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[SOUTH AFRICA] The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is launching the “Global Heritage Pavilion” as its contribution to the “Internet Fair 2001 Japan.” The Global Heritage Pavilion offers a variety of resources on the topic of World Heritage. Visitors can take a virtual tour of the West African Island of Goree -infamous […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) said on Wednesday that it intends to review fees and charges in the Public Switched Telecommunications Sector. The move comes after the country’s national operator Telkom increased telephone charges by the maximum amount allowed under the law (the same law that protects Telkom’s monopoly until […]

Following last week’s Microsoft scale backs in financial expectations, officials at RealNetworks announced that its revenue and earnings for its fourth quarter ending December 31, 2000, will be below previous market expectations. The Company expects to report pro forma diluted earnings per share of approximately $0.02. Revenue for the fourth quarter is now expected to […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] BayTSP, an American based security software firm, Wednesday announced it has designed software that can track digital music on the Internet: BaySpider. The software scans the Net 24 hours a day, every day of the year, identifying Web sites, newsgroups and peer-to-peer groups like Napster that are illegally providing copyrighted material. The company’s […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] After the DDoS attacks on Yahoo!, eBay, and Amazon in February 2000, the German Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily founded a task force which in June published a catalog of defense measures against such hacker attacks. However, a study by the Stiftung Warentest, a German consumer watchdog group, has shown that […]

[ASIA] Since the launch of its test phase in the multilingual domain game, VeriSign (Nasdaq:VRSN) says its Multilingual Domain Names Testbed has received over 700,000 domain name registrations since it initiated service on November 10, 2000. The Testbed currently supports registration of domain names containing Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters in the .com, .net and […]

B.C.-based Group West, in an effort to reorganize their operations, has merged with Appareo Software. The boards of directors of the two companies have determined that an amalgamation and reorganization of their operations would provide greater efficiencies in their operations and enhanced value for shareholders. According to company officials, the key reason for amalgamation is […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] Artificial Life, Inc., a producer of smart software robots (smart bots), Wednesday announced the launch of its Alife-BotMail technology by its Artificial Life Mobile Computing subsidiary. Smart bots are software programs that users can interact with on a more human level: animated figures that use gestures and smile, just like we do, and […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] Breathing easy after settling with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), MP3.com relaunched its MyMP3 service — only to find a suit brought against it by several independent music labels. The pack was led by Emusic, joined by Fearless Records, Fuel 2000, Gig Records, Invisible Records, SpinART Records and Victory Records. A […]

In a suit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, an InfoSpace employee alleges InfoSpace chairman Naveen Jain illegally denied him promised stock options. According to the suit, filed against both Jain and InfoSpace, Jain used plaintiff John Richards to develop integral aspects of InfoSpace and then failed to keep his promise of lucrative stock options. […]

[Tel Aviv, ISRAEL] Internet Gold (IGLD), one of Israel’s largest Internet service providers said it has begun offering ADSL services in Israel. The company said it started signing up subscribers to the new service more than two months ago and already has several thousand registered subscribers. Packages range from $47 a month and up. Internet […]

XStreamVoice Inc. has developed an audio streaming technology solution that allows Internet users to receive streaming audio directly to cell phones or other WAP-enabled devices. The XStreamVoice product is voice activated and allows customers to personalize a menu of streaming audio content directly to their wireless device. Using an integrated voice recognition technology, it allows […]