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Boosting traffic at both shopping and greeting card sites, a record number of Father's Day shoppers went online in time to get Dad a gift or card, according to Internet tracking firm Nielsen//NetRatings.

In what is being described as a victory by both AT&T and open access advocates, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the city of Portland, Oregon has no authority to force AT&T to open its broadband infrastructure to competitors because the operation comes under the purview o...

By launching seven new voice technology products, IBM (NYSE: IBM) declared its commitment Thursday to developing voice technology as a key channel for mobile Internet applications.

According to Goldman Sachs analyst Anthony Noto, a number of limiting factors will likely prevent most e-tailers from surprising investors with reports of stronger-than-expected revenue in the second quarter. These factors include scaled-back marketing budgets, slower retail sales and a cooling econ...

Having set the Microsoft bonfire blazing, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson just cannot seem to resist piling on the logs.

Intel Corp. (Nasdaq NM: INTC), half of the so-called "Wintel duopoly" that rules the global personal computer market, inched a step closer to making personal computers obsolete by introducung its first Internet appliance Thursday.

A lawsuit filed in a Dallas, Texas federal court accuses Wells Fargo Bank of using the Internet to discriminate against minorities and encourage racial segregation.

Rebounding quickly from a bruising legal battle over music copyrights, MP3.com announced this week that it is introducing a subscription system that could emerge as an alternative to controversial music swapping site Napster.

Over 30 leading technology companies, privacy advocates, and other organizations gathered in New York City Wednesday to demonstrate implementations of a new privacy platform from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Japan's largest convenience store, Seven-Eleven Japan Co Ltd, announced Thursday that it will launch an e-commerce Web site called 7dream.com on July 1st.

New research by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester Research shows that American millionaires use the Internet more than their less affluent neighbors and are more likely to purchase just about anything online.

The $129 billion (US$) merger of WorldCom, Inc. (Nasdaq NM: WCOM) and Sprint Corp. (NYSE: FON) -- which would form one of the largest corporate unions in history -- will be blocked by European antitrust authorities, according to a published report.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ), and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) announced Tuesday that they are teaming with San Francisco, California-based Digital Island to build a streaming video network.

Giant automaker DaimlerChrysler is preparing to launch a new Internet unit to handle the company's consumer and business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce initiatives, according to published reports in Germany.

In another defeat for Microsoft, the federal judge who found the software giant in violation of federal antitrust laws and ordered a breakup of the company has sent its appeal directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.