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Host Marriott Services (NYSE: HMS) announced Friday that it is offering travelers in Florida [USA] convenient access to the information super highway -- by adding a number of Internet access service terminals at its travel plaza locations along the Florida Turnpike.

In what's been called by some industry analysts a score for Microsoft's Audio 4.0, Pop-Rap music group The Beastie Boys has announced the availability of the first of three previously unreleased tracks for secure digital download from Launch.Com (Nasdaq: LAUN).

Going head-to-head with competitors in the bid for dominance of online music distribution, AT&T Corp. has teamed with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., BMG Entertainment and Universal Music to develop technology needed to download, play and store digital music from the Net.

Promising an instantaneous, electronic alternative to the overnight letter, Hewlett-Packard and United Parcel Service have joined to develop a new service that sends and tracks paper documents over the Net.

Amidst a flurry of moves made by IBM to assert its presence in the expanding Linux operating system (OS) market, Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL) this week announced several initiatives with, apparently, much the same intention.

FOX Entertainment Group (NYSE: FOX) announced Thursday that it has formed a new media company called The Health Network. The new venture is scheduled to launch on cable and the Internet in July.

Fidelity Investments announced this week it's offering its customers two-way wireless stock trades via 3Com Corp's new Palm VII handheld organizer.

Promising an instantaneous, electronic alternative to the overnight letter, Hewlett-Packard and United Parcel Service have joined to develop a new service that sends and tracks paper documents over the Net.

Going head-to-head with competitors in the bid for dominance of online music distribution, AT&T Corp. has teamed with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., BMG Entertainment and Universal Music to develop technology needed to download, play and store digital music from the Net.

With less than 2 percent of the 7 million small companies in the United States doing business online, Rep. Jim Talent (R-Missouri) is looking for ways to increase those ranks. Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, Talent pledged at an e-commerce hearing yesterday to take a closer look a...

As we inch toward mid-1999, more and more companies are entering a market created to curtail projections for a Y2K computer bug that range from foreseeing a minor glitch to heralding worldwide chaos.

As popular as the game of golf has become in the United States, it's even more so in Japan. Club membership prices can soar into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and a wide back swing is guaranteed to clip a fellow golfer in a nation with too many golfers and not enough land.

The U.S. Postal Service recently completed tests of two new services to bring regular mail into the electronic world. The services present new ways for the post office to make money off both printed and electronic mail, though the government is pitching them as equally beneficial to businesses.

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) this week signaled its increasing focus on the online world by forming a separate business unit for its more than 50 Internet sites.

Auctioning off the top hits to its advertisers is a unique search engine concept that GoTo.com, Inc. hopes will capture the imagination and pockets of Wall Street. The privately held company expects to sell 5 million common shares for $11 to $13 dollars in its initial public offering -- which could ...