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ADVERTISING: Companies Team to Build First B-to-B Ad Network.
May 1, 1999... (www.adforce.com/)AdForce, Inc. (10590 N. Tantau Ave., Cuptertino, CA 95014; Tel: 408/873-3686; Fax: 408/873-3693) provider of the www.adforce.com/home/agency2.html)AdForce centralized online ad management service, announced an agreement with...

Tool Helps Create Web Banners in Minutes.
May 1, 1999... (www.HyperBanner.net/)HyperBanner , (49a Ider St., Haifa 34752 Israel; Tel: 9724/8340936; Fax: 9724/8346783) the largest global banner exchange, introduced (www.quickbanner.com/) QuickBanner, a free banner creation tool designed to help small...

Traditional Media Still Dwarfs Web.
May 1, 1999... While the increase of advertising spending on the internet represented impressive growth in 1998, the absolute dollar figures paled in comparison to the billions spent in traditional advertising venues, according to a report released by...

Bidnow.com in for 500 Million Impressions.
May 1, 1999... (www.bidnow.com/)bidnow.com, one of the originators of the TV / Web auction business, became one of the top-twenty advertisers on the DoubleClick network sites and DoubleClick Select sites. The Bidnow logo and links will appear on major sites,...

DEALS: ZDNet to be Content Provider to iVillage.
May 1, 1999... (www.zdnet.com)ZDNet (650 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94103; Tel: 415/551-4500; Fax: 415/551-4605) has reported a strategic relationship with iVillage Inc. ZDNet will be the premier provider of technology content and buying guides to...

Excite Launches Australian Portal.
May 1, 1999... The (www.excite.com)Excite Asia Pacific (555 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063; Tel: 650/568-6000; Fax: 650/568-6030) joint venture between Excite Inc. and Australian Internet company LibertyOne has launched Excite Australia - a local version of...

Companies Join to Offer Secure Messaging.
May 1, 1999... (www.cp.net/)Critical Path, Inc.(230 First St., San Francisco, CA 94105; tel: 415/808-8800; Fax: 415/808-8777), a provider of business-to- business email service solutions for ISPs, Web hosting companies, Web portals, and corporations,...

Company Provides AOL's Contact Center Solution.
May 1, 1999... (www.pegasystems.com/)Pegasystems Inc. (101 Main St., 7th Fl, Cambridge, MA 02142-1590; Tel: 617/374-9600; Fax: 617/374-9620), a provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions, announced an agreement to deliver a best-of-breed...

Five Major Systems Integrators Join Sun.
May 1, 1999... The Sun-Netscape Alliance announced its Preferred Integrators initiative, an innovative effort with Global Systems Integrators (GSIs) to help companies gain a competitive advantage in the Net Economy with the Alliance's powerful portfolio of...

FINANCIAL: Web Toy Company Announces IPO.
May 1, 1999... (www.etoys.com/)eToys Inc. (3100 Ocean Park Blvd., Ste. 300, Santa Monica, CA 90405; Tel: 310/664-8100) announced the initial public offering of its common stock on the Nasdaq National Market under the trading symbol ETYS. The initial public...

Network-1 Reports First Quarter 1999 Results.
May 1, 1999... (www.network-1.com)Network-1 Security Solutions, Inc. (70 Walnut St., Wellesley Hall, MA 02781; Tel: 781/239-8280; Fax: 781/239-8281), a software developer and marketer of Internet, Intranet and Extranet network security solutions to enable...

Thestreet.com's IPO Continues Gains.
May 1, 1999... Internet-based financial publishing concern (www.thestreet.com/)TheStreet.com Inc. (2 Rector St., 14th Fl., New York, NY 10006; Tel: 212/271-4004; Fax: 212/211-4005) saw its shares rise as high as 284.2 percent on its initial public offering,...

Datalink.net Adds Mutual Funds To Alerts.
May 1, 1999... (www.datalink.net/)Datalink.net (1735 Technology Dr., Ste. 790, San Jose, CA 95110; Tel: 888/603-5465; Fax: 888/233-6363), formerly DataLink Systems Corporation, a Silicon Valley based Internet company, announced mutual fund updates are now...

FOREIGN: AOL Japan Nearing 300,000 Subscriber Mark.
May 1, 1999... (www.aol.com.jp)AOL Japan is close to passing the 300,000 subscriber mark. The company launched in Japan in April 1997, and is expected to hit the figure sometime in June. Behind the increasingly better market for AOL Japan is a pick up in...

UK Company Offers Low Cost Telephony Service.
May 1, 1999... (www.freeserve.com/)Freeserve, the pioneering free ISP, now the UK's largest ISP, and (www.econophone.com/)Destia Communications Ltd., the UK subsidiary of Destia Communications Inc. (95 Rt. 17 S., Paramus, NJ 07652; Tel: 201/226-4500; Fax:...

Company Files Business Patent Application.
May 1, 1999... In an unprecedented move, (www.world-callnet.com/)World CallNet, Inc. (Brown House, 207 March Wall, London E14 94T UK; Tel: 44171/3358300; Fax: 44171/3358301), pioneers of pay-as-you-go Internet service provision in Europe and innovators...

UK Government Rejects E-Commerce Legislation.
May 1, 1999... The British government has succumbed to criticism from all sides about its outlined proposals for e- commerce legislation. The move comes as a direct result of research by the government, which Prime Minister Tony Blair says has shown that...

Company Delivers Biometrics Licence.
May 1, 1999... (www.orga.co.uk/)ORGA (Braywick House W., Windsor Rd., Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 1DN; Tel: 01628/624265; Fax: 01628/624838) has won a major contract in India to supply the world 's first (www.orga.co.uk/news.asp#WorldwideNews)driving licence...

AOL UK Testing No-Call -Charge Access.
May 1, 1999... (www.aol.co.uk/)AOL UK, America Online's UK joint venture with the Bertelsmann group, is alpha testing an Internet access deal that involves no Internet call charges whatsoever for its subscribers. The testing is starting this week, among a...

INFRASTRUCTURE MegaBand Fiber Optic Facilities Begun in CA.
May 1, 1999... (www.rcn.com/)RCN Corporation (105 Carnegie Center, Princeton, NJ 08540; Tel: 609/734-3700) has expanded its (www.rcn.com/investor/press/05-99/05-26-99/index.html)network construction effort in Northern California to include Daly City, a...

Web-to-Host Market Grew Nearly 370%.
May 1, 1999... (www.idc.com/)International Data Corporation (IDC, 5 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701; Fax: 508/872-8200) reports worldwide revenues increased nearly 370% to $112.4 million in 1998 and are on track to reach $1 billion by 2002. The...

Nortel Launches Fastest Technology Yet.
May 1, 1999... (nortelnetworks.com/corporate/news/newsreleases/1999b/5_4_999928 0_OPTera1600G.html)The technology, an optical amplification system, combines 160 separate channels of light into one beam, with each channel carrying data at a rate of 10...

MARKET RESEARCH: Singapore Surfers Also Online Buyers.
May 1, 1999... Research firm (www.consult.com.au)www.consult (Level 1, 2 Bridge ST., Sydney NSW 2000, Australia; Tel: 612925/20422; Fax: 612925/20433) has found that 25 percent of Singapore Internet users have tried buying products online, contributing S$26...

E-Commerce Sites Take $1 Million to Build.
May 1, 1999... (www.gartner.com/)The GartnerGroup announced that the average cost of developing and launching an enterprise Web E-commerce site is $1 million. That cost will increase by 25 percent annually during the next two years, according to a new...

Mid-Sized Firms Lag in E-Commerce Arena.
May 1, 1999... Medium-sized companies may face a bleak future in the electronic- commerce arena than small- and large-sized companies, and will experience less revenue growth from the Internet than their counterparts in the next few years, according to...

Nielsen/NetRatings Data Ranks eBay No. 1.
May 1, 1999... Noteworthy in April's Web Usage statistics from (www.netratings.com/)Nielsen//NetRatings, the Internet measurement service from Nielsen Media Research and NetRatings, Inc.: * (www.starwars.com/)Starwars.com drew a 73.3% male audience and a...

Month of April 1999.
May 1, 1999... Data below represent activity for the average Internet user during the month. Number of Sessions per Month 16 Number of Unique Sites Visited 14 Time Spent per Site 0: 29: 49 Page Views per Month ...

April's Top 50 at Home and at Work Ratings.
May 1, 1999... (www.mediametrix.com/)Media Metrix (35 E. 21st. St., 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10010; Tel: 212/400-7960; Fax: 212/533-3036), a leader in Internet audience measurement, released the (www.mediametrix.com/TopRankings/TopRankings.html)Top 50 At Home...

Trend in Web HR Call Centers, Outsourcing.
May 1, 1999... Human resource and payroll managers reportedly plan to utilize the Internet more. The (www.talx.com/)TALX Corp. (1850 Borman Ct., St. Louis, MO 63146; Tel: 314/434-0046; Fax: 314/434-9205) surveyed approximately 100 managers during its...

Study Shows Jump in Usage by U.S. Adults.
May 1, 1999... Internet use by U.S. adults has risen sharply, with more than 64 million adults, or about a third of the population over age 18, using the medium in an average month, reported in results of a recent survey. (www.mediamark.com/)Media...

IDC Study Emphasizes Customer Management.
May 1, 1999... Because the cost of reaching new online customers can be high, many e-commerce merchants are looking for ways to turn existing relationships with consumers into long-term profits. According to (www.idc.com/)International Data Corporation (IDC,...

MEDICINE: New Healthcare Product, Services Initiative.
May 1, 1999... (www.dht.com)Dynamic Healthcare Technologies, Inc. (615 Crescent Executive Ct., Lake Mary, FL 32946-2109; Tel: 407/333-5300; Fax: 407/333-4561) announced a new electronic commerce product and services initiative that makes use of the...

PEOPLE: iCopyright.com Expands Executive Team.
May 1, 1999... (www.icopyright.com)iCopyright.com (200 Mill Ave. S., Ste. 600, Renton, WA 98055; Tel: 425/430-4555; Fax: 425/430-8878), the automated copyright permissions and reprints clearinghouse, announced (www1.medius.net/about/exec.html)key additions to...

PUBLISHING: WSJ's New Version of Personal-Portfolio.
May 1, 1999... The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition (wsj.com)http://wsj.com) announced the introduction of a new, greatly expanded portfolio that lets Interactive Journal subscribers, numbering 283,000, create a highly customized view of their...

NewsEdge to Provide Global News for KWorld.
May 1, 1999... Online news provider (www.newsedge.com)NewsEdge Corporation (80 Blanchard Rd., Burlington, MA 01803; Tel: 781/229-3000; Fax: 781/229- 3030) has been selected by (www.kpmg.com)KPMG (345 Park Ave., New York, NY 10154; Tel: 212/909-5000; Fax:...

Secure, Easy Document Publishing Available.(Infosquare's OpenShare 2.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1999... (www.infosquare.com/)Infosquare (85 Saratoga Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051; Tel: 408/0590; Fax: 408/556-0595), a developer of Intranet software solutions, announced (www.infosquare.com/cs/Products/index.htm)OpenShare release 2.0, a new, quick,...

More High Tech Editors Use BusinessWire.
May 1, 1999... (www.businesswire.com/)Business Wire's (40 E. 52nd. St., 19th Fl., New York, NY 10022; Tel: 212/752-9600; Fax: 212/752-9698) web site is tracked by more high tech editors than any other on-line wire service according to a recent survey...

Web Features the State of Electronic Publishing.
May 1, 1999... Alex Kanakaris, CEO of (www.kanakaris.com/)Kanakaris Communications, Inc.(3303 Harbor Blvd., No. F-3, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626) interviews Dick Brass, Vice President, Technology Development, (www.microsoft.com/)Microsoft Corporation, and Jill...

RETAILING: ecampus.com Looks to Mine Campus Crowd.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Architects of (www.ecampus.com)ecampus.com had two primary goals in mind wheen they began designing a new virtual bookstore to serve the college market: speed and convenience. The site is specifically designed to make the acquisition of...

Marketing Firm Offers Successful Site Report.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... (www.amazon.com/)Amazon.com, (www.cisco.com/)Cisco Systems and (www.landsend.com/)Land's End were among the companies that got high marks for creating Websites that blend profits with customer loyalty, in a new...

IBM Unveils Web Self Service Solutions.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1999... IBM Software (www.ibm.com/)IBM (New Orchard Rd., Armonk, NY 10504; Tel: 914/499-1900; Fax: 914/765-7382) has launched its unique Web Self Service (WSS) solutions targeted at businesses which aim to transform to e- businesses. The WSS...

Net.commerce for AS/400 Enables Storefronts.(IBM Net.Commerce for AS/400 3.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1999... (www.ibm.com/)IBM (New Orchard Rd., Armonk, NY 10504; Tel: 914/499- 1900; Fax: 914/765-7382) announced a new version of (www.as400.ibm.com)Net.Commerce for AS/400, making it easier than ever for small and mid-sized customers to create, run and...

ExpoWorld.net Expands into EU Auction Market.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 1999... (www.expoworld.net/)ExpoWorld.net (78 Tilden Crescent, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M9P-1V7; Tel: 416/244-1168; Fax: 708/570-3420) has secured rights to Internet domain names necessary to launch Germany and Europe's first Internet Auction websites:...

SECURITY: Company Offers 3-Day Audit Service.(Internet Security Advantages TripleCheck service)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... (www.inetsecurity.com) Internet Security Advantages (ISA, 300 Baker Ave., ste. 203, Concord, MA 01742; Tel: 877/638-7328; Fax: 978/402- 2070), an information systems security consulting firm, introduced...

Radguard's cIPro Receives VPN Award.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... A recent (www.networkworld.com/)Network World VPN review awarded the Blue Ribbon award winning VPN solution to (www.radguard.com/)Radguard's (575 Corporate Dr., Mahwah, NY 07430; Tel: 201/828-9611; Fax: 201/828-9613) cIPro system. The...

CyberGuard Introduces Central Management.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1999... (www.cyberguard.com/)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 solutions, has recently announced the availability of the...

Lexias Unveils New File Security Solution.(LexiGuard LITE data encryption software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1999... (www.lexias.com/)Lexias Inc. (420 Lexington Ae., Ste. 1609, New York, NY 10017; Fax: 212/682-0162; Fax: 212/682-0071) introduced (www.lexias.com/products/index.html)LexiGuard LITE at the CardTech/SecurTech Conference and Exhibit in Chicago. The...

SHOPPING: DoubleClick Launches Shopping Initiative.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... (www.doubleclick.net)DoubleClick (41 Madison Ave,. 32nd Fl., New York, NY 10010; Tel: 212/683-0001; Fax: 212/889-0062), an Internet advertising solutions company, announced a (www.doubleclick.net/company_info/press_kit/pr.99.05.25.htm)shopping...

MyPoints.com Now One of the Most Popular Sites.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... (www.mypoints.com/)MyPoints.com, Inc. (565 Commercial St., 4th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94111-3031; Tel: 415/676-3700; Fax: 415/676-3720), a provider of Internet direct marketing, incentive and loyalty products, has been recognized as one of the...

MapQuest Delivers 100 Million Maps in April.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1999... (www.mapquest.com/)MapQuest.com (257 Park Ave. S., Ste. 303, New York, NY 10010; Tel: 212/904-0400; Fax: 212/529-8742), a leader in advanced mapping systems, announced that, according to a March 1999 (www.mediametrix.com)Media Metrix custom...

Mercantec Delivers E-Commerce Solution.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 1999... (www.mercantec.com/)Mercantec, Inc. announced that its flagship (www.mercantec.com/products/softcart.html)SoftCart software will provide a complete electronic commerce solution to support a growing number of service providers relying on the...

SMALL BUSINESS: Small Businesses Driving Web Growth.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... More and more small businesses have taken their offerings from their retail locations to the Internet. Between the first quarters of 1998 and 1999, there has been a net gain of 427,000 small businesses going online, according to the U.S. Small...

XOOM.com Launches Free E-Storefront Service.(EasyStoreBuilder)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1999... (www.xoom.com/)XOOM.com,Inc. (300 Montgomery, 3rd Fl., San Francisco, CA 94104; Tel: 415/288-2500; Fax: 415/288-2580), a direct e-commerce company, launched XOOM.com Member Stores, a (www.xoom.com/about/051299/)free service that allows small...

Study Predicts Smaller Business Investments.(The Revolution in Small/Medium Electronic Enterprise report)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... In its recently completed study, (www.sme3.com/revolution). The Revolution in Small/Medium Electronic Enterprise, (www.sme3.com/)sme3 (192 College Ave., Mt. View, CA 94040; Tel: 650/938-3891; Fax: 415/431- 2087), forecasts that small/medium...

SOFTWARE: Companies Join to Deliver Web Solution.(NetObjects Inc and Lotus Development)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... (www.netobjects.com/)NetObjects Inc. (301 Galveston Dr., Redwood City, CA 94063; Tel: 650/482-3200; Fax: 650/565-0288) and (www.lotus.com)Lotus Development Corp. (55 Cambridge Pkwy., Cambridge, MA 02142; Tel: 617/577-8500; Fax: 617/693-1909)...

Authoring Market to Break the $Billion.
May 1, 1999... Worldwide Web authoring and design software revenues skyrocketed to $243 million in 1998. According to (www.idc.com/)International Data Corporation (IDC, 5 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701; Fax: 508/872- 8200), that figure represents 144% growth...

Release of OS for AS/400 Readied.
May 1, 1999... (www.ibm.com/)IBM (New Orchard Rd., Armonk, NY 10504; Tel: 914/499- 1900; Fax: 914/765-7382) announced that it will begin shipping a major new release of the operating system that runs on its popular AS/400 commercial business servers. IBM...

Novel Technology Ready for Rollout.
May 1, 1999... (www.neocore.com/)NeoCore, LLC, (3630 Sinton Rd., Ste. 300, Colorado Springs, C0 80907; Tel: 719/576-9730) announces the rollout strategy for its patented pattern-based associative processing technology. The rollout, which commences in...

Online Article Covers CORBA Technology.
May 1, 1999... (www.networkcomputing.com/)Network Computing Magazine published in its May 3rd issue a (www.networkcomputing.com/1009/1009f2.html)comprehensive article about CORBA and the difficulties surrounding this most promising technology. The article...

STANDARDS: Understanding Internet Payment Protocols.
May 1, 1999... Internet payment protocols define electronic commerce, and Network Computing's May 3rd online edition has an informative, fact-filled (www.networkcomputing.com/1009/1009ws3.html) article that attempts to explain and distinguish e-commerce sites...

VIDEO/AUDIO: New Service for Hosting Streaming Media.
May 1, 1999... (www.alive.com/)Alive.com (formerly Yesler Software), a leading Internet applications and service company, today announced AliveCentral, a hosting service for posting and sharing streaming media content or e-shows online. The ability to...

WASHINGTON: ITAA Praises Digital Signature Legislation.
May 1, 1999... The President of the (www.itaa.org/)Information Technology Association of America (ITAA, 1616 N. Ft. Myer Dr., Ste. 1300, Arlington, VA 22209; Tel: 703/522-5055; Fax: 703/525-2279) testified before the Senate Commerce Committee in strong...

Women Will Account for Five of Ten Internet Users Worldwide in 2001.
May 1, 1999... (www.computereconomics.com)Computer Economics projects that the (www.computereconomics.com/new4/pr/pr990526.html)number of women using the Internet worldwide will reach over 96 million, or 45 percent of the total users in 2001. In the...

Projected Internet Usage in 2001 by Sex and Region.
May 1, 1999... Country Percent Male Percent Female Number of Women out of Ten Users Africa 72 28 3/10 Asia Pacific 60 40 4/10 Europe 60 40 4/10 Middle East 85 15 ...

Broadband Execs Brief Congressional Staff.
May 1, 1999... (www.aol.com/)America Online Inc. Chairman Steve Case, (www.bellsouth.com/)BellSouth Corp. CEO Duane Ackerman, (www.fcc.gov/)Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman William E. Kennard, and (www.athome.com)At Home Inc. CEO Milo Medin...

FTC Will Announce Web Advertising Unit.
May 1, 1999... The (www.ftc.gov/)Federal Trade Commission (FTC), on May 14th, will introduce a new subdivision created to monitor online advertising practices. (www.ftc.gov/opa/199/9905/rulegu4.htm)The new subdivision is The Internet Advertising Unit, which...