- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has posted a patch on its Security Advisor Web page to eliminate a significant vulnerability discovered by eEye, an independent online security firm, and reported on last week by the E-Commerce Times The vulnerability involves Microsoft's Internet Information Server 4.0, "the most commonly used web server on the Internet." ...
At the same time a new study by Nielson Media Research and CommerceNet showed that the number of women making purchases online is skyrocketing, elected officials at two separate meetings held last week called for the taxation of the Internet According to the Associated Press, Ron Kirk, Dallas mayor and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Mayors city...
On the eve of a much-anticipated meeting of federal and state government and private sector representatives to discuss the future of Internet taxation, a widely respected consulting firm said the Internet presents no major threat to sales tax revenues The Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce starts its first meeting today in Williamsburg, Vir...
On the eve of a much-anticipated meeting of federal and state government and private sector representatives to discuss the future of Internet taxation, a widely respected consulting firm said the Internet presents no major threat to sales tax revenues The Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce starts its first meeting today in Williamsburg, Vir...
With U.S. soccer star Mia Hamm on stage hosting the Women's World Cup, New York Yankees shortstop/heart-throb Derek Jeter batting 70 points above his major league average and Andre Agassi rising from the tennis cellar to win the French Open, the sporting goods company that outfits all of these marquee players would be foolish not to try to take advantage of this early summer sports frenzy...
They've just begun their work in Williamsburg, Virginia this week -- and surely the 19-member Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce is aware of the stakes as they set to lay out a legislative proposal on Internet taxation The commission has already been lobbied hard -- by opponents of Internet commerce taxation who say that it would stymie gro...
Last month, business-to-business online marketplace BizBuyer.com announced a $1 million (US$) seed round of financing from investors including eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman. Today, the buyer-drive marketplace -- founded in September of 1998 and based in Santa, Monica, California -- was greatly bolstered with the announcement of a $5 million commitment from @Ventures, the venture-capital arm of leading Internet incubator CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI)...
Applix, Inc. (Nasdaq: APLX) has announced the creation of a new Linux division to source and brand applications for the increasingly popular open-source operating system (OS) Westboro, Massachusetts-based Applix has also renewed its vow to push acceptance of the OS by announcing a new Web site intended to be a collaboration system addressing the ne...
Suggesting the U.S. government and its state and local counterparts are predators "poised to take advantage of the new kid on the block -- electronic commerce," the Association for Interactive Media has launched an Online Shopping Council watchdog group The announcement comes as the Congressionally mandated Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerc...
A recent report issued by Rockbridge Associates, Inc. -- intended to measure consumer acceptance and confidence in various technologies -- has revealed a reluctance among many consumers to embrace e-commerce, based partially on concerns over security issues. "E-commerce creates considerable concern in the minds of the public," commented Charles Co...
E-commerce could be turned on its head when broadband Internet connections become common place and consumers are hooked to the Internet all day long When such high-speed connections as digital subscriber lines, cable modems and other devices proliferate, industry experts say online companies will be faced with some major challenges -- in some cases...
While online advertising continues its phenomenal growth, the top 50 Web publishers will reap the overwhelming majority of ad dollars, accounting for 95 percent of revenues for ad-supported sites in the U.S. this year, says a new report The recently released eAdvertising Report, said those 50 Web publishers, which include those that produce more th...
As part of a new partnership, a new health section scheduled to launch next month on theglobe.com will feature content from drkoop.com, the Internet health network led by former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop Drkoop.com will provide most of the content for theglobe.com's health channel, which will include comprehensive healthcare information, ...
Through a series of alliances announced Monday, Phoenix Technologies Ltd. hopes to take the first click away from surfing, and shopping, the Web Phoenix (Nasdaq: PTEC) will integrate six different Web portal pages into its BIOS computer operating system, giving the portals a chance to become the personalized face of an individual computer.
When the latest virus-like worm slithered its way online recently, e-commerce sites such as Beyond.com didn't mistake it for Dennis Rodman. They did, however, see opportunity written all over it While the media picked up the trail of Worm.ExploreZip, and companies were busy shutting down their e-mail systems, Beyond.com posted fix-related links at ...
In a direct blow to Amazon.com's (Nasdaq: AMZN) auction strategy, leading portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) unveiled a new program today that is designed to help sellers with large inventories of items manage their auctions more efficiently The new service, known as Yahoo! Auction Express, allows businesses of any size -- or even individuals -- to ...
Last week, just seven months after AOL bought his company, it was announced that Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen will step down from his post as America Online's chief technology officer I wasn't surprised.
Desks, file cabinets and books that have been gathering dust in Baltimore City Government warehouses for years are now seeing the light of day -- or at least the light of the Internet -- through an alliance with Classified Auctions.com Baltimore's Bureau of Purchases recently put its surplus goods up for sale on the Internet to reduce its warehouse...
The Internet can give and the Internet can take away. This e-commerce fact of life should now be crystal clear to top eBay, Inc. executives, in the aftermath of the online auctioneer's 22-hour outage last week Although its auction Web site was trouble-free most of Monday, that same day, investors cut away $4 billion from eBay's market value -- anti...
The U.S. Department of the Interior is taking seriously the federal government's Congressional mandate to make better use of the Internet and electronic commerce opportunities in its daily business The department's Bureau of Land Management has latched onto the Internet as a way to rebuild the mystique of the "Old West" while finding homes for hors...
Loading ...
