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The great thing about Microsoft is that it can set standards. The problem with Microsoft, in my humble opinion, is that no one trusts them to set those standards anymore.

I make mistakes. Last week I confused Go2Net and GoTo.Com in a story here about Disney's Go Network. Fortunately a reader helped my editor catch the mistake. But at least I didn't blow the lead.

While carnage ruled the day among many Internet stocks yesterday (interest rates are rising), Amazon.com was a big exception. Its stock rose nearly 10% in price after it announced it will buy 46% of Drugstore.com, the fledgling online prescription drug dispenser backed by venture capital legends Kle...

Trouble is growing between the Internet and other sales channels. Compaq said this week it is suspending sales through Web-only retail channels (including Shopping.com, an online store which Compaq is in the process of buying), while it evaluates the reseller channel conflict.

There's more confirmation of the link between TV and the Web in the latest monthly audience numbers from Media Metrix.

The most important (and most under-reported) Internet story is what's happening with business-to-business commerce. Forrester Research estimates online purchases for business will be a $1.5 trillion market in 2003, dwarfing the size of the business-to-consumer market that's getting all the headlines...

Whenever I spell someone's name wrong, or misinterpret a comment in a story, I take comfort from the fact that everyone makes mistakes. I made such a mistake last week when I mentioned that Salon Magazine was making money. Well, I was wrong. A Salon executive in a position to know called me on it....

With falling clickthrough rates and growing impatience in corporate boardrooms for measurable results, a lot of sites have begun a process I call overselling, which can actually damage their effectiveness as marketing tools.

Everywhere you turn these days, it seems you're dealing with a database. If you want to be state of the art, the inventory in your Web store should be in a database. The same is true of your customer list, and your prospect list. The reports delivered by Web server logs or held by your ad agency a...

If your Web business has a trademark it fights to protect, raise a glass and toast the people at Playboy. In the continuing fight between trademark owners and everyone else, Playboy has taken things to a whole new level. The Chicago-based company has sued Excite and Netscape (which uses Excite's s...

Everyone needs an Internet strategy, and Federated Department Stores Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, is finally rousing itself into getting one.

Conventional wisdom holds that Lycos chairman Robert Davis was taken by USA Networks head Barry Diller in their $18 billion merger agreement this week. But let's take a closer look.

If you're thinking you have to spend millions for broadband candy right now, think again. The age of narrowband Internet services is getting a new lease on life, as the Internet goes mobile. That message came from this week's Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) meeting in New O...