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Peapod Adds New CEO as Losses Widen

Peapod, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPOD) reported higher sales but a wider loss for the first quarter Wednesday, as new investor Royal Ahold NV announced a new chief executive for the money-losing online grocer ...

U.S. Proposes Stiffer Cybercrime Penalties

In an effort to clamp down on illegal activity on the Web, the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) has sent new guidelines to Congress that would more severely punish people who use the Internet to distribute pirated copies of copyrighted material, steal credit cards, or solicit sex with minors ...

Penthouse.com and Feds Bust Copyright Pirate

Penthouse.com disclosed this week that U.S. government officials have confiscated materials from the residence of a Usenet user, known as "Muad'Dib," who copied images and text from Penthouse.com's members-only section and posted them on Usenet newsgroups ...

E-Commerce Software Spending Set To Explode

As U.S. e-commerce spending moves toward a projected $2 trillion (US$) by 2003, the market for packaged e-commerce software is also expected to increase dramatically, according to Forrester Research ...

Washington State Gets Tough on Cybercrime

Keeping with its reputation for being tough on cybercrime, the State of Washington launched three initiatives last week designed to help law enforcement officials combat illegal Internet activities ...

U.S. Postal Service Unveils Electronic Postmark

Deputy U.S. Postmaster General John Nolan announced Thursday that a new United States Postal Service Electronic Postmark (EPM) is now available ...

Xerox and Microsoft Team To Protect Digital Content

Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have joined forces to tackle copyright protection in the digital age ...

Phone.com Sues Geoworks in WAP Patent Dispute

Phone.com, a pioneer in developing the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) for mobile phones, has filed a pre-emptive suit against rival Geoworks Corporation over its '529 patent ...

Report: Most Online Marketplaces Will Vanish

Bankruptcy, mergers, and acquisitions could swallow up as much as 90 percent of the current crop of online business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces, according to a new report from Boston, Massachusetts-based AMR Research ...

Dr. Dre Sues Napster, Students and Schools

Andre Young, better known as multi-platinum rap star Dr. Dre, is suing Napster and several yet-to-be-named students and schools who allegedly used Napster's MP3 music swapping software to infringe upon his copyrights ...

Report: Net Still Has Room for Small Biz

A new IDC report indicates that despite a rapid increase in the number of small American businesses climbing aboard the Internet express, a surprisingly small percentage are actually selling their products or services online ...

Report: Government Seeks Microsoft Split

After weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling over remedies in the Microsoft antitrust case, published reports Monday indicate that the U.S. government and 19 states are inclined to seek a breakup of the company ...

Insurer Sues Microsoft over Antitrust Liability

According to published reports, primary Microsoft insurer Zurich American Insurance Co. has filed a lawsuit asking a federal court in the state of Washington to rule that the coverage it wrote for Microsoft does not apply to antitrust claims ...

Microsoft Accused of Targeting Small Businesses

Having apparently not received its fill of litigation over the past several years, Microsoft Corp. filed eight federal lawsuits alleging copyright and trademark infringement against small companies in North Carolina and Tennessee Wednesday. The software giant alleges that the defendants distributed pirated copies of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office...

Experts Echo Net Ad Bureau Findings

When the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) released its "Internet Ad Revenue Report" earlier this week, the common misperception that "banners are dead" was shaken to its foundation ...

Amazon Pours Money into Net Wine Sales

Online giant Amazon.com, which has already invested $30 million (US$) in California-based Internet startup WineShopper.com, announced Tuesday that it has forged a partnership with the newly-launched e-tailer ...

Report: Online Shopping Will Top $61B in 2000

U.S. shoppers will likely spend over $61 billion (US$) online this year, according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group ...

‘Back Door’ Exposed in Microsoft Software

A Microsoft engineer reportedly included a back door in the company's Microsoft Internet Information Server software that could enable hackers to break into hundreds of thousands of Web sites around the world ...

AOL Guilty of Copyright Infringement

In a decision that could have a chilling effect on online auctioneers, Internet Service Providers and e-commerce companies, a German judge has ruled that AOL Germany violated copyright law by taking no action to prevent subscribers from swapping pirated digital music files ...

U.S. Governors Blast Final E-Tax Report

In a rare show of bipartisan unity, 42 U.S. governors attacked the final report of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) Wednesday in a scathing letter to Congress. The governors say that if accepted, the recommendations would have the potential to reduce state and local tax revenues by more than $30 billion (US$) per year ...

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