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When Joanna Alexander and Mark Long were looking for funding for some of their ventures they encountered a number of problems. What emerged out of these problems was a great idea for a new way to showcase business ideas. Before Joanna Alexander and Mark Long started Demo Club, they were business partners searching for funding […]

EMusic.com Inc. , Monday launched its “EMusic Unlimited” subscription service, which allows consumers to pay one low monthly price to download as much music as they want from EMusic’s digital collection of more than 125,000 MP3s — and financially compensates musicians and record labels for their work. Dubbed EMusic Unlimited, the new offering allows consumers […]

BackWeb Technologies Monday launched Universal Push. Powered by next-generation push technology, Universal Push provides e-businesses with a single communications infrastructure for any application to deliver content to any user on any common data device via BackWeb Polite Push, email, wireless, fax and voice mail. Several industry leaders — including Lucent Technologies EMEA and Hewlett Packard […]

QDesign Corp. Monday announced its new QDX format, offering better-than-MP3 audio quality and added flexibility for music download and streaming. The QDX technology is based on audio quality and size scalability. Optimized for Internet streaming, QDX provides audio compression delivering — in one single file — both CD-quality audio at 128kbits (12:1 compression) and full-bandwidth […]

Online children’s product retailer Toysrus.com launched Babiesrus.com, an online version of its Babies “R” Us baby specialty stores. The new site features thousands of infant and baby products, an online/off-line gift registry, a customer return program at the company’s brick and mortar stores nationally, and a variety of online resources for new and expectant families. […]

E-commerce infrastructure solutions company Netegrity Inc. delivered a new product called Delegated Management Services (DMS), which addresses the complexity of distributed user management. Netegrity said DMS lets organizations delegate user administration to their business partners, remote business units and end users, “an essential requirement” for e-marketplaces, service providers and corporate enterprises that need to manage […]

With the recent flood of media attention on such companies as Napster and MP3.com, digital media is a hot topic right now. This past weekend, musicians, music industry leaders and music lovers met to discuss the evolution of music into the digital era at the Change Music Conference in Seattle. The conference was brought to […]

B2B real estate solutions company RealEstate.com, moving to bolster its position in the commercial real estate space online, signed agreements with three commercial listings and information providers. The company said it now has “one of the most diverse and focused online databases of available commercial real estate space.” Deals were signed with ApartmentSales.com, a provider […]

Multi-category Internet retailer buy.com launched a new business “superstore” designed to meet the growing needs of what it called a “significant business customer base.” The company said the new store on a newly designed and enhanced Web site offers more than 55,000 office products in 11 categories, including office equipment and supplies, furniture, shipping supplies, […]

Juno Online Services Inc. Thursday received court approval for a subscriber referral agreement with bankrupt Freewwweb LLC. Freewwweb will refer its subscribers to Juno’s free Internet access service. Freewwweb will receive an undisclosed amount of Juno stock for each converted client, as well as a little cash for attaining certain transfer specification. According to Freewwweb […]

David Irons is a tech savvy guy. He is currently working on his 3rd startup, his three kids each have their own computer, and his entire house is wired. He is also the 12th district representative for the King County Council and a big supporter of bringing digital technology into the government. Seattle.internet.com spoke with […]

MusicMatch Inc. unveiled MusicMatch Jukebox 1.0 for the Macintosh at the MacWorld Expo in New York. The free software Mac users the ability to create MP3s and experience digital music in a multimedia-rich listening environment. The product incorporates Fraunhofer’s MP3 encoding technology for recording MP3s from personal CD collections, which can be cataloged in MusicMatch’s […]