InternetNews Staff

Vancouver-based Medbroadcast Corporation announced today that its consumer medical website Medbroadcast.com has been chosen to become the primary provider of health and medical content for Toronto-based Portal site Canada.com. “We anticipate that our position on canada.com will double our traffic for the third time in the past year,” said Medbroadcast Chairman and CEO Dr. Michael […]

Digital Airways said Wednesday that is shipping its Wapaka Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) microbrowser, written in Java, for Palm devices. The microbrowser is based on Sun Microsystems’ Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) specifications, the company said. It said a version for Pocket PC handhelds will be available soon. The microbrowser supports multiple open windows. It […]

An industry-sponsored survey released Tuesday claims that consumers are “keenly interested” in interactive television (i-TV) and are willing to spend money to get it. Significantly for application and content vendors, the study found that news was the most popular application, and using i-TV to augment the television experience also ranked highly. The most popular i-TV […]

Seeking recovery of a sum approximated by lawyers at Sitianni & Youtz to be $2 billion in actual damages, an InfoSpace stockholder has filed suit in the Superior Court of Washington for King County against present and former officers and directors of InfoSpace. The “Shareholders Derivative Suit,” filed on March 19, 2001, seeks recovery directly […]

South Africa — WRQ Inc. recently rolled out a solution that promises to overcome all the problems inherent in legacy integration. The business rules and logic built into legacy apps are often important to businesses that are investigating online commerce. When it comes to building e-business initiatives on legacy foundations, however, prospective e-players often run […]

HONG KONG — Singapore-based ISP Pacific Internet Limited , today announced the introduction of two new high speed Internet access plans for the corporate market in Singapore — Network Broadband and Biz Broadband Ultimate. Network Broadband is based on Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL) technology that enables businesses to upload and download information at a […]

BEIJING — China Unicom Ltd. more than doubled analysts’ expectations by reporting that its Year 2000 net profits were RMB 3.2 Billion (US$387 million). Officials at China Unicom, which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as 0762 and the New York Stock Exchange as CHU, attribute the surge in profit to control of […]

LONDON — According to research conducted by Idaya, the Linux market is set to grow by more than 150 per cent this year. Brighton-based Idaya, which is the principal sponsor of the freeVSD project — an open-source web-hosting platform — and provides software for ISPs, ASPs and IHPs, conducted the research between January and March […]

Articulent, a Hopkinton, Mass., provider of storage management services, is being acquired by storage networking firm CNT , of Minneapolis, Minn. The deal includes $12 million in cash, the assumption of $24 million in liabilities and an incentive payout of up to $10 million over the next year, depending on performance. CNT gets Articulent’s outstanding […]

Application service provider USinternetworking, Inc. is opening a new data center in Dublin, Ireland, to meet the growing international requirements of U.S. multinational clients. The new data center utilizes the company’s Global Services Platform (GSP), an integrated operating platform designed to deliver enterprise software as a service. USi’s Global Network, computing platform, storage area network, […]

New York-based energy efficiency services firm MyUtility Inc., has snapped up some assets of defunct Utility.com, the idealab!-backed startup which was forced out of business by skyrocketing energy prices in California. MyUtility, which manufactures interval meter data units and provides energy information services, said it had acquired the UtilityOne Web platform from Utility.com. An undisclosed […]

Siegelgale Trims Staff Venerable Internet, brand and marketing consultancy Siegelgale on Tuesday laid off about 15 percent of its New York staff, or 35 employees. Most of the positions cut were non-billable — administrative, office management and financial positions. There were some cuts among junior personnel in the firm’s Internet, design and consulting units as […]