Cyrus Afzali

Infoseek Corp. announced Tuesday it is parterning with Hewlett-Packard Co. in a deal that will make Infoseek’s Ultraseek Content Classification Engine the featured classified engine of HP’s Covision program. The Ultraseek engine allows businesses to easily index and search content stored on intranets and the Internet. The product was introduced in November and works in […]

Cisco Systems Inc is forming a new business unit to help businesses make the most of the Internet and electronic commerce. Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group was formed to give businesses assistance from a variety of application vendors and system integrators that can share their infrastructure and Internet expertise. The group is composed of information […]

MCI WorldCom Inc. Monday launched a $323 million bid to acquire OzEmail, Australia’s leading Internet provider. MCI WorldCom is making the $2.20 a share bid through UUNET Holdings Australia, one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries. MCI WorldCom has already acquired almost 22 million newly-issued shares that give it almost a 15 percent stake. OzEmail has almost […]

Discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp. has notified its online customers that it will not accept trades of four recent initial public offerings, three of which are Internet stocks. The Internet stocks on the list are Internet America Inc. and Abovenet Communications, which went public Wednesday, and Infospace.com Inc., which is expected to begin trading next […]

California has opted to gradually move its contracting and purchasing operations to the Internet, making a big winner of Andersen Consulting. The company Friday landed a $5.4 million contract to build the online system that will handle the operation. Andersen plans to partner with PeopleSoft and Ariba Technologies to design the system, which will replace […]

Siemens Information and Communications Networks Inc. is partnering with Enterprise Consulting Group Inc. to package a group of intranet solutions aimed at health care providers. Enterprise will develop customized content which will be combined with Siemens’ intranet platform. The companies will target small and medium-sized hospitals and health care facilities across the country. Siemens health […]

One of Canada’s leading Internet providers is going to war with Bell Canada over promotional claims the telco is using in conjunction with its new high-speed Internet service. Internet Direct will ask regulators to intervene to stop Bell Canada’s new marketing efforts which are targeting the nation’s Internet providers. Bell Canada’s “1-Megabyte Modem” promotion is […]

The Nasdaq Stock Market is partnering with Broadcast.com to bring more investor information to the public. The two sealed a deal Wednesday to broadcast the quarterly earnings conference calls for companies in the Nasdaq 100 index, a group of the largest companies that trade on the Nasdaq market. Under the pilot program, companies in the […]

Lycos Inc. Wednesday opened the Lycos Store, an online department store carrying thousands of products and more than 200 brand names. The store will feature everything from jewelry to golf equipment to toys. The site will be linked across the Lycos network, which includes search engine HotBot, the directory WhoWhere and Web community Tripod. Customers […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday made several revisions to its licensing model for the Java programming language that it says will speed its adoption. Alan Baratz, president of Java software at Sun, said the new model is designed to give developers easier access to source code, speed innovation and bring more commercial Java products to market. […]

Sprint Corp. Monday began going after business customers for its new, nationwide network that will allow companies to use one source to carry all their data, video and voice traffic. Scheduled to launch in January, the Integrated On-Demand Network, or ION, eliminates worries about obsolescence, redundant costs and the problems often associated with managing multiple […]

Netscape Communications Corp. Monday released a new version of its Commerce Exchange suite of e-commerce applications designed to help businesses manage trading processes and to connect with the business systems of partners over the Internet and intranets. Commerce Exchange also enables a company to host online trading sites with partners of any size and supports […]