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In an effort to implement its newly-announced e-commerce strategy, Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFTW) has launched Internet-centric administration software that is designed to run on the Red Hat Linux distribution.

North Carolina-based XS, Inc., the parent company of XSAg.com, announced today that it has secured $20 million (US$) in financing to develop an auction site that will help beleaguered American farmers buy agricultural goods at discount rates.

E-commerce portal LinuxMall.com staged the re-opening of its site this week, sporting a strategic redesign with added navigability and content.

According to a new report by research firm Datamonitor, e-tailers that fail to utilize Web-enabled live customer service operations could lose $3.2 billion (US$) in sales this holiday season.

Many American Internet users still perceive life with borders. However, if any one message is coming through loud and clear, it might be to "think bigger."

Although the annual COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada usually centers on PCs, this year's edition is displaying a wide range of alternatives that provide Internet connectivity without a computer.

PC manufacturer Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) and UK telecommunications company Cable & Wireless (NYSE: CWP) announced today that they will join forces in a five-year, $500 million (US$) agreement to provide Internet business services for small and medium-sized businesses.

Toys "R" Us has a problem. Its Web site, which has been a lightning rod for controversy ever since the company's Internet division was formed, has been overwhelmed with traffic.

With Jupiter Communications forecasting that overall gift giving will grow from $336 million (US$) this year to over $1.4 billion in 2002, the cyber gift certificate is poised to become all the rage.

Despite the fact that the U.S. Congress has yet to put the final stamp of approval on China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Washington-based portal company China 2000, Inc. launched China2000business.com Thursday in an effort to promote electronic trade between the two countries.

In a move that comes as no surprise, Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) shareholders voted Wednesday to complete a merger with Infoseek Corp. (Nasdaq: SEEK) and spin its Internet assets off into a separately traded company to be called Go.com.

E-commerce is clearly a media favorite at the moment, occupying significant space in most major newspapers and magazines, but most people are still shopping the old-fashioned way.

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary and Commerce Committees are gathering their troops for a showdown on the House floor over competing bills to control the use of online databases and other information stored on the Internet.

Ever since Microsoft was declared a monopoly by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson a couple of weeks ago, the remedy game has become the most popular pastime among legal experts and pundits.

Priceline.com, the name-your-price service pioneer, announced today that it has dramatically increased its access to the U.S. air travel ticket inventory with the addition of United Airlines, American Airlines and US Airways to its list of partners.