dot.COM articles from April 1999

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ADVERTISING: Historical Banner Ad Campaign Set.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.searchpower.com"[GREATER THAN]Seachpower.com (2500 W. Higgins Rd., Bldg. 100, Stes. 125-135, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195; Tel: 800/936-3906; Fax: 847/843-3996), the world's largest directory of Internet search engines, is...

Web Advertising to Reach $7+ Billion.
April 19, 1999... Driven by big gains in PC penetration and Web usage, Web/online advertising expenditures will reach $7.1 billion by 2002, according to Web Advertising 1998-99: Market Analysis & Forecast, a new research report from...

www.eBIZnet.com, Inc.to Use IBM NetCommerce.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.eBIZnet.com/"[GREATER THAN]www.eBIZnet.com, Inc.announced that they have chosen HREF="http://www.campaignsolutions.com/"[GREATER THAN]Campaign Solutions as their e-commerce partners to facilitate online donations to 10...

Cursor Increases Ad Effectiveness By 97%.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.mbinteractive.com/>Millward Brown Interactive (425 2nd. St., 6th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94107; Tel: 415/538-8300; Fax: 415/538-8305)released the results of a study showing that online advertisers can maximize the return on...

BANKING: Online Banking, Trading Activity to Explode.
April 19, 1999... Ziff-Davis' href="http://www.zdnet.com"[GREATER THAN]ZDNet (650 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94103; Tel: 415/551-4800) released new data from its InternetTrak survey, suggesting that the use of the Internet for online banking and trading...

DEALS: Sybase and Sun Drive New Mobile Solutions.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.sybase.com/"[GREATER THAN]Sybase, Inc. (6475 Christie Ave., Emeryville, CA 94608-1050; Tel: 800/879-2273) and href="http://www.sun.com/"[GREATER THAN]Sun Microsystems, Inc. (901 San Antonio Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303) announced...

Commerce NTI Wins Big E-commerce Contract.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.cwcom.co.uk/"[GREATER THAN]Cable & Wireless Communications (26 Red Lion Sq., London WCIR 4AQ, UK; Tel: 44171/52820000; Fax: 44171/5282181) has awarded href="http://www.commercenti.com"[GREATER THAN] Commerce NTI(Gostrey...

DEALS: Unify`s Partner Releases E-Commerce Solutions.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.unify.com/"[GREATER THAN]Unify Corporation (100 Century Center Ct., Ste. 305, San Jose, CA 95112; Tel: 408/451-2000; Fax: 408/451-2007) , a provider of Internet application server solutions, and...

Alpha to Enhance Online Recruiting.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.alphamicro.com/"[GREATER THAN] Alpha Microsystems (2722 S. Fairview St., Santa Ana, CA 92704-5947; Tel: 714/957-8500; Fax: 714/957-8705), now doing business as AlphaServ.com, markets information management technologies through...

Java Technologies Licensed to Linux OS.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.sun.com"[GREATER THAN]Sun Microsystems, Inc. (901 San Antonio Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303) has href="http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9903/sunflash.990302. 6.html"[GREATER THAN]licensed its leading Java Media technologies...

Joint Effort Brings Web Security.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.securecomputing.com/"[GREATER THAN]Secure Computing Corporation(1 Almaden Blvd., Ste. 400, San Jose, CA 95113; Tel: 408/918-6100; Fax: 408/918-6101)and href="http://www.netboost.com/"[GREATER THAN] NetBoost Corporation...

FINANCIAL: Vulcan Invests in Go2Net.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.go2net.com/"[GREATER THAN]Go2Net (999 Third Ave., Ste. 4700, Seattle, WA 98104; Tel: 206/447-1595; Fax: 206/447-1625), a network of branded, technology- and community-driven Web sites, announced a $300 million investment by...

Neon Systems Announces Initial Public Offering.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www..neonsys.com/"[GREATER THAN]Neon Systems, Inc. (14100 Southwest Fwy., Ste. 500, Sugar Land, TX 77478; Tel: 800/505-6366; Fax: 281/242-3880) announced the href="http://www.neonsys.com/neonsys.nsf/press+releases?openview"...

FOREIGN: DoubleClick Benelux Launches in Europe.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.doubleclick.net/"[GREATER THAN]DoubleClick Inc. (41 Madison Ave., 32nd Fl., New York, NY 10010; Tel: 212/683-0001; Fax: 212/655- 4635) announced its launch of href="http://www.doubleclick.net/"[GREATER THAN]DoubleClick...

Euroweb Acquires 51% Stake in Slovakia.sk.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.euroweb.net/"[GREATER THAN]Euroweb International Corp. (445 Park Ave., 15th Fr., New York, NY 10022; Tel: 212/758-9870; Fax: 212/758-9896), a Hungarian Internet Service Provider, has agreed to acquire a 51% Stake in Eunet...

HARDWARE: Forecasted Growth for Cable Modem Revenues.
April 19, 1999... The promise of high-speed data and Internet access over cable modems is becoming reality, according to World Cable & Satellite Markets, a recent study by href="http://www.StrategisGroup.com/"[GREATER THAN] The Strategis Group. During the next...

Qwest Wins High-Speed Connectivity Contract.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.quest.net/"[GREATER THAN]Qwest Communications International Inc. (555 17th St., Ste. 1000, Denver, CO 80202; Tel: 303/291-1400; Fax: 303/291-1724) announced a $10 million, three-year contract with ...

Lucent Unveils Optical System.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.lucent.com/"[GREATER THAN]Lucent Technologies(600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NY 07974; Tel: 908/582-8500; Fax: 908/508- 2576) announced that href="http://www.mciworldcom.com/"[GREATER THAN]MCI WorldComwill be the first...

Intel's Pentium III Processor Launched.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.intel.com/"[GREATER THAN]Intel Corporation (2200 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119; Tel: 408/765-8080; Fax: 408/765-6284) introduced the href="http://www.intel.com/procs/perf"[GREATER THAN] Pentium III...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Apache Web Software Most Used for Servers.
April 19, 1999... More than half of the domain names on the Web are enabled by the href="http://www.apache.org"[GREATER THAN]Apache server software, according to Netcraft's survey. Netcraft surveyed approximately 4 million sites. Apache's closest competitor,...

Virtual ISP Uses Communication Backbone.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.information-highway.com/"[GREATER THAN] Information- Highway.com, Inc. (#185-10751 Shellbridge Wy., Richmond, BC Canada V6X 2S8; Tel: 609/278-5996; Fax: 604/278-3409) announced that its subsidiary Internet Service Provider...

Pilot and Cisco Join to Provide Security.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.pilot.net/"[GREATER THAN]Pilot Network Services, Inc. (1080 Marina Vilage Pkwy., Alameda, CA 94501; Tel: 510/433-7800) and HREF="http://www.cisco.com/"[GREATER THAN]Cisco Systems, Inc. (170 W. Tasman Dr., San Jose, CA...

Sales Online To Reach $3.2 Trillion By 2003.
April 19, 1999... Online sales conducted between businesses may go over $3.2trillion by 2003, according to new data released by href="http://www.forrester.com/"[GREATER THAN]Forrester Research, Inc. (1033 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02130; Tel:...

PEOPLE: CyberGuard Corporation Gets New CEO.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.cyberguard.com/"[GREATER THAN]CyberGuard Corporation (2000 W. Commercial Blvd., Ste. 200, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309; Tel: 954/958-3900; Fax: 954/958-3901), a provider of network security and electronic commerce solutions,...

PORTALS: Netscape Broadens Their Portal Strategy.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.netscape.com"[GREATER THAN] Netscape Communication Corp. is expanding its personalized Web portal strategy by allowing larger numbers of site developers to href="http://www.netscape.com/addurl.cgi"[GREATER THAN]link their...

MSN Reaches 44 Percent of Users.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.microsoft.com"[GREATER THAN]Microsoft Corp. (1 Microsoft Wy., Redmond, WA 98052; Tel: 425/882-8080; Fax: 425/936-7329) announced that the href="http://msn.com/"[GREATER THAN]MSN network of Internet services has grown to reach...

RETAILING: QuikBIZ Group Develops Specialty Stores.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.quikbiz.com/"[GREATER THAN]QuikBIZ Internet Group Inc. (5310 NW 33rd Ave., Ste. 212, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309; Tel: 954/739-7005; Fax: 954/739-0708) announced it has developed several specialty stores which will be included in...

SECURITY: Lucent Selects Company to Develop Firewall.
April 19, 1999... A href="http://www.lucent.com/"[GREATER THAN]Lucent(600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NY 07974; Tel: 908/582-8500; Fax: 908/508-2576) alliance will enable the integration of href="http://www.antivirus.com/products/enterprise/index.htm"[GREATER...

NSA Evaluates Cisco`s PIX Firewall Solution.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.cisco.com/"[GREATER THAN]Cisco Systems, Inc. (170 W. Tasman Dr., San Jose, CA 95134-1619; Tel: 408/526-4000, Fax: 408/526-4100) announced that the National Security Agency (NSA) evaluated the...

MS Creates BizTalk for E-Commerce.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.microsoft.com"[GREATER THAN]Microsoft Corp. (1 Microsoft Wy., Redmond, WA 98052; Tel: 425/882-8080; Fax: 425/936-7329) announced Microsoft HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/commerce/"[GREATER THAN]BizTalk, a new cross-...

Firewall Appliance Features Usability.
April 19, 1999... Internet security expert href="http://www.tlogic.com/"[GREATER THAN] Technologic, Inc. (2990 Gateway Dr., Ste. 950, Norcross, GA 30067; Tel: 770/448-0334; Fax: 770/448-4547) released version 4.0 of the Interceptor Firewall Appliance. The...

Securing Enterprise IP Multicast Applications.
April 19, 1999... To address the security issues that have plagued widespread multicast use, href="http://www.aventail.com/"[GREATER THAN]Aventail Corporation (808 Howelll St., 2nd Fl., Seattle, WA 98101; Tel: 206/215-1111) announced an agreement with Intel...

SMALL BUSINESS: SmartAge Expands Small Biz Services.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.smartage.com/"[GREATER THAN]SmartAge Corp. (3450 California St., San Francisco, CA 94118; Tel: 415/674-3787; Fax: 415/674-3782), the largest Web services company solely focused on Web-powered small and growing businesses,...

Consumers Rate the Top eBrokers in Survey.
April 19, 1999... In a survey conducted by HREF="http://www.forrester.com/"[GREATER THAN]Forrester Research, Inc. (1033 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02130; Tel: 617/497-7090), 1,255 on- line...

SOFTWARE: iKey Available With Secure Storage.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.rainbow.com"[GREATER THAN]Rainbow Technologies, Inc. (50 Technology Dr., Irvine, CA 92618; Tel: 949/450-7300) a provider of high-performance security solutions for the Internet and E- Commerce, announced that digital...

Flash Reaches Over 100 Million Web Users.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.macromedia.com"[GREATER THAN]Macromedia (600 Townsend St., Ste. 310, W. San Francisco, CA 94103; Tel: 415/252-2000; Fax: 415/626-0554) announced that an independent research firm, has determined that...

Free Internet Tool Forecasts Potential.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.zdintelligence.com/"[GREATER THAN] ZD Market Intelligence (3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA 92037; Tel: 619/450-1667; Fax: 619/452-6857) is making it easier for marketing and sales professionals to gauge how many...

Network Associates To Release Security Suite.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.nai.com/"[GREATER THAN]Network Associates Inc. (3965 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054; Tel: 408/988-3832; Fax: 408/970-9727) is preparing to release href="http://www.nai.com/products/security/security.asp"[GREATER...

STANDARDS: VPN Solutions Spurred by Standards.
April 19, 1999... Completion of the Internet Protocol Secure (IPsec) standard has spurred a new round of upgrading in virtual-private-network VPN) offerings for both client and server. Old internetworking hands such as href="http://www.lucent.com/"[GREATER...

XML Receives Vendor Support.
April 19, 1999... The Extensible Markup Language is emerging as a universal format for exchanging data between applications and among businesses. Most major software company is pledging support for XML, and a growing number of IT shops are using it to integrate...

Online Advertising Guidelines Published.
April 19, 1999... The group calling themselves the Future of Advertising Stakeholders (FAST) published three guidelines addressing the way online ads are presented and counted. The publishing of the HREF="http://www.fastinfo.org/"[GREATER THAN] newly proposed...

VIDEO/AUDIO: SneakerLabs Provides Instant Web Conferences.
April 19, 1999... href="http://www.sneakerlabs.com/"[GREATER THAN] SneakerLabs, Inc. (5001 Baum Blvd., Ste. 745, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; Tel 412/687-4611; Fax: 412/687-4615) announced the introduction of the latest version of href="http://www.iMeet.com/"[GREATER...

WASHINGTON: Groups Share Role as Info Coordinators.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.itaa.org/"[GREATER THAN] The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) HREF="http://www.usta.org/"[GREATER THAN]U.S. Telephone Association (USTA) and the href="http://www.tiaonline.org/"[GREATER THAN] ...

WASHINGTON: VeriSign Gets Approval, Expands 128-Bit Export.
April 19, 1999... HREF="http://www.verisign.com/"[GREATER THAN]VeriSign Inc. (1350 Charleston Rd., Mt. View, CA 94043; Tel: 650/961-7500; Fax: 650/961-7300) has received approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Export Administration to...