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With an eye toward improving its ability to monitor online music downloads, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced Thursday that it is working with other industry groups to develop a standardized system for identifying digital files of songs ...

Adding haze to what is already a cloudy picture, a trio of new reports asserts that slow delivery, security fears and pricing problems will continue to hamstring e-commerce in the United Kingdom ...

After less than a year in business as partners, Sotheby's auction house and e-tail giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) announced Tuesday that they are shutting down their co-branded site, Sothebys.amazon.com, and consolidating the listings into Sotheby's primary online auction site, Sothebys.com. The companies said they expect the consolidation to be complete in about 30 days...

BMG Entertainment announced Tuesday that it will begin offering digital downloads of its albums and singles through a network of partner Web sites ...

According to a report released Monday by Cheskin Research and Chinadotcom Corporation, e-tailers will need to understand regional differences among the Chinese population in order to gain a foothold in the world's most populous country ...

Photography giant Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) announced Tuesday that it has taken an equity stake in online photo site PhotoAlley and said the two companies plan to work together to drive sales of both conventional and digital photography products and services ...

Streaming media -- including audio, video, text, animation and multimedia content -- will drive the next wave of Internet growth, according to a new report by U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. The report predicts that total spending on Web streaming media will grow from $9.7 million (US$) in 1999 to $21.6 million in 2004 ...

Automaker DaimlerChrysler (NYSE: DCX) announced Monday that it is consolidating all of its e-business activities into a new subsidiary called DCX NET Holding ...

Cybercrime is skyrocketing despite increased spending on security measures, according to "The 2000 Information Security Survey," a study released Thursday by Information Security magazine ...

Mitsubishi Corporation and Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) announced plans Thursday to establish a business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplace for the gas, chemical, and utilities industries in Japan ...

A new study by venerable information resource Consumer Reports concludes that consumers are no likelier to find the cheapest airfares through Web travel services than via "a low-tech telephone." ...

Despite the fact that overall traffic to business and finance Web sites grew by 11 percent during the second quarter, visitors to online trading sites decreased by nearly 20 percent, according to a study released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix ...

Due in part to an influx of new e-shoppers, nearly 45 million Americans will do some of their shopping online this holiday season, according to a study released Tuesday by eMarketer ...

Fueled by an epidemic of hack attacks and costly viruses, spending on security software is set to soar from $2.5 billion (US$) in 1999 to over $6.7 billion in 2004, according to a study released Tuesday by Gartner Group division Dataquest ...

China has announced sweeping Internet regulations that restrict foreign investment in Internet content providers and require Web sites to maintain highly detailed records that must be turned over to the police on demand ...

Although ever-increasing numbers of Web users are surfing to auction sites, a study from cPulse suggests that the auction fad will not have staying power unless online auctioneers take action to convert browsers to buyers ...

A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that most Americans do not believe that downloading music from the Internet is stealing, even if the music is copyrighted ...

Amid acrimonious debate over how Internet purchases should be taxed, if at all, representatives from 27 U.S. states are meeting near Chicago, Illinois Friday for public hearings on a proposal that would streamline sales tax for both online and offline retailers ...

A study released Thursday by the Council for Excellence in Government shows that a majority of Americans believe e-government means better government ...

E-tail giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) issued a formal apology Wednesday for price testing it conducted earlier in the month that caused customers to be quoted different prices for the same DVD ...