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SYDNEY — An American sex industry operator believes the corporate market can learn a lot from the industry. “Mainstream business sites need instant traffic figures to show their investors,” Reuters recently reported. “We’ve got traffic, so we can direct it to struggling sites. But we also hope to ‘get in bed’ and start a relationship, […]

CAPE TOWN — The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has signed a three-year enterprise licensing and services agreement with Microsoft South Africa (MS). The deal is valued at R468 million, with the government winning savings of R300 million in licensing fees. MS products will be deployed in 100 000 PCs as well as MS Enterprise […]

SINGAPORE — Lemon (Asia) Limited, an Internet World Asia Awards recipient for Best Design Shop last year, has partnered with U.S.-based Art Technology Group, Inc. (ATG) to support integration of the ATG Dynamo e-business platform into Lemon’s customer base. As part of its corporate vision of providing consulting, design, development and deployment services for companies […]

AOL, Blockbuster Reprise “You’ve Got Mail” Contest America Online aims to turn one of the Internet generation’s most-recognizable catchphrases — “You’ve Got Mail” — into a promotional tool for home video and DVD giant Blockbuster, Inc. During May, AOL will tap the voices of TV, movie sports and music celebrities to say “You’ve Got Mail” […]

Hoping to establish its place at the top of the wireless broadband heap, the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA) Wednesday said that 38 companies have passed 93 products through rigorous Wi-Fi certification testing. Each of the products uses a type of local-area networking technology that operates over the 2.4 GHz license-free spectrum. Come together The […]

Openwave Systems Inc. a vendor of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and other mobile communications infrastructure products, said Thursday that it turned a profit for the fiscal quarter that ended March 31. The company’s revenues for the quarter increased about 19 percent over the previous quarter to $130 million. Pro forma earnings for the quarter were […]

CAPE TOWN — One of South Africa’s largest retailers, Woolworths Ltd, has selected Dimension Data (DiData) to provide it with a web-based strategic planning and analysis tools. The Management Planning and Control (MPC) solution, supplied by US-based Comshare, implements planning, budgeting, consolidation and management reporting into single application. It will provide Woolworths with a national […]

SINGAPORE — i2 Technologies, Inc., a provider of supply chain and market place services, has formed an alliance with SESAMi Inc., a B2B e-commerce service provider operating the SESAMi.NET e-market place in Asia, to drive e-procurement and collaborative commerce in the region. The six-year partnership will see SESAMi resell i2’s TradeMatrix platform and the latter’s […]

SYDNEY — Sport and travel are a major focus of user growth, according to new research released by Internet measurement and analysis firm Jupiter Media Metrix. Unique visitors to sports sites grew by 33 per cent between February and March to reach 1.3 million, the highest number of unique users in the sports category since […]

While Infospace has remained very quite following a rash of reorganization in February, The Bellevue-based company today outlined enhancements to its wireless platform, applications and services that are designed to take advantage of the benefits delivered by 2.5 and 3G networks. The company is banking on the adaptation of not only the higher bandwidth mobile […]

Audible, which delivers audio content to computers, said Thursday that it would add the ability to deliver its digital content to wireless Net devices. The company was showing its new AudibleWireless technology at the e-Learning Convention and Expo this week. Audible’s content covers both popular items such as spoken-word books as well as materials for […]

With the United States Postal Service facing challenging times with competition from email and other parcel services, the post office has teamed up with Portland-based Zairmail to offer small businesses access to direct mail campaigns. When small businesses visit the Postal Service’s newly launched USPSDirectMail site, they can access the Zairmail Web site, where they […]