The Pew Internet & American Life Project, a Washington-based research organization that monitors the impact of the Internet on society, Thursday released survey results that it said show half of the adults in the U.S. don't have Internet access and 57 percent of those non-users have no interest in going online.
United Parcel Service of America Inc. this week unveiled an online returns policy, called UPS Returns on the Web, to help consumers - and merchants - deal with goods purchased on the Web that buyers don't want to keep.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday released a guide for consumers doing business with companies online.
Atlanta-based United Parcel Service of America Inc. today unveiled an online returns policy to help consumers -- and merchants -- deal with returns of goods purchased on the Web.
In an effort to increase its presence in the Internet hardware market, Dell Computer on Tuesday unveiled its latest PowerApp server -- the PowerApp.Big-IP, a load-balancing machine designed to manage and route Internet traffic through a Web site.
AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications PLC are discussing potential deals that could expand on an existing business relationship between the two companies, according to a statement issued Sunday by BT.
Online health-products retailer More.com Inc. defended its data privacy policy today in the wake of a Missouri lawsuit claiming that the company violated that policy by releasing customer information to a third party after promising not to do so.
The state attorney general in Missouri this week filed a lawsuit against More.com charging that the US-based online health-products retailer violated the privacy policy posted on its Web site by releasing customer data to a third-party company.
In the wake of customer outrage at both a recent pricing glitch and a price-testing policy, Amazon.com last week said it would alter its price-testing policy and give partial refunds to consumers who paid higher prices than others for similar items.
In a move that came just three days after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave an initial green light to the Covisint online exchange being developed by the Big 3 automakers, Visteon Corp. - the world's second-largest automotive supplier - Thursday announced that it plans to participate in the Internet-based purchasing venture.
Two privacy advocacy organizations, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington and Junkbusters Corp. in Green Brook, N.J., have severed all ties to Amazon.com Inc. over recent changes made to the online retailer's privacy policy.
The cost of complying with the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and a lack of advertising dollars is forcing Zeeks.com Inc., a children's Web site in Portland, Ore., to shut down its chat rooms and e-mail service by the end of this month.
The cost of complying with the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and a lack of advertising dollars is forcing Zeeks.com Inc., a children's Web site based in Portland, Ore., to shut down its chat rooms and e-mail service by the end of the month.
US privacy advocacy organisation Junkbusters has joined another privacy organisation and severed all ties with Amazon.com over its new privacy policy.
In an effort to outdistance Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., its competitors in the Web server market, IBM has unveiled Blue Hammer, a system for clustering Web-based servers. Blue Hammer uses IBM Corp.'s Parallel System Support Programs (PSSP) to cluster as many as 16 of the company's RS/6000 S80 Unix servers, according to IBM.