The Myth of 'Cyber Monday'
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After flopping in 2005, will the marketing hype behind this fake shopping "phenomenon" succeed in 2006? In Gear Factor.
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By INTERVIEWS BY Daisy Hildyard  British shoppers spent [pound]150m on the internet last Monday, as high street stores admitted their sales were down. Are we all online shoppers now?    Rob Harris, 25    CHEMIST   Car insurance.
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Think you're safe from Internet fraud? Think again.
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'Tis the season for online scams, spam, and malware attacks. Here's what you need to know.
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Is today's big retail news a surprise? Only for those who weren't paying attention.
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The holiday shopping season is in full swing and for those of us who  reach for the mouse, rather than the mall experience, a worldwide  network of cyber-criminals lie waiting to steal our holiday cheer and  hard-earned dollars.
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By Beggs, Bill Jr  Nearly every established or up-and-coming company has an online component, but plenty these days have eschewed bricks and mortar to go virtually "virtual." Or they've been Internet-based from the get- go.
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Tycho:  Positive Sony news here, at Penny Arcade?  I know, right?  We shall redouble our efforts.  The story all this was based on has been changed to say that none of it is true, or that very little of it is true (depending on who you ask), but if you're asking me I think the original story hit pretty close to the mark.  The alternative - which is to say, that xFire technology would be used for a single game and no others - suggests that their service will be another briar patch of vendor "interpretations" of an online community, which can't possibly be true.  I refuse to believe that, in this generation, they would leave something like this to chance.
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Rumours that the Internet would witness a sustained and devastating cyber-attack by Islamic "cyber-terrorists" today have turned out to be completely baseless.
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Also: The truth about shopping engines. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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That gift card you spotted on the Internet offered at a nice discount look enticing? Buy it and you may be helping a cybercrook complete a slick money-laundering scheme.
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Business & money: The secret online codes you can use to obtain real discounts at some of Britain's biggest retailers
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Also: Internet boom in China built on virtual fun. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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The first raw data on Internet usage yesterday indicate shoppers rode heavy on the net. But there's one important question outstanding: Were those shoppers also purchasers?
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E-tailers have laggards and penny-pinchers to thank for last week&#39;s brisk sales, which grew 25 percent over the comparable period last year, according to comScore.Procrastinators and deal-seekers helped create a &quot;flurry&quot; of online spending last week in the U.S., keeping retail e-sales strong, comScore said Sunday.Between Nov. 1 and Dec. 21 -- the first 51 days of the holiday season -- U.S. shoppers have spent $26.3 billion online, up 19 percent compared with the corresponding period last year.So far, the heaviest online shopping day this season was Dec. 10, the so-called &quot;Green Monday,&quot; a term coined by eBay for the second Monday in December, which the vendor has identified as particularly heavy e-sales day. U.S. shoppers spent $881 million that day, up 33 percent from the corresponding day in 2006.By contrast, Cyber Monday, the first workday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., ranks as this holiday season&#39;s ninth heaviest online shopping day, with $733 million in sales. Cyber Monday is considered the day when holiday online shopping kicks into high gear.Overall, comScore expects this year&#39;s holiday season to generate about $29.5 billion in online spending, which would represent a 20 percent increase from the same period in 2006.
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Business & money: Critics warn home information packs will damage an already sluggish market
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Online buying continues to snowball, according to the results of a recent America Online survey. This year, for the first time, Americans who regularly use the Internet for shopping -- researching