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In the wake of widespread complaints about fee increases on sellers, eBay has said it will reduce some of the charges and boost customer service in the U.S. and Canada. However, the online auction giant is standing firm on its move to hike Final Value fees on inventory format listings and Store subs...

Looking to add to the arsenal of content it searches -- and on which it can sell advertising space -- and to take part in one of the Web's hot trends, Ask Jeeves reportedly is in the process of acquiring Bloglines, a company that provides free news- and blogger-aggregation services. Ask Jeeves has y...

Webroot Software, a provider of anti-spyware software and other security technologies for consumers and enterprises, announced today that it has secured a US$108 million investment from a syndicate of top venture capital firms to be used largely to expand its enterprise business and its internationa...

We've come a long way, baby! Indeed, e-commerce has evolved from online billboards to a fully functional, personalized shopping experience over the past decade. While there were admittedly a few bumps along the road, the path from 1994 through the 2004 holiday shopping season is full of crucial mile...

Well, we have yet another definition to add to our technology lexicon: click hijacking. With the advent of powerful and profitable search engines, like Google, Internet schemers have come up with yet another way to illegally make a buck. This article looks at this new phenomenon, what gave rise to ...

The landmark settlement between class action plaintiffs and 10 former WorldCom directors fell apart yesterday after a federal judge rejected a key aspect of the deal. Directors had agreed to pay US$54 million, including $18 million of their own money, to settle the suit. U.S. District Judge Denise C...

Bidding to keep its edge in the rapidly evolving search space, Yahoo has started to test what it calls a "contextual" search function aimed at helping users find more relevant results. The service, known as Y!Q, is now available in beta form. Users can download a "demo bar" from Yahoo and also use t...

Once thought of as the next big thing in the technological evolutionary chain, hand-held devices are quickly being elbowed out of the market by smarter mobile phones that bear many of the same features. A report from market research firm IDC said sales of hand-held devices have fallen for four strai...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will use RFID chips on a trial basis to track the arrival and return of visitors from abroad. The testing phase, which will begin this spring and is expected to last one year, will occur at selected points of entry across the U.S., and it will complemen...

Google stock soared today after the company posted quarterly earnings that far exceeded Wall Street expectations, with growth doubled over a year ago and revenue skyrocketing to US$1.03 billion from $512 million a year earlier. The report said net income came in at $204.1 million, or 71 cents per sh...

In a move likely to spur more speculation about its overall strategy for expansion, Google has won approval to become a registrar of domain names. The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently granted Google registrar status, giving it permission to sell specific doma...

Your logo is not that important these days, as most customers have no motivation to remember the subtle intricacies or bizarre approaches to logos that are intended to stimulate demand. They are already flooded with colorful graphic look-alikes and continuously regenerated blasts from every corner.

In a reminder of a lingering threat to the growth of online commerce, a new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says identity theft -- such as phishing over the Internet -- continued to be the most prevalent form of consumer fraud reported to authorities last year. In fact, complaints ste...

Vodafone's Japanese unit plans to release a mobile phone next month that answers to motion commands, just the latest development in what analysts say will be an explosion of features for phones as carriers and cell phone makers look to push the envelope. The new phones, made by Sharp and distributed...

Internet marketers have to walk a narrow line in pitching messages to potential customers during online visits. While marketers try to gather useful customer information to provide follow-up targeted messages, consumers often provide false answers to personal questions or will leave the Web site wit...