E-Commerce

Imagine strolling through the front door of your favorite department store, but instead of finding yourself amid a comforting cacophony of display counters, merchandise, and bustling people, you're instead all alone in a strangely geometric room featuring a series of doors labeled "Women," "Men," "K...

Sales of mobile phones that double as digital cameras have soared during 2005, with nearly 300 million such handsets expected to be sold before year's end, according to new projections from Gartner. Camera phone sales will reach 295.5 million units this year and represent 38 percent of overall mobil...

When Eric Lituchy and wife Gina Ezratty first started talking in the late 1990s about a new dot-com business, the business idea seemed straightforward enough. Sell specialty products over the Internet. Satisfy gift-givers who want to honor life's milestones for special someones. Top off birthdays, e...

Cyber Monday outpaced Black Friday in the online shopping arena once again this year, which comes as no surprise to e-tail analysts who predicted the phenomenon long ago. Nielsen//NetRatings' Holiday eShopping Index saw 15 percent more traffic on Cyber Monday than on Black Friday, drawing a total un...

Just as it helped spawn a movement toward its wireless technology with Centrino, Intel is looking to put the PC in the pole position for home entertainment with its Viiv platform that is now supported by more than 40 software, content and service companies, including TiVo. Intel said its Viiv techno...

Microsoft is testing a service that would enable people to place classified ads and store a host of other information, a service that would follow in the footsteps of Google Base and underscores how online classifieds and related forms of Web-based information organization are rapidly emerging as th...

While the ultimate measure of online performance is whether or not your Web site helps your company to achieve its business goals, such as customer acquisition, conversion or brand-building, there are many other variables impacting this performance. A Web site has to perform well on many levels and ...

In what's become an annual event known as Cyber Monday, millions of shoppers logged onto the Internet from their jobs yesterday for holiday shopping. While not the biggest online shopping day of the season -- in terms of total shopping volume, that often occurs before Thanksgiving, though for some r...

High oil prices. Natural disasters. Slumping economy. Pink slip epidemics. None of that appeared to bother shoppers as they stormed Web outlets on the day after Thanksgiving, the day that's become known as Black Friday. According to Patty Freeman Evans, a retail analyst with Jupiter Research in New ...

Providing evidence that the Internet is fast becoming the global bazaar many have long imagined -- one with the power to smash traditional barriers to commerce -- a new report says one of every six online Americans has sold something on the Web. The Pew Internet & American Life Project said abou...

TiVo, the personal digital recorder company whose value proposition has long included the ability to let users fast-forward through commercials, said today it was working with several advertising and media companies to make it possible for users to search for specific TV ads they actually want to se...

Traditional retailers pulled out all the stops to drive traffic and sales to brick-and-mortar stores on Black Friday. But online retailers have set their sights on what is expectantly known as Cyber Monday. Both days revolve around Thanksgiving and both days mean big bucks for retailers. The day aft...

No doubt there will still be lines outside of malls and department stores early in the morning on Black Friday, long the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season. But as the busiest stretch of the year for retailers gets under way, there are more signs that retailers themselves believe the ...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and BitTorrent yesterday announced a collaborative effort to curb film piracy. BitTorrent Founder and CEO Bram Cohen's technology allows Web sites to make large content files available online. The MPAA was concerned that the technology is frequently u...

America Online officially launched an upgrade to its flagship messaging product, AOL Instant Messenger yesterday, and unveiled the AIM Triton upgrade as a desktop bundle of communications applications offering a range of other communications services in a single place. Analysts said the integrated p...