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Despite the fanfare surrounding the debut of "digital wallets," it appears that the average consumer has yet to embrace the online shopping tool. This disappointing revelation has sent digital wallet promoters scrambling, as the fall shopping season gets underway without them.

According to industry analyst Forrester Research, Inc., leading Web strategists consider European e-commerce sites to be a good value and easy to use, but U.S. sites still remain the international benchmark of excellence.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), seeking to add value to its highly analyzed acquisition of StarDivision, recently tapped Linuxcare, Inc. to provide service and support for its new StarOffice productivity suite offering.

GoodHome.com continued its strong build-up today by announcing an anchor tenant marketing agreement with America Online and a premier sponsorship agreement with Women.com. The company plans to launch its Web site by the end of the year.

UK-based EarthPort.com PLC has teamed with Dutch company TNT Post Group to market its Globalcollect invoice-based cash collection service. This partnership will create an online holding account for shoppers who want to pay cash for their purchases. Once Internet surfers send money to EarthPort to cr...

Six of the biggest Internet companies joined forces last week to try and persuade governments throughout the world to make the laws regulating e-commerce more uniform.

A wide range of high-level e-commerce leaders met in Paris Monday to discuss the pressing issues that face the industry. Participants at the summit, hosted by the Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce (GBDE), included U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley, Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, Ber...

Linux vendor MandrakeSoft announced a strategic partnership with LinuxOne this week. They intend to develop Chinese language business and personal software solutions, advancing the cause of open-source in a potentially explosive Internet and computing market.

Enlarging a time-honored concept that has turned unknowns into sensations, the digital music site MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) announced Friday that it is embarking on a tour of 28 college campuses across the U.S. to feature its music and technology offerings.

Microsoft and MasterCard are the marquee names behind a new 12-city tour by Clarus Corp. (Nasdaq: CLRS) to promote business-to-business electronic commerce. The trio recently launched a new WebPurchasing initiative providing end-to-end corporate purchasing tools to make it easier for companies to sh...

Reactions to Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s purchase of office productivity software maker Star Division Corp. have been decidedly mixed. While some industry observers see the move simply as an attempt to gain a toehold in the desktop office productivity market, others see it as a direct challenge to the ...

In an attempt to foster e-commerce, the European Union (EU) assembly proposed a set of rules this week that would, among other things, work toward diminishing unsolicited junk e-mail -- otherwise known as spam.

Netship founder and chief executive officer David G. Campbell offers a simple but not easy success formula for anyone contemplating entering the e-commerce arena.

Navarre (Nasdaq; NAVR), a business-to-business e-commerce company that offers music and software, announced today that it has entered into a distribution deal with Linux developer tools provider Cygnus Solutions. The deal is Navarre's sixth distribution agreement for the Linux operation system and r...

Many August Internet surfers were happy to throw their cash into online purchases, but some were less happy with the results they got, according to a new Web site collecting data from online shoppers. Calling the outlook for this year's holiday shopping season "a case of the good, the bad and the ug...