E-Commerce

The last week of 2005 brought dizzying levels of digital downloads, as owners of new MP3 players rushed to fill those devices with music, and recipients of gift cards from top sites hurried to cash in their chits. Nielsen SoundScan said 20 million tracks were downloaded during the week between Chri...

The New Year has quickly brought new efforts by satellite radio providers XM Satellite and Sirius to win subscribers and grab market share in the rapidly emerging business. XM used the Consumer Electronics Show to roll out several new products, including hand-held radio players meant to make it easi...

Peddling pornography has always been big business on the Internet, but apparently it isn't lucrative enough for some skin merchants. Pornographers are turning to click fraud to supplement income generated by their Web sites, according to Kessler International, a cybercrime investigations firm based ...

Anti-spam software provider Mailshell and bulk e-mailer Lyris may not be a likely duo, but the two companies are working together to boost the validity of spam filtering and at the same time allow delivery of messages that might not be considered spam by some recipients. Their solution -- which allo...

The recent addition of ABC, ESPN and other Disney-owned properties to Apple's iTunes media service is just the latest move in the studio's aggressive push to increase digital delivery of its valuable content. Disney's willingness to make its content available the way consumers want it -- particularl...

Radio super personality Howard Stern's move to Sirius satellite radio may be a barometer of the new entertainment medium's likelihood to gain mainstream acceptance. While the move is inarguably significant, satellite radio still faces stiff challenges -- including the popularity of iPods and an upsu...

Hoping to build on more than 30 years of chip-making history while embracing the changes buffering the semiconductor industry, Intel has unveiled a new branding strategy, shelving a familiar catchphrase and a 37-year-old logo in the process. The Santa Clara, Calif. chip-making giant said it would au...

Casinos in Nevada might become the first to explore a new area of the Internet gambling frontier, enabling users to gamble on mobile devices while they're in and around casinos. A recently passed law makes Nevada the first state in the U.S. to allow the use of hand-held devices for gambling at casin...

AT&T plans to start the New Year with a massive advertising campaign aimed at re-introducing one of the most venerable brand names in telecommunications history to consumers who may need a refresher course after an historic year of upheaval and consolidation in the communications industry. AT&am...

AT&T plans to start the New Year with a massive advertising campaign aimed at re-introducing one of the most venerable brand names in telecommunications history to consumers who may need a refresher course after an historic year of upheaval and consolidation in the communications industry. AT&am...

AT&T plans to start the New Year with a massive advertising campaign aimed at re-introducing one of the most venerable brand names in telecommunications history to consumers who may need a refresher course after an historic year of upheaval and consolidation in the communications industry. AT&am...

Online holiday shopping grew at a pace that beat out even optimistic forecasts, with spending growing as much as 30 percent as various factors, including aggressive promotions and free-shipping deals that may cut into e-tailer's profits, attracted more Web buyers. The Goldman, Sachs & Co., Niels...

Google is the target of yet another lawsuit. The search giant has been charged with patent infringement allegations related to Google Talk, its Instant Message and Internet phone feature. Rates Technology Inc. (RTI) filed suit against Google in New York federal court in October. The company alleges ...

Online and in stores, retailers sought an extra boost in the days after Christmas to help galvanize what's being described as a mixed holiday shopping season so far. They trotted out their usual array of gimmicks designed to get customers back into the buying mood on Monday, hoping that gift returns...

Web surfers are annoyed as hell and they're doing something about it. That's the thrust of the findings in a survey to be released next week by Hostway, a Chicago-based Web site hosting service with more than 400,000 global clients. According to preliminary information from the survey, obtained by t...