Articles by Lori Enos

British e-commerce is being hampered by consumer fears about Internet security, according to a report released Wednesday by the United Kingdom's National Consumer Council The report, "E-Commerce and Consumer Protection," found that while 26 percent of British adults have access to the Internet either at home or at work, only three percent regularly...

The dire shortage of high-tech and business professionals is now forcing many dot-coms to dole out mega-salaries and non-monetary perks, according to a report released Tuesday by job search site WetFeet.com and global management and consulting firm Hewitt Associates The report, "The dot ComP 2000 Survey," found that the days of pre-IPO Internet sta...

In what the company is calling the "first wave of a new global campaign" against Net piracy, Microsoft announced Tuesday that it has taken action to remove 7,500 Web site postings in 33 countries that were allegedly selling counterfeit and other illegal copies of Microsoft software The Redmond, Washington-based software giant said it will be workin...

Random House, the largest English language publishing house in the world, announced Monday that it plans to jump on the e-publishing bandwagon with two e-book initiatives. The first, a new imprint called AtRandom, will publish new nonfiction and fiction as e-books. The second will offer digitized versions of the company's Modern Library backlist through online retailers...

Further fueling the debate over whether cybercriminals should be allowed to benefit from their crimes, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Money told a crowd of cyber-vandals in Las Vegas, Nevada Friday that they should give up their destructive ways and help the U.S. government fend off cyberattacks from foreign governments Money's remarks ...

Following an uproar over Toysmart's intention to break the privacy promise it made to its customers, the defunct e-tailer has done an about-face, deciding not to sell its database of customer information, after all Before Toysmart's collapse, the company had adhered to a strongly worded privacy policy, promising its customers that it would never se...

U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel granted a request by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for a preliminary injunction against online music swapping company Napster, ordering the company to stop making files of copyrighted music available for download as of midnight Friday The court's action represents a major victory f...

The U.S. Treasury Department announced two e-commerce initiatives Tuesday designed to streamline the process of doing business with the government The first effort, called Pay.gov, will be a secure payment and collection portal with the potential to process 80 million transactions each year, worth an estimated $125 billion (US$).

According to a study released Wednesday by Andersen Consulting and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), many chief financial officers (CFOs) believe their companies lack the necessary structure and culture to account for e-commerce effectively The report, "E-Commerce and the CFO: A framework for finance in the new economy," focuses on the impact ...

Under the terms of a settlement announced Monday by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), adult entertainment company Xpics Publishing, Inc. will make refunds to online consumers who were improperly billed after providing their credit information The FTC said that the company and its owners, Mario G. Carmona and Brian M. Shuster, obtained consum...

The judge who in May ordered Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) to block French access to auctions of Nazi memorabilia being sold through its U.S. auction site granted the Santa Clara, California-based Web giant a three week reprieve on Monday In April, the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) and the Union of French Jewish Students (UE...

China plans to tax sales over the Internet rather than give a tax advantage to e-commerce businesses, according to statements made Sunday by the country's top taxman Jin Renqing, director of China's State Administration of Taxation (SAT), told the state-run China Daily that the country must maintain its taxation sovereignty and level the playing fi...

Software giant Microsoft is about to release new features for its Web browser that will allow surfers to delete "cookies," the computer implants used by Web companies to track personal information. The features will be part of Internet Explorer 5.5 (IE) and will provide more selective user alerts when cookies are delivered, as well as a number of cookie management options not previously available...

Sega of America has taken action to shut down more than 60 Web sites and 125 auction sites that the company accuses of selling pirated versions of Dreamcast video games The San Francisco, California-based interactive games company is working closely with Yahoo!, Lycos, Excite, eBay, and Amazon to shut down auctions of people who were attempting to ...

Barnes & Noble.com announced the launch of its online video store, which the company says will feature tens of thousands of movies in both DVD and VHS format The most recent Forrester Research PowerRanking puts Barnes & Noble in third place among online booksellers, behind Amazon and Borders. Amazon and Borders have a two-year head start selling mo...

Barnes & Noble.com announced the launch of its online video store, which the company says will feature tens of thousands of movies in both DVD and VHS format The most recent Forrester Research PowerRanking puts Barnes & Noble in third place among online booksellers, behind Amazon and Borders. Amazon and Borders have a two-year head start selling mo...

Barnes & Noble.com announced the launch of its online video store, which the company says will feature tens of thousands of movies in both DVD and VHS format The most recent Forrester Research PowerRanking puts Barnes & Noble in third place among online booksellers, behind Amazon and Borders. Amazon and Borders have a two-year head start selling mo...

After meeting in Brussels with European Commission officials on Wednesday, U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce Robert LaRussa said that e-commerce issues related to Internet taxation and data protection should be the subject of ongoing international dialogue LaRussa also suggested that the "digital divide" issues in Europe and the U.S. are common enoug...

Portals are increasingly leading their massive audiences to the e-commerce watering hole, according to June ratings just released by Nielsen//NetRatings The ratings firm said that the large number of Web visitors to portal-affiliated shopping sites indicates that portals have evolved from large directories that helped people find places to go on th...

The Holy Grail of the baseball memorabilia world, a near-mint condition card depicting Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop John Peter "Honus" Wagner, has been auctioned off by eBay for $1.265 million (US$) The selling price, which includes a bid of $1.1 million and a 15 percent fee, is the most ever paid for a baseball card and represents the...