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More than 6,500 CNET Networks employees and relatives are being notified of a possible data breach after burglars stole computer systems from the offices of the company that administers the Internet publisher's benefit plans.

An employee of the New York State Department of Education allegedly stole hundreds of historic documents and artifacts from the New York State Library and sold some of them on eBay Inc., New York state's attorney general said.

Facebook will step up the policing of pornography, harassment and inappropriate behavior on its social networking site, settling a consumer fraud investigation by New York State Attorney General (AG) Andrew Cuomo.

Oracle continued to promote its new capabilities to integrate its products with applications from other vendors at the AppsWorld conference in San Diego this week by offering a sneak peak of those capabilities in Version 11i.10 of its E-Business Suite not due out till mid year.

Less than a month after the 1.0 version of ebXML was ratified by the OASIS and UN/CEFACT standards bodies, the infant business-to-business standard has gained key support from Covisint, the online marketplace formed by the nation's Big Three automakers.

In just about every industry - from automobile manufacturing to chemical production - an electronic marketplace has been created to handle the buying and selling of goods and services between manufacturers and suppliers. One common bond that unites these markets is the hope that the automation of exchange processes will dramatically cut time, cost and waste.

BOSTON (08/09/2000) - As the controversy over online music continues to boil, 28 states and two U.S. commonwealths initiated a lawsuit Tuesday against the five major record labels, as well as three music retailers, charging that they had conspired to artificially inflate and fix CD prices.

Informix Corp. expanded its i.Sell offerings by adding an i.Sell WAP module for Sun Microsystem Inc.'s Solaris operating environment. With the i.Sell WAP product, which makes use of the Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP), customers can use mobile devices for Internet activities such as viewing news or market quotes, buying products, and tracking orders.

AS BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS trading exchanges proliferate, the speed of integrating business systems into one or several networks is fast becoming a crucial issue for suppliers looking to broaden their potential customer base without rewiring their procurement systems.

In what could be a harbinger of intensified scrutiny, the New York Attorney General's office is conducting an inquiry into online brokerages, and four members of the US Congress have asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to do more to protect the rights of online investors.