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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) asked a federal court judge Monday to issue an injunction to prevent music swap site Napster from "facilitating or assisting others in the copying, downloading, uploading, transmission or distribution of copyrighted musical works." The RIAA filed the motion in U.S. District Court in San Francisco...

eToys (Nasdaq:ETYS) announced Monday that it has purchased selected assets of eParties American, an online party planning and supplies site, for $1.6 million (US$) in eToys common stock The Santa Monica, California-based eToys said it is buying the eParties name and its customization software, and plans to open a party store on its Web site later t...

Key members of the U.S. House of Representatives Republican leadership gathered on Friday to launch GOP.gov, a Web site designed to inform the public about current issues and the views of GOP members of Congress House Majority Leader Richard A. Armey and Majority Whip Tom DeLay joined Chairman of the House Republican Conference Rep. J.C. Watts, Jr....

Top executives at Staples, Inc. thought they had done everything right. Recognizing the need to take decisive action on the e-commerce front, they calmly consulted experts from the Harvard Business School to devise an effective strategy Only when they felt confident did they go public with their plans to attack the dot-com world. They said they wou...

Responding to evidence that online brokers do not provide their customers with the best information about risks, margin accounts, privacy and other key issues, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) is recommending that government regulators require Internet trading firms to post more disclosures on their Web sites The report from the GAO, the no...

Hollywood Entertainment Corp. announced Monday that it is shutting down the e-commerce aspects of Reel.com, the film-related Web site that was often ranked among the ten most visited Internet sites While Reel.com's sales operation, including DVDs and videos, will cease, the site will remain active as a content destination. In addition to retail sal...

A new survey shows that an increasing number of Americans, particularly those who are interested in financial matters, are turning to the Internet for news and information One in three Americans go online at least once a week for their news, compared to 20 percent two years ago, according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Fif...

IDG World Expo predicts that 30,000 national and international Linux users will attend the fourth LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose, California, surpassing the last show's record attendance The event, set for August 14-17, 2000, is billed as the largest Linux-focused gathering in the world. Attendees will have the opportunity to consult with...

Andersen Consulting announced Thursday that it is partnering with the state of North Carolina and Yahoo! to develop a Web portal called North Carolina@Your Service The site will provide the state's citizens, businesses and employees with access to government services and a gateway to the Web.

Following negotiations that have consumed most of this year, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate have apparently reached an accord on the terms of a digital signature bill Both branches of government agreed that an e-signature bill was needed, and each had passed its version with little opposition last year. However, reaching an agreem...

In an attempt to fend off mounting criticism of what promises to be the Internet's largest travel Web site, executives for the so-called "Travelocity Terminator" came forward Thursday to defend their plan to combine the forces of five of the largest U.S. airlines "We are hoping to interject competition," said chief technology officer Alex Zoghlin, ...

No one can accuse Webvan of lacking the killer instinct. In the past year, the company has pledged to spend $1 billion (US$) on infrastructure and has steered itself into competition with the likes of Amazon.com But whether the company's underlying strategy is sound is another matter. The real question may be whether the old adage -- that the key t...

EarthLink, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELNK), the second largest Internet service provider (ISP) in the United States, said on Thursday that it will buy top-ten ISP OneMain.com (Nasdaq: ONEM) for $308 million (US$) in cash and stock The merger will add about 762,000 subscribers to EarthLink's base, extending the company's reach to over four million members. Eart...

Mammoth U.S. grocery chain The Kroger Co. announced Thursday that it will join forces with name-your-own-price service Priceline WebHouse Club, Inc., a privately-held licensee of Priceline.com. The WebHouse Club allows online shoppers to name their own price for groceries, up to half-off The Cincinnati, Ohio-based Kroger, which operates supermarket...

Network Security Technologies, Inc. announced the discovery Thursday of destructive software that has been clandestinely implanted into thousands of business and home computers The Herndon, Virginia-based company says the software is secretly loaded on computers when an unsuspected user opens what appears to be a harmless small video file received ...

MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) announced Friday that it has reached separate settlements in its copyright infringement disputes with Bertelsmann AG's BMG Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group. The settlements will allow music from the labels to stay on the online music provider's site The two complainants -- along with Sony Music Entertainment, Seagra...

The Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) announced Wednesday that 13 computer and video game companies have gone to court to shut down six Web sites that they say are selling pirated versions of their software The complainants joined in filing separate suits in federal court in the Northern District of California against six individuals ...

ToyTime.com, a latecomer to the competitive online toy retailing world, has pulled the plug on operations just nine months after its heavily advertised entry into a crowded market ToyTime's Web site informs customers that it is no longer accepting orders. While an online message tells visitors to check back often, the site also provides an e-mail l...

All new mobile phones sold in the UK will be Internet-enabled by mid-2001, according to a report from Forrester Research The research firm projects that as the price of wireless application protocol (WAP) technology continues to fall, consumers will snap up the phones in a "two-year period of hypergrowth." ...

A new study by international management and information technology (IT) consulting firm Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. shows that while most U.S. distributors acknowledge the impact the Internet will have on their businesses, not all of them are prepared for the changes to come in the digital age According to 59 percent of the distributors surveyed,...