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In a concerted effort to become a dominant player in the business-to-business auction market, uBid, Inc. (Nasdaq: UBID) announced Thursday that it formed an alliance with business magazine publisher, Cahners, to introduce real time electronic bidding to potentially millions of targeted readers The alliance will give uBid an inside track to holding ...

Baltimore Technologies, (London: BLM) a provider of e-commerce and enterprise security solutions with main offices in London and Dublin, this week announced a strategic partnership with Identrus, the global trust organization Baltimore's Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has been deployed by Identrus to secure the operational pilot of its new interna...

Linux operating system (OS) vendor Red Hat, Inc. this week announced a partnership with Global Knowledge Network, an independent IT training company, to advance the open-source cause through a new exams-based certification program Global Knowledge, under terms of the partnership, will provide what Red Hat describes as "real-world, hands-on training...

Big players in the music industry must overcome "security paranoia" if they ever hope to profit from digital music as it enters the mainstream, according to a recent report by Jupiter Communications Jupiter's research showed that only 3 percent of online consumers will purchase downloaded music by 2003. This gives the music industry a window of opp...

Online grocer Webvan Group, Inc. fired a salvo across the shopping carts of the brick-and-mortar supermarket industry last week, when it announced that within two years it would be delivering Web ordered groceries free-of-charge in 26 major markets throughout the United States. Moreover, some analysts speculate the move could be the first step in the eventual restructuring of the $500 billion (US$) per year grocery business...

British Telecommunications plc (BT) last week announced an agreement with the iCat E-Commerce Provider Program to offer e-commerce services to its 1.3 million small to mid-sized business customers through the newly created BT StoreCentre. iCat, a division of Intel Corp., joined in the announcement iCat provides services and support for small to mid...

While hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) held a press conference, announcing the release of Back Orifice 2000 (BO2K) to a throng of celebrants attending the DEFCON convention in Las Vegas, researchers were anxiously awaiting their own copy in order to provide users with a defense Consisting of a server and client application, BO2K is a backdoo...

A group of major Internet companies from all continents plans to offer governments and international organizations its e-commerce expertise in a conference at Paris' famed Louvre museum The group -- calling itself the Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce -- has slated the conference for September 13th and hopes to act as "the global voic...

Penguin Computing, a provider of Linux-based hardware solutions, has announced that it will offer sales and technical support in 15 languages in addition to English, including Arabic, Cambodian, Cantonese, Chiuchow, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese "Linux is well on its way to beco...

The Federal Trade Commission Tuesday uttered the one word Internet companies have been dying to hear from the U.S. government: self-regulation FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky and three commissioners, testifying before the House Commerce Committee's Telecommunications Subcommittee, presented a report essentially agreeing with the private sector that In...

Although it still appears as if eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) is the clear leader in online auctions, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is making a big push to grab a piece of the international market. Today, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Germany has launched a German version of Yahoo!'s auction service The service provides sellers with a vehicle to market items in many ...

The name that has become synonymous with direct mail music sales is now about to swallow up one of the Internet's retail music pioneers. CDNow Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNW) plans to merge with Columbia House, the music and video club owned by Sony Corp. of America (NYSE: SNE) and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX). Sony and Time Warner will each own 37 percent of the new company, with the rest owned by CDNow's shareholders...

Recognizing that there are indeed some borders in cyberspace, leading online financial services company E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) announced Tuesday that it would buy TIR Holdings Limited for $122 million (US$) in stock. The deal is aimed at accelerating E*Trade's efforts to build a cross-border global trading network With headquarters in Dublin, Irela...

Media company Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) put an end to e-commerce solutions provider iMall (Nasdaq: IMAL) stockholder's lament about Wall Street's lack of attention when it announced Tuesday that it would issue $425 million (US$) in stock to acquire the company Excite@Home also announced an agreement with e-commerce transaction processor, First Dat...

In a strategically timed set of announcements, DoubleClick Inc. (Nasdaq: DCLK) and NetGravity Inc. (Nasdaq: NETG) said Tuesday they plan to merge, just as each prepares to report record second quarter revenues It was unclear how Wall Street would view the collective announcements in the long term, however. DoubleClick stock dropped $3.25 per share ...

The Web hosting server market is growing rapidly as more businesses go online, and the popular domain-based Web hosting company Verio (Nasdaq: VRIO) is tapping into this expanding market Today, Verio, which provides Internet services for online businesses, announced the acquisition of privately held digitalNATION, which is a provider of server Web ...

The Electric Mail Company, Inc. (VSE: ELE) last week announced the availability of its free E-mmunity Outbound e-mail virus scanning service. With recent virus-related incidents, such as the proliferation of ExploreZip, spread by way of e-mail contact, such services are certainly gaining more attention from consumers and the media The new outbound ...

Conventional wisdom might lead us to believe that Web-only businesses are much better at selling their wares online than traditional retailers who have recently jumped on the e-commerce bandwagon The Internet has a way of defying convention however, and a new study by Nielsen/NetRatings reveals that brick-and-mortar converts can turn lookers into b...

Under fire for its plan to charge domain name registrars a fee for each name they register, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is sticking by its argument that private donations are not enough to fund U.S. government efforts to increase competition in that business. ICANN's plan to charge registrars $1 per new domain name has drawn criticism from House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley (R-Virginia) and last week from the Department of Commerce...

Last week, E-Commerce Industries, Inc. formed an alliance with United Stationers, Inc., the United States' largest wholesaler distributor of office goods, which could be the salvation of many smaller mom-and-pop office suppliers The privately held Fairfax, Virginia startup said the two companies have created Internet Office Solutions and Services.