Elizabeth Clampet

CompuServe Thursday announced a new automatic payment plan for its business customers. The service allows corporate business account holders to be able to transfer funds directly from their bank accounts to Compuserve when paying their monthly bills. The service uses Automatic Clearing House (ACH) technology, the firm said. The goal is to reduce paperwork, and […]

Confident in its ability to provide Internet access, GTE Internetworking Wednesday began offering a complete guarantee of its business Internet services. The new service level guarantee provides businesses with credits for service in the event they experience transmission delays, information loss, or degradation in the network availability. In an effort to focus on business customers, […]

MCI WorldCom Advanced Networks Wednesday debuted Remote Office, a service designed to connect remote offices to corporate intranets through a single local dial-up connection. Remote Office was created with Cisco Systems technology and replaces a Wide Area Network (WAN) with a Local Area Network (LAN). The end-to-end service uses routers to securely link multiple simultaneous […]

Spyglass Inc. Tuesday signed an agreement with Tektronix Inc. to develop a customized printing application to allows Tektronix printers to print Web page files from a company’s intranet. The PhaserLink PDF Direct Printing application is designed to keep all information on an intranet, eliminating the need to download information to a local machine, Spyglass said. […]

Traditional investing will continue to decline as online brokers gain popularity, according to a study released Thursday by NFO Interactive. While online investing is enjoying tremendous growth of late, much of its success has come at the expense of traditional investment firms, said Lee Smith, NFO’s vice president of marketing and business development. The number […]

Cable Internet company @Home Network Thursday added international content providers and application developers as participants in its media development program, with the intention of increasing exposure to its broadband programming. As part of the development program, @Home works with participants to optimize content for its high-speed network. The program also enables content providers to work […]

Online grocer NetGrocer Wednesday relaunched its Web site and unveiled a new business model designed to make online shopping more simple, efficient and economical. The revamped site features easier and speedier navigation, a store directory, recommended purchases by category and online coupons. The site now has separate sections for groceries, gifts and drug store items. […]

Internet company Inktomi Corp. is teaming with British Telecom to offer Inktomi’s search engine services in Europe. Under the agreement, BT will host Inktomi’s search data centers at its facilities. Inktomi said that European users of the service would be able to access about 40 million documents related to Europe. BT will also reportedly have […]

Aligning itself with another search-based company, AltaVista Tuesday made an equity investment in online video and image search company Virage Inc.. In addition to its nearly 10 percent investment, AltaVista will integrate Virage’s VideoLogger and Video Search Tools (VST) into the AltaVista site. With the software, Internet and intranet users can search for and find […]

Many financial institutions dove into the online banking pool in 1998, resulting in an explosive growth of online banking households, according to a recent survey by research firm INTECO Corp. PC banking grew from 3.8 million households in the third quarter of 1997 to 7 million by the end of 1998, the survey found. INTECO […]

QUALCOMM Inc. Monday said it is working with US WEST’s Wireless subsidiary to conduct trials of its High Data Rate (HDR) Internet access service. HDR is designed to deliver high-speed Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless Internet access at peak data rates greater than 1.8 megabits per second (Mbps), with even higher speeds expected in […]

Looking to address the recent e-commerce growth, transaction software company GO Software Inc. and Internet transaction processing firm NOVA Information Systems Inc. Monday announced a new Internet payment solution. The service integrates NOVA’s TransPort Technology with GO Software’s Charge suite of merchant payment processing software products. Windows PC users with an Internet connection can process […]