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While many content sites are suffering under sagging ad rates, Rivals.com, a network of sports team and affinity channels, has found some success in augmenting their revenue through a premium subscription plan. The Seattle-based company has signed up more than 20,000 paid subscribers to its Premium Plus content program, which it launched last December. With […]

Ericsson said Friday that it will ship its new platform for mobile e-commerce (m-commerce) during the second quarter of this year. The platform, aimed at wireless operators and service providers, enables development of applications that can manage secure charged transactions. The transactions can be standard credit card charges or micropayments and session-based charges, according to […]

Despite a downturn in the world economy in general and difficult results for many wireless firms, Nokia said Thursday that it expects to increase its earnings this year. It said, however, that it won’t be as profitable as it once predicted. “We expect to see solid growth for the first quarter as a whole, with […]

Nasdaq listed chinadotcom Corporation released its much delayed Year 2000 financial results last night revealing that it had incured significant write offs for the year. The company wrote off US$128 million in provisions for the depreciation of various assets. The majority of the write offs, US$109 million, occured in the fourth quarter of 2000. The […]

In a move which industry officials hope will allow students to save time registering for college admission, The College Board has acquired applications service provider (ASP) Sequitur Corporation. The acquisition will allow collegeboard.com, an online subsidiary of The College Board, to use an admission and recruitment application developed by Sequitor to integrate data that it […]

NCR Corp. Thursday sued Palm Inc. and Handspring Inc., claiming handhelds developed by those companies violate two NCR patents. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware, asked that Palm and Handspring stop selling handhelds until the patent claims are settled. It also asked the court to award NCR a “reasonable royalty,” plus additional […]

SAN Holdings, Inc. (Storage Area Networks), a provider of storage solutions to Fortune 1000 and State and Federal Government clients today announced it has become a Sun Microsystems, Inc. iForce(SM) Regional System Provider. According to Storage Area Networks, the relationship is aimed at managing the growing data storage requirements of enterprise companies. As a Regional […]

A developer kit for creating applications that turn Palm-based devices into wireless LAN and Net-connected tablet-like devices is available from development firm SimpleDevices, the company said Wednesday. The idea is to turn Palm V handhelds into devices that can easily access the Net from the home or LAN-based enterprise data within companies. The company said […]

Britannica.com, the digital sister company of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., recently announced two separate agreements which indicate new interests in the Israeli market. The first is the completion of Britannica.com’s acquisition of a number of divisions the Center for Educational Technology (CET), an Israeli pioneer of educational software. The deal gives Britannica.com exclusive access to CET’s […]

Shares of NaviSite soared Wednesday after the Andover, Mass., Web and applications host said it was entertaining buyout offers. The company, which is majority-owned by Internet investor CMGI , announced this morning that it has hired investment bank Goldman, Sachs & Co., to “acquisition and other strategic alternatives.” Word of the possible sale of NaviSite […]

Genuity Inc. , a Burlington, Mass., provider of Net infrastructure services, has launched an online consulting division for its business customers. Aimed at businesses considering Genuity’s Black Rocket, which provides T-1 Net connections, network software, Web hosting and other services, the new consulting arm is designed to help companies plan and implement online businesses. Clients […]

ePresence Inc. , a Westborough, Mass., e-business software services firm, said it will sell its Australian unit to Axis Media Group for a 10 percent stake in Axis. Axis, a private company based in Sydney, develops Web infrastructures for business and government clients in Australia. As part of the deal, Axis and ePresence will collaborate […]