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It’s seems like it is hard to go a couple of days without some sort of networking event in Seattle. But what do people who live elsewhere around the Northwest do with their evenings? I set headed out to a number of other local cities to get the story on Networking outside Seattle. I started […]

eBay, the world’s most popular auction site, told users that registered between April and November last year that their preferences for e-mails and other communications will be changed; users will now be actively marketed to via e-mail and the telephone unless they change their settings back before 23 January. The company justifies this by saying […]

Amid an announcement that Q4 revenue will be below consensus estimates, Loudeye Technologies revealed that they would have to reduce staff by 50 people, approximately 18% of its workforce. After the reduction, the company will have approximately 240 permanent employees. According to company executives, these actions are expected to result in cost savings totaling approximately […]

3Com added two new home gateway products to its existing line of home networking products. The Home Wireless Gateway and the Home Ethernet Gateway both enable Internet access and resource sharing (including printers) for devices throughout the home. Based on the IEEE 802.11b standard, the Home Wireless Gateway facilitates data transmission rates of up to […]

Following its previous work on PDA platforms such as Pocket PC, Redmond-based Conversay announced it will provide the speech interface for the Linux-based YOPY PDA system. Conversay’s work with the YOPY will help in making it the first Linux PDA to employ a speech interface. “Support of Linux was a natural step for Conversay,” says […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] Many of the dot-com companies strangled in last year’s correction were badly served by a concept championed by Amazon.com: disintermediation. It was said by many, and seemed to many more, that the Web would cut the middleman out; with the demise of the middleman, prices would lower and everyone but the intermediary would […]

Airbiquity, an integrator of wireless voice and data solutions for mobile devices, and InfoSpace, Inc. announced an agreement in which the two companies will jointly market location based, audio wireless services. Under the agreement, the companies can offer targeted audio content for wireless devices linked to a caller’s place of origin. “InfoSpace’s application infrastructure services, […]

[ASIA] China Railway Telecommunications Company became the latest entrant into China’s telecom market Sunday, receiving official permission to begin operations. Armed with total capitalization of 13.6 billion yuan (US $1.64 billion), the company will offer fixed-line telephone service, an ISP, data transmission, and IP telephony, the Xinhua News Agency reported via Sina.com. China’s Ministry of […]

At this weekend’s 2001 International Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates unveiled the company’s entry into the video game console arena with the highly anticipated Xbox video game console. As the finale of his keynote, Gates showed off the Xbox console and game controller and demonstrated two exclusive Xbox […]

[Ramat Gan, ISRAEL] BackWeb (BWEB) stock slid an additional 35 percent Friday from previous lows to $2.63 after announcing that morning that it expects fourth quarter revenues of between $7.1-$7.4 million, with a loss between 11-14 cents a share. The stock has been as high as $59.50 in the last year. The company’s announcement was […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] Contrary to the current trend in the United States, leading German companies want to continue to invest heavily in the Internet. According to a survey by the German business newspaper “Handelsblatt”, the economic downturn has not caused any of the 30 companies listed on the DAX to question their e-business budgets. Despite the […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] Most people have copied a game, operating system or some other piece of software illegally, thinking it a victimless crime. But the victims may turn out to be pirates themselves: the South African police have recently made a couple of high profile software-piracy arrests and corporations are more determined than ever to put […]