Elizabeth Clampet

Virus protection firm Trend Micro Inc. Tuesday rolled out its latest product suite, InterScan WebManager 1.0, which provides Web-based security management and reporting tools for use on intranets and the Internet. It includes Web traffic virus and malicious code scanning, URL filtering, user Web access management, traffic reporting and proactive notification, as well as digital […]

Users who registered domain names with Australian registrar Internic.com are set to receive refunds from the company, which according to American and Australian consumer protection agencies mislead and overcharged customers. As many as 13,000 consumers mistook the firm for InterNIC, the registration arm of Network Solutions. While Network Solutions charges $100 for two years worth […]

GoTo.com Monday launched an addition to its affiliate program, allowing any Web site to incorporate its search functions for free into its site. Called the Search Syndication Network, it builds on the company’s affiliate program, which pays sites for driving users to GoTo.com. Membership is estimated at 40,000, the firm said. With the search network, […]

Working with IntelliSeek, Inc., Lycos Inc. Monday launched Invisible Web Catalog, a searchable database of specialty search sources. Invisible Web is an index of approximately 7,000 databases and sources that are not visible through traditional search engines, the company said. It contains sources that are not crawlable or contain proprietary formats. Found in the “searchable […]

The move by Amazon.com to reduce the price of New York Times Best Sellers by 50 percent last month may have been good for bookworms, but The New York Times Co. wasn’t so pleased and has threatened legal action to stop the discount. In a letter sent to the retailer, the Times contends that Amazon […]

Atlanta will be the test market for a new Internet access option to be tested this fall by BellSouth. The new service is an effort to overcome the distance limitations of Digital Subscriber Line and will give phone companies another way to battle cable companies’ Internet offerings. Called passive optical network (PON), it uses high-capacity, […]

Dow Jones & Co. became the Net’s latest portal player Wednesday by evolving dowjones.com from a corporate Web site to a destination aimed at business Web surfers. The company will bring to the portal customized stock information and business resources, as well as news and search capabilities. Partners include The Wall Street Journal interactive edition […]

To address the increasing popularity of set-top devices, Microsoft subsidiary WebTV Networks, Inc. Wednesday unveiled an upgraded product line and expansion of services. WebTV introduced upgrades to its Classic and Plus set-top boxes to provide more power, speed and internal memory for the same price as earlier versions, the company said. The Classic terminal is […]

Internet stocks remained in the red today, unable to take advantage of the late day upswing that was seen in the Dow. Interest rate fears, which have plagued the market recently, seemed to diminish as traders edged the Dow Jones industrial average up 36.52 to close at 10596.26. Internet stocks were not so lucky, as […]

News from Barron’s that Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) is overvalued sent most Net stocks down at midday, followed by a drop in both the Dow and Nasdaq. Shares of the mega-retailer fell 6 9/16 to 112 3/16 in early afternoon trading. internet.com’s Internet Stock Index was down 16.26, or 3.17 percent, to 497.08, the Dow Jones industrial […]

In a move intended to bulk the company’s Internet offerings, Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch (TMCS) Tuesday unveiled its upgraded auction Web site, CityAuction, now powered by the Internet Shopping Network. The auctions will run by the ISN’s First Auction, a division of USA Networks, Inc. USA Networks also has a majority stake in TMCS. First Auction features […]

More than two-thirds of the employees at Web community GeoCities are losing their jobs now that Yahoo!’s acquisition of the company has been finalized. Yahoo! confirmed Friday that approximately 200 of GeoCities’ 319 positions have been eliminated. A Yahoo! spokeswoman said the human resources, sales, customer service and public relations departments will see the brunt […]