Elizabeth Clampet

Following other portals into the broadcast radio sector, Yahoo! Inc. Tuesday teamed up with broadcast.com and Spinner.com to launch a 10-channel live radio site, Yahoo! Radio. The service is designed to provide users with direct access to audio programming 24 hours a day. Broadcast.com will provide hosting and streaming services for the site, and Spinner.com […]

Looking to extend its reach in the wireless Internet market, Microsoft Corp. Monday announced plans to launch a co-branded portal with Nextel Communications Inc. on its MSN site, designed specifically for wireless users. As part of the agreement, Microsoft also committed to buying $600 million worth of Nextel stock, priced at $36 per share. Under […]

Inverse Network Technology Inc. released its latest Internet access report card, which showed it was the winter of discontent for many Internet users. The firm tested ISP performance for the first quarter of 1999. The ability for users to connect to their ISPs on the first try during peak evening hours — 6 p.m. to […]

Calling for equal access for all Internet users, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week unveiled a set of Internet access guidelines for site designers and Webmasters. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 establish principles for accessible design, such as the need to provide equivalent alternatives for auditory and visual information. Each guideline has […]

Domain registrar Network Solutions Inc. is the target of a Justice Department probe, which is investigating whether the firm has broken antitrust laws. Network Solutions has collected a database of customer names and addresses during its tenure as exclusive domain registrar and is claiming sole ownership rights, reportedly refusing to offer the list to competitors, […]

As the Dow surpasses the 11,000 mark and Internet stocks continue their hot streak, Quote.com and InfoSpace.com announced a partnership Tuesday to enhance the finance channel within InfoSpace.com’s network. Scheduled to re-launch this summer, InfoSpace.com Finance will offer investment news and information, IPO ratings, research resources and portfolio management services to members of InfoSpace.com’s distribution […]

A United Nations body is looking to outlaw the common practice of cybersquatting–registering a popular Internet address with the intent to sell it — saying that trademark owners should have first rights to them. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Friday sent a draft of its proposal to the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and […]

Excite Inc. and Punch Networks Corp. Monday announced they will offer a co-branded file sharing and collaboration service to visitors to Excite’s portal site. WebGroups is designed to allow users to instantly store, share and update files using a Web browser. A WebGroup is a private page on a secure Web site in which collections […]

A life cycle for the intranet industry has emerged, showing how successful intranets mature as they are integrated into businesses, according to research by The Concours Group. Its report, “Project CI: Managing and Exploiting Corporate Intranets,” studied 15 Fortune 1000 companies, and found a pattern among intranets that companies can use when planning intranet strategy, […]

Radio stations are tuned in the most from cars, and cigarette lighters allow for television viewing while driving, so now two companies are working to have the Internet follow suit. Online Anywhere and Vetronix Corp. this week signed a technology agreement to co-develop a voice-based solution for accessing Web content from an automobile. Under the […]

Taking a step to offer broadband service to cable subscribers worldwide, Internet service provider @Home Nederland Friday said it will distribute its high-speed cable Internet service in the Netherlands next month. @Home Nederland is a joint venture between @Home Network, Intel Corp. and Dutch cable firms CasTel and Palet Kabelcom. A third cable company, N.V. […]

Cable modem service Road Runner announced an agreement Thursday with CacheFlow Inc. to speed up service by deploying CacheFlow’s Internet accelerators. Terms of the $5 million deal call for CacheFlow’s accelerators to be integrated into Road Runner’s nationwide infrastructure. The joint venture between Time Warner, MediaOne Group, Microsoft, Compaq and Advance/Newhouse claims that with the […]