The Online Reporter articles from April 16 2001

The Online Reporter archives from April 16 2001

Ariba Adds to CSN.
April 16, 2001... Ariba has enhanced its Ariba Commerce Services Network (Ariba CSN) with features aimed at helping buyers and suppliers create and maintain relationships, move business transactions online and conduct business with trading partners more...

Volera, Websense Tech Partners.
April 16, 2001... Volera, Novell's content networking solutions subsidiary, has signed a technology partnership with Websense, maker of employee Internet usage monitoring software, to integrate Volera's Excelerator caching engine with Websense Enterprise...

ValiCert Debuts Managed Services Suite.(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... ValiCert has introduced a suite of managed security services to enable high-value and sensitive commercial transactions to be conducted online in a secure manner. The ValiCert Trust Services are designed to provide organizations the means...

E-Stamp Reworking e-Warehouse App.
April 16, 2001... E-Stamp has stopped offering new customers its e-Warehouse distribution management system in order to further develop its operability and functionality. It's promising to continue supporting existing customers. E-Stamp acquired e-Warehouse,...

Loudcloud Teams with Accenture, Jamcracker.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 16, 2001... Software infrastructure services provider Loudcloud has a couple of new partners. A deal with Accenture, the former Andersen Consulting, has the two collaborating to deliver their services to enterprise customers. They'll each "identify,...

Scient Sees Wider Losses, Cuts 675 Jobs.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 16, 2001... Scient warned that its losses for its fiscal Q4 ending March 31 would be much wider than expected. The e-business consultancy now expects a loss of 39 cents per share on $27 million in revenue. Analysts were looking for a loss of 12 cents per...

ATG To Cut Force 12%.(Art Technology Group)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 16, 2001... Art Technology Group (ATG) is planning to cut its workforce by 12%, putting some 150 employees out of work. On April 2, the e-commerce platform provider said its Q1 results would come in far below expectations, with $40 million-$42 million in...

Argus Ports Intrusion Detection App to Solaris.(PitBull LX)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Argus has ported its PitBull LX intrusion detection application to Solaris. The PitBull LX technology, originally released on Linux in January, is an OS-level security system set up to protect critical web facing servers, database servers,...

Guardent Unleashes Security Service for ISA Server.(Internet Security and Acceleration Server)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Security services provider Guardent plans to offer a managed security service for Microsoft's new Internet Security and Acceleration Server, which integrates a multi-layer enterprise firewall and web cache (OLR No 235). The Guardent...

Compaq, Check Point in Linux Security Pact.(Compaq/Check Point SolutionPaq)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Compaq and Check Point have teamed up to provide a Linux-based security offering for medium- and large-sized enterprises and service providers in North America. The jointly developed Compaq/Check Point SolutionPaq product integrates...

Baltimore Cuts Revenue Forecast.(Baltimore Technologies)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 16, 2001... Baltimore Technologies lowered its revenue forecast for the first quarter to $33.6 million from its earlier projection of $36 million. The security software house blamed the shortfall on the deferral of contracts that are now expected to...

Elisar Ships MediaRights.(Elisar Software's MediaRights Digital Rights Enforcement)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... Start-up Elisar Software has started shipping its MediaRights Digital Rights Enforcement (DRE) technology. The Albuquerque concern talked up MediaRights, a content-, platform- and viewer-independent app that secures multimedia information, at...

Qualys Targets MSPs, Names New CEO.(Philippe Courtot)(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... Qualys has extended its QualysGuard vulnerability scanning platform to managed security providers to enable them to quickly build online vulnerability assessment and monitoring services into their security offerings. The new platform comes...

Vigilinx Debuts Managed Security Services.(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Vigilinx, the New York City security newbie that recently received a $75-million funding commitment, has rolled out a suite of managed security services, including intrusion detection systems, managed firewalls and VPNs. They are available...

CA Betas eTrust PKI.(Computer Associates)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Computer Associates has extended its eTrust family of security products with the beta release of eTrust PKI, a public key infrastructure product for strong authentication of users and management of digital certificates. CA said that it had...

Digital Goods Delivers More Goods.(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Digital content marketing software house Digital Goods is getting into the e-store business. With its RapidStore product, the Maynard, Massachusetts firm will build content owners integrated private label or co-branded stores for their own web...

Amazon To Book Narrower Loss.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 16, 2001... Amazon.com came out with preliminary Q1 results - and they ain't bad. It expects net sales to exceed $695 million, up 21% year-over- year. Strong electronics and international sales get the credit. The e-tail behemoth is looking at gross profit...

RocketBridge Launches Authentication Suite.(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... RocketBridge, a business unit of credit bureau Trans Union, has introduced a suite of five online authentication and verification products. Targeted at both B2B and B2C transactions, RocketBridge's Jupiter modular suite is designed to...

Yahoo Beats Lowered Estimates, Lays off 12%.
April 16, 2001... One of the first to announce actual Q1 results, Yahoo came in with revenues of $180.2 million for Q1, at the high end of its lowered guidance. Revenue in the year-ago quarter was $230.8 million. Pro forma net income was $7.6 million (a penny,...

Amazon To Run Borders Site.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 16, 2001... Borders Group, the second largest bookstore chain in the US, essentially is giving up on its online business and turning it over to Amazon.com. The two struck a deal that has Borders.com, which joined the e-tail race long after Amazon and...

RSA Enhances PKI Products.
April 16, 2001... RSA introduced new versions of its PKI applications BSAFE Cert-C 2.0 and Cert-J 2.0, which provide developers with the certificate- processing capabilities and cryptographic software necessary to PKI- enable a business. The upgrades...

Microsoft Veteran Chase Steps Down.
April 16, 2001... Brad Chase has stepped down as senior VP of Microsoft's MSN business. Chase was responsible for overseeing the programming of MSN, its core operations and vertical properties. A Microsoft spokes-man said that Chase's new role was still...

RapidStream Security Device Aims At Intranets.(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... RapidStream expanded its family of firewall and VPN appliances with a new device targeted at corporate intranets and branch offices. RapidStream 1000 combines a 200Mbps firewall with a 50Mbps VPN. The widget also includes a high...

Arcot Unveils Strong Authentication for VPN.
April 16, 2001... Arcot Systems has formally introduced a new suite of authentication products to verify the identity of end users in a VPN environment. The Santa Clara, California concern is pitching Arcot for VPN's software-based user authentication as a...

Intrusion.com Debuts Security Appliance.
April 16, 2001... Intrusion.com has expanded its intrusion detection offering set with the launch of a new security appliance. The SecureNet PDS widget bundles the company's SecureNet Pro network intrusion detection software onto the PDS 2345 appliance,...

Entrust, Tumbleweed in E-Mail Pact.
April 16, 2001... Entrust Technologies and Tumbleweed Communications have teamed up to provide an integrated e-mail offering that includes secure messaging and content scanning. Components include Entrust's Express PKI technology and Tumbleweed's Messaging...

EDS' E-Bill Service Bureau Yet To Build Momentum.(just one customer - Alliant Energy)
April 16, 2001... EDS does not seem to have gained much traction yet with its OpenBill Express e-bill service bureau. Six months after its launch, EDS has signed up just one customer - Alliant Energy, a Wisconsin-based utility for which it's providing both...

The Web - Not Just For Rich Folks.(Nielsen/NetRatings note rise in computer use among blue-collar workers)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... The fastest growing demographic in home computer use is among blue- collar households, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. The number of regular Joes and Josephines logging on from home increased 52% in March - twice that of overall web growth...

They Paid The Price ($1.5b).(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Merrill Lynch reports that start-up shutdowns in February totaled 52 and represented $1.5 billion in investments.

Judge Lifts Restraining Order.(Juno Online Services' patent infringement suit against NetZero)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Juno Online Services is claiming a victory in a patent infringement suit rival ISP NetZero filed against it in December. On Thursday a federal court judge in California refused to extend a temporary restraining order NetZero was awarded in...

marchFirst Files Chapter 11.(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Well, it's pretty much over. After a couple of huge layoffs and other cost-cutting measures and selling several business units to Internet holding company Divine Inc, web consultancy marchFirst filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on...

CyberCash Gets 2 Bids for Operating Assets.(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Electronic payment services provider CyberCash said Thursday that it had received two competing bids for just over $20 million in the court-sanctioned auction of its operating assets as part of the company's reorganization under Chapter 11. ...

E-Bill Wins.
April 16, 2001... FleetBoston Financial plans to use edocs' online statement and e- billing software to address its corporate and consumer customers. The deal will enable FleetBoston's corporate clients to send customer statements and invoices and receive...

Microsoft Adds Security Partners.
April 16, 2001... Three security consulting service providers - Computer Sciences Corporation, Found-stone and Guardent - have joined the Microsoft Security Services Partner Program, which supports tech pros specializing in securing Microsoft environments....

ReturnBuy Raises $15m.
April 16, 2001... ReturnBuy has closed a $15 million second round of funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures. Other investors in the round include eBay, Reicon and Abacus, the fund associated with the Sears Roebuck family. The latest round, which...

ICC Names Cassidy CEO.
April 16, 2001... B2B e-commerce infrastructure services provider Internet Commerce Corporation has named its founder and executive VP Michael Cassidy president and CEO. He replaces Geoffrey Carroll, who is resigning as president, CEO and a director of the...

Blue Martini, Cybrant Partner.
April 16, 2001... Blue Martini Software and Cybrant Corporation have teamed to integrate the Cybrant suite of Complex Selling Automation (CSA) apps with Blue Martini's e-CRM suite. The solution will enable companies to provide customers with personalized...

M'soft Updates SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio 6.0.(Web authoring program from Microsoft)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... Microsoft has unveiled a new version of its SOAP Toolkit for the Visual Studio 6.0 development system that adds full support for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1 and Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The Toolkit enables...

Commerce One COO: Ex-FedEx Exec.(Dennis Jones, former VP of information technology and CIO of FedEx, named vp and COO at Commerce One)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Commerce One has named Dennis Jones, former VP of information technology and CIO of FedEx, as its vice-chairman and COO. Jones will be responsible for engineering, marketing, financial, legal and administrative operations at the e-marketplace...

Online Businesses See Silver Lining.(ActivMedia Research report)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Despite all the doom and gloom surrounding e-companies, a good chunk of them apparently have reached profitability. According to ActivMedia Research, mid-sized e-commerce sites have the highest profitability rate. The researcher found that 61%...

Active Net Users in Europe Up 54%.(eMarketer report)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... The Internet will see some 108 million "active" users in Europe this year, according to eMarketer, a 54% increase from last year. The market researcher projects that 2004 will see 255 million Europeans actively online. As for revenue, European...

UK Online Ad Spending Up 203%.(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Online ad spending in the UK in 2000 grew 203% to 154.7 million pounds ($222.3 million), up from 51 million pounds ($73.3 million) in 1999, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau. Not only is it growing at a staggering rate, but it has...

Wireless Ads, Promos To Hit $3.9b.(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Revenue from wireless advertising and promotions in the US will reach $3.9 billion in 2005, according to The Kelsey Group. The researcher, which defines wireless marketing as the delivery of ads, coupons and other promotional and...

Corporates Adopting Streaming Video.(Jupiter Media Metrix report)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... According to Jupiter Media Metrix, enterprise spending on streaming video technology will grow from $140 million in 2000 to $2.8 billion in 2005. The growth will stem from companies using the technology to communicate with employees. Once...

RealNetworks Serves Millions.(RealPlayer streaming audio and video software market share)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... RealNetworks on Thursday bragged that it has more than 200 million registered users of its RealPlayer streaming audio and video software. Gosh, that sounds like nearly everyone on the web, depending on how you count. There are varying estimates...

Consumer Groups Buzz Orbitz.(led by the American Antitrust Institute)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Consumer advocates have a bead on the proposed online joint venture created by the country's tops airlines, Orbitz. Fifteen of them, led by the American Antitrust Institute, have petitioned Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta to prevent the...

M'Soft, Pivotal Hit the Road with Demand Chain Management.
April 16, 2001... As part of the demand chain partnership they forged in December (OLR No 226), Pivotal and Microsoft are launching a 15-city executive series tour along with Compaq. In it Forrester Research analyst Paul Hagen will discuss how some execs are...

W3C Publishes XHTML Modules Spec.
April 16, 2001... The World Wide Web Consortium has published the Modularization of XHTML spec as a W3C Recommendation, indicating the spec is stable, contributes to web interoperability and that W3C members are in favor of supporting its adoption....

Valtech Reselling Open Market Stuff.(Open Market's Content Server Enterprise Edition)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... E-business consulting firm Valtech A/S inked a deal to resell Open Market's Content Server Enterprise Edition (CSEE) product family. The Danish firm, which serves the consumer brands, finance and retail markets globally, will resell Open Market...

Kozmo - Nought.(company is shutting down)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Neil Young once sang "It's better to burn out than fade away," and the online urban delivery service Kozmo sure took that phrase to heart. After going through almost $300 million in venture capital, the company is shutting down while it still...

W Logs Off Personal E-Mail.(President Bush won't e-mail family and friends)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... President Bush won't e-mail family and friends anymore because he doesn't want his personal e-mails to show up in the public domain. He told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that as President his personal correspondence could be...

Whistling in the Graveyard?(e-company is offering its list of the 101 lamest moments in the dot-com era)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... It's peculiar that tragedy is such rich fodder for farce - but alas, it's so. Smirking at the carnage of the tech fallout, e-company is offering its list of the 101 lamest moments in the dot-com era. Entitled, "Boo! And the 100 Other Dumbest...

PeopleSoft Releases CIC, Accelerated SCM.(Customer Interaction Center)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... PeopleSoft has unveiled the CRM Customer Interaction Center (CIC), the next major release of its customer relationship management suite, with enhanced workflow and better integration with back- office systems. The CIC is meant to provide a...

Vignette Expects To Meet Estimates.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 16, 2001... Unlike rivals BroadVision and ATG, both of which recently warned that results for the March quarter would be far below analyst estimates (OLR No 242), Vignette is looking at a first quarter in line with expectations. The e-business app house...

Swedes Go for Online Social Security.
April 16, 2001... Stockholm - The Swedish capital is about to roll out a scheme called The 24 Hour Authority, in which non-sensitive information will be present on the Internet to a greater extent than before. More important the Internet will also carry...

Cylant Takes New Slant on Intrusion Defense.(Cylant Technology's CylantSecure)(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... Internet start-up Cylant Technology has released a new intrusion defense tool on Linux that takes a different tack to detect and protect networks against both known and unknown attacks. Cylant says unlike other intrusion detection systems,...

Kana, Broadbase Merging in ERM Push.
April 16, 2001... Kana Communications and Broadbase Software are merging to create what Kana chairman and CEO Jay Wood says will be the "undisputed leader in the emerging ERM market." The deal certainly will give both companies a much better chance at survival....

TRUSTe Posts Guidelines for Companies in Flux.
April 16, 2001... TRUSTe, the organization that provides privacy certification to web sites, has come up with a draft of some privacy practice guidelines for companies involved in mergers, acquisitions or bankruptcies. With the shake-up in the US economy, a lot...

Heavyweights Concerned About Security.(industry support for XML key management specification (XKMS))
April 16, 2001... Microsoft, VeriSign and webMethods say they've seen broad industry support for the XML key management specification (XKMS) they jointly developed. The three, along with Baltimore Technologies, HP, IBM, Iona, PureEdge Solutions and Reuters...

Critical Path Axes 450, President Among Casualties.(Diana Whitehead, Mari Tangredi)
April 16, 2001... Messaging services provider Critical Path delivered another jolt with the news Tuesday that it would lay off 450 employees, including its new president Diana Whitehead and Mari Tangredi, executive VP of business development, sales and...

Guillotine Falls on PayNet.(closing operations)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... At the time of its launch two years back, PayNet, the first European e-billing services provider, boasted that "the revolution in payment transactions has begun." Unfortunately, like a lot of revolutions, this one too is ending with the...

HighDeal Promises E-Businesses Deliverance from Flat Rate Tyranny.
April 16, 2001... HighDeal, a spin-off from France Telecom, was founded on the premise that flat rate pricing is a major gating factor for e-businesses delivering Internet content and services. In the start-up's view, flat rate pricing limits not just the...