Elizabeth Clampet

Shoutmail.com Inc. hopes to integrate two popular forms of communication with Thursday’s launch of a Web portal for phone users. Visitors to Shoutmail.com can access free e-mail, chat and telephony options by combining their telephone and computer, the firm said. To provide the services, Shoutmail has formed strategic alliances with Yahoo!, Hotmail and America Online. […]

French networking firm Alcatel Wednesday announced it will acquire Internet Devices Inc., a company that specializes in virtual private networks, for approximately $180 million in cash. Internet Devices’ product family includes secure policy management solutions that integrate VPNs, enterprise-level firewall protection, bandwidth management and other network services. With the acquisition, Alcatel hopes to create a […]

Fuel was added to the controversy surrounding the MP3 format this week as a federal court in California ruled Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.’s Rio MP3 player does not infringe on any music copyrights. Diamond’s Rio player is one of the more popular MP3 devices. Looking and functioning much like a portable stereo system, it allows […]

Online content provider WebSideStory Tuesday launched a proprietary search engine designed to rank sites based on popularity. Yep.com uses WebSideStory’s HitBOX Tracker traffic counter program to rank the popularity of sites found in the search database. Relevant lists are compiled in order from the most popular down, the company said. There arespecific categories to search, […]

Responding to Monday’s report that it is possible to allow ISPs open access to cable Internet infrastructure, broadband provider Excite@Home Tuesday defended keeping cable connections private. On Monday America Online Inc. and GTE Service Corp. released results of a pilot program conducted to test the feasibility of open access cable Internet infrastructure. According to the […]

Looking to improve its stake in the wireless world, Microsoft Corp. Monday launched MSN Mobile, a site designed to offer customized services to Internet users with pagers and cellular phones. The service comes on the heels of Microsoft’s acquisition of OmniBrowse Inc., a company that develops applications for wireless handheld devices. Terms of the acquisition […]

Online advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. Monday added marketing expertise to its list of services by acquiring direct marketing company Abacus Direct Corp. in a stock deal worth approximately $1 billion. Abacus is an information and research provider to the direct marketing industry and manages a proprietary database of consumer catalog buying behavior. With the acquisition, […]

Windows users take heed: a new and potentially destructive virus is being spread through e-mail systems and has already affected a number of corporations. The ExploreZip worm is a trojan horse program and will affect computers running Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT. The worm is being spread as an e-mail attachment and has […]

Dow Jones & Co. released an enhanced version of its Server Software that allows companies to integrate content with their intranets. Dow Jones Interactive Server Software 3.0 is designed to customize news and business information into intranets. Users can search and navigate through an estimated 6,000 newspapers, trade publications, business magazines and newswires from Dow […]

The U.S. Internet economy performed better than expected in 1998, generating more than $300 billion in revenue and providing 1.2 million jobs, according to a recent University of Texas study funded by Cisco Systems Inc. The first of a series of quarterly reports, the study also found that e-commerce is growing at a faster rate […]

Online broker E*Trade Group Inc. Wednesday joined with national Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. to offer discounted EarthLink Internet access to users who open an E*Trade account. Terms of the one year agreement call for new E*Trade account holders to receive six free months of Internet access from EarthLink. Both companies will also advertise the […]

Adding fuel to the online music fire, Cox Interactive Media Inc., a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Wednesday invested $45 million in MP3.com Inc., a site featuring music in the emerging digital format. CIMedia specializes in providing local content on the Web, and is the online arm of Cox Enterprises, whose holdings include newspapers, broadcasting, cable […]