dot.COM articles from October 1998

dot.COM archives from October 1998

INDUSTRY NEWS: Media Metrix and RelevantKnowledge Merge.
October 1, 1998... Media Metrix (35 E. 21st St., 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10010; Tel: 212/460- 7980, Fax: 212/533-3036; Website: www.mediametrix.com) and RelevantKnowledge (530 Means St., Ste. G1, Atlanta, GA 30318; Tel: 404/224-2400, Fax: 404/224-2110; Website:...

Smart Card Authentication Solutions Receive Support.
October 1, 1998... DataCard Corp. (11111 Bren Rd. W., Minnetonka, MN 55343-9015; Tel: 612/933-1223, Fax: 612/931-0418; Website: www.datacard.com) and Litronic, Inc. (2030 Main St., Ste. 1250, Irvine, CA 92614; Tel: 949/851- 1085, Fax: 949/851-8588; Website:...

PC WEEK Reaches Movers and Shakers.
October 1, 1998... For the 4th year in a row, the IntelliQuest 1998 Computer Industry Media Study v5.0 of business influencers confirmed that PC WEEK is read by more business influencers than any other IT news weekly. IntelliQuest (1250 Capital of Texas Hwy.,...

CIMS v5.0 is the latest study in a field of over 60 independent preference studies which, over the past 14 years, have named PC WEEK as the leading IT news weekly.
October 1, 1998... Readership among IT news weeklies, according to CIMS v5.0: 1998 1997 % growth PC WEEK 1,138,000 1,046,000 +8.8% Computerworld 984,000 1,040,000 -5.4% InfoWorld ...

dot.COM Stock Watch.
October 1, 1998... Stock Symbol 9/18/98 9/25/98 10/2/98 10/9/98 America Online AOL 97.88 114.75 107.19 92.31 Checkfree CKFR 10.38 10.00 9.38 8.63 Cybercash CYCH 8.59 ...

Asia/Pacific PC Market Declines in Second Quarter.
October 1, 1998... The Asia/Pacific personal computer market showed the effects that the Asian economic crisis has had on the industry, as Asia/Pacific PC shipments in the 2nd quarter of 1998 declined 0.2% from the 2nd quarter of 1997, according to Dataquest Inc....

First-time PC Buyers Decline.
October 1, 1998... According to Odyssey's (Tel: 800/742-1792; Website: www.odysseylp.com.) latest Homefront study, 45% of American households now have PCs, compared with 42% 6 months ago. Additionally, the percentage of first-time buyers has continued to decline....

REGULATION: Online Copyright Bill Passed.
October 1, 1998... The House approved H.R. 2281 to bolster copyright protection in cyberspace. The measure seeks to strengthen protections for copyrighted works transmitted online while ensuring the public still has access to information on the Internet. The...

Clinton Pushes Buying Via Ecommerce.
October 1, 1998... The government may require that business who sell products and services to the U.S. Government will have to be ecommerce enabled. This policy has been initiated by the President's Council on Electronic Processes Initiatives Committee, and is...

Canada Pledges No Crypto Restrictions.
October 1, 1998... The Canadian government will not legislate any restrictions on the use, development, and import of cryptographic software (used to scramble data) to ensure secure electronic communications and electronic commerce transactions over networks such...

ADVERTISING: A Database Boon for Internet Marketers.
October 1, 1998... IntelliQuest's Marketing Information Solutions (MKIS) division (380 Interstate N. Pkwy., Ste. 310, Atlanta, GA 30339; Tel: 770/ 612-8008, Fax: 770/612-9008; Website: www.intelliquest.com) and 24/7 Media, Inc., one of the largest Internet media...

WIRELESS: Wireless Multicast Internet Delivery Service Via Satellite.
October 1, 1998... Intellicom Inc. (103 Hammond Ave., Fremont, CA 94539; Tel: 888/929- 8728, Fax: 510/353-0111; Website: www.vsat.net), a leader in wireless two-way Internet connectivity throughout the North America, has a new multicast Internet delivery and...

INTERNATIONAL: Turkey Gets Modern Infrastructure.
October 1, 1998... Turkey's national telecommunications operator, Turk Telecom has chosen Alcatel (54 Rue La Boetie, 75008, Paris, France; Tel: 330140761010, Fax: 330140761400; Website: www.alcatel.com) to supply a $35 million (210 million French Francs)...

China Committed to Better Infrastructure.
October 1, 1998... China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations formally opened its official website (www.moftec.gov.cn) as a "cyberport" of foreign trade. It's an ideal tool for opening new markets and collecting feedback to improve the...

UUNET Internet Africa Netcool Licensee.
October 1, 1998... Micromuse Inc. (139 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107; Tel: 415/538-9090; Website: www.micromuse.com), a leading provider of service-level management software, announced that UUNET Internet Africa has licensed its Netcool software suite to...

INFRASTRUCTURE New Pan European Fiber Optic Network.
October 1, 1998... Global Crossing (P.O. Box HM 2615, Hamilton, HM-ICX, Bermuda; Tel: 441/296-8600, Fax: 441/296-8606; Website: www.globalcrossing.bm), an independent provider of worldwide fiber optic telecommunications networks, has a number of ambitious plans....

Cable Data Service Deployed.
October 1, 1998... Cable Web Services (CWS) (200 4 Falls Corporate Center, Ste. 210, W. Conshoshocken, PA 19428; Tel: 610/238-0109, Fax: 610/238-0221; Website: www.cable-web.com), the only manufacturer and provider of cable data services and systems ready to...

Bell Atlantic Teams with Snap for Portal Creation.
October 1, 1998... Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions (1095 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 11006; Tel: 212/395-2121, Fax: 212/395-1285; Website: www.ba.com) and Snap, the free Internet portal service jointly owned and operated by NBC and CNET (150 Chestnut St.,...

SECURITY: Sidewinder Offers Security with a Bite.
October 1, 1998... Secure Computing Corp. (1 Almaden Blvd., Ste. 400, San Jose, CA 95113; Tel: 800/379-4944, Fax: 408/918-6101; Website: www.securecomputing.com) has released Sidewinder Security Server 4.0, bringing increased robustness, automatic failover, and...

Mobile Code Security for Appliance Products.
October 1, 1998... Finjan Inc. (2860 Zanker Rd., Ste. 201, San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/324-0228, Fax: 408/324-0229; Website: wwww.finjan.com), a leader in Internet mobile code security, and WatchGuard Technologies Inc. have joined forces to further expand...

Affordable Stealth Drive Available this Month.
October 1, 1998... Advanced Encryption Technology of America Inc. is making their Stealth Drive product available in early October to users looking to protect their data from potential hackers. The Stealth Drive is priced reasonable price at $34.95 and can be...

Secure Systems Insurance Offered by Cigna.
October 1, 1998... This unique insurance offering validates the effectiveness of information security today. In an ever-changing environment where new attacks and threats emerge on a daily basis, the insurance industry is now confident in ensuring the security of...

BANKING/FINANCIAL: 'Net Investors Turn to Portal Sites.
October 1, 1998... Sixty percent of World Wide Web users are engaged in some kind of financial services activity while online, most going to portal sites and not financial institution websites for their information, according to a new study. Findings...

Dialog Launches New Portal.
October 1, 1998... At least one business that has been deeply affected by the Internet is trying other formulas to survive. The Dialog Corporation (2440 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040-1400; Tel: 650/254-7000, Fax: 650/254-7070; Website:...

ECOMMERCE: Over $29.5 Billion in Trips Booked Online by 2003.
October 1, 1998... Travel booking over the Internet will be a $29.5 billion business by 2003. To meet this demand, travel suppliers are rapidly shifting their online focus from providing information to enabling direct booking. This year, 76% of the top 75...

SOFTWARE: Business Library to Accelerate XML Apps.
October 1, 1998... XML has been touted for quite some time as the next "big" thing for the Internet. Now, it seems as though it is gaining support among some major (and not-so-major) companies. Veo Systems, Inc. (2440 W. El Camino Real, 7th Fl., Mountain...

Microsoft in on XML Support.
October 1, 1998... Microsoft (One Microsoft WY., Bldg. 8, N. Office 2211, Redmond, WA 98052; Tel: 425/882-8080, Fax: 425/936-7329; Website: www.microsoft.com) is actively involved in defining the emerging XML standard and will continue to implement XML as defined...

SEARCH ENGINES Search Service to Complement Searches.
October 1, 1998... Ask Jeeves (918 Parker St., Ste. 12, Berkeley, CA 94710; Tel: 510/649- 8685, Fax: 510/649-8633; Website: www.AJ.com), a provider of natural- language, question-answering, Web navigation products and services, announced that it has licensed its...

CALENDAR.
October 1, 1998... November 4-6, 1998, Wired World '98, The MTN Sundome, Johannesburg, South Africa. Website: www.firstcon.com/ww98. November 10, 1998, Netcon+Internet98, Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, ON, Canada. Website: www.netcon.plesman.com....

TRENDS: Asian CEOs See Web Commerce as Future.
October 1, 1998... CEOs in Asia plan a major push toward electronic business as a competitive necessity with expectations that doing so will lead to major revenues within the next five years. That is according to a major new survey of CEOs in Asia conducted by...

MARKETING: Closed-Loop Marketing Solutions Available.
October 1, 1998... DoubleClick, Inc. (41 Madison Ave., 32nd Fl., New York, NY 10010; Tel: 212/683-0001, Fax: 212/655-4635; Website: www.doubleclick.net), a provider of comprehensive global Internet advertising solutions, launches DoubleClick Closed-Loop Marketing...

DEVELOPMENT: No Surprise in Web Environment.
October 1, 1998... For all the noise in the Web programming market about new development environments, it is Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that dominates with 83% penetration. HTML, including the Dynamic HTML (DHTML) enhancements, has come a long way...