dot.COM articles from June 1998

dot.COM archives from June 1998

INDUSTRY NEWS: Cable and Wireless Catch Big Fish
June 1, 1998... In an effort to merge with WorldCom, MCI (1801 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20006; Tel: 202/872-1600, Fax: 202/887-3140, Website: www.mci.com) has announced intentions to sell its entire internet backbone service business for $625 million...

Domain Names Pass New Mile Post
June 1, 1998... Network Solutions, Inc., (505 Huntmar Park Dr., Herndon, VA 20170; Tel: 703/742-0400, Fax: 703/742-8449, Website: www.netsol.com) the leading registrar of domain names, registered its two millionth domain address, belonging to a small Dallas...

No More Multiple Phone Lines
June 1, 1998... One major telecommunications company is betting that ATM is the wave of the future. Sprint (2330 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Westwood, KS 66205; Tel: 913/624-3000, Fax: 913/624-3281, Website: www.sprint.com) announced that they are alpha testing, and...

New Members of Top 25 Web Sites
June 1, 1998... dot.COM in the last few months has reported the results of Media Metrix, The PC Meter Co.'s (35 E. 21st St., 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10010; Tel: 212/460-7980, Fax: 212/533-3036, Website: www.mediametrix.com), monthly surveys, in which they report...

Crime and Punishment Cyber Style
June 1, 1998... The Argentine computer hacker who was tracked down with the aid of the first court-ordered wiretap of a computer network has returned voluntarily to the U.S. and is expected to plead guilty to illegal wiretapping and computer crime felonies. This...

With Purchase, Yahoo! Offers Online Stores
June 1, 1998... Viaweb (56 JFK St., Cambridge, MA 02138; Tel: 617/876-2692, Fax: 617/354-2624, Website: www.viaweb.com), the online store software company first introduced in the January dot.COM, has been acquired by Yahoo!, Inc. (3420 Central Expwy., Santa...

Deja News Leverages Unique Information
June 1, 1998... What would you do if you had millions of people online discussing pertinent information to them, as consumers? Would you create a new form of journalism from the human commentary? Deja News has. Deja News, Inc. (9430 Research Blvd., Echelon II,...

Lycos Deploys Decision Guides
June 1, 1998... Lycos, Inc. (400-2 Totten Pond Rd., Waltham, MA 02154; Tel.: 781/370- 2700, Fax: 781/370-2800, Website: www.lycos.com), and PersonaLogic, Inc. (7535 Metropolitan Dr., San Diego, CA 92108; Tel: 619/220-5800, Fax: 619/220-5899, Website:...

Another Internet Company Goes Public
June 1, 1998... The Ultimate Software Group, Inc.'s (3111 Stirling Rd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312; Tel: 954/266-1000, Fax: 954/266-1300, Website: www.ultimatesoftware.com) initial public offering is 3,250,000 shares of its common stock priced at $10 per share...

Open Text Acquires Dimensions Inc.
June 1, 1998... Open Text Corp. (180 Columbia St. W., Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 5Z5, Canada; Tel: 519/888-7111, Fax: 519/888-0677, Website: www.opentext.com) has recently acquired Information Dimensions, Inc., of Dublin, Ohio. This acquisition places Open Text in...

TRENDS: 260% Increase in Internet Usage
June 1, 1998... Consumers are incorporating the internet into their daily home media habits. Interestingly, the use of the web at home has outpaced use of the resource at work in the past two years. Approximately 44 million U.S. adults--23% of the adult...

45 Million U.S. PCs Access the Internet
June 1, 1998... The findings from the 1998 ZD Technology User Profile say that nearly 45 million PCs in the U.S. access the internet regularly, a 43% increase in the first quarter of 1998 vs. the first quarter of 1997. dot.COM included this study because of the...

Report Names Growth Areas
June 1, 1998... The consumer segment of eCommerce, business conducted on the web, will increase to $26 billion by the year 2002, more than 14 times last year's figure, according to the 1998 eCommerce Report. The report, released by eMarketer (51 E. 12th St., 3rd...

ADVERTISING: Partnership for Web Ad Management
June 1, 1998... DoubleClick (41 Madison Ave., 32nd Fl., New York, NY 10010; Tel: 212/683- 0001, Fax: 212/655-4635, Website: www.doubleclick.net) and AdKnowledge (2191 East Bayshore Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303; Tel: 650/842-6500, Fax: 650/842-0665, Website:...

Excite Sees Results in Netscape Teaming
June 1, 1998... Excite, Inc. (555 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063; Tel: 650/568-6000, Fax: 650/568-6030, Website: www.excite.com) has already signed agreements for $21 million in advertising revenues in connection with its two-year partnership with Netscape....

K2 Design Refocusing Its Web Ad Agency
June 1, 1998... K2 Design, Inc. (30 Broad St., 16th Fl., New York, NY 10004; Tel: 800/358-0191, Fax: 212/301-8801, Website: www.k2design.com) sold their CLIQNOW! business unit to 24/7 Media, Inc. (1250 Broadway, 27th Fl., New York, NY 10001; Tel: 212/629-7109,...

MARKETING: Dell Redesigns Successful Website
June 1, 1998... Dell Computer Corp. (One Dell Way, Round Rock, TX 78682-2244; Tel: 512/338-4400, Fax: 512/728-3653, Website: www.dell.com) is not one to sit by and be satisfied with success. To help achieve the goal of 50% of sales online by the year 2000, Dell...

Preview Travel Hits Four Million
June 1, 1998... At least one travel-related web site has hit it "big". Attributing their increase in registered subscribers to distribution agreements with some of the top online portals, Preview Travel is educating subscribers to their way of thinking--shopping...

BANKING/FINANCE: Reuters Service Adds Market Guide
June 1, 1998... Reuters (85 Fleet St., London EC4P 4AJ; Tel: 44/712-501122, Website: www.reutersplus.com) launched Reuters Plus, a technically advanced and competitively priced information product that provides more extensive American equities fundamental and...

Fidelity Reaches One Million Online
June 1, 1998... As Americans use the internet for everything from grocery shopping to booking travel arrangements, Fidelity Investments announced that its customers are using the web to manage their personal finances now more than ever before. The company has...

Banks Provide Online Banking Services
June 1, 1998... National Commerce Bancorporation (One Commerce Sq., Memphis, TN 38150; Tel: 901/523-3434, Fax: 901/523-3517, Website: www.ncbccorp.com) and BellSouth (1155 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, GA 30309-3610; Tel: 404/249-2000, Fax: 404/249-5599, Website:...

SOFTWARE: Java Used for Graphics Web Publishing
June 1, 1998... Ever since Sun introduced Java, industry watchers have expected the language to infiltrate the internet, but it still has not happened. Tired of the decorative Java applets, a company has developed a Java internet application that reduces hard...

SECURITY: Single Sign-on for Web Servers
June 1, 1998... A company has produced a secure access web solution that is designed specifically to work with Windows NT. WebDefender 1.0 is priced according to the number of web servers. Pricing for WebDefender 1.0 starts at $5,000 and supports unlimited...

Mobile Internet Protocol Software
June 1, 1998... Ecutel (210 Woodland Terrace, Alexandria, VA 22302; Tel: 703/299- 0807, Fax: 703/299-6039, Website: www.ecutel.com) has produced a communications software suite that fully uses the emerging Mobile Internet Protocol (Mobile IP). The company has...

INTERNATIONAL: IP Telephony Comes to Eastern Europe
June 1, 1998... e-Net, Inc. (12800 Middlebrook Rd., Suite 200, Germantown, MD 20874; Tel: 301/601-8700, Fax: 301/601-8777, Website: www.datatelephony.com) announced that its Telecom 2000 gateway product will be used to provide internet telephony to key cities...

Security Firm Adds Japanese Subsidiary
June 1, 1998... Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc. (20 Crosby Dr., Bedford, MA 01730; Tel: 781/687-7000, Fax: 781/687-7010, Website: www.securid.com), a provider of enterprise network and data security solutions, has established a wholly owned Japanese...

High-Speed Net Delivered to U.K.
June 1, 1998... Expanding its presence overseas and positioning itself as the international leader in delivering high-speed internet services, @Home Network (425 Broadway St., Redwood City, CA 94063; Tel: 650/569-5000, Fax: 650/569-5100, Website: www.home.net)...

Customer Service Solution Sees Money
June 1, 1998... Grey Ventures (Canada,1881 Yonge St., Toronto, ON M4S 3C4; Tel: 416/486-7263, Website: www.grey.net), the independent venture capital arm of Grey Canada, announced a major strategic investment in Toronto-based Balisoft Technologies, Inc. (970...

STANDARDS/REGULATIONS VML Submitted for Graphics
June 1, 1998... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has acknowledged the joint submission of a Vector Markup Language (VML) proposal to bring high- quality, editable 2-D vector graphics to the Web. Autodesk, Inc. (111 McInnis Pkwy., San Rafael, CA 94903; Tel:...

ECOMMERCE: Site Features Business-to-Business
June 1, 1998... This editor expects to see some more web sites like the one at CommerceInc (141 Prosperous Pl., Suite 23, Lexington, KY 40509; Tel: 606/263-4946, Fax: 606/225-4017, Website: www.commerceinc.com), which makes it easy for small businesses to go...

Microsoft Targets Father's Day Buying
June 1, 1998... Microsoft (One Microsoft Way, Bldg. 8, N. Office 2211, Redmond, WA 98052; Tel: 425/882-8080, Fax: 425/936-7329, Website: www.microsoft.com) and NetCentives (690 Fifth St., San Francisco 94107; Tel: 415/538-1888, Fax: 415/538-1889, Website:...

Ready, SET, Buy on the Internet
June 1, 1998... In an important next step towards a more secure internet shopping environment through the use of SET (Secure Electronic Transaction), the company that oversees the awarding, SETCo, (Secure Electronic Transaction LLC ) has awarded of the right to...

Low Unemployment Unapparent to Job Site
June 1, 1998... In an economy with record-low unemployment, it is amazing to read the numbers of CareerMosaic's (www.careermosaic.com) web site, the leading site for professional jobs on the internet. In April, CareerMosaic recorded nearly four million...

Companies Streamline Process with EDI
June 1, 1998... Visa (3155 Clearview Way, San Mateo, CA 94402-3798; Tel: 650/432- 3200, Fax: 650/432-7431, Website: www.visa.com) is tackling the inefficient traditional paper means for purchase and payment of goods. Results from a recent Visa USA survey of...