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In a speech given to the Computer and Communications Industry Association on Monday, U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary Stuart Eizenstat declared the agency's support of a permanent Internet sales tax ban, despite the contribution such taxes would make to U.S. coffers ...

America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have forged a strategic marketing alliance to promote NBA.com, WNBA.com and America Online's Internet service and Web sites ...

Juno Online Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: JWEB) has filed suit against NetZero, Inc. (Nasdaq: NZRO) and Qualcomm, Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) in U.S. District Court for infringement of one of its patents ...

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) announced two new ventures on Wednesday designed to provide customers with instant access to their book purchases ...

Brick-and-click retailer Barnes & Noble (Nasdaq: BNBN) announced an initiative Tuesday to develop Barnes & Noble University, a customized Internet site for online learning ...

In an effort to solidify its long-term relationship with the world's number one ISP, WorldCom (Nasdaq: WCOM) has announced plans to market America Online (NYSE: AOL), to its customers and offer long distance calling credit as an incentive for new AOL subscribers ...

AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T), the largest telephone company in the United States, and Tellme Networks, Inc. jointly announced on Monday that they have formed a strategic alliance designed to stimulate new demand for Web content, commerce and communications delivered over the telephone ...

AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T), the largest telephone company in the United States, and Tellme Networks, Inc. jointly announced on Monday that they have formed a strategic alliance designed to stimulate new demand for Web content, commerce and communications delivered over the telephone ...

AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T), the largest telephone company in the United States, and Tellme Networks, Inc. jointly announced on Monday that they have formed a strategic alliance designed to stimulate new demand for Web content, commerce and communications delivered over the telephone ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it has launched an investigation into the mammoth Internet venture being formed by 30 airline companies ...

Just days after Tuesday's announcement that Web portal Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) will be bought by Spanish ISP Terra Networks, SA (Nasdaq: TRRA), indications are emerging that the deal might not be a foregone conclusion ...

In order to kill an e-mail rumor that would not die, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this week prohibiting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from levying any additional charges on consumers for Internet access ...

According to a new study by the Strategis Group, nearly 33 percent of cell phone users who responded said they would pay an additional $13 (US$) per month or more to surf the Internet on their phones ...

As Philippine government efforts to solve the Love Bug virus mystery progress at a snail's pace, representatives of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations are meeting in Paris today to discuss coordinated efforts to fight cybercrime ...

A new study by scientists from IBM Research, Compaq Corporate Research Laboratories and AltaVista presents a comprehensive "map" of the World Wide Web, and uncovers inadequate linking between regions of the Internet that can make navigation difficult -- or in some cases, impossible ...

The National Association of Minorities in Communications (NAMIC) announced Tuesday the unveiling of its "Digital Bridge Alliance Project," an initiative designed to raise Internet awareness and increase the availability of computer equipment and Web connections for minority households in the United States ...

In a high-profile signing session on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning -- carried live on the Web and followed by an Internet "rally" -- Republican leaders rolled out a list of e-commerce and Internet-related pledges contained in the GOP's eContract 2000 ...

Top college and business school graduates are increasingly forgoing Internet companies in favor of consulting firms and investment banking firms, a new survey by recruiting firm WetFeet.com says ...

A boom in online postage sales powered Stamps.com into the April Top 20 site rankings of the NextCard eCommerce Index, a monthly listing of online merchants with the greatest number of e-commerce transactions by NextCard customers ...

With legal action threatening to burst the bubble for digital download music fans, subscription-based services are springing up across the Internet ...