Elizabeth Clampet

The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers held its latest round of meetings in Berlin this week and preliminarily endorsed the anti-cybersquatting tactics submitted by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Earlier this month, the WIPO outlined ways to ward off cybersquatters — those who register popular Internet addresses with the intent of selling them […]

California’s Public Utilities Commission is expected to consider Thursday whether calls made from a user to an Internet service provider should fall under local or long distance charges. According to published reports, the proposal stems from an argument between telephone company Pacific Bell and local telco Pac-West Telecomm Inc., a competitor that serves as a […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and United Parcel Service of America Inc. Wednesday created a partnership to develop a digital-delivery solution for sending and tracking paper-based documents online. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will pair UPS’ Document Exchange online delivery service with HP’s 9100C Digital Sender, a program that electronically sends physical documents. The result […]

Internet software firm Marimba Inc. Wednesday released the latest version of its Castanet product suite, which includes improved security features and a Japanese version. Castanet is an enterprise solution designed to provide infrastructure by which companies can distribute, update, and manage applications and related data over corporate intranets, extranets, and the Internet. Version 4.0.1 includes […]

NetScreen Technologies, a leading developer of integrated security appliances, and WebTrends Corp. Tuesday announced a joint marketing partnership to provide solutions for firewall and VPN management. The alliance combines NetScreen’s integrated firewall, VPN and traffic shaping appliance with WebTrends reporting and analysis solutions to deliver real-time reporting capabilities of network security log files, the firms […]

Macromedia Inc. and @Home Network Tuesday entered into an alliance that will bring rich media advertising to Macromedia’s applications by integrating @Home’s Enliven technology into the Flash and Shockwave multimedia players. Under the terms of the agreement, Enliven technology will be integrated into the applications to create an industry-standard delivery mechanism for rich-media advertisements. In […]

In an effort to appeal to the growing number of users with mobile devices, Excite, Inc. Monday launched an application for users of the Palm VII organizer, the latest wireless handheld computing product from Palm Computing Inc. With the application, users can retrieve their customized start pages, which includes personalized stock quotes, weather, news, sports […]

Domain name registrar register.com Monday received a $7 million investment from office supply retailer Staples, Inc. as part of a strategic alliance designed to target small businesses. Under terms of the partnership, the two firms will introduce a cross-marketing campaign to help small business customers initiate e-commerce activities and Web site registration. Staples.com and register.com […]

As more business travelers rely on the Internet to keep them connected to the office, infrastructure firm CAIS Internet Friday entered into an agreement with hotel chain John Q. Hammons Hotels, Inc. to offer its guests broadband Internet access. CAIS’s OverVoice high-speed Internet connections will be installed in select rooms in Hammons’ Embassy Suites, Radisson, […]

Online employment resource HotJobs.com Ltd. Thursday received $16 million in funding from a group of investors led by venture capital firm Generation Partners. Other investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Boston Millennia Partners. The company said it will use the capital to expand infrastructure, staffing levels and marketing expenditures. “Our strong relationship with these new […]

Browser firm NeoPlanet Inc. continued its efforts to advance the Mozilla open source project Thursday by announcing it will contribute to the production of Mozilla’s Open Instant-Messaging and Chat initiative. With OIMC, NeoPlanet aims to help create extensible software for enabling various instant messaging protocols to interact. When completed, the company plans to incorporate OIMC […]

Intranet developer Infosquare Corp.Wednesday released version OpenShare 2.0, an intranet and extranet publishing tool. OpenShare is a Web-based, open platform application designed to allow users to share data using existing office productivity tools while providing Webmasters with administrative control over style, security and access. The program converts documents to HTML and creates a uniform page […]