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Lucent Technologies Inc. Monday launched a program to provide resellers and enterprise customers virtual private network application and infrastructure solutions. Spearheaded by Lucent, the Virtual Private Network Alliance features a host of vendors in technology, professional service and Internet service provider arenas. Standouts from these sectors who joined the alliance include Sun Microsystems Inc., Baker […]

APBnews.com, a once-ballyhooed news organization devoted to coverage of crime and justice, said it has fired all of the company’s 140 staff and limited its scope of operations. The news marked the first outright Silicon Alley failure of a Web startup this year. At a company-wide meeting this morning, the Web site’s chairman and chief […]

Register.com, Inc. Monday acquired Inabox Inc., a technology firm specializing in the design and development of online tool building for Internet service and Web hosting providers. Register.com will exchange $1 million in cash and 260,000 common shares for Inabox, valuing the deal at about $11.5 million at current levels. Register.com plans to utilize the online […]

Cisco Systems, Inc. Monday acquired privately-held HyNEX, Ltd. of Shefayim, Israel for an estimated $127 million in common stock and cash. The deal has already been approved by both companies’ boards. Cisco also said it would take a one-time charge of a penny per share to pay for the deal. However, it did not specify […]

Breakaway Solutions Inc., a provider of integrated strategy, e-business implementation and application hosting solutions signed a letter of intent with mobile commerce solutions provider and wireless ASP Aligo Inc. to jointly offer mobile commerce solutions. The solutions would be aimed at extending established B2B e-commerce businesses from the desktop to wireless devices. Financial arrangements were […]

Broadband access provider Excite@Home this week introduced its commercial service strategy to allow content distribution networks media to flow content through its broadband network infrastructure. The strategy, unveiled late Wednesday, expands Excite@Home’s commercial use and streaming content flowing through its high-speed Internet backbone. Excite@Home is deploying the services with content distribution networks from iBEAM Broadcasting […]

Labor resource planning solutions provider eLabor.com announced this week it was named a finalist in the Innovators in Sales and Marketing category of the Inc. /Cicso Growing with Technology Awards. “We are honored to be singled out by Inc. magazine and Cisco Systems for our aggressive use of technology in building our business,” Michael Edell, […]

Audio content provider NextAudio Inc. Thursday announced a marketing and technology relationship with Microsoft Corp. As part of the agreement NextAudio will support Microsoft Windows Media Technology with its MyRadio product. In turn, Microsoft will promote MyRadio through its WindowsMedia.com site and Windows Media Player 7 to Windows Media users. NextAudio will promote Windows Media […]

EMusic.com Inc. Thursday partnered with independent music distributor NAIL Distribution, adding an equity investment to sweeten the deal. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Gene Hoffman, president and chief executive officer of EMusic.com, said the partnership creates an exciting opportunity to find synergies between online and offline retail. “We are very excited about […]

Zooba.com wants to thrive in a marketing space the Internet promises to refine into art — the blend of content and commerce. The Boston-based company, a subsidiary of Transactive Solutions Inc., has today launched its website: a free, opt-in service designed to deliver millions of personalized e-mails with content and e-commerce offerings based on topics […]

MusicMatch Inc. Wednesday unveiled its jukebox product for the Macintosh beta. MusicMatch Jukebox 1.0 for the Macintosh allows Mac users the ability to record, organize, find and play music in one software package. CD-quality MP3s can be recorded using Fraunhofer’s MP3 encoding technology. User are provided with the ability to organize their MP3s in a […]

Online music provider Beatnik Inc. Wednesday announced that its Mixman Studio DJ music remix software can be digitally downloaded for both Macs and PCs. The company also released 15 D*Plates* from a variety of artists. “We are excited to be able to provide Mixman Studio in a downloadable version, giving everyone instant access to our […]