Elizabeth Clampet

E-commerce Web sites enjoyed a bountiful holiday season, and while its future looks bright, a new study predicts the industry will not reach profitability during the next 12-18 months. According to the Giga Information Group, only 5 percent of online ventures will turn a profit in the next year. There will be benefits, however, as […]

Cable Internet access, which currently holds a corner on the high-speed market, will face competitive challenges from alternative technologies in 2002, according to a new study by The Strategis Group. The study “High-Speed Internet: Demand, Technology, and Strategy” predicts that by 2002 cable modems will lose its hold on the market as digital subscriber line […]

The Net’s biggest service provider just got bigger. America Online Inc. Wednesday announced that its worldwide membership has exceeded 15 million. The sudden boost in membership is largely due to the holiday season. On Christmas day alone, more new members joined than on any single day in the company’s history, the company said. “This record-setting […]

Internet, phone and cable provider RCN Corp. Wednesday inked an $11 million deal with Ascend Communications to deploy Ascend’s switch technology in the Boston to Washington, D.C. corridor of RCN’s network. The deal is part of a campaign to promote and enhance its new ISP brand, RCN.com. Earlier this week the company brought subsidiaries Erols, […]

Beth Cox InternetNews Reporter The Pathways Group Inc. said it signed a letter of intent with LinkOpp Marketing Inc., a privately held Internet community, to provide a set of “turn-key” Smart Card solutions for LinkOpp’s membership. These solutions include the adaptation of Pathways’ existing Smart Card technology and provision of Smart Cards, terminals and other […]

Web marketer FutureNet Online Inc. has taken steps to become an Internet service provider by this week signing an agreement with Source Online Inc. to provide FutureNet’s Internet backbone. “Because of our work in the Internet industry in the past two and a half years, we recognized the need to become an Internet service provider […]

Would-be online shoppers need not worry about the safety of their online transactions, as encryption technology evolves and crackdowns on fraudulent businesses increase, according to some of the industry’s biggest players. “Buying online is as safe, if not safer, than the offline world,” said Robert L. Smith, Jr, executive director of shop.org, who sat on […]

Electronic billing firm CheckFree Monday joined with Ameren Corp. to offer Ameren customers an online option of receiving and paying bills. Based in St. Louis, Ameren is an energy company serving 1.8 million customers in Missouri and Illinois. Under terms of the agreement, Ameren customers will be able to access and pay bills through financial […]

Aiming to offer discounts on products to its customers, interactive marketing firm IntelliQuest Information Group Inc. Wednesday teamed up with Internet coupon company coolsavings.com, Inc. to launch a customer rewards program. The program allows users who register with IntelliQuest to access coupons from technology companies at coolsavings.com’s Web site. These coupons can be redeemed at […]

CellularVision USA Inc., one of the first ISPs in the country to offer high-speed services using Local Multipoint Distribution Service, or LMDS, Tuesday announced it is changing its name to SpeedUS.com. The news comes a month after the company decided to sell its LMDS spectrum and subscription television service to focus solely on Internet networking […]

Increases in online holiday shopping combined with the customary rise in online usage seen with the onset of colder weather combined to drive up the call failure rates of Internet service providers in November. Inverse Network Technology Tuesday said ISP evening call failures climbed to 8.6 percent in November from 6.8 percent in October. That […]

IBM Corp. Monday announced it will use Blue Sky Software Corp.’s RoboHELP HTML Edition 7.0 to transfer paper documents to its corporate intranet. Version 7.0 of RoboHELP HTML is designed to leverage existing Word documents, HTML pages, WinHelp files, graphics and multimedia, applying them to intranet information systems. The program also features project management and […]