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Motorola Monday announced availability of two new Java-based wireless devices that combine telephony, two-way paging and personal information management capabilities. The company claims its new Motorola i85s and i50sx devices are the first wireless phones in North America to be based on the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) environment. The i85s is aimed at […]

Germany — Many call-by-call service providers, including Internet providers, must stop their telephone sales within the next few weeks, reported German magazine “Der Spiegel,” in its most recent edition. According to the “Spiegel,” the reason for this action is the high debt of many telephone provider companies to its initial supplier, Deutsche Telekom AG. Numerous […]

While the company reported that they were on track to reach profitability with their current cash reserves at the end of Q4, the softening market has forced Kirkland-based ImageX.com, Inc. to set up a series of initiatives aimed at reducing operating expenses in the first quarter and for the remainder of 2001. These initiatives include […]

Seattle-based RealNetworks, Inc. is said to be negotiating with three major record labels about a planned online music subscription service, according to The Wall Street Journal online. Quoting people familiar with the talks, the report said AOL Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Music Group, Bertelsmann AG’s BMG Entertainment and EMI Group PLC were discussing the possibility […]

[Johannesberg, SOUTH AFRICA] – Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are poised to surpass pure-plays in the e-tailing game asserts a new industry report. Based on a quantitative survey of 2,876 Net purchasers conducted during the fourth quarter of 2000, the Boston Consulting Group recently speculated that a golden opportunity to grow customer share online awaits offline retailers. […]

Liberate Technologies scored a significant win in the hotly-contested interactive television (i-TV) middleware market Thursday by winning an agreement to supply its interactive platform to Charter Communications. Charter will include the platform in set-top boxes that it will distribute to its customers throughout the U.S. The distribution of the new set-tops will begin in St. […]

No fewer than four online purveyors of online goods and/or services announced that they have succumb to the harsh economic times. Following its closing on March 12, online healthcare destination PlanetRx.com Inc. Thursday said it plans to close up shop by liquidating its assets. PlanetRx.com’s board Thursday authorized a plan of liquidation and proxy statement […]

Asera, an e-Business operating system provider, Thursday confirmed that John Keast is joining the company as executive vice president of operations and customer service. Keast will head Asera’s worldwide operations and customer service departments. Asera has offices in the UK and Germany. Before coming to Asera, Keast served as CIO at San Francisco-based energy supplier […]

With only eight people remaining in their office, Vancouver, B.C.-based GlobalMedia.com announced today that as part of its continuing efforts to streamline operations it has closed its offices at 400 Robson Street and is continuing to serve its customers from shared facilities. “The 13,000 square foot 400 Robson facility was simply too large and expensive […]

Bill Gates has been touting his Tablet PC as the next big thing in personal computing for the last year, and despite the fact that the product won’t likely be available until next year at the earliest, the industry is getting behind Gates’ vision. The Microsoft Corp. Chief Software Architect, in his keynote address at […]

Hong Kong — Chinadotcom corp. has announced that it will reduce staff levels by around 15 percent by the end of the second quarter of this year from 2,400 to around 2,000. The company has been engaging in a series of cost cutting measures including staff reduction and intended sale of non-core assets in order […]

After a series of high profile stock drops, lawsuits and an eventual buyout by AT&T, representatives at NorthPoint Communications officially announced late Wednesday that the company has been forced to shut down its DSL network after efforts to secure funding for interim operations failed. NorthPoint has been operating under Chapter 11 status since early last […]