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Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment will begin Internet delivery of movie-based computer games in June, the company announced late on Friday. The entertainment giant said the games would become available for […]

As Web site operators search for ways to attract advertising revenue in the face of a dismal online ad market, one company said it will allow users of its online […]

Nine European airlines have launched a Web-based travel agency called Opodo, with the express aim of offering low-cost travel tickets combined with high levels of customer service. After receiving a […]

Europe's largest car manufacturer, Volkswagen, has created its own business-to-business (B2B) exchange, with the express aim of cutting the costs of its paper-based procurement operations. In a Tuesday press conference […]

Forget about Internet access for a monthly fee with a limited number of hours usage, an alternative strategy gaining popularity in Thailand is to charge a flat rate with unlimited, […]

The government-owned Metal Scrap Trading Corp. (MSTC) Ltd has decided to launch an auction portal to protect against the economic slowdown. MSTC, originally set up to trade in metal scrap, […]

A Web site that rents business training videos online is the latest company to try to capitalize on the trend of using the Internet to offset a decline in business […]

All visitors to Ebay.com now must accept "cookie" files from the auction giant in order to use the popular site, an Ebay official confirmed. In order to "facilitate and expedite […]

Taiwanese high-speed Internet access provider GigaMedia, like many Internet companies in Asia, is looking to build revenues from content offerings. GigaMedia [NASDAQ:GIGM] today announced its first paid content. It takes […]

[NASDAQ: DCLK] has signed on to the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor program, an agreement designed to protect European users' privacy, something the company's chief privacy officer said would help it have […]

The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), the nation's second largest bank, recently unveiled the country's first virtual credit card system called the BPI E-Credit targeted to security-conscious customers making […]

Broadband customers of Telewest can now subscribe to a "rentware" version of Microsoft Exchange with Outlook using their cable modem PC connection. The U.K. service costs 10 pounds ($14) a […]

New Zealand free Internet service provider Zfree has tied with local e-tailing portal Go-Shopping.co.nz, and has signed all its subscribers up to a joint online shopping service. Zfree is the […]

Internet users are an hour away from finding out if font-page headlines in the mainstream press and televised warnings from government cyber-security officials will do the trick of getting network […]

It took 74 years to bring lights to Wrigley Field, but Tuesday night the venerable ballpark will host "virtual advertising" during a game between the Chicago Cubs and the San […]

AOL Time Warner [NYSE:AOL] might be considering a foray into the business-to-business (B2B) market by offering products from IPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, an alliance between Sun Microsystems [NASDAQ:SUNW] and AOL subsidiary […]

Anti-virus experts today warned of program masquerading as a security patch from Microsoft Corp. [NASDAQ:MSFT] that contains a new variant of a dangerous Internet worm. The worm, which security researchers […]

Japanese cellular giant NTT DoCoMo has stepped up its fight against junk e-mail, or spam, on its wireless Internet service I-mode in an effort to appease subscribers suffering under a […]

With the announcement that four of Canada's five biggest banks have signed up, Toronto-based CertaPay Inc. is building critical mass for its plan to deliver money by electronic mail. CertaPay […]

Attrition.org, a volunteer-run computer security Web site best known for its exhaustive chronicle of defaced Web pages, has announced it will stop offering the service, citing an overwhelming workload and […]

New Zealand export agency Trade New Zealand has warned local companies about the risks of business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces, saying its mission is to reduce the hype. "The issue here […]

Reports late Monday of the first Logo language-based virus being "in the wild" pose no threat whatsoever to PC users, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant with Sophos Antivirus. […]

AllFactoring, a pan-European credit factoring company, has moved online and changed its name to eCredit. Like offline credit factoring companies, which typically offer cash advances of between 80 and 90 […]

Napster, under court order to pull thousands of copyrighted songs from its online music-swapping service, has brought in a hired gun to help it outwit users' attempts to foil the […]

Ebay [NASDAQ:EBAY] and Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] today said the two companies are forming an e-commerce alliance based on what one Microsoft official called a "shared vision of the future." Microsoft will […]

US-based Symphoni.com, the $56 million interactive professional services company, plans to set up its second venture in Bangalore to launch TheBind.net, an online market exchange offering a platform for global […]

Property Bureau, a company founded and managed by former police officers, said today it has launched an online auction site selling seized, recovered and unclaimed property. The site, called PropertyRoom.com, […]

Taiwanese high-speed Internet access provider, GigaMedia [NASDAQ:GIGM], said on Friday it would not team up with Sega.com for online games in Taiwan - the earlier intention has been overtaken by […]

Startup Voxeo Corporation said today that more than 1,000 developers have signed up to create Web applications for the telephone via its Web+phone network that provides businesses with voice-recognition services […]

The volume of music available online has exploded in the past two years, presenting most consumers with the ironic problem of too much choice. According to Erin Turner, CEO of […]

A federal appeals court in Virginia has upheld Volkswagen AG's claim to the Net domain name vw.net, supporting a lower court's decision that the name, originally registered by an entity […]

BlueLight.com has announced that more than 3,500 of its online shipping kiosks have been deployed in 1,100-plus Kmart [NYSE:KM] stores across the US. BlueLight.com, a joint venture between Kmart, Softbank […]

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. [NYSE:PLA] predicted today its online business will show a profit within two years on revenue growth generated in part by three additions to its Internet lineup. The […]

Expressing hopes of importing the idea to the US, officials from General Motors met with reporters and analysts in Detroit today to discuss a new Brazilian initiative, in which GM […]

Cisco Systems [NASDAQ:CSCO] today announced a sweeping initiative aimed at providing office workers with secure wireless, high-speed Internet access from airports, hotels and restaurants worldwide. Joined by its Internet service […]

BankDirect, an exclusively telephone and Internet-based banking service of New Zealand's ASB Bank, has moved into the local online share trading market. BankDirect's "Trading Room" launched on Friday, described as […]

Healthcare supply chain companies Bindley Western and Geneva Pharmaceuticals Inc. and a group purchasing organization will work with MedContrax in an industry-wide initiative to improve e-commerce communication capabilities. The group […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. [NASDAQ:SUNW] today trumpeted its plans to become a major player in mobile Internet services, announcing what it called a strategy to sink its technologies into the foundation […]

Johnnic e-Ventures, a South African dot-com venture company, undaunted by the recent demise of dot-bomb Metropolis Transactive Holdings, is investing R50 million in six new Internet ventures. Speaking last week […]

Several of the aviation industry behemoths, including British Airways and United Airlines, have outlined plans to combine their existing business-to-business trading exchanges with MyAircraft.com, the B2B Web portal formed by […]

Bull has teamed with Tachyon, the satellite Internet services carrier, to offer two-way satellite-based connection to the Internet from almost anywhere in Europe, at speeds of up to two megabits […]

British Telecom [NYSE:BTY] has opened its first corporate wireless application protocol (WAP) portal, allowing access to all its usual range of standard Web facilities, to mobile Internet users. Although, like […]

Ever since Web sites like Scour, Napster and MP3.com sparked a change in the way people access music, movies and other media, consumers have been waiting for members of the […]

Boo.com, the European designer clothing and goods site that proved to be one of the biggest e-commerce failures of this year, will resurface on October 30, the company that bought […]

US Internet car buying service Autobytel.com is trying to find a parking spot in the Australian market today, after this week opening a local Web site, autobytel.com.au, for business. US-based […]

If you're finding Internet access - especially to the official www.olympics.com Web site - sluggish, it's no wonder. IBM Australia reports the number of hits over the first seven days […]

South African retail group Edcon this week launched its online shopping service, Edgars.co.za. The initiative represents the first stage in the delivery of the group's wide-reaching e-business strategy. Commenting on […]

Music-sharing company Napster, battling a lawsuit launched by the recording industry, has taken the next shot in its appeal of a court injunction that would put it out of business, […]

In an effort to give you more of what you want and less of what you don't, 1-month-old Chicago-based 7MetaSearch.com and its patent-pending technology has emerged as a search engine […]

China's e-commerce applications and solutions provider, Founder, has announced the official establishment of EC-Founder, a developer of Internet, e-business technology and software, one year after its launch of E-Media. The […]