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The MyDoom virus has shut down the SCO Group's Web site in an attack that began Saturday night. In a preemptive move, the company removed its site address from the Internet's domain name system (DNS) at approximately 1 a.m. Eastern time Sunday, according to performance tracking firm Keynote Systems....

Now that e-tailers have a few strong holiday seasons behind them, many have learned it is never too early to start planning for next year. Increasing levels of Internet use and greater comfort with online shopping among the overall population should make next year's critical November-December stretc...

RealNetworks not only provides the RealPlayer platform for delivering digital media across a multitude of devices, but also delivers subscription music through its digital jukebox, Rhapsody, and has just opened a download store. Such an array of tactics is what it takes to conquer the growing digita...

Microsoft has announced it will hold off on implementing modifications to the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer as a result of an ongoing patent lawsuit filed by Web software firm Eolas. Eolas claims the software that allows IE to use plug-ins infringes on a patent that it holds jointly...

A new vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser that could deceive Web users into downloading malicious files has been reported. The hole was identified in version 6 of IE, but previous releases also could be affected. The newly reported flaw allows a Web site owner to misidentify a...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is set to unveil a cyberalert system that could include a way for businesses and individuals to report security issues and Internet threats. Details of the system will be outlined by Amit Yoran, the department's director of the National Cyber Security Divisi...

A malicious program spread quickly across the Internet Monday, slowing down network traffic and potentially leaving electronic back doors open on individual computers. Known as MyDoom, Novarg and a variant of the Mimail worm, the infection usually appears as an e-mail error message. An attached exec...

As the new year swings into high gear, e-business seems to be better positioned than it has been for years, with a rosy economic outlook ahead and a strong holiday season just past. Of course, 2004 will bring challenges too, including legal issues that will have to be addressed or at least closely w...

Digital music has been around for years, but the legitimate online music industry did not attract a critical mass of consumers until the launch of Apple's iTunes Music Store. Now, Apple has spiffed up iTunes by releasing new versions of its iPod digital music player, making iTunes available to Windo...

A few years ago, micropayments seemed like yet another brilliant idea in the midst of the Internet revolution. Then the bottom fell out of the market. Although many e-businesses in other industries have come back from the dot-com brink with stronger models and clearer goals, micropayment specialists...

In the six years since Musicmatch opened its virtual doors, the online music business has seen some significant changes. Musicmatch CEO Dennis Mudd spoke with the E-Commerce Times about what lies ahead. "Things now are like we expected them to be in '97," he said. "When we put the original business ...

Optimism about the tech sector abounded at this year's CES event in Las Vegas, as more than 110,000 attendees gathered to gape at computers embedded in refrigerators, hear about new offerings from Microsoft and watch rhinestone-studded singers belt out selections from the musical "Chicago" at the Sa...

Last week, the U.S. Congress passed the sweeping "CAN-SPAM" bill, creating the first federal law regulating spam. Advocates of the bill say it is a major step in the fight against the deluge of e-mail ads for pornography, cheap prescription medicine and scads of other something-for-nothing schemes. ...

Last week, several users began receiving messages from "Visa International Service" that appeared to direct them to www.visa.com, the company's official site. However, when users clicked on the link, they were sent to a site that looked like Visa's but did not belong to the company. E-mail security ...

Conventional wisdom says the sector that led the last economic boom will not be at the vanguard in the next upturn. However, the high-tech industry seems to be turning that wisdom on its proverbial head. Overall, technology company stocks have soared in the past year, driving a significant increase ...

Overstock.com, which offers up to 80 percent off the sticker price of items ranging from dresses to computers, has become a favorite bargain-hunting destination for many online shoppers. Yet the road was not always so smooth for the company. Unlike some of its e-commerce brethren, it did not have ab...

Just as Las Vegas pioneer Bugsy Siegel imagined a city of dice games and slot machines in the middle of the desert, entrepreneurs looked at the Web a few years ago and saw an audience hungry for online gaming. They were right to suspect there was gold in all those clicks. A December 2002 report by t...

In the e-business realm, unique challenges abound for firms that are trying to build a loyal customer following. Consumers may be wary of e-commerce in the face of identity theft, network security breaches, poor online customer service and the lingering shadow of failed dot-coms. However, some compa...

As companies have grown more confident in their business process planning, the integration industry has worked to refine its products and services to serve enterprise needs, optimizing relationships between customers, partners and suppliers. As a 25-year veteran in the integration space, Sterling Co...

With the makings of an economic recovery on the horizon, IT budgets are beginning to grow again, and CTOs finally may be able to translate their mental wish lists into tangible purchases. However, the lessons of the downturn are still fresh in most people's minds, so CTOs likely will keep a tight re...