Christine Gordon

In a show of bravado, several cyber-hackers busted into merchant sites operating shopping cart services supplied by PDG Software, stole information and then sent notes to the store owners boosting of their exploits. Atlanta-based PDG Software president David Snyder told internetnews.com that an undisclosed number of merchants sites touting his software had been scaled by […]

Hard on the heels of several top executive departures, Brad Chase, a longstanding Microsoft Corp. veteran who helped roll-out and tweak the software giant’s Internet services, is leaving his position. Curiously, Chase’s departure comes at a time when the company is formulating its strategy to contest America Online’s position as a top tier Internet player […]

In a sign that well-known companies are having as much trouble online as entrepreneurial start-ups, General Electric’s NBC has shut-down its online play, NBCi. Media giant NBC, which said it already held about 38.6 percent of NBCi’s shares, said it would pay $2.19 per share, or about $138 million for NBCi, based on shares outstanding […]

With more companies gravitating toward building and running applications off of the Java 2 platform enterprise edition (J2EE), content management play IntraNet Solutions Inc. has kept in step by announcing its alliance with Web infrastructure company KnowledgeTrack, Inc. Under the alliance, Brian Dirking, IntraNet’s director of business development, said the two companies would integrate and […]

New York-based infrastructure play Xand has debuted a cash incentives program to keep current and future partners glued to its offerings. Xand (pronounced X-and) intends to pitch a cash reward incentives program and its back-end infrastructure offerings at Internet business expo, iEB Expo, which is underway today at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New […]

In a verdict that ends a contentious debate over who owned popular URL sex.com, a federal judge has awarded $65 million to an entrepreneur who claimed his Internet domain name was hoodwinked by an online pornographer. U.S. District Judge James Ware found Stephen Cohen liable for fraud and forgery in a five-year battle over the […]

Five years ago, travel shopping and buying Internet site, Travelocity.com Inc. opened its virtual doors using a simple HTML loaded browser. Now, 80 wireless partners later — and swallowing offline airline competitor Northwest’s decision to offer commission free online tickets — the company is touting new technology features. The assortment of changes it has in […]

High speed Internet provider Covad Communications intends to hook-up a virtual hotshot to bring more users to broadband connectivity via its services. The company is pitching a three-step self-installation kit to users that it hopes will secure a place for it in the consumer marketplace — which is being heavily courted by large telecommunication companies […]

If you don’t have to go it alone, why go it alone online? At least that’s the question that huge offline office products retailer Office Depot, Inc. asked itself when faced with a prospective deal with online giant Microsoft Corp. It accepted the deal, of course. Today, the Florida-based company said it plans to use […]

Taking heed of the incensed debates that threaded their way through Web discussion groups today, Microsoft has admitted that its Passport software’s terms of use license is out of date. Tom Pilla, a spokesperson for the company said, “We haven’t explained (to people) that the existing Passport terms of use need to catch up with […]

Digital subscriber line (DSL) provider Covad Communications has agreed to sell it suite of small business services to Compaq Computer . The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement comes at a time when Covad’s main competitor, NorthPoint, is selling its DSL technology at a much lower price than the California-based company. […]

Theglobe.com‘s gaming site, Happy Puppy, has signed a partnership with 2Roam, a wireless software and application service provider (ASP). Through the partnership 2Roam will deliver Happy Puppy’s games content to anyone with an Internet-enabled wireless device, such as WAP-based phones, PDAs and two-pagers. Charles Gray, executive producer of theglobe.com’s games group, agreed that theglobe.com is […]