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Forces on both sides of the battle over Internet privacy took their dispute to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, where executives from America Online (NYSE: AOL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP) testified in favor of legislation that would protect personal data.

The Internet advertising industry saw $2.1 billion (US$) in revenue in the second quarter, with year-to-date sales approaching the total for all of last year, according to a study released Tuesday by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Due in part to an influx of new e-shoppers, nearly 45 million Americans will do some of their shopping online this holiday season, according to a study released Tuesday by eMarketer.

After months of political wrangling, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday that would significantly boost the number of high-tech visas issued to skilled foreign workers.

Fueled by an epidemic of hack attacks and costly viruses, spending on security software is set to soar from $2.5 billion (US$) in 1999 to over $6.7 billion in 2004, according to a study released Tuesday by Gartner Group division Dataquest.

All at once, it seems that the promise China held for e-commerce has gone up in smoke. Without warning, the Chinese government has published a sweeping set of Internet regulations that do everything short of mounting a giant "Keep Out" sign on the nation's Web infrastructure.

Ratcheting up the tension in what had already become an all-out brawl, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) accused Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) on Tuesday of purposely delaying the company's pending antitrust appeal.

According to official lists updated Tuesday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it has received more than 200 suggestions for new top level domains (TLDs) to join such traditional suffixes as ."com" and ".org."

China has announced sweeping Internet regulations that restrict foreign investment in Internet content providers and require Web sites to maintain highly detailed records that must be turned over to the police on demand.

When Priceline.com made its entry into the e-commerce landscape, many travel enthusiasts eagerly embraced the name-your-price pioneer. After all, airlines want to fill empty seats, and passengers don't want to pay full fare, so everybody wins, right?

Consumers are leery of online alternatives to traditional banking and will require an extra push from financial institutions to take their business online, according to a report released Tuesday by Deloitte Consulting.

In the following exclusive interview with Bobbi Burns, director of the "eSun" initiative at Sun Microsystems, the E-Commerce Times explores how the multi-billion dollar (US$) company is using its online store as an integral part of its overall marketing strategy.

In papers filed Monday, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) asked the federal appeals court reviewing the antitrust judgment requiring a breakup of the company to set an unusually long five-month schedule for submitting briefs.

Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) has abandoned plans for a long-delayed, low-end computer chip aimed at making personal computers cheaper to build. According to the company, while technicians worked to fix design flaws, the potential market for the chip disappeared.

A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that most Americans do not believe that downloading music from the Internet is stealing, even if the music is copyrighted.