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InfoSpace announced that it has completed its acquisition of Montreal-based Locus Dialogue Inc., a developer of speech recognition-enabled applications. According to company officials, the move was made in to position InfoSpace to speech-enable a wide variety of its existing wireless offerings, such as personalized information, location-based services, and mobile commerce services. In addition, officials believe […]

[ASIA] On Wednesday, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), responding to recent media reports of delays in its exercise to auction four 3G licenses, issued a clarification that though the timetable has been set back about three to four weeks, “it is substantially on schedule and moving forward expeditiously.” IDA previously announced that it […]

2Wire said it is adding wireless in-home networking capabilities to its HomePortal residential gateways. The company said that the gateway now supports 802.11b wireless networking as well as Home Phoneline Networking (HomePNA) and Ethernet. It added the capabilities to its existing HomePortal 100W and the 2Wire ICS 2000W gateways. The gateways connect home-based devices and […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] The promoters of the struggling LetsBuyIt.com discount platform do not want to initiate insolvency proceedings in the running talks with their trustees. “As I understand it, that was not the topic of the talks,” a speaker for the company told the news agency Reuters yesterday. The company, which according to its own reports […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] Yahoo saw in the New Year by announcing that it would start charging a non-refundable insertion fee for items submitted for auction on its Yahoo Auction site. The new policy will go into effect on January 10. The portal also said it would no longer allow the sale of items which promote hate […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] Napster, the service synonymous with copyright infringement and intellectual property rights abuse, has filed its own trademark infringement suit. The culprit? Napsterstore.com. The crime? Selling Napster-branded clothing without Napster’s approval. The irony is biting. Napster’s song-swapping service -which allows users to trade songs directly, cutting out both the record companies and the artists […]

Brainware.tv has announced the licensing of more than 1,000 business training videos in 21 languages for online rental and viewing. “We have developed sophisticated, Internet software for renting streaming videos,” said Phil Doyle, Brainware.tv Chairman. “We cut the time and physical costs of production and shipping which means lower prices and no waiting for our […]

[ISRAEL] 2AM, a peer-to-peer interactive software company based in New Jersey, has suspended the operations of its Israeli R&D center, laying off some 50 employees, Israeli chief operations officer Meir Ekstein said Sunday, confirming a report that appeared in Friday’s Jerusalem Post. “We’re clinging to hope. Negotiations are continuing, and we’re exploring a number of […]

[Tel Aviv, ISRAEL] With the Internet about to experience a transformation where streaming media becomes a standard element – an integral part of every successful Web site or portal – CastUP wants to be one of the major players in this quickly developing area of the Internet. The ultimate aim of streaming media companies is […]

With the NASDAQ taking a beating in the last few weeks, many companies are being forced to reevaluate their positions. Vancouver-based GlobalMedia.com became the latest in the stream of local companies restructuring, announcing at the end of the week, a major reorganization of its business, including the sale of its radio contracts and related assets […]

[ASIA] A total of 1,858 cases of hacking were detected in Korea as of November, more than triple the 572 cases found last year, according to the Korea Information Security Agency (KISA) Tuesday. There were only 147 hacker attacks in 1996, with the figure dropped to 64 in 1997. However, hacking began to rise sharply […]

After letting go all its employees December 21, Palo Alto-based Internet Sports Network Inc. today took the less-than-surprising next step of declaring itself out of business. As previously disclosed in the company’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2000, the once promising Internet Sports Network, an ASP specializing in database-driven promotions, contests and […]