Elizabeth Clampet

MSN Hotmail, in an attempt to provide better privacy to its users, Wednesday announced a feature that will erase messages once a user logs off the system. The service is designed for subscribers who use public terminals such as those found in Internet cafes, public libraries and universities. This login option expires pages from the […]

Internet backbone provider Teleglobe is working with satellite company INTELSAT to test multicasting services via the Internet Distribution System (IDS), an Internet satellite system. The IDS system is designed to cache the most frequently accessed Internet content in a data”warehouse” and multicast the data via satellite to correspondent “kiosk” sites around the world. In this […]

Looking to target the growing online Latino population in the United States, Prodigy Communications Corp. Tuesday launched a Spanish-language Internet access service. Modeled after Prodigy’s original service, Prodigy’s bilingual service offers in-language advertising, informational materials, news information and links to other Hispanic Web sites and services. Users can access news, sport scores, weather and local […]

Sandpiper Networks, Inc. Monday announced it has added support for multimedia-streaming content to the latest version of its Footprint service. Footprint 2.0 is a subscription-based content distribution service, designed to migrate individual content to a global distribution network for fast, reliable delivery to a user’s desktop. With this latest version, the company will deliver multimedia […]

Internet service provider ZipLink, LLC Monday entered into an agreement with DirectWeb, Inc. to provide national Internet access services for DirectWeb’s comprehensive computing and Internet solution. DirectWeb, which debuted its services March 31 in the Philadelphia area, offers its customers a personal computer complete with Internet access. The company said it will provide 25,000 PCs […]

At a recent board meeting, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Standards Association approved standards for intranet/extranet applications. IEEE Std 2001-1998 defines recommended practices for designing and implementing well-engineered Web pages for use in intranet and extranet environments based on HTML specifications, migration to XML and related industry guidelines. The recommended practices set […]

AT&T this week announced it will work IBM’s global network to enhance its enterprise class virtual private network services, which provide businesses with a single, integrated solution for domestic and international Internet dial and VPN dial access. The IBM global network serves the networking needs of more than 1 million individual Internet users and businesses […]

Web site directory Looksmart Ltd. Wednesday announced it has received $60 million in its latest round of financing. This round of funding is reportedly one of the largest ever raised by a private Internet media company, bringing Looksmart’s total capital raised-to-date to $79.3 million. Investors include Amerindo Investment Advisors, Citicorp Equity Capital, Cox Interactive Media, […]

Bright Light Technologies, makers of anti-spam software and e-mail programs, has formed partnerships with a slew of industry players, including Netscape, Excite, Juno and Software.com, to combat the growing problem of spam, or unsolicited e-mail. In its partnerships with Netscape and Software.com, Bright Light will integrate its Bright Mail Anti-Spam Service with Netscape’s Messaging Server […]

Dataware Technologies, Inc. Tuesday released its Dataware II Knowledge Query Server 2.0, an information retrieval solution designed to seamlessly integrate databases with corporate intranets. The server is intended to allow users to query multiple information repositories simultaneously, including internal and external Web-based resources such as databases, document management systems and intranets. It combs multiple intranet-based […]

Compaq unit and IPO hopeful AltaVista Co. Monday added a new multimedia search service to its already popular Internet guide. AV Photo & Media Finder is designed to provide users with the ability to search among more than 17 million photos, video and audio clips found on the Web. Supported formats include MP3, RealAudio, WAV, […]

To celebrate the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s first close above 10,000, online broker E*TRADE Group Inc. Tuesday is offering its customers commission-free trading on all 30 stocks that make up the index. E*TRADE customers can trade free of charge all 30 stocks that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average all day Tuesday. Commissions will be […]