E-Commerce

After years of relying mainly on its own Web site as an online sales vehicle for its airfares, discount carrier JetBlue changed course Monday, striking deals to allow third-party travel sites sell tickets for its flights. JetBlue announced distribution deals with Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia and Pri...

With brick-and-mortar retailers reporting a blockbuster Black Friday, Internet merchants looked to counter with a strong Cyber Monday, with at least one analyst firm predicting sales would set a record by exceeding 2006 levels. Although Cyber Monday has come to stand for the virtual equivalent of Bl...

PlayStation Portable users will soon be saying good-bye to their old download service. Sony, maker of the PSP, announced Tuesday it has launched a new service, the PlayStation Store, for the PC from which PSP owners can purchase content directly. The current PSP download service will reportedly go d...

MoveOn.org, the civic and political action group best known for espousing Democratic ideals, has launched a campaign aimed at pressuring Facebook to change its privacy policy in the wake of a newly launched advertising program. Using a Facebook page and its own Web site, MoveOn is collecting signatu...

Some types of commerce are just not a match for the Internet. However, others -- including researching a new car -- caught on with online shoppers. The amount and types of information that can be conveyed online has brought car-buying to a whole new level -- yet few auto marketers are optimizing the...

It is becoming increasingly unsafe to buy or otherwise conduct business online, according to the ninth annual CyberSource survey on e-commerce fraud. Fraudsters will divert approximately $3.6 billion from U.S. e-commerce in 2007, a 20 percent increase over 2006, based on survey results. Merchants ar...

A new mobile phone Samsung is making for AT&T will include Napster Mobile, a service that allows owners to search, preview and buy music from Napster's catalog of 5 million songs. The phone, called the "SLM by Samsung," will be available in stores on Nov. 23, said AT&T. The new phone is the ...

A new mobile phone Samsung is making for AT&T will include Napster Mobile, a service that allows owners to search, preview and buy music from Napster's catalog of 5 million songs. The phone, called the "SLM by Samsung," will be available in stores on Nov. 23, said AT&T. The new phone is the ...

A new mobile phone Samsung is making for AT&T will include Napster Mobile, a service that allows owners to search, preview and buy music from Napster's catalog of 5 million songs. The phone, called the "SLM by Samsung," will be available in stores on Nov. 23, said AT&T. The new phone is the ...

It's just before 3 p.m. on a Friday afternoon and the last meeting of the week is about to start. With nothing to do for a few minutes, you remember that the new complete DVD box set of "The Addams Family" just became available -- so you hop onto Amazon. Naturally, neither you nor I would ever waste...

What's the use of having access to a World Wide Web if you're only going to shop three or four mainstream retailers anyway? To spice up this year's load under the tree and avoid the HoHum doldrums, here are some hot new Web site choices to find the perfect gift for even the zaniest character on your...

When Google announced its Android cellular platform last week, some took that as a sign that it could be moving away from its previously discussed plans to bid in the upcoming Federal Communications Commission auction of 700 MHz wireless spectrum. Recent news, however, suggests otherwise. It looks l...

Spam network operators, otherwise known as "botnet herders," are becoming increasingly proficient at evading detection and harnessing the power of peer-to-peer computing, much to the consternation of spam detection, prevention and IT security specialists, as Part 1 of this series discusses. Botnet o...

Imagine walking into your local supermarket as you normally would. You fill your shopping cart with groceries, and when you get to the checkout line, you see hundreds of abandoned carts loaded with items, strewn haphazardly about, but with no shoppers to be found. Was there a fire? Natural disaster?...

The European Commission will open an in-depth investigation into Google's proposed purchase of interactive ad giant DoubleClick, dashing the search company's hopes for a swift end to the ongoing regulatory review. The commission now has until April 2, 2008, to render a final ruling on the proposed $...