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With Christmas just days away, a number of e-commerce sites are now displaying disclaimers stating that they cannot guarantee deliveries before the holiday, further fueling debate over whether e-commerce is ultimately capable of giving brick-and-mortar retailing a legitimate long-term challenge.

While shoppers have flocked to online toy stores in record numbers this year, the two toy store leaders -- eToys, Inc. and Toys 'R' Us -- have both had rough times recently.

According to a new report from Jupiter Communications, European e-tailers will rack up online sales of about 790 million Euros ($797 million US$) this season, despite the fact that their Web sites are woefully lacking in customer service.

The latest figures released by Internet measurement service Media Metrix (Nasdaq: MMXI) show that that this year's holiday e-commerce traffic is up 37 percent over last year, with reigning king Amazon.com leading the way again.

Imagine shopping for that book you need, checking your stock portfolio, or reading yesterday's sports scores while making a morning subway commute. It is not only feasible, but likely to happen sooner than you think, thanks to the rapidly approaching world of wireless e-commerce.

This election season's flock of presidential hopefuls could learn a lot by watching how CEOs of high-tech companies spin bad news into sunshine.

Fighting back against cyber-squatters who they say have fraudulently appropriated versions of sports franchise names to rake in money, a group representing Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League have filed a lawsuit ag...

Verio, Inc. is one of the world's largest Web-hosting company and a leading provider of e-business solutions. With an emphasis on serving the small and mid-sized business market, Verio offers a broad range of Internet solutions such as high-speed Internet access, Web hosting, e-commerce solutions, v...

Server appliance developer Cobalt Networks (Nasdaq: COBT) announced this week that it will tap the services of RSA Security (Nasdaq: RSAS) to enable secure e-commerce applications on its servers.

U.S. Congressman Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), who has spent years battling cable operators over rising rates and anti-competitive programming contracts, has teamed with former Massachusetts Governor William Weld and the openNET Coalition of Internet service providers to support a state ballot initia...

In yet another addition to its "AOL Anywhere" strategy, America Online (NYSE: AOL) announced today that it will acquire online map provider MapQuest.com (Nasdaq: MQST) in a $1.1 billion (US$) stock deal.

A new study released this week by The Boston Consulting Group shows that 25 percent of all business-to-business purchases will be made online by 2003.

According to a new study by Andersen Consulting, a staggering 27 percent of attempted online sales failed because Web sites couldn't handle the crush of holiday orders.

You know the price wars that occasionally break out between gas station owners on opposite corners of an intersection? Well, the same type of price wars may break out on the Internet because of product comparison Web sites and attendant shopping "bots" that purport to give consumers the lowest price...

In what the company claims is the largest Web transaction ever recorded, aircraft manufacturer Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation (NYSE: GAC) has sold a jet to a Yahoo! executive for $40 million.