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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.

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.

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-s...

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 electron...

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.

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 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 ille...

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 s...

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 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.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce William Daley is treading a fine line between respecting China's approach to trade and telling the Communist country's leaders to copy the United States' successful e-commerce policy in order to gain entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).

In an effort to forestall a recurrence of the fulfillment and infrastructure problems that made the last holiday season a blue one for Toysrus.com, the beleaguered Internet arm of retail giant Toys "R" Us has unveiled plans to open two new fulfillment centers.

By the middle of next year, the main venue for Internet access will be through wireless devices, according to a new study by International Data Corp. (IDC).

When a leading Web incubator announced earlier this week that it would stop investing in business-to-business (B2B) companies, it reinforced concern that the dot-com shakeout in the business-to-consumer arena may be spreading to the realm of B2B.

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.