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The Shareholders of Plantation, Florida-based DemandStar.com approved today the pending merger with Seattle’s Onvia.com. Of the shares represented in person or by proxy at the shareholders’ meeting, over 99 percent voted for the merger. Closing of the transaction is expected early next week. DemadStar.com is the operator of an online exchange that unites local government […]

A peer-to-peer (P2P) client for handhelds based on Bluetooth has been released, Sweden-based Pocit Labs says. The BlueTalk client will enable handhelds to communicate directly with other Bluetooth devices. Pocit’s technology takes advantage of the fact that Bluetooth creates connections on an ad hoc basis as Bluetooth-enabled devices sense each others’ presence. Pocit says that […]

Kyocera is about to release its new Palm-based smart phone and Verizon says it will start selling it immediately. The wireless operator said Friday it would start offering the Kyocera 6035 to its customers on Monday. The tri-mode device, which supports CDMA digital PCS, CDMA digital cellular and analog, acts both as a phone and […]

Coradiant, a Boston managed service provider that raised $20 million last fall, has added three executives. Nicholas F. Kourtis was named vice president and general counsel; David Coughlan was named vice president of business alliances; and Craig Brenner was named general manager for the Boston region. Kourtis was general counsel and executive office for CO […]

Search engine vendor Google Inc. said Wednesday it has released wireless search technology for users of i-mode wireless Net-ready phones. The technology, released in Japan, enables i-mode users to search and browse more more than 1.3 billion Web pages, the company said. When a user finds a traditional HTML Web page, the technology automatically translates […]

Pumatech Inc. has announced its Sync-it component that will allow synchronization by handhelds and other devices via the Internet. Sync-it is a component of the company’s Mobile Application Platform (MAP). Other elements of MAP include Browse-It, which enables viewing of Web content on Palm handhelds, and Mind-It, which notifies users when changes are made to […]

Ericsson said Thursday that it’s new Bluetooth Local Infotainment Point (BLIP) technology moves “the Internet onto the street.” The technology provides local wireless access points for Bluetooth-enabled Net devices such as handhelds and Net-ready phones. In a statement, the company described the technology as “a stand-alone local platform.” The company predicted that BLIP will catch […]

Shares of Internet consultants Breakaway Solutions dropped as much as 21 percent after preliminary fourth-quarter results fell short of expectations. Breakaway, of Maynard, Mass., said it lost 42 cents per share in the quarter, worse than the 26 to 28 cents loss expected. Revenues were $15.4 million, below an expected $22.5 million, partly due to […]

Interactive design and marketing shop K2 Digital essentially broke even for the fourth quarter of 2000, with executives Net income for the quarter was $8,381, on revenues of just under $2 million. The results compared to net income of $376,880 (or $0.11 per share) on revenues of $1.3 million during the fourth quarter of 1999. […]

Like many others, when I first heard the words virtual and school in the same sentence, I sensed trouble. The mental image of a student isolated from his peers, unable to communicate with others and confined to a computer screen brought awful connotations to mind. Despite my initial skepticism, current virtual school programs may hold […]

GERMANY — Regardless of the debate surrounding its continuing operation, Napster is accumulating a large international group of music-swapping fans, according to the latest results in the Digital Media Report from MMXI Europe, a Jupiter MMXI company. In Germany in January 2001, the Napster application that powers the service achieved a rank of 25 with […]