Articles by Lori Enos

In a blistering 73-page response filed Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 19 states staunchly rejected Microsoft Corporation's proposal for self-imposed remedies to keep its company intact The government told the court that Microsoft's suggested remedies would do nothing to prevent a recurrence of the illegal behavior that led U.S....

New research by IDC shows that online grocery spending will grow from approximately $200 million (US$) in 1999 to over $8.8 billion by 2004, despite several potential pitfalls along the way According to the Framingham, Massachusetts-based research firm, online grocers will need to spend over $25 million -- mostly to build new fulfillment centers --...

Thousands of users booted by Napster last week for allegedly swapping copies of Metallica songs online are claiming that they have done nothing wrong and want their access to the music swapping software restored The San Mateo, California-based Napster issued a statement Tuesday saying that more than 30,000 of the roughly 300,000 fans who were banne...

A survey of trial lawyers and judges by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that few companies are prepared to comply with a subpoena demanding production of their digital files for use in litigation, even though most companies store up to 70 percent of their records in electronic form Additionally, the survey indicates that even though companies are stor...

America Online (AOL) has been slapped with a cease and desist order by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and has agreed to pay a civil penalty to settle charges in the amount of $3.5 million (US$) At issue were AOL's inaccurate financial reports from 1994, 1995 and 1996. The company reported profits instead of losses for six of eigh...

The National Trade Union Corporation (NTUC) of Singapore has agreed to provide 300,000 low-cost PCs to its members through a partnership with PeoplePC PeoplePC says it will work with the NTUC to provide branded computers and free Internet access through a monthly subscription plan, and will replace the units every three years. Subscribers will also...

In an effort to broaden its sales beyond microprocessors, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) announced plans Thursday to build a $200 million (US$) streaming media business that will allow customers to broadcast anything from financial briefings to feature films over the Web Although most U.S. homes with Internet access still use dial-up connections, the number ...

The Walt Disney Company asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) late Thursday to place "meaningful and enforceable conditions" on the proposed merger between America Online and Time Warner The mega-merger, announced in January and set to be finalized later this year, would allow AOL's 22 million subscribers access to Time Warner's vast mo...

In an overwhelming show of support for e-commerce, the United States House of Representatives voted 352 to 75 Wednesday to extend the moratorium on Internet-specific taxes -- currently set to expire in October 2001 -- for an additional five years The Internet Nondiscrimination Act also calls for the elimination of a "grandfather'' clause in the cur...

Just weeks after being found liable for copyright infringement, MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) announced Wednesday that it is voluntarily removing "Big Five" record company content from its My.MP3.com database Users will be unable to access music from Arista Records, Inc., Atlantic Recordings Corp., Capitol Records, Inc., Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., an...

A federal judge has refused to dismiss the copyright lawsuit brought by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)against Napster, rejecting the online file swapping company's argument that its service is legal The RIAA sued Napster in December 1999, alleging that the company violates copyright law when its users share music online withou...

Speaking at a meeting of business leaders at the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business Tuesday, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division Head Joel Klein described Microsoft's efforts to crush competition as "the time-tested tricks of the monopolist's trade." Klein staunchly defended the DOJ's recommendation to br...

Online auction house uBid (Nasdaq: UBID) was sued Friday by group of bidders who claim that the Elk Grove Village, Illinois-based company defrauded them by canceling winning bids for high-dollar (US$) computer equipment The class action suit, filed in Cook County Illinois Circuit Court, also accuses uBid of breaching its contract with the bidders a...

The Philippines National Bureau of Investigations (NBI) moved in on the suspected authors of the "Love Bug" virus on Monday, raiding an apartment in Pandacan, a neighborhood of the capital Manila. A young man was arrested and led away, while a young woman is expected to present herself to authorities on Monday or Tuesday During the raid, the NBI se...

With ad serving technology now an essential component of many e-commerce operations, interactive advertising company 24/7 Media (Nasdaq: TFSM) announced Friday that it has filed a federal patent infringement lawsuit against controversial competitor DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) The suit, filed in U.S. federal court in New York, claims that DoubleClick...

Americans are not likely to abandon their local supermarkets to shop for food on the Internet anytime soon, according to a new survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. In fact, only 18 percent of the 500-plus Internet users who participated in the 1999 PricewaterhouseCoopers Retail Intelligence System annual consumer survey expressed any interest in online grocery shopping...

Capping what the head of the FBI's Chicago Office described as the agency's "most significant investigation of copyright infringement involving the use of the Internet," a U.S. grand jury indicted 17 people on Thursday for their role in posting pirated software valued at over $1 million (US$) on secret Web sites Twelve of the 17 were allegedly memb...

Peapod, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPOD) reported higher sales but a wider loss for the first quarter Wednesday, as new investor Royal Ahold NV announced a new chief executive for the money-losing online grocer The Dutch supermarket chain said Marc van Gelder will serve as the online grocer's new president and chief executive officer. Van Gelder comes to Peapod...

Penthouse.com disclosed this week that U.S. government officials have confiscated materials from the residence of a Usenet user, known as "Muad'Dib," who copied images and text from Penthouse.com's members-only section and posted them on Usenet newsgroups After obtaining a temporary restraining order and a search and seizure order from a U.S. Distr...

In an effort to clamp down on illegal activity on the Web, the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) has sent new guidelines to Congress that would more severely punish people who use the Internet to distribute pirated copies of copyrighted material, steal credit cards, or solicit sex with minors The USSC acted under a Congressional mandate to recommen...