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In a move to woo subscribers away from rival Internet service providers, EarthLink has released a new feature that allows Web surfers to block pop-up ads. Each time an ad window is suppressed, according to EarthLink, the blocker will alert the user with an optional sound effect and a brief change...

Travel site Orbitz has created a direct link to the ticket supplies of its major backers, saying that it will help airlines and consumers save money. According to Orbitz, American Airlines will be first to launch its supplier-link technology, and three more airlines, including US Airways, will be...

As consumers seek relief from bleak news about war and the economy, experts say entertainment could spawn the next wave of lucrative niche opportunities on the Web. For example, Yankee Group program manager Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times that Hollywood could prove to be an online blockbust...

Sounding the death knell for its hopes of providing round-the-clock trading for investors, Nasdaq has halted plans to move forward with Nasdaq Japan, saying it will withdraw from the troubled Japanese effort by October 15th. The Nasdaq Japan board of directors expressed "deep regret" about termin...

Dell has announced second-quarter results that fell slightly short of analysts' estimates, but the company said it expects third-quarter earnings and revenue to increase as it continues to steal market share from competitors. The company reversed year-ago losses in the second quarter as revenue r...

Just as a museum helps visitors learn lessons from the past, a monument dedicated to bad e-commerce ideas might offer a similar education to those who sell on the Web. Such a memorial might impart a key truth: While users will flock to sites that make their lives easier, they will not change thei...

They say the classics never go out of style, and the same can be said for good old-fashioned media fundamentals. We are beginning to understand that the only way we're going to make interactive advertising work is to apply traditional media strategies and benchmark them against traditional med...

The Nasdaq stock exchange has given BarnesandNoble.com just over two months to either boost its stock price or face delisting, an often fatal blow to a public company's fortunes. BN.com, which launched a $420 million IPO in the dot-com heyday of 1999, received the warning notice because its stock ...

AOL Time Warner has admitted that three deals involving payment to its AOL unit from third parties, amounting to $49 million, might have been erroneously declared as advertising revenue. The company called the transactions in question "an insignificant portion" of its revenue, but nevertheless sa...

The high-profile financial crimes at companies like WorldCom and Enron might lead some to wonder whether high-tech companies are magnets for fraud. Andrew Bartels, a Giga Information Group analyst, told the E-Commerce Times that the industry does not have a genetic defect that makes it more prone...

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy told an audience at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo that he expects to see Linux use increase 30 percent each year, and he vowed that Sun will support the operating system and the open source community. But Sun's promise has some industry observers wonderin...

Two years ago, e-commerce was still in its growth spurt. It would go to sleep at night and wake up half again as big. And last year, e-commerce was supposed to be tested for real. No more growth hormones, just old-fashioned business practices. But there were mitigating circumstances, such as tax ...

While layoff announcements at IBM have been sporadic, the company has reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it has pink-slipped more than 15,000 employees, fully 5 percent of its workforce.

As e-commerce goes mainstream and stands on its own two feet, experts say the industry can no longer count on receiving the kid-glove treatment from the U.S. government. Nevertheless, as long as the economy remains fragile, it is also unlikely that the government will lift the current tax morator...

Most of us hit our heads against a wall and learn, quickly, that it hurts. Some people never learn, but those people might just be the ones to take the Internet to the next level. Take, for example, the e-book crowd. On the surface, it seems clear that these people just don't get it. It has been ...