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The U.S. House of Representatives voted almost unanimously Tuesday that spam should be unlawful.

Online advertising campaigns result in significantly more traffic to e-tail Web sites and attract attentive visitors who are likely to linger, according to new research by Media Metrix (Nasdaq: MMXI) division AdRelevance.

The burgeoning online gambling industry won a political victory Monday when a bill to ban online casinos failed to pass the U.S. House of Representatives. A similar bill has already been passed in the Senate.

With the recent vote by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to expand the number of top level domains (TLDs) on the Internet, some e-tailers may be asking not only if a rose by any other domain name will smell as sweet -- but also whether its price will be as steep.

The White House and other U.S. government officials say they are working to give Internet users the same level of protection against "wiretapping" that they currently have when talking on the telephone.

Undaunted by the criticism and controversy surrounding Napster, the Internet music-sharing company they founded, Bill Bales and Adrian Scott have announced the impending launch of AppleSoup, a venture that will bring Hollywood into the age of file-swapping.

A new report by Forrester Research predicts that an emphasis on infrastructure and high-level services will allow online pharmacies to emerge as e-commerce success stories over the next two years.

Do you remember the incredible thrill you felt the first time you hooked up to the World Wide Web? Think back. Can you recall that feeling of -- for lack of a better word -- connection? That sense of being part of something so vast, so global, so post-modern?

In an apparent effort to keep pace with other portals that offer e-commerce storefronts to small businesses, NBC Internet (Nasdaq: NBCI) said Tuesday it will partner with Bigstep.com to assist companies in building Web sites, developing catalogs and accepting credit cards.

Online retail giant Amazon.com rebounded mightily from a protracted slump Friday, just in time to celebrate its fifth birthday.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Sunday formally voted to expand the number of top level domains (TLDs) on the Internet and invite potential registrars to submit plans for additional Web suffixes that could be in operation by early next year.

Because notorious cybercriminal Kevin Mitnick is barred under the terms of his plea agreement from touching a computer -- much less a computer connected to the Internet -- he is going to need some help submitting the online column he has been hired to write for Contentville.com.

A friend of mine -- who is very good at finding the dark side of every bright picture -- firmly believes that in the midst of the United States' longest run of peacetime prosperity, we are faced with the sad truth that customer service is dead.

"Free" always begs the question: What's the catch? The prospect of something-for-nothing usually causes a tingle of excitement that is followed by a predictable letdown when the natural law, "You get what you pay for," kicks in.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is not impressed with the defense offered by Napster that its service is no more illegal than using a VCR to record television shows. In a brief filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the RIAA called Nap...