The anti-impotence drug Viagra is being bought over the internet and then sold illegally at almost twice the price in pubs and clubs in London. The ability of national governments to regulate borderless activities on the internet will face an important legal test in the first federal prosecution of a sports gambling operation on the internet. Lawmakers made Virginia the first state to approve a uniform commercial code for Internet contracts. The issues and innovations of the adult-oriented Internet appear in the mainstream world 18 months later. US companies generated 20 percent of the revenue in the western European online retail market last year and local firms will lose out unless they get with it.
Online retailers are failing to reply to shoppers' e-mail queries, a new report claims.
The next meeting of the new discussion forum for Internet issues is being held on Wednesday 1st March at the European Parliament, Brussels 1.30pm until 3.00pm. The discussion centres on the Draft Directive on certain legal aspects of electronic commerce. Nokia is working with Visa to develop ways of making it easier to pay for goods and services over a mobile phone. To its astonishment, Sony sold all 3,000 in just 20 minutes. The event marked what promises to become a revolution in Japan's retailingindustry.