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Financial services is one of the few areas of m-commerce that has shown significant signs of life in the U.S. and online broker E-Trade Monday said it was upping the ante. The company said it would offer extended trading hours to wireless users of the service. Specifically, the brokerage extended trading hours for wireless users […]

Network Appliance, a provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, today announced a Center-to-Edge streaming solution consisting of RealNetwork’s RealServer(TM) and Network Appliance(TM) filers and NetCache(R) appliances. “Business-critical enterprise applications such as sales training, marketing communications, and investor relations require robust streaming infrastructure that is scalable and simple to manage,” said Amit Pandey, […]

MetraTech the Waltham, Mass. provider of Web billing services yesterday predicted Microsoft’s new Windows XP operating system will advance the adoption of XML-based billing technology for Web services. MetraTech’s XML-based billing platform is designed to help companies mix, match, combine and customize billing plans which when created in a shorter time can also earning the […]

Ivesia Solutions Inc. announced the release of WATS, a proprietary Web-based work allocation and tracking system. This custom-built product will maximize efficiency in development teams through optimized team interaction and systematic tracking of project tasks. WATS features include, among others, project planning, resource allocation, task management, customized team member interaction and bug tracking. Ivesia uses […]

Cambridge, Mass. E-business infrastructure services and software firm Akamai Technologies has announced a deal with Nissan North America to support the car maker’s marketing promotion of the 2002 Nissan Altima. Nissan plans to use the Akamai EdgeSuite service to power its Web marketing splash for the release of the new Altima. In addition, Nissan would […]

By Ryan Naraine With its net losses climbing from last year, Burlington, Mass.-based software firm RadView announced a workforce reduction that affected 20 percent of its staff. RadView, a maker of Web-application testing and analysis software, has cut about 40 percent of its workforce since the second quarter of 2001. “These actions are expected to […]

By @NY Staff Rare Medium Group, one of Silicon Alley’s high-flying Internet services and venture investing outfits during the dot-com heyday, has exited the professional services business. In a two paragraph announcement, the New York-based Rare Medium said it sold off its remaining business services assets and also completed the sale of its LiveMarket subsidiary. […]

Chrysler Thursday unveiled its vision of in-car communications, including extensive use of Bluetooth technology and hands-free access to mobile phones. The company said it will offer a hands-free, voice recognition-based communications system that employs the users regular wireless phone, not a model built into the car, it said in a statement. The company said it […]

Digital River , a business ASP, today reported that its third quarter revenue for 2001 was $14.0 million, up 84 percent from third quarter of 2000 ($7.6 million). The current quarterly earnings also represent a 7-percent increase from revenue of $13.1 million in the second quarter of this year. While reporting positive growth, the Eden […]

Citrix Systems Inc. , a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,-based provider of portal software and services, today announced support for Microsoft’s release of its Windows XP desktop operating system. Citrix will be previewing its new technology, codenamed ‘Jardine,’ next week at its annual user conference, Citrix iForum 2001. Jardine has been designed to extend the virtual workplace […]

WebEx Communications Inc. , the San Jose, Calif. provider of Web-based interactive communications infrastructure, today announced the availability of its conference services for users of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system. The WebEx network, designed specifically for interactive Web-based communications will be accessible to Windows XP users, who can start a Pay-Per-Use WebEx conference from […]

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a provider of InfiniBand(SM) silicon, this week introduced and announced the immediate availability of the InfiniScale(TM) MT43132 InfiniBand switch; a single chip silicon device with integrated physical layer for the InfiniBand market. Accordig to Mellanox, its InfiniScale switch improves the bandwidth of storage area networking and server clustering by a factor of […]