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[Berlin, GERMANY] To better control the flow of traffic, extensive and reliable information on the routes of individual drivers and the current traffic situation is needed. In the past two years, scientists from Braunschweig and Berlin working on a project for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium f|r Bildung und Forschung, or […]

In a move to place the company into the Internet music business as a playback alternative, Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc., has created a new form of online music entertainment. The Brilliant Animated Music (BAM) genre touts 3-D animated streaming music videos that do not require audio download and deliver real-time, full-screen playback and interactivity. Brilliant […]

BidCrawler.com, an online B2B e-marketplace aggregator, today announced the repositioning of the Company as a B2B e-commerce software and services provider. As the first step in this transition, BidCrawler.com has entered into a Letter of Intent to acquire the e-commerce assets of Enterprise Automation Technologies Canada Limited, a privately held, Alberta-based software development and consulting […]

ClickPLAY Inc. and GEO Interactive will to package and deliver audio and video content that will allow consumers to preview and purchase music and video entertainment using Emblaze-enabled mobile telephones and other wireless handheld devices. ClickPLAY will provide previews of digital media content in standard-compliant MPEG-4 format to be featured in Emblaze Wireless trials to […]

Snowball, an online network for Generation i — Web-centric young adults that grew up using the Internet — launched its e-commerce effort with the Snowball Shopping Network. Using a slotting model for the shopping network, Snowball said it offers three different multi-level merchant packages to companies looking to sell their products and services across different […]

Although total e-marketplace revenues in the U.S. will approach an estimated $9 billion in the next four to five years, individual e-marketplace operators are expected to show solid but not astonishing returns, says a new industry study. In fact, the research from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) says that in five year’s time, e-marketplaces serving […]

Redmond-based Web developer RTSe USA, Inc. has just inked a partnership with Vital Information, Inc., based in Tokyo, that will focus on technology exchange and co-marketing in the U.S. and Asia. Jun Kobayashi, Vital’s CEO and Chairman of the Board, says “this new partnership with RTSe USA gives us a groundbreaking opportunity to provide superior […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] The freemail provider WEB.DE AG, in Karlsruhe, Germany, started up its technology and infrastructure today for nationwide Internet telephony. WEB.DE is implementing Internet telephony using voice over IP (speech transmission by way of an Internet protocol). This makes it possible to make telephone calls over the Internet from any PC using the conventional […]

Update: Bellevue-based Onyx Software, a provider of customer-centric e-business applications, today announced that the Seattle Mariners will standardize all customer-facing operations on Onyx 2000. The Mariners franchise will use Onyx Employee Portal, Onyx’s thin client customer relationship management (CRM)portal for internal employees, to automate season ticket sales, suite sales and corporate sponsorships, and to conduct […]

Update 10-31-00: As election day creeps near and Washington dangles as one of the deciding states in the presidential election, The Democratic National Committee is utilizing Internet technology to generate last minute interest. Next Generation Network’s E*billboards are being used by the DNC to shore up constituencies and get out the vote in Washington state. […]

Seattle Webcasting company Activate has announced that they will provide audio and video Internet streaminglive and archived – to Christianity.com, the online network aimed at one of the Net’s largest definable user groups — 87 million worldwide. “Christianity.com is tapping into Activate’s great strength: helping people who have a message to reach their audience. In […]

Electrifier, Inc. has announced the launch of the Electrifier Design Partner Program, which lets design agencies and other skilled Flash and rich media designers share in the business opportunities, revenues and publicity generated by the use of Electrifier’s proprietary rich media system. The Electrifier system enables businesses to produce and deliver rich media content quickly, […]