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Boosting hopes for a banner e-commerce holiday, a new report says U.S. consumers spent US$1 billion more online during the first three weeks of November than in the same period last year. ...

CDNow.com has announced it will outsource its Web site operations to Amazon.com, becoming the latest in a string of online merchants to choose to join, rather than fight, the e-tail giant. ...

When Novell reported fourth-quarter earnings recently, the financial press pounced on the company's sizeable loss of US$96 million. That loss was fueled by a $125 million write-down on real estate and other investments, including a decision to buy its way out of a pricey Silicon Valley lease. ...

In a closely watched case about DVD hacking and Web publishing freedoms, the California state Supreme Court has ruled that the Internet's reach does not erase jurisdictional boundaries. ...

What if, one day, every person who tried to shop at Amazon.com, eBay or any other online store were turned away by an attack on the Internet's core? ...

AOL has begun selling prepaid Internet access cards and offering more online content, providing a glimpse into parent company AOL Time Warner's strategic plans for jump-starting growth at its online unit. ...

IBM has launched the first phase of what executives say will be a complete organizational shift toward on-demand computing and services, saying it will invest US$1 billion to provide customers with access to a team of consultants and researchers. ...

In what may be its most direct competitive move yet against e-tail giant Amazon.com, eBay has announced plans to consolidate its electronics listings into a single online store and to offer free shipping on some purchases ...

Two new reports suggest online holiday shopping has gotten an early start this year, possibly paving the way for a strong fourth quarter. ...

The stock market rally that Microsoft sparked by smashing through its first-quarter revenue and earnings targets had barely started to take hold when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer began telling audiences that the results were an aberration. ...

Just seven months after being hired to revive the America Online Internet brand, James de Castro has announced he is leaving AOL Time Warner. ...

Hewlett-Packard president Michael D. Capellas, a key figure in the hard-fought battle over the HP-Compaq merger, will resign his position and is rumored to be the choice to try to resurrect fraud-plagued WorldCom. ...

Ending weeks of speculation, Amazon.com has formally launched its apparel store, timing the debut to coincide with the start of the holiday season. ...

After several years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on development, Microsoft has launched its Windows XP Tablet PC platform. The company claims Tablet PCs will help revolutionize computing by allowing users to enter and manipulate data with a pen-like stylus. ...

Casting a shadow over what has become a dot-com turnaround success story, Priceline.com announced it will lay off 15 percent of its workforce and will trim some product lines after a larger-than-expected quarterly loss. ...

Is Yahoo! on track with its latest business strategy, or is it losing the focus that made it a force to be reckoned with in the online arena? ...

Demand for information technology products and services has bottomed out and is on the rise again, but strict budget controls will prevent IT spending by U.S. companies from increasing in 2003, according to a new report from Gartner and Soundview Technology Group. ...

Saying it has cleared the way for even more innovation, Microsoft hailed Friday's ruling that an antitrust settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is punishment enough for its past misbehavior. ...

Software giant Microsoft has escaped a forced breakup in its epic antitrust battle with the U.S. Department of Justice and a group of states unhappy with an earlier settlement agreement. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly supported all of the provisions of the earlier settlement and rejected the penalties proposed by the nine non-settling states ...

U.S. online sales fell in the third quarter, marking the first quarterly decline in the history of e-tail as economic realities finally found their way onto the Web, according to a Forrester Research report. ...