dot.COM articles from March 1999

dot.COM archives from March 1999

ADVERTISING: ValueClick Creates Ad Solution for Advertisers.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 19, 1999... ValueClick (1333 De La Vina, Ste. E., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Tel: 805/965- 0543, Fax: 805/564-7151), a leader in online cost-per-click (CPC) advertising solutions, unveiled a new dynamic Web advertising solution that expands the targeting...

'98 Online Ad Revenues to Exceed $1 Billion.
March 19, 1999... Revenues from Internet-based advertising have grown to the point where they've broken the $1 billion mark for much of 1998, according to an Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB, 38 Tyler Circle, Rye, NY 10580; Tel: 914/921-6988, Fax: 914/967-2538)...

BANKING: Banks Cashing in on Online Market.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 19, 1999... Internet banking applications are quickly becoming the panacea for banks hoping to increase their market share and retain customers. A new bulletin from International Data Corp. (IDC, 5 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701; Tel: 508/872- 8200, Fax:...

DEALS: Partners Secure IP Traffic on Extranets.(Aventail Corp and Novell licensing deal)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 19, 1999... Realizing customers must extend their enterprise across corporate boundaries, Aventail Corp. (808 Howell St., 2nd Fl., Seattle, WA 98101; Tel: 206/215-1111), a provider of Extranet Management and Security (EMS) software, and Novell, Inc., the...

USA/Lycos Interactive Networks Form.
March 19, 1999... USA Networks, Inc. (152 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019; Tel: 212/314-7300, Fax: 212/314-7309), Lycos, Inc. (400-2 Totten Pond Rd., Waltham, MA 02154-2000; Tel: 780/370-2700, Fax: 780/370-2800), and Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, Inc. (790 E....

FINANCIAL: Vignette Announces, Prices IPO.(Company Financial Information)
March 19, 1999... Vignette Corp. (901 S. Mo Pac Expy., Bldg. 3, Austin, TX 78746; Tel: 512/306- 4300, Fax: 512/306-4500) reports it has priced an initial public offering of 4,000,000 shares of common stock, including 320,000 shares of common stock to be sold by...

Lucent's Stock Splits Second Time in Year.(Company Financial Information)
March 19, 1999... Lucent Technologies (600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ 07974; Tel: 908/582- 8500, Fax: 908/508-2576) announced at its Annual Shareowners Meeting that its Board of Directors approved a two-for-one stock split of its common shares. Lucent's...

Thestreet.com Files for Stock Offering.
March 19, 1999... TheStreet.com Inc. (2 Rector St., 14th Fl., New York, NY 10006; Tel: 212/271- 4004, Fax: 212/271-4005), which produces a website featuring financial news and analyses, said it registered with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering of...

E*Trade Completes Deal with E*Offering.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 19, 1999... E*Trade Group Inc. (4 Embarcadero Pl., 2400 Geng Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303; Tel: 650/842-2500, Fax: 650/842-8681) announced that the company has completed its initial investment in E*Offering, a new full-service investment bank on the Internet....

Online Investing Increased by Millions.
March 19, 1999... NFO Interactive (2 Pickwick Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830-5530; Tel: 203/629-8880, Fax: 203/629-8885) has released a report that estimated the number of online investors within the United States has increased by 2.2 million to more than 5.2...

FOREIGN: Co-Regulation Key to Europe's Online Future.
March 19, 1999... The current regulation of Internet commerce in the European Union (EU) is an unclear mix of overlapping, contradictory, and ill-suited laws that stall ecommerce initiatives. During the next 10 years, new regulations will create a legal...

Part of Pan-European Network Completed.
March 19, 1999... Viatel Inc. (800 Third Ave., New York, NY 10022; Tel: 212/350-9200, Fax: 212/350-9250) announced that construction of the first ring of "Circe," its Pan- European broadband network, has been completed. The Company further announced that Ring...

Taiwan Web Surfers Surpass 3 Million.
March 19, 1999... The local chapter of the Internet Society (12020 Sunrise Valley Dr., Ste. 210, Reston, VA 20191-3429; Tel: 703/648-9888, Fax: 703/648-9887) in Taiwan, reported that they have more than 3 million people now online. The latest data shows more...

HARDWARE: Cable Modem Router for End-to-End Solution.(NetGame Ltd's cable modem router, NCBR-2000)(Product Announcement)
March 19, 1999... NetGame Ltd. (1 Korazin St., Givatayim, 53583, Israel; Tel: 9723/5715163, Fax: 9723/5715167), a data over cable solutions provider with installations in over 20 countries, introduced its cable modem router, NCBR-2000. The newest addition to...

Protocol Stack Link Network, Management.
March 19, 1999... DSET Corp. (1011 U.S. Highway 22, Bridgewater, NJ 08807; Tel: 908/526-7500, Fax: 908/528-3435) announced that Applied Innovation Inc. has selected the Marben OSI Protocol Stack, distributed by DSET, as a key software component for their...

Firm Expects to Spend $14.7 Billion on IP.(Piper Jaffray Inc's IP Telephony Report)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 19, 1999... Spending on IP telephony-related software, hardware, products, and services will reach $14.7 billion by the year 2003, according to Piper Jaffray Inc. (222 S. Ninth St., Minneapolis, MN 55402; Tel; 612/342-6000). That's one of the conclusions...

INFRASTRUCTURE: KPNQwest Gets Contract for European Network.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 19, 1999... The planned European joint venture, KPNQwest, between Qwest Communications International Inc. (555 17th St., Ste. 1000, Denver, CO 80202; Tel: 303/291- 1400, Fax: 303/291-1724) and KPN (Stationsplein 7, 9726 AE Groningon, The Netherlands; Tel:...

MARKET RESEARCH: New Website Launched for Omega Research.
March 19, 1999... Omega Research, Inc. (8700 W. Flagler St., Ste. 250, Miami, FL 33174; Tel: 305/485-7000, Fax: 305/485-7300) announced the launch of its new website. The company's previous website was recently recognized by Stocks & Commodities Magazine's...

Media Metrix Reports Top 25 for January 1999.
March 19, 1999... Media Metrix, Inc. (35 E. 21st St., 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10010; Tel: 212/460- 7980, Fax: 212/533-3036) announced their Top 25 Digital Media/Web Properties and Website Ratings for January 1999. Starting in February, Media Metrix will release...

Concours Group Announces New Research Project.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 19, 1999... The Concours Group (3 Kingwood Pl., 800 Rockmead Dr., Kingwood, TX 77339; Tel: 281/359-3464), an independent research, management consulting, and education firm, has announced a new research project on how to leverage the technologies of...

8 Million Car Buyers to Use Web by 2003.
March 19, 1999... New-car buyers are utilizing the Internet in ever growing numbers to select a vehicle, get information on prices, and find a dealer. In 1998, more than 2 million consumers used the Internet to research their new car purchases. A new report...

MEDICINE: Interactive Application Serves Health Care.
March 19, 1999... CapTech Ventures, Inc. (2306A W. Main St., Richmond, VA 23220; Tel: 804/355- 0511), a management consulting and systems integration firm, announced the launch of an interactive system for health care providers engineered for Trigon Blue Cross...

Doctors Get Web-based Access to Patient Info.
March 19, 1999... New Era of Networks, Inc. (NEON, 7400 E. Orchard Rd., Englewood, CO 80111; Tel: 303/694-3933; Tel: 303/694-3885)) introduced NEON Physician Access for web-based access to patient information. NEON Physician Access extends the capabilities of...

PEOPLE: Netscape Co-Founder Moving to AOL.
March 19, 1999... America Online Inc. (AOL, 22000 AOL Way, Dulles, VA 20166-9323; Tel: 703/448- 8700, Fax: 703/918-1400) confirmed it will make Marc Andreessen, the 27-year-old co-founder of Netscape Communications Corp., chief technology officer when it...

PUBLISHING: Seybold Demonstrates On-Demand Printing.
March 19, 1999... Ziff-Davis' Seybold Seminars announced that the Seybold Seminars' Boston/Publishing 99 event will showcase the first ever pavilion of top technology companies demonstrating complete on-demand printing and variable-data workflows. Compaq,...

Rivals Launch Joint Web News Offering.
March 19, 1999... Two of the world's largest news organizations, Dow Jones (200 Liberty St., New York, NY 10281; Tel: 212/416-2000, Fax: 212/416-4348) and Reuters (85 Fleet St., London, ECAP 4AJ; Tel: 44171/2501122), launched a major new financial and business...

Company to Produce Army Learning Courses.
March 19, 1999... Allen Communication (5 Triad Center, 5th Fl., Salt Lake City, UT 84180; Tel: 801/537-7800, Fax: 801/537-7805), a technology-based training company, announced that it has been awarded a major contract to produce 43 distance learning modules...

eMediaweekly Suspends Weekly Publication.
March 19, 1999... Mac Publishing, LLC (301 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94105; Tel: 415/243-3600) announced the suspension of eMediaweekly, a weekly news publication dedicated exclusively to multi-platform digital content creation. eMediaweekly, formerly...

AOL`S Digital City #1 for Local Content.
March 19, 1999... Serving 60 U.S. metropolitan areas, America Online, Inc.'s (AOL, 22000 AOL Way, Dulles, VA 20166-9323; Tel: 703/448-8700, Fax: 703/918-1400) Digital City Network reaches more than 4.3 million consumers each month. Digital City is strengthening...

California Law Week Goes Digital.
March 19, 1999... American Lawyer Media, Inc. (ALM), the nation's leading legal journalism and information company, announced the launch of California Law Week. Premiering February 8th, California Law Week (625 Polk St., Ste. 500, San Francisco, CA 94102-3368;...

Email Alert Reaches New Milestone.
March 19, 1999... Ziff-Davis' (1 Park Ave., New York, NY 10016; Tel: 212/503-3500, Fax: 212/503- 4599) ZDNet AnchorDesk Email Newsletter has recently surpassed the two millionth subscription milestone. This milestone marks 100% growth in subscriptions for the...

RETAILING: Online Shopping Site Targets Kid Market.
March 19, 1999... iCanBuy.com, a new Internet shopping site is set to launch March 1. iCanBuy.com intends to draw the attention and marketing power of a small, yet potentially powerful audience of cybershoppers: kids. The new commerce and community site also...

Free Web Survey Service for Sites.
March 19, 1999... CustomerSat.com, Inc. (140 Sand Hill Circle, Ste. 100, Menlo Park, CA 94025; Tel: 650/234-8000, Fax: 650/854-2135) launched a new Web-based service to help marketing and support professionals quickly grasp and respond to the preferences and...

SECURITY: Anti-Hacker/Virus Security Hardware.
March 19, 1999... Developers at RVT Technologies, Inc. (4485 Highway 29, Ste. 109, Lilburn, LA 30047; Tel:770/381-9267, Fax: 770/381-0513), a small start-up, believe the encryption, anti-virus screening, and anti-hacker capabilities of their revolutionary...

Memco Provides Intrusion Prevention.
March 19, 1999... Memco Software, Inc. (24 Raoul Wallenberg St., Tel Aviv 69719, Israel; Tel: 9723/6451000, Fax: 9723/6450001), a provider of information security software, announced that the Aberdeen Group, an information technology research and consulting...

WatchGuard Offers Affordable Security.
March 19, 1999... WatchGuard Technologies (16 Occidental Ave. S., Ste. 200, Seattle, WA 98104; Tel: 206/521-8340, Fax: 206/521-8341) is introducing a more affordable and fully-featured WatchGuard LiveSecurity System. The complete WatchGuard LiveSecurity System...

Secure Remote Access Slashes Response Time.
March 19, 1999... Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) (3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304; Tel: 650/857-1501, Fax: 650/857-7299) announced a secure remote access (HP-SRA) infrastructure that improves HP's responsiveness to its customers by dramatically cutting the...

SHOPPING: Few Users Purchased Online Valentines.
March 19, 1999... New research conducted by InfoBeads about online buying trends shows that online buyers were conspicuously absent for this year's Valentine's Day. Results of the holiday study show that only 3.2 million people purchased items via the Internet...

'99 Online Holiday Gift Buying to Triple.
March 19, 1999... The number of people who buy holiday gifts on the Web using credit cards is expected to more than triple in 1999, according to new data from Ziff-Davis' ZDNet Results (650 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94103; Tel: 415/551-4800) from a ZDNet...

B-to-B Company to Join Incentive Group.
March 19, 1999... Adauction.com (188 Embarcadero, 3rd Fl., San Francisco, CA 94105; Tel: 415/597- 4830, Fax: 415/597-4840) will join Netcentives' ClickRewards Shopping Network (690 Fifth St., San Francisco, CA 94107; Tel: 415/538-1888, Fax: 415/538-1889) in...

Site Offers Free iMacs for Online Commerce.
March 19, 1999... A new online shopping mall developer and Internet service provider (ISP) is giving away 25,000 iMac desktops to people who agree to spend a certain amount of cash at its sites every month. One Stop Communications (4900 Reilly Pl., Lisle, IL...

SMALL BUSINESS: Ecommerce Built on Intershop Platform.
March 19, 1999... Intershop Communications (600 Townsend St., Top Fl., West San Francisco, CA 94103; Tel: 800/736-5197) will deliver the technology platform for MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.'s (1430 W. Peachtree, Ste. 400, Atlanta, GA 30309; Tel: 404/815-0770,...

SOFTWARE: WorldCom Launches Security Services.
March 19, 1999... This week MCI WorldCom's (515 E. Amite St., Jackson, MS 39201-2702; Tel: 601/360-8600, Fax: 601/974-8350) Advanced Networks (MWAN) will introduce a series of managed security services. The offerings will be the first to combine the people,...

Marimba Recasts Castanet 4.0 Product.
March 19, 1999... When push was no longer the hot topic, the company that was most associated with the technology had to change. Three-year-old Marimba Inc., which issued its IPO last week, began to refocus its efforts on the configuration management needs of...

Security Management Software Tool Available.
March 19, 1999... AXENT Technologies, Inc. (2400 Research Blvd., Ste. 200, Rockville, MD 20850; Tel: 301/258-5043, Fax: 301/330-5756) released Enterprise Security Manager 5.0 (ESM), the only security solution with a central management console and advanced...

Emarketing Software Solution Available.
March 19, 1999... MarketFirst Software (485 Clyde Ave., Mt. View, CA 94043; Tel: 650/691-6200, Fax: 650/254-3271) announced the availability of the industry's first web hosting service for eMarketing software. MarketFirst enables companies of all sizes,...

Software Problem Causes Etrade Outage.
March 19, 1999... A software problem caused a 75-min. outage at ETrade Group Inc., one of the largest online brokerages. Beginning at about 10:15 a.m. EST, customers were unable to buy or sell stocks electronically. Orders could be placed over the telephone...

VOICE/AUDIO: PBS Business Channel Embraces Webcasts.
March 19, 1999... PBS The Business Channel (1320 Braddock Pl., Alexandria, VA 22314; Tel: 888/822- 8229) unveiled a pilot project that marries the speed of Intel's new Pentium III processor with The Business Channel's performance improvement business training...

WASHINGTON: Groups Share Role as Info Coordinators.
March 19, 1999... The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), U.S. Telephone Association (USTA), and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) have been selected to serve jointly as Information and Communications (I&C) sector...

U.K. Patent Decisions Published on Web.
March 19, 1999... The United Kingdom Patent Office is publishing its decisions on patents, trade marks, registered designs, and design rights cases on the Internet. Visitors to the website can read the full text of Hearing Officers' decisions. The database...

Harvard`s Cyberspace Lecture Series Begins.
March 19, 1999... The Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Pound Hall 511, 1563 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138; Tel: 617/495-7547, Fax: 617/495-7641) at Harvard Law School is launching the second year of its Online Lecture and Discussion Series,...

US West Attacks FCC Internet Policies.
March 19, 1999... US West (1801 California St., #1700, Denver, CO 80202-2658; Tel; 303/292-1702) has publicly criticized the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and its approach to the so-called information superhighway. The bottom line of the FCC's...