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[HONG KONG] Late last week Hong Kong-based Chinese language portal sent the following email to its subscribers: Dear rens, renren.com is undergoing an extensive facelift! Beginning 17 March 2001, we will no longer provide hosting services for homepages and email accounts. Please backup your emails and other files prior to 17 March. E card hosting […]

The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) is establishing a new application service provider (ASP) board of directors, and is asking George Kadifa, CEO of Corio, to chair the board. According to ITAA president Harris N. Miller, the new board of directors was created to govern the direction of its application service provider program. Part […]

PacketVideo Corp., which develops technology to deliver streaming media to wireless devices, said Monday that it has raised almost $100 million in a new round of financing. This latest financing round brings the company’s total amount of private funding to almost $140 million, PacketVideo said in a statement. “Our ability to beat the odds by […]

[12 March 2001] – VeriSign, the online certification company that controls the “.com” top-level domain, is increasing its investment in Cape Town-based Thawte, which it acquired at the end 1999 for US$575 million from Mark Shuttleworth. The buy-out gave VeriSign over 90 percent market share of the certification market at the time. The US-based multinational […]

HotelTools, Inc., a technology solutions for the hospitality industry firm, has begun implementation of its next-generation enterprise management platform. The rollout marks the launch of HotelTools’ ASP solution that equips hotel owners and operators with the tools to manage multiple properties, rates and relationships in real-time. HotelTools has penned agreements with several chains and will […]

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Loudcloud (Nasdaq: LDCL), the much-hyped Internet infrastructure services provider from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, today announced that USATODAY.com will outsource its Internet operations to Loudcloud. The announcement comes just hours after Loudcloud went public with a rather lethargic IPO. As per the new deal, USATODAY.com will now be deployed, scaled, managed and monitored […]

Despite a slow start, the Internet appliance market is poised to grow dramatically, with shipments of more than 174 million units expected by 2006, according to a new study released Thursday by Allied Business Intelligence (ABI). Much of that growth will occur outside of North America, according to the study. Initially, the U.S. and Canada […]

The handheld virus protection wars flared anew Thursday with the release of anti-virus products for handhelds by two major vendors. McAfee and F-Secure both announced upgrades for their anti-virus software for handhelds. McAfee announced availability of VirusScan Wireless 2.0, which loads on Palm OS-based handhelds but also can be used, via docking mechanisms on Pocket […]

At a time when Silicon Alley is absorbing its share of shutdowns and layoffs, wireless play ThinAirApps today announced the opening of a new Strategic Services Division to support clients using its technology. The New York-based ThinAirApps, which builds wireless software applications, said the new division was created to help enterprises and technology partners design […]

Content management provider InStranet, Inc. has teamed up with IBM to integrate its technology with Big Blue’s publishing application. As a part of the arrangement, Alley-based InStranet, which develops extranet applications that allow companies to exchange information, will pair its application with IBM’s WebSphere product to provide a service that allow business users to publish, […]

Japanese venture capital giant Softbank has purchased HK$10 million worth of shares in the recently GEM floated iLink. iLink, established in 1999, is an Internet application solution provider (ASP) targeting small and medium enterprises (“SMEs”) in Asia and primarily focusing on Greater China. A further HK$10 million worth of shares was purchased by a second, […]

[JOHANNESBERG, SA] – Robert Nkuna, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Communications, announced that the Ministry is launching two new advisory bodies. These bodies are to assist the government with digital broadcasting and radio and television broadcasting. The launch of the two bodies — the Digital Broadcasting Advisory Body (DBAB) and the South African Broadcast […]