InternetNews Staff

In an age when e-government is the talk of the town, our neighbors to the east, usually recognized for their potatoes, are catching attention for their governmental presence on the Web. The official website for the State of Idaho, received the prestigious Eagle eGovernment Leadership Award from the Council of State Governments during the association’s […]

Swedish mobile developer Ericsson announced today that it is abandoning its handset manufacturing arm, after posting fourth quarter pre-tax profits that fell below expectations, slumping by #284 million (4 billion Kronor). The company said that it is to outsource its mobile handset manufacturing business, and instead concentrate on the networking sector, where it is already […]

Jack Armstrong, OpenTV’s vice president of wireless strategy, has revealed that the company hopes to “progressively” rollout Internet-capable versions of its set-top box middleware starting this year. It is hoped that all set top boxes running OpenTV middleware will have Internet capability “fully integrated and fully Internet capable within two years,” Armstrong told Pay-TV Today […]

Investment information aggregator Multex.com, Inc. Multex.com, Inc., said its fourth quarter 2000 net income was $1.8 million, or 6 cents per share, compared to a net loss of $8.5 million, or 31 cents per share, in the same period a year ago. The results marked the second straight profitable quarter for the Silicon Alley company, […]

Microsoft Corp. sites were back online Thursday morning after what company officials are saying was a “mistaken configuration.” According to a statement released by the software giant Wednesday night, one of its own, and not a malicious hacker, was to blame for a “configuration change to the routers on the edge of Microsoft’s Domain Name […]

Ericsson is storming ahead in the wireless arena after claiming to have successfully demonstrated a wireless local area network built on the HiperLAN2 next-generation wireless standard. HiperLAN2 is being touted by the likes of Ericsson as the future wireless standard, as it offers data rates of up to 54 Mbps across a 5Ghz frequency. The […]

ValueClick Adds Advertisers Pay-for-performance advertising network ValueClick is trumpeting the addition of new advertisers at the end of 2000, and noting that many of its new clients are traditional, non-dot-com companies. New traditional advertisers on the ValueClick network include Ticketmaster, Nabisco, General Mills, Citibank, Nordstorm, MCI/WorldCom, British Airways, the U.S Postal Service, Verizon, MSN Israel, […]

Remote control software like Symantec’s market-leading pcAnywhere have been around for years, but a feisty new entry adds expanded capabilities. GoToMyPC from Expertcity gives PC and notebook users the ability to access and control another PC remotely, but it also can be operated by non-PC, Internet devices and terminals. Once users register a PC at […]

What do you do when you have an idea you believe in, but are skeptical about dealing with VC’s cringing at the very mention of a content-based site? For one local entrepreneur the answer was to dig deep down in his own pockets. Nick Jenkins, a former exec at the now-defunct Hardware.com, this week launched […]

With fiscal fourth quarter losses widening by some 85 percent, Silicon Alley investment bank WIT SoundView Group, Inc. said Wednesday it would lay off 60 employees and reduce its earnings outlook in 2001. WIT SoundView, which invests in Internet and technology companies, reported fourth quarter losses of $25.7 million, or 24 cents per share, up […]

Digital Airways Wednesday unveiled Wapaka, a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) microbrowser written in Java. The company said the microbrowser is designed specifically to work with GSM and GPRS wireless systems, and Bluetooth and infrared for short-range transmissions. Initially designed for the Palm OS, the company said Java enables it to be easily ported to other […]

[January 24] Thailand’s Thai Rak Thai Party, which swept national elections earlier this month, has announced plans to establish an information technology (IT) ministry as part of Thailand’s next government. The party had campaigned on promises of creating an IT ministry that would take charge of Thailand’s IT development. The proposed ministry will also focus […]