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Three former Homestore.com executives plan to plead guilty to charges stemming from millions of dollars of accounting misstatements and reportedly will cooperate with investigators as a federal probe moves forward. Some published reports suggest the Homestore inquiry is being used to gather informat...

In the post-boom era of e-commerce, the gurus whose ideas and actions set the bar and tone for the industry may seem familiar. Although yesteryear's fast-growth mantra has been replaced by a different chant -- profits, profits! -- first-wave icons like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Meg Whitman of eBay ar...

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard each will spend $25 million during the next two-and-a-half years in an effort to foster more widespread adoption of the .NET Web services initiative among e-businesses. The campaign calls for the training of 5,000 HP sales professionals on the finer points of .NET and t...

Before Steve Jobs retook the reins at Apple in 1997, many in the industry had begun to sound the death knell for the innovative but beleaguered company. But in a stunning turnaround, Apple pulled itself out of a pool of red ink and began booking positive earnings. One key reason for its success is A...

There is little question that the number of home users accessing the Internet via broadband will continue to grow. By the end of 2002, the Yankee Group has estimated, 16 million broadband subscribers will be online in the United States, in addition to 54 million dial-up users. And widespread adoptio...

The sticker price of high-speed Internet access remains too high for a majority of U.S. residents, although the service is now available in most areas of the country, according to a government report. The report also suggested that lack of content geared toward broadband users -- such as video game ...

Although they attract a large percentage of the online buying audience, e-tail giants like Amazon and eBay are not the biggest competitors of other e-tailers, according to a new report from Nielsen//NetRatings. The report said most shoppers do not click directly from niche sites to Amazon or eBay; r...

The stock market and the dot-com world may be down for now, but that does not mean launching a new e-business is out of the question. New York University business professor Christopher Tucci pointed out that many of today's technology and commerce giants began life at a time when startup capital was...

In its annual 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Cisco reported that its order backlog has fallen 30 percent over the past year, from about $2 billion to about $1.4 billion. Analyst reactions were mixed, with some surprised and others saying they expected the news. One pos...

In a business traditionally built on partnerships and cooperation, Dell Computer seems bent on making more enemies than friends of late. In July, Hewlett-Packard terminated a four-year reseller agreement with Dell after word leaked that Dell intended to make and sell its own line of printers and oth...

Allocating precious budget dollars is always a challenge in a down economy, and with security threats seeming to loom at every turn, CIOs are struggling mightily to gauge risks and decide how to face them. While the temptation may be to throw money at perceived security problems, decision makers ins...

Six months after Buy.com took a page from Amazon.com's playbook by forming an e-commerce outsourcing division, the company has landed its first customer, online movie ticketing site Fandango. United Commerce Service, as the Buy.com spinoff is known, will create a co-branded Buy.com site for Fandango...

The online fraud-fighting field is a crowded one, with a variety of commercial and nonprofit organizations involved in educating consumers, setting e-commerce standards for e-tailers and releasing software designed to nab fraudsters. But despite the wide variety of groups attempting to remedy or kee...

Further entrenching itself in the open source software market, IBM has inked a multiyear deal that calls for the technology giant to offer Red Hat's top-of-the-line Linux operating system as an option on all of its eServer machines. As part of the pact, IBM Global Services will expand its support of...

In the early days of e-commerce, small businesses flocked to the Web with grandiose visions of transforming mom-and-pop shops into mega retailers. Those visions turned out to be pipe dreams for most merchants, and the dawn of reality convinced many early adopters to retreat to the brick-and-mortar w...