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In an effort to solidify its position as a major player in wireless electronic commerce, Motorola, Inc. unveiled plans this week to introduce technology that will make all of its mobile phones Internet ready by the end of this year ...

Hot on the heels of the acquisition of business-to-business (B2B) software provider Sterling Commerce by telecom giant SBC Communications, two other former "Baby Bells" have jumped into similar waters ...

Virginia Governor James Gilmore, the head of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC), said Wednesday afternoon that he is not backing off his opposition to taxation on the Internet as was widely reported ...

By all accounts, the much-ballyhooed concept of online banking is still struggling to assert itself. In fact, according to a recent report by research firm eMarketer, about half of all customers who sign up for online banking cancel the service ...

District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson dealt Microsoft Corp. a significant blow in its ongoing antitrust trial yesterday by comparing the software company to John D. Rockefeller's 19th century Standard Oil monopoly that was broken up by the U.S. government some 90 years ago ...

With no predictable resolution in sight, the Microsoft antitrust trial is scheduled to hear closing arguments in Washington, D.C. today ...

Despite claims of readiness for the Valentine's Day shopping rush by many leading e-tailers, Internet performance monitoring firm Keynote, Inc. has found that many of those sites failed to live up to expectations ...

Controversial Internet advertising agency DoubleClick, Inc. disclosed Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an inquiry into its methods of gathering and using information about online consumers ...

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno told the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary Wednesday that cracking down on cybercrime is "one of the most critical issues that law enforcement has ever faced." ...

With an eye toward making online bill paying the norm rather than the exception, Internet billing and payments provider CheckFree Corp. announced Tuesday that it has forged a deal to buy TransPoint in a stock deal valued at well over $1 billion (US$) ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and National Association of Attorneys General have banded together with other government agencies to aggressively seek out and prosecute perpetrators of online auction fraud ...

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corp. announced a $2.3 billion (US$) initiative Monday that will target electronic commerce and Internet content businesses ...

Despite the recent barrage of hacker attacks on high profile e-commerce sites, online shoppers have continued to buy products and services -- albeit more cautiously -- over the Internet ...

Online toy giant eToys, Inc. disclosed last week that it has become the subject of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe into its business practices ...

This week's denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on high profile Web sites such as Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon.com have the potential to translate into future profits for companies that offer protective online services such as insurance and security software ...

The six electronic commerce business members on the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) tried yesterday to strike a compromise between deadlocked groups by urging the U.S. Congress to extend the current tax moratorium on Internet sales for five more years ...

At a summit meeting in Washington, D.C. this week, the three largest commercial insurance trade associations in the United States called upon the government to refrain from erecting regulatory barriers to insurance e-commerce and recommended 12 principles to be followed in its regulation of the industry ...

Last week, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) announced plans to make a "virtual credit card" developed by Trintech (Nasdaq:TPPA) available on its lines of mobile phones. By pushing a button or issuing a voice command like "buy" or "pay," mobile users will be able to complete e-commerce transactions in seconds via their virtual cards ...

Reports earlier this week that online powerhouse Amazon.com is being sued by individual consumers as well as being investigated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for privacy issues are the culmination of suspicions that have been coming to a boil since late last year ...

The National Governors' Association (NGA) has issued a stern call to action for U.S. states to help grow e-commerce by eliminating "the horse-and-buggy tax systems that are unsuited to the exploding telecommunications market." ...