Brian Livingston

The large e-commerce affiliate network known as Commission Junction (CJ) is gearing up a campaign that uses automated searches of the Web to catch

Commission Junction, arguably the world's leading payment network for e-commerce traffic, has permanently banned one of its largest "loyalty" programs,

A new vendor of off-brand inkjet ink seemingly pops up every day. Should you buy the cheapest ink you can find for your particular printer? Or is there is

What if you had to buy a new car with no idea how many miles per gallon it would get? What if you had to buy an air conditioner or refrigerator with no

It's a very good idea to buy inkjet inks and papers that can make your documents and photo prints last. But what's the best way to preserve for future

Everybody always talks about the price of inkjet cartridges, but nobody ever does anything about it -- or do they? With more and more businesses relying

Adware makers are diverting millions of dollars from Web merchants to themselves, using various tricks that are years old -- and now some big players are

The catastrophe that Hurricane Katrina wreaked on New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast last week should give us all a new appreciation for the many

The Electronic Frontier Foundation -- a nonprofit organization that works to preserve freedom and privacy on the Internet -- has decided to challenge new

Residents of Utah and Michigan are likely to get less legitimate e-mail, but receive more spam, under new state laws. I wrote on July 26 that the two

The two states that have imposed an "e-mail tax" on legitimate senders of requested e-mail communications, as I described in this space last week, start

Various "chain letters" have zoomed around the Internet for years, claiming the U.S. Postal Service was going to charge an "e-mail tax." Those messages