InternetNews Staff

In addition to the large number of Northwest stocks traded through Ameritrade, the popular online brokerage firm now has another strong Northwest connection. The Nebraska-based Brokerage has deployed F5 Networks, Inc.’s iTCM products to optimize system availability and performance for its customers managing accounts and placing agency trades over the Internet. Ameritrade and Seattle-based F5 […]

Got last minute online holiday shopping? One Portland-based company says you may want to go with the U.S. Postal Service. WebCriteria, Inc., experts in customer experience analysis, released benchmark data ranking several online shipping sites this holiday season. The study revealed that the U.S. Postal Service site rated the highest in the rankings for ease […]

Music lovers are getting a new, convenient way to capture their favorite songs using nothing but a household radio, a PC, and a software download that debuted Tuesday from Gotuit Audio, Inc. SongCatcher, an application which records songs directly from FM radio onto PCs, actually “catches” songs off the airwaves, creates a playlist of the […]

{SOUTH AFRICA] So far, WAP has been a non-event. Declared as the protocol that would lead the world’s cellphones onto the Internet, critics say it’s a vehicle for over-promising hype that falls far short of the mark. But it’s early days yet. Although the Internet has been around for decades, it only became part of […]

In Seattle, many people see two major industries driving the economy: the Internet and Aviation. Boeing, the major player in the local aviation industry is proving that the two may not be unattached after all. The Boeing Company recently released the newest version of MyBoeingFleet.com, its secure e-business site on the World Wide Web. The […]

A new e-commerce survey of 1,135 online shoppers found that almost half or fully 45 percent of those making purchases on the Internet this holiday season will be doing so for the first time. The survey from Active Research Inc., a provider of Web-based customer analytic solutions, also found that roughly one-third of shoppers rate […]

Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. with its parent company Toshiba Corp. Monday unveiled its production silicon MPEG-4 decoder which conforms to the latest MPEG-4 industry standard. The device, designated the TC35274XB, integrates an MPEG-4 decoder with 4-megabits (Mb) of embedded DRAM to deliver a single-chip, low-power solution. The new MPEG-4 decoder will enable designers to […]

While many of us only celebrate one holiday around this time, a variety of holidays from Ramadan to Kwanzaa to Oshogatsu take place this month. In an effort to inform everyone about all of these holidays, Locally-based festivals.com has recently gone live with their holiday site “A season of celebration.” If you still haven’t sent […]

XML Global Technologies, Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Bluestream Database Software Corporation, a privately held company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Bluestream is a database company specializing in developing and implementing native XML database technology. According to company officials, the addition of Bluestream’s native XML database technology will provide the link […]

[London, ENGLAND] IP network management solutions provider RiverSoft plc announced Friday a placing of 88.3 million shares to raise nearly US $120 million. The placement, conditional on the company’s proposed London Stock Exchange listing, values its share capital at around US $322 million — making it one of the largest Internet-related businesses in the U.K. […]

Microsoft mogul Bill Gates has gone to court to stop a man on the Caribbean island of Martinique from registering the trademark Bill Gates. The man filed the trademark with France’s Intellectual Property Institute more than two years ago, and his argument rests on two legs: 1) the trademark has nothing to do with computers, […]

Nokia Corp. Thursday moved to acquire Ramp Networks, a provider of purpose built Internet security appliances aimed at small office applications. Nokia agreed to commence a cash tender offer within 10 business days for all outstanding Ramp Networks shares at $5.80 per share, putting the cash outlay at an estimated $125.8 million. Ramp Networks’ board […]