dominance of the online travel bookings industry began in earnest this week, as Travelocity.com announced that its marketing agreement with Priceline.com -- in the works since late last year -- is now final. The announcement anticipates the scheduled June unveiling of an airline mega-site by an alliance of 28 major airline companies T...
Increasing competition, falling stock prices and weak financial performance will combine to kill off most of the companies now doing retail business on the Internet by the end of next year, according to a report from Forrester Research released on Tuesday "Online retail's honeymoon is over," said Joe Sawyer, who authored the report, "The Demise Of ...
The E-Commerce Times (www.ecommercetimes.com), the leading global e-commerce news portal, has announced the acquisition of allEC.com from Canadian-based V-Networks, Inc. The acquisition extends the E-Commerce Times' brand name recognition, audience reach and revenue base AllEC.com is an established pioneer in the field of e-business and technology ...
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), a group representing 1,100 companies, claims in a report released Wednesday that the piracy of software products in online auctions has reached epidemic proportions and could well lead to legal action against some leading auction sites The SIIA found that 91 percent of online auctions of softw...
More flak is heading Microsoft's way -- this time over the software giant's Internet Explorer Web browser. The Web Standards Project, a grassroots software developer group, is complaining that the latest version of Internet Explorer is based on proprietary code rather than industry-wide technology standards The criticism comes only a week after a f...
The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) filed a lawsuit against Yahoo! in Paris Tuesday, charging the Internet giant with illegally hosting auctions of Nazi-related paraphernalia. Selling or displaying any items that incite racism, including Nazi artifacts, is strictly illegal in France LICRA, which called for a boycott of...
In an effort to move toward global leadership in the high-tech industry, the Singapore government rolled out a three-pronged plan today that it hopes will double the country's "infocomm" -- information technology and telecommunications -- revenues to $23.2 billion (US$) by 2005 Other goals of the Infocommunications Development Authority (IDA), the ...
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