Stories by Sharon Machlis

Hacker gets jail time for ISP break-ins

A computer hacker was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for compromising the systems of several regional Internet service providers, Harvard University and Amherst College in Massachusetts.

Study sees $US13b spent online this year

Online shopping revenue in North America will top $US13 billion this year, according to a study by the Boston Consulting Group for the trade association Shop.org, in one of the most optimistic forecasts yet for the nascent electronic retailing industry.

TV may force site tweaks

Electronic-commerce designers must already build sites that handle audiences with a wide range of technology available, balancing the needs of 28.8Kbit/sec, modems with T1 lines, for example, and version 2.0 browsers with more current ones.

[]