While bricks-and-mortar retailers only have to decide whether to accept checks and major credit cards, e-commerce is open to all sorts of other payment possibilities--including e-checks, PayPal and transactions in currencies other than the dollar.

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She also checks e-mail and browses the Web--something that can be really useful, particularly at work.

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The bill is not without problems, such as the provision that mandates that all employers, public and private, use the federal E-Verify system, which checks workers' immigration status.

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Last year Colorado adopted a particularly tough regime, including a requirement that all government contractors run new hires through E-Verify--an otherwise voluntary federal online service that checks if the Social Security or immigration id numbers that new hires provide are legit.

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It found that 34% more spam is passing SPF checks than legitimate e-mail.

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That year, there were 44.5 billion e-payments, compared with 36.7 billion checks.

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He also says checks find a delay in new Kindle e-readers, and a slight decline in Kindle Fire tablet demand.

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Since last September OnStar has been offering GM owners a monthly e-mail message summarizing the health of their vehicles based on 1, 600 diagnostic checks done remotely.

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Pacific Crest analyst Chad Bartlev this morning cut his 2012 forecast for Kindle e-reader sales to 12.3 million units to 24 million, asserting that his latest checks find that Q1 Kindle component orders have fallen more than 75% from initial expectations in early January.

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