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The United States government is coming up with a business plan -- an information technology business plan, that is. In short, consumers will reap the benefits of the myriad of online services and products available through and from their government. If the government maximizes, streamlines and pr...

The anonymity of the Internet and the potential for higher rewards for criminals has fueled an alarming increase in cybercrime activity in recent years. Many analysts believe that ill-equipped law enforcement officials will remain one step behind online lawbreakers unless they mount a more compre...

The market for online music is not doing as well as analysts at Jupiter Media Metrix had thought six months ago. The research firm on Tuesday lowered its outlook for the industry, citing a weak economy and delayed launches of new subscription products. But there is still hope for the industry, sai...

Web users do not get loaded down with packages when they go from site to site, but they do lug some baggage in the form of passwords. Commerce and content sites increasingly ask visitors to log in with a password, taxing the memories of those who frequent multiple sites. "One of the biggest hindr...

Looking to drum up new sources of online advertising revenue, powerhouse portal Yahoo! announced Monday that it has stuck a deal with Arnold MPG to develop new Internet marketing campaigns for the media buying and planning agency's clients. As part of the deal, Arnold MPG has agreed to purchase m...

A California bankrutpcy court has cleared the way for online grocer Webvan to liquidate its remaining assets, a process that should bring closure to the high-profile dot-com failure. As expected, however, holders of Webvan stock will receive no compensation under the liquidation plan. "The compan...

While there is no single "gold standard" for online design, experts say there are a number of high-quality Web sites that manage to approach that ideal by excelling in the areas of functionality, style and ease of use. Few sites manage to succeed in all three areas, analysts told the E-Commerce T...

By now, you have probably realized that Yahoo! is up to something. Just this week, the company cut a deal with Cigna, agreeing to build a custom portal for the health care heavyweight. Doesn't sound like the zany, business-casual Yahoo! we've grown to love, does it? To date, portals like Yahoo! a...

The folks at EBay and Yahoo! in Japan spent time recently denying rumors that the Japanese arms of the two companies are about to merge. The Japanese operations of the two companies are certainly distinct from what goes on back at home, and there's no reason to believe such a merger would happen ...

E-tailers are now faced not only with the enormous challenge of reaching and sustaining profits, but the even more difficult challenge of achieving profitability in a market that has passed the initial phase of spectacular growth and is a virtual melting pot of different target groups. "It's beco...

In yet another sign that the dot-com shakeout is not over, venerable tech research firm Forrester Research said it is cutting more than 20 percent of its workforce. "Last year was a challenging one for most companies, and Forrester was no exception," Forrester chairman and CEO George F. Colony sa...

Sometime over the holidays, Henry Blodget packed up his box and officially left Merrill Lynch, where he had been the lead Internet stock analyst. Blodget, who some pundits have all but blamed for single-handedly causing the dot-com bubble, has left behind a life of touting Yahoo!, Amazon, EBay an...

Industry analysts say retailers can generate increased revenues from their Web operations without cannibalizing the sales that would have been made in their offline stores and without having to make huge new investments. E-tailers that do a better job of integrating all of their sales channels --...

Further expanding its reach, this time into the employee benefits field, Yahoo! said it would develop personalized Web portals for the 16 million customers of health care and retirement benefits giant Cigna. Yahoo's business services unit, known as Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions, will develop a cust...

Upping the e-commerce stakes in the competitive fast-food business, pizza chain Papa John's said that it is making online ordering available at all its free-standing restaurants across the United States. Papa John's said it is the first pizza chain in the U.S. to offer online ordering throughout ...