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Real Networks is once again building up their senior management team, announcing today the appointment of Gary Drucker as vice president, Consumer Division and Scott Ehrlich vice president of Programming. In his new position as vice president, Consumer Division, Drucker will be responsible for helping to integrate the various elements of the consumer business based […]

Continuing the trend toward building Internet and interactive capabilities into televisions, Ch.1 said Wednesday its Internet appliance module will be built into Sylvania’s forthcoming forthcoming digital high-definition televisions. As with previous announcements from television vendors such as Zenith, the Sylvania televisions will be able to connect to the Internet with use of a PC or […]

With Forrester research reporting that the homosexual community contributes nearly $3 billion to the online travel industry and books over 41 percent of their trips online, it’s a wonder that mainstream travel sites have not already been heavily targeting this segment. Expedia.com recently became the first major full-service online travel site to offer specific content […]

Although the recent shakedown in the high tech economy has not caused a significant percentage of the industry to receive pink slips, a new report shows fear of layoffs is on the rise. While 73 percent of working adults feel secure in their current jobs, according to the latest Xylo Report: Job Security Within the […]

SOUTH AFRICA — CEO of Johnnic e-Ventures (JeV), Neil Jacobsohn, is a fan of the dot-com meltdown. Speaking at the InternetBreakfastForum this morning, Jacobsohn aired his views on the knowledge economy correction, the future of e-business and JeVs place in that future. In his opinion, the “dot-bomb” swept aside a pile of “rubbish,” showed bad […]

Jerusalem, ISRAEL — Israel satellite broadcaster YES has selected technology from NDS Group (NNDS), which has a major office in Jerusalem, to provide advanced interactive services to YES customers. Based on NDS’s Value@TV interactive infrastructure, features will include horoscopes, weather, traffic, various games and e-mail services. YES said its digital customers may soon be able […]

Electronics For Imaging Inc.(EFI), a networked printing technology company, Thursday released its ImagePort accessory for its existing eBeam system. Its eBeam system captures whiteboard notes, such as those made by a presenter in a meeting, and transmits them for printing, sharing, editing, and saving on a network. The eBeam system uses a sleeve around a […]

GERMANY — Red-Green government in Germany wants to increase e-mail spying German Carnivore regulation should completely monitor telecommunications. With the telecommunications monitoring regulation (Telekommunikations-berwachungsverordnung, or TKV), the German government hopes to perfect the monitoring of telecommunications and make even e-mail subject to universal surveillance. The plan for this regulation is nearly two years old and […]

It is clear from its prominence as an issue in the recent presidential election, that Americans are once again concerning themselves with the education of their children. While former President Clinton’s “wired schools initiative” has shown great success in providing access, issues surrounding how to best utilize the technology are still being felt out. Today, […]

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GoAmerica Inc. will make wireless Internet access available for the Cassiopeia line of Pocket PCs on February 26. Cassiopeia customers will be able to access GoAmerica’s Go.Web service using Nextcells PocketSpider modem GoAmerica will be demonstrating the Go.Web service using a Cassiopeia at this weeks Internet World Wireless 2001 conference in New York. GoAmerica said […]

Aligning themselves to focus on data communications and VPN services, New Edge Networks, a broadband service provider to small and midsize markets, today said it is eliminating 55 jobs and scaling back its broadband DSL coverage area. The jobs that are affected, which amount to approximately 18% of the company’s workforce, are across all functional […]