InternetNews Staff

Nearly three weeks ago the news came over the wire. A press release stating that the chief executive of Emulex, a Costa Mesa maker of fiber-optic equipment, had quit and that the company was restating its quarterly earnings from a profit to a loss. By now everyone knows that it was a hoax, but the […]

Vignette Corp. and Artesia Technologies Tuesday announced they will create a combined e-business solution based on the Vignette V/5 E-business Application Platform that streamlines rich-media content management for the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry. “Vignette powers the largest and most successful media and entertainment sites — companies that are defining new business models for broadband […]

Microsoft Corp. has announced that it has acquired Pacific Microsonics Inc., the developer of HDCD digital audio technology. Microsoft will incorporate PMI’s pioneering technology into future offerings for the PC and will make it available for a wide range of consumer devices. PMI brings to Microsoft unique strengths in digital audio signal processing that are […]

Tacoma-based ContractQuest is looking to prove its worth with the announcement that home builder associations in every U.S. region have partnered with the company to beta test its new CQConstruction software. The company, which provides wireless and PC-based workgroup tools and online communities for associations, announced 30 beta test associations, representing between 16,500 and 18,500 […]

Vitamin and health products e-tailer MotherNature.com, which laid off about 20 percent of its work force Friday, signed an agreement to provide Web-hosting services to United Natural Foods’ customer base of about 6,500 retailers. United Natural Foods is an independent national distributor of natural and related products in the United States. Financial terms of the […]

ViPS , a Baltimore-based Internet healthcare technology company, is launching ViPSConnect. The company says it is the “healthcare industry’s first-ever decision support software (DSS) available through the Internet in an application service provider (ASP) environment.” ViPSConnect offers Web-enabled data mining and information storage. For HMOs which have reluctantly embraced the Web’s capabilities, ViPSConnect can allow […]

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is hosting the InternetASP Forum and the Monetizing Digital Content conference concurrently Thursday-Friday at Washington, D.C.’s Marriott Wardman Park. The SIIA is the principal trade association of the software code and information content industries and represents more than 1,000 leading high-tech companies that develop and market software and […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] Mastering the Internet is to be part of general education in Germany within the next few years – regardless of citizens’ income and social background. That is the goal of a 10 point program to be presented by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) at the Expo in Hanover today according to information in the […]

The sounds of bricks-and-mortar whirring with the Internet are about to be heard in malls across the land. That’s because Liquid Audio, Inc. Monday announced that Tower Records has selected Liquid Audio to supply digital kiosk solutions for its physical retail stores. Through the Liquid Kiosk Network, Tower Records customers can preview and purchase music […]

Equant (Paris Bourse: EQU) Thursday launched its Hosted Applications service, a global offering that enables multinational companies to rapidly equip their employees worldwide with a standard suite of Microsoft business applications. Equant’s offering also positions it as the ASP with the biggest global network for fast, secure access to any software or specialized business application […]

In a move to bolster their freemerchant.com site, Network Commerce Inc. has announced the launch of DomainZero.com, a free registration service of Internet domain names. The new service from Network Commerce will allow businesses, merchants and individuals to register their site with no monetary charge. According to the fine print, the company requires that in […]

Online retail activity slowed in August, but Amazon.com continued to lead all Internet retailers with an estimated 1.6 million buyers, down from 1.8 million buyers in July, according to a newly released industry report. The figures from PC Data Online show that Ticketmaster.com maintained the No. 2 position with an estimated 595,000 buyers, and buy.com […]