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Office supplies retailer Staples.com signed a deal to offer ASP Personable.com’s Internet-based subscription software and online courses for its small business customers. Through an alliance with Personable.com, an ASP that gives users a virtual Windows 2000 desktop, Staples.com customers will have access to the latest versions of various software titles without having to buy them. […]

Seattle-based Bazillion, a broadband communications company, has announced the acquisition of Concord Technologies, Inc. Concord Technologies, also based in Seattle, provides IP-based messaging services. The acquisition of Concord will enable Bazillion to integrate enhanced messaging services with its broadband technology. Bazillion’s initial plans for integrating the technologies include adding Concord’s Internet fax and unified messaging […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] The race for the UMTS mobile radio licenses entered its third week of auctioning this morning. The highest bids for all twelve frequency packages has risen to DM 66.7 billion (US $33.88 billion) after the 130th round of auctioning. On Friday, the participants went into the weekend at DM 65 billion (US $30.09 […]

WideOpenWest LLC gained approval by city councils in St. Peters, Mo., Denver and Boulder, Colo., this week to begin its fiber optic rollout. The company is a competitive local exchange carrier providing high-speed Internet access, voice over Internet protocol telephony, video on-demand and digital cable services. WideOpenWest has spent the past nine months since its […]

Webvan Group, Inc. and Seattle’s HomeGrocer.com moved one-step closer to finalizing their merger, after receiving notification of the early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. The expiration of that waiting period is a condition to the completion of the merger. Last June, Webvan and HomeGrocer announced a definitive […]

Washington CEO released their “Best Companies to Work For” list in June. Seattle.internet.com was at the Washington Software Association’s breakfast forum yesterday to find out creative ways to put your company at the top of the list. According to Alfred Lopus, managing consultant for Watson Wyatt WorldWide and co-sponsor of the best companies to work […]

Netigy Corp. and Genuity Inc. Thursday paired to market consulting and e-business infrastructure in a three-year alliance targeting enterprises. Consistent with Genuity’s ePartner strategy, Netigy will develop and implement services built around Genuity’s portfolio of specifically virtual private networks managed network security, and bundled intranet and extranet solutions. Genuity and Netigy claim to have demonstrated […]

[Toronto, CANADA] While early adopters have dominated the Canadian Internet scene until now, a new influx of mainstream consumers are about to change the rules of the game. So say David Ellis, president of Omnia Communications, and Duncan McKie, president of POLLARA, in A View from the Living Room: the Broadband Internet as a Mass […]

Excite Mobile users can now download more than 9,300 software applications thanks to an agreement announced Wednesday between Excite@Home and Handango. Handango is a resource library marketed to the Palm OS, Windows CE, Pocket PC and Symbian line of products. The co-branded site features downloadable applications for travel, business, education, personal productivity and entertainment, usable […]

In a press release last week, Microsoft announced that its Windows Media Player 7 had received 3.4 million downloads in its first 10 days of release. With such a strong release, the battle between Windows Media Player and Real Entertainment Center is heating up in Seattle. “What we’ve seen over the last year or so, […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] German managers underestimate the technical demands involved in e-business projects. As a result, 75% of all such projects fail. According to Mummert + Partner Unternehmensberatung, a management consultancy, computer experts are presented all too often with an accomplished fact which they feel they can’t handle. This problem will only be compounded with the […]

The DemoClub and iStart Ventures have announced that they have joined forces to bring First Tuesday, a worldwide high-tech networking organization, to the Seattle area. The two organizations will collaborate to generate new and unique forums for start-ups, investors, and others in the high-tech community to network and exchange ideas. The DemoClub, which has provided […]