dot.COM articles from July 1998

dot.COM archives from July 1998

INDUSTRY NEWS: WorldCom Acquires MCI Communications Corp.
July 1, 1998... On July 8, 1998, European Union regulators approved WorldCom's (515 East Amite Street, Jackson, MS 39201; Tel: 601/360-8600, Web site: www.wcom.com) acquisition of MCI Communications Corp. (1801 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20006; Tel:...

New IT Email Newsletter for Managers
July 1, 1998... The IDG Online Network (www.idg.net) launched its newest free daily newsletter--The IT Informer--this month. The daily email publication offers IT commentary, interviews, special reports, research, and book reviews, from publications including...

Appeals Court Defends Microsoft's Marketing
July 1, 1998... A three-judge United States Appeals Court panel overturned a preliminary injunction issued December, 1997 that ordered Microsoft (One Microsoft Wy., Bldg. 8, N. Office 2211, Redmond, WA 98052; Tel: 425/882-8080, Fax: 425/936-7329, Web site:...

Electronics Costs, Risks of Publishing Works
July 1, 1998... Publishers can now test market a book before actually paying for a print run, thanks to a World Library and an electronic reader. Librius, Inc. (606 110th Ave., NE, Ste. 310, Bellevue, WA 98004; Tel: 425/454-7557, Fax: 425/462-7561, Web site:...

Cryptographic Company Reports 145% Increase
July 1, 1998... Certicom Corp.(200 Matheson Blvd., W. Mississauga, Ontario L5R 3L77, Canada; Tel: 905/507-4220, Fax: 905/507-4230, Web site: www.certicom.com), a provider of cryptographic security technologies, announced its results for the fourth quarter and...

OneSource Selected for Global Service
July 1, 1998... OneSource Information Services (650 Cambridge Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140; Tel: 800/554-5501, Fax: 617/441-7058, Web site: www.onesource.com), a provider of business information suites, was recently selected by KPMG, the accounting, tax, and...

Child Care Survey Utilizes Web Tools
July 1, 1998... Readers of Working Mother magazine's annual survey on child care can go online to review the quality of child care in their states and voice their opinions to their legislators and member of Congress. Through a partnership with Women's Connection...

$199 Thin-Client Terminal Technology
July 1, 1998... Acorn Group (Acorn House, 645 Newmarket Rd., Cambridge, United Kingdom CB5 8PB) announced plans to offer a new thin-client terminal reference design, DeskLite, aimed at the extreme low-cost end of the market. DeskLite provides complete to...

TRENDS: Businesses Web Sites Growing
July 1, 1998... Almost 54% of U.S. businesses have Web sites and 44% currently have an intranet, compared to only 39% in both categories last year. CompPro VI, Simmons' (1400 N. Lakeshore Dr., Ste. 16L, Chicago, IL 60610; Tel: 312/951-9123) sixth Study of...

Browser Market Battle Still Hot
July 1, 1998... While Microsoft (One Microsoft Wy., Bldg. 8, N. Office 2211, Redmond, WA 98052; Tel: 425/882-8080, Fax: 425/936-7329, Web site: www.microsoft.com) made gains in all user segments of the U.S. browser market in 1997, Netscape (501 E. Middlefield...

ADVERTISING: ValueClick Offers Referral Incentives
July 1, 1998... ValueClick (1216 State St., Ste. 301, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Tel: 805/965-0543, Web site: www.valueclick.com), has formulated a referral program for participating Web sites. Called the ValueClick Referral Program, the program is designed to...

Ad Network Reaches 39% Audience
July 1, 1998... The Flycast Open Network provided a potential reach of 39% of the United States Web audience during May, 1998. Results from RelevantKnowledge research reported visitation from 22.3 million unique visitors to the over 400 sites in the Flycast Open...

Web Advertisement Wins in Cannes
July 1, 1998... The 45th International Advertising Festival was held in Cannes, France this year, and the festival recognized an innovative online advertising company. The CyberLion award was presented for an Internet advertisement in which Web surfers can...

DoubleClick Gets Six Well-Trafficked Sites
July 1, 1998... DoubleClick, Inc. (41 Madison Ave., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10010; Tel: 212/683- 0001, Fax: 212/655-4635, Web site: www.doubleclick.net), another provider of comprehensive Internet advertising solutions, has added six more major Web sites to the...

Home Web Users Will More Than Triple
July 1, 1998... According to the first in a series of four quarterly Web trends reports resulting from the joint venture between International Data Corporation (IDC, 5 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701; Tel: 508/872-8200, Fax: 508/935-4015, Web site: www.idc.com)...

MARKETING: New Web Mailing List Compilation
July 1, 1998... By using a few services on the Internet, companies can streamline the process of obtaining data from different sources, gaining instant access to vast databases at any time and building custom lists in real time. The result should be a savings in...

Global Quick Quote Service for Marketers
July 1, 1998... International Data Group (IDG, One Exeter Plaza, 15th Fl., Boston, MA 02116-2851; Tel: 617/534-1200, Fax: 617/262-2300, Web site: www.idg.com) unveiled, "Global Quick Quote," a proprietary Web tool designed to assist technology advertisers in...

Trader Publishing and GM Enter Agreement
July 1, 1998... Trader Publishing Company (890 Cowan Rd., Ste. G, Burlingame, CA 94010; Tel: 415/692-4442, Fax: 415/692-4599, Web site: www.traderonline.com) has completed a cooperative advertising agreement with General Motors Corporation (100 Renaissance...

Tech Funding Up for Marketing Campaign
July 1, 1998... Technology Funding (460 St. Michael Dr., Bldg. 1000, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Tel: 800/821-5323, Fax: 505/820-6900, Web site: www.techfunding.com) and Excite, Inc. (555 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063; Tel: 650/568- 6000, Fax: 650/568-6030, Web site:...

Small Business Web Site for Startups
July 1, 1998... Entrepreneurs ready to leap into small business can now experience the interactive edition of Business Start-Ups (1850 Union St., Ste. 1149, San Francisco, CA 94123; Tel: 415/776-4866, Fax: 415/922-8815, Web site: www.bizstartups.com). The new...

BANKING/FINANCIAL: The Echeck's In the Email?
July 1, 1998... The $32,000 check to a division of GTE marks a watershed for electronic commerce, promising to accelerate the adoption of Internet technology for online transactions. The historic transaction is the result of a collaborative three-year research...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Cox to Use Qwest's New Network
July 1, 1998... Cox Enterprises, Inc. (1400 Lake Hearn Dr., Atlanta, GA 30319; Tel: 404/843-5000, Fax: 404/847-6299, Web site: www.cimedia.com/coxsites.html), one of the nation's leading media companies and the world's largest operator of automobile auctions...

Fastest Transaction Platform in the World
July 1, 1998... C2Net Software Inc. (1440 Broadway, Ste., 700, Oakland, CA 94612; Tel: 510/986-8770, Fax: 510/986-8777, Web site: www.c2.net) has entered into a development agreement with IBM Corporation under which C2Net will port its popular Stronghold Secure...

SOFTWARE: XML Publishing Available in Suite
July 1, 1998... Extensible markup language (XML) allows developers to deliver data from their Web pages to their visitors in a more interactive manner. XML is the universal format for data on the Internet. It is a complementary language to HTML, it does not...

C-Commerce Is New Business Model for Net
July 1, 1998... NetRadio Network (43 Main St. SE, Ste. 149, Minneapolis, MN 55414; Tel: 612/378-2211, Fax: 612/378-4540, Web site: www.netradio.net), the largest broadcaster of Internet-only audio content, announced the SoftwarePoint (Web site:...

Authorized Java Center Service Locations
July 1, 1998... In an effort to promote use of its programming language Java, Sun Microsystems is adding companies and official Java centers. At a recent conference, Technology House Inc., (THI, 300 Park Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10022; Web site: www.techhouse.com)...

SECURITY: VPN Export License Granted
July 1, 1998... VPNet (1530 Meridian Ave., San Jose, CA 95125; Tel: 408/445-6600, Fax: 408/445-6611, Web site: www.vpnet.com) has received an export license from the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration to sell its 112-bit triple-DES-based...

Secure Remote Access Solution Launched
July 1, 1998... Kasten Chase Applied Research Limited announced the commercial availability of its Secure Remote Access Solution, a solution that has been approved by the National Security Agency as part of its Remote Access Security Program (RASP). The System...

INTERNATIONAL: New E-Commerce Law in Singapore
July 1, 1998... Singapore is getting serious about the cyber economy. In an effort to be a hub for the growing international ecommerce, Singapore is intent on creating consistency in electronic commerce policy and has passed an electronic commerce law,...

Growth in Asian Corporate Web Sites
July 1, 1998... Seventy-five percent of the largest 1000 companies in Asia (ranked by sales revenue) have established a presence on the World Wide Web, according to a recent survey conducted by IDC Asia/Pacific, a subsidiary of U.S. market research firm...

China Internet Teams with US Partner
July 1, 1998... Hong Kong-based China Internet Corporation (16/F Guardian House, 32 D, Kwan Rd. Wanchai, Hong Kong; Tel: 852/2961-2776, Fax: 852/2893- 5245, Web site: www.china.com) and U.S.-based CyberSource Corporation (550 S. Winchester Blvd., Ste. 01, San...

e-Net Signs for Latin IP Telephony
July 1, 1998... e-Net Inc. (12800 Middlebrook Rd., Ste. 200, Germantown, MD 20874; Tel: 301/601-8700, Fax: 301/601-8777, Web site: www.datatelephony.com), a provider of data telephony products, has signed an agreement with telecommunications provider ITF Inc....

Europe Slow to Catch onto Internet
July 1, 1998... Compared with the United States, Europe's dismal uptake of the Internet shows no sign of improving in the next three years. At the second annual Forrester Forum Europe at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, Forrester Research Inc. Forrester...

STANDARDS/REGULATIONS: Seamless, Secure E-Commerce from NIST
July 1, 1998... NIST (Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001; Tel: 301/975-3058, Web site: www.nist.gov) and 16 leading companies in the electronic commerce arena recently banded together to ensure their products can communicate easily while providing a high level of...

ECOMMERCE: LinkExchange Acquires Merchant Planet
July 1, 1998... The LinkExchange Network is a unique and popular service on the Internet. It is a consolidation of Web sites that display millions of ads daily. They call themselves a "cooperative free service" where Webmasters join and display ads on their...

Billions Over Web through Schwab Weekly
July 1, 1998... Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (445 Park Ave., NY, NY 10022; Tel: 800/435- 4000, Web site: www.schwab.com) announced that retail investors now buy and sell over $2 billion in securities value each week through its Web site--www.schwab.com--making the...

Site Launched About Using Ecommerce
July 1, 1998... Ziff-Davis (OnePark Ave., NY, NY 10016; Tel: 212/503-3500, Web site: www.zdnet.com) announced that its ZDNet Web site "www.zdnet.com" and Internet Computing magazine have collaborated for the launch of E- Business (Web site:...

Speedlane Sells Hundreds a Day on Web
July 1, 1998... With the implementation of Digital River's (5198 W. 76th St., Edina, MN 55439; Tel: 800/643-0624, Fax: 612/830-1154, Web site: www.digitalriver.com) e-commerce engine for the sale and distribution of software, Speedlane (426 Palo Alto Ave., Palo...