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2003 was supposed to be the year of the PC upgrade. More than halfway through the year, however, a jump in PC sales is nowhere in sight. Fortunately, IT departments are likely to buck the overall enterprise trend, because new PC purchases can more easily be justified for the people who manage and ma...

Despite a lack of promotion and low to zero name recognition, it is becoming clear that vendors of white-box (unbranded) machines are an important part of the personal computer ecosystem. In fact, IDC has estimated that last year, about 31 percent of the 35 million desktop PCs sold in the United Sta...

The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission's investigation of fraud at e-mail services firm Critical Path has yielded charges against three former company executives for participating in a plan to fraudulently bolster financials in 2000. Two of the former executives have agreed to settle the case....

Amazon.com launched an "e-Documents" store Thursday, offering consumers access to downloadable research reports, journal articles and magazine archives. "It's hard to say yet whether this is a good idea for Amazon, because the selling of e-documents is still in its infancy," Morningstar.com analy...

Critical Path (Nasdaq: CPTH) rose 8 U.S. cents to 95 cents in morning trading Wednesday, after announcing it will lay off 450 employees, including its president. The San Francisco, California-based provider of Internet communications software said that the moves are part of a plan to "put the co...

Beleaguered e-tailer Buy.com announced Tuesday that chief executive officer and chairman of the board Gregory Hawkins and chief financial officer Mitch Hill had resigned for unspecified reasons. "The realities of the marketplace demand that we drive vigorously toward profitability," said James ...

Threatened with the loss of its coveted relationship with the National Football League, Internet powerhouse Yahoo! said Thursday that it will remove gambling advertisements from its football Web pages. "All professional sports leagues are sensitive to being associated with wagering," Jupiter Media ...

The civil rights group that filed a discrimination lawsuit against online delivery service Kozmo.com earlier this year announced Tuesday that it will not pursue the suit as part of a agreement brokered by the parties to increase Internet access in underserved communities in Washington, D.C. The Equ...

Days after choosing a voluntary dismissal of their case from federal court due to the judge's "aggressive scheduling," the civil rights group suing Kozmo.com, Inc. has announced its plans to re-file their discrimination suit in Washington D.C. Superior Court instead.

As online shopping rapidly gains acceptance in U.S. society, the auction houses of cyberspace have begun to sell some of the most cherished items of American culture to the highest bidder.

Thousands of users booted by Napster last week for allegedly swapping copies of Metallica songs online are claiming that they have done nothing wrong and want their access to the music swapping software restored.

Internet delivery service Kozmo.com was sued Thursday by the Equal Rights Center, a Washington D.C.-based civil rights group, and two African-American co-plaintiffs who claim the company refused to deliver merchandise to their homes because they reside in predominantly African-American neighborhoods...

Seeing Prodigy Communications Corp. back in the news again brought back fond memories.