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A report released Tuesday by Internet research firm Jupiter Communications concludes that multi-channel shoppers -- shoppers who use traditional stores, Web sites and print catalogs -- purchase 30 percent more than those who use only one retail channel.

As the next step toward a new Internet-based strategy, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) unveiled the test version of its latest "Office" software upgrade on Tuesday. The product is designed to serve as a bridge between the old Office productivity suite, which was designed for personal computers, and t...

A dream team of high-tech heavyweights -- led by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, NEC and Intel -- is joining forces to find new ways for the Linux operating system to be used in high-powered corporate networks and on the Internet.

Online auction houses have taken the dubious honor of generating the most fraud cases on the Internet, according to a survey taken by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Ailing online pharmacy PlanetRx.com Inc. (Nasdaq: PLRX) said Monday it will relocate its corporate headquarters from South San Francisco, California to Memphis, Tennessee as part of a plan to cut expenses and reduce cash burn.

Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) suffered a setback in its bid to produce ever-speedier microprocessors Monday when it announced it would halt production of its fastest version to date of the Pentium III chip.

The Information Age is killing critical thinking. The steady barrage of more facts and figures than any human mind can digest results in absurdly swift processing with little or no reflection, much less complex deliberation. The ever increasing pressure to rush to judgment can lead to strangely coun...

The most recognized e-tailer in the United States, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), announced Tuesday that it will launch a French-language site Thursday. According to the company, Amazon.fr will be "dedicated to customers in France and to French-speaking customers around the world."

The Internet economy will by 2002 employ more than 10 million people across a variety of industries in the United States and Europe, according to a study released Monday by Chicago, Illinois-based Andersen Consulting.

The difference between "virtual" and "actual" is nowhere more important than in the world of online fashion. Buying clothing, footwear, jewelry and accessories involves far more subjectivity than shopping for products like books, CDs or electronics, and most people want to get up close and personal ...

According to a new study by NFO Interactive, consumers who buy products online often keep items they might otherwise return because they do not want to pay fees to return the shipments.

Further tightening its hold on the online travel market, Sabre Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: TSG) announced Monday that it will acquire GetThere, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTHR) in a deal worth $757 million (US$).

A new survey released by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) predicts that cybercrime -- including Internet fraud, e-mail abuse, hacking, and viruses -- will increase over the next 20 years.

Unless they've had their head in the sand, anyone following the Internet Economy knows that one of today's most hotly debated issues is privacy -- with a capital "P."

It wasn't so long ago that e-mail belonged to a relatively small in-group who knew it as a fun, fast and cheap way to communicate. The technology made it possible to chat with co-workers while looking busy, to talk to people outside work without tying up the phones, and to communicate across time zo...