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Reactions to Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s purchase of office productivity software maker Star Division Corp. have been decidedly mixed. While some industry observers see the move simply as an attempt to gain a toehold in the desktop office productivity market, others see it as a direct challenge to the Microsoft juggernaut ...

Microsoft and MasterCard are the marquee names behind a new 12-city tour by Clarus Corp. (Nasdaq: CLRS) to promote business-to-business electronic commerce. The trio recently launched a new WebPurchasing initiative providing end-to-end corporate purchasing tools to make it easier for companies to shift their buying processes to the Internet Clarus ...

Enlarging a time-honored concept that has turned unknowns into sensations, the digital music site MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) announced Friday that it is embarking on a tour of 28 college campuses across the U.S. to feature its music and technology offerings The San Diego, California-based company has hired the Goo Goo Dolls -- a once popular band that ...

Linux vendor MandrakeSoft announced a strategic partnership with LinuxOne this week. They intend to develop Chinese language business and personal software solutions, advancing the cause of open-source in a potentially explosive Internet and computing market Under terms of the partnership, MandrakeSoft and LinuxOne -- a newly formed Mountain View, ...

Capitalizing on an industry shift toward digital music distribution, Internet digital music software provider, Liquid Audio, Inc. (Nasdaq: LQID), said Friday that it has added new releases from virtually every large record label and also expanded its distribution network The Redwood City, California-based company said it has significantly expanded ...

Many August Internet surfers were happy to throw their cash into online purchases, but some were less happy with the results they got, according to a new Web site collecting data from online shoppers. Calling the outlook for this year's holiday shopping season "a case of the good, the bad and the ugly," e-BuyersGuide.com says shoppers want improved customer service from electronic merchants...

Navarre (Nasdaq; NAVR), a business-to-business e-commerce company that offers music and software, announced today that it has entered into a distribution deal with Linux developer tools provider Cygnus Solutions. The deal is Navarre's sixth distribution agreement for the Linux operation system and related products "In the past year we have shipped ...

Netship founder and chief executive officer David G. Campbell offers a simple but not easy success formula for anyone contemplating entering the e-commerce arena "Anyone who wants to compete must have a value-added product," Campbell told the E-Commerce Times, in an exclusive interview yesterday.

In an attempt to foster e-commerce, the European Union (EU) assembly proposed a set of rules this week that would, among other things, work toward diminishing unsolicited junk e-mail -- otherwise known as spam The EU announcement builds on an e-commerce regulatory proposal drafted in May by its civil service and executive branch, the European Commi...

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission came a step closer to allowing federal law-enforcement agencies to use the Internet to tap into your e-mail and voice messages. By giving the high-tech industry another year to come up with a legal way to monitor the packet-mode communications used for the Internet, the FCC seems ready to widen the government's investigative power in much the same way it did for telecommunications...

For sports fans across the nation who gripe about the state of collegiate and professional sports these days, the new legal sports site launched by FindLaw, Inc. will add more fuel to the fire The Mountain View, California-based law and government portal announced the launch of sports.findlaw.com Thursday, saying that legal issues in sports have be...

VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), a provider of online trust services, and Internet service provider (ISP) MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSPG) have announced a strategic partnership to promote e-commerce through an enhanced secure online business offering MindSpring Biz, the focal point of the new agreement, will offer a suite of e-commerce an...

The National Retail Federation is bringing together some of the Internet's biggest commercial technology names to provide guidance for companies looking to create a retail presence on the Web. IBM, Intel Corp., Oracle Corp., Netcentives and Net Perceptions agreed to join the newly-formed Internet Commerce Council. The group is headed by eGain Communications and BeFree Inc...

Movie-goers who check the Internet before choosing their movie destination say buying tickets online would be the logical next step in their online excursions. In an AC Nielsen ReelResearch study commissioned by America Online, more than half of AOL members said they would buy tickets online through AOL's Moviefone.com site While the survey specifi...

Online music retailer Wherehousemusic.com has struck a deal to set up shop on leading Internet service provider EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK). Today, the companies announced that they have forged an agreement to make Wherehousemusic.com a "Premiere Partner" and the exclusive music retailer on EarthLink's personal start page and online shopping center Ea...

Priceline.com(Nasdaq: PCLN) announced Thursday that it is expanding its car buying service to five more states The Stamford, Connecticut-based company will allow consumers to make offers on new cars in Florida, Connecticut, New Jersey, the Philadelphia area and southern California. The car buying service had been previously only been available in t...

While the assets that online brokerage firms manage will soar to a hefty $3 trillion (US$) by 2003, the industry continues to lag far behind other e-commerce players in delivering prompt service to its customers These are the conclusions of a quarterly customer service survey released Wednesday by Internet market researcher Jupiter Communications.

Wall Street pundits are fingering the uncertainty of interest rates as the main culprit behind the less-than-glamorous debut of many initial public offerings in August However, these fears seem to have lessened after the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to raise the federal-funds target rate and discount rate by only a quarter percentage point. Now som...

In a move that is expected to catapult China to the next level of Internet commerce, the People's Bank of China has signed up a Texas-based company, Sun Microsystems' Chinese subsidiary and a Beijing-based software firm to provide secure authentication tools for the bank's e-commerce projects Plano, Texas-based Entrust Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: E...

While younger online shoppers crisscross the Web in search of the perfect deal, surfing seniors are quietly making purchases In fact, according to a new study conducted by Westport, Connecticut-based Greenfield Online, Inc., 92 percent of seniors have window-shopped on the Web -- and a whopping 78 percent of them have completed transactions. In add...