NET-ABLE CELL PHONES CREATE M-COMMERCE
The magicians of mobile commerce want you to believe. They conjure up whiz-bang scenarios of the future and tout the amazing adventure of shopping on the Internet using wireless devices....
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MOBILE SHOPPING OVER THE INTERNET IS SLOW GETTING OFF GROUND
The magicians of mobile commerce want you to believe. They conjure up whiz-bang scenarios of the future and tout the amazing adventure of shopping on the Internet using wireless devices....
METRICOM’S RICOCHET STILL SENDING OUT SUBPAR WIRELESS INTERNET SERVICE
Wireless access to the Internet is all the talk in Silicon Valley these days. But it's mostly just talk. No one is yet delivering wireless Net service that is fast,...
TECH FIRMS SLOW TO SEE ONLINE POTENTIAL OF INDIAN RESERVATIONS
The digital divide is a canyon on American Indian reservations, where less than 50 percent of residents have phone lines and only 8 percent have Internet access. Most of the...
YAHOO! RACES FOR NEW REVENUE AS NET AD SPENDING TUMBLES
Give away a service for free on the Internet. Attract the biggest audience possible. Pay for it by selling advertising just like TV. A few years ago, this plan seemed...
ONLINE BANKING NOT YET LOGGED ON–CUSTOMERS STICK WITH THE OLD STYLE
Most banking customers aren't quite ready to abandon local bank branches for their PCs, but almost a third are headed that way. That's one conclusion from Internet researcher Jupiter Communications...
ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES MAY CUT COSTS, PRIVACY
People planning to go online now might want to think about bringing along some identification--digital identification, that is. Thanks to a new federal law that took effect on Oct. 1,...
ICANN CAN’T FULFILL NEED FOR WEB DOMAIN DIVERSITY
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, said last week that it received 47 applications, accompanied by non-refundable fees of $50,000, for new top-level Internet domains to complement...
TECH CURATOR HOLDS COURT; MACS REIGN
Paul Zurakowski is an old Mac man. Not because he's "going on 74," as the retired Livermore, Calif., physicist noted while showing off some of his prides and joys at...
USE OF FREE BAR-CODE SCANNERS TURNING INTO A CUECAT FIGHT
The plan to give away millions of free bar-code scanners, dubbed CueCats, isn't going exactly purringly. Radio Shack, Wired magazine, Forbes and others have given away 10 million of the...