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Netopia today announced its ASP Partner Program at VAR Vision. Netopia, best know for DSL and Internet infrastructure hardware, has always sold through various channels. But with the introduction of its Partner Program, Netopia, Inc. is now extending the use of its Web hosting software to its VARs for their own customers, giving VARs an […]

Bank of America Monday teamed with BroadVision Inc. to form an intranet firm that will create an online portal offering goods and services to workers over corporate networks. Though financial terms were not disclosed, Bank of America and BroadVision will be the primary initial investors in the company. Other alliance members include Hewlett-Packard Co. and […]

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and InterTrust Technologies Corp., the MetaTrust Utility, Monday announced plans to co-develop secure solutions for portable audio devices. The solution is intended to allow digital content to be securely transferred from a consumer’s PC to a portable Internet audio device and used only as permitted by the rightful owner of the […]

Microsoft Corp. Monday hailed recent consumer research which found that Windows Media now claims 46 percent of enterprise customers using streaming media. The April 2000 study by Market Decisions Corp. surveyed 1,200 large organizations. MDC said Windows Media’s nearest competitor is RealNetworks Inc. , whose RealPlayer has 43 percent of the market. Bill Svendsen, vice […]

NaviSite Inc. will provide streaming media services at the first European-based Digital Distribution and Music Industry (DDMI) conference. The two-day international event will address the implications of digital distribution, MP3 and the Internet on the music industry. NaviSite will provide production, encoding and on-demand delivery services for the conference. Included will be panel sessions presented […]

Midrange ERP vendor Lawson Software recently released an upgrade to ijob, itsWeb-based recruitment management service. ijob 4.0 is offered through a hosted outsourcing model, offering customers an intelligent, self-evident solution that includes automatic release upgrades within 30 days of release delivery. Lawson Software is an example of a software vendor choosing to become an ASP […]

ASP-News has learned that Ensim Corporation will announce two new partner programs and a suite of solutions for ISPs and ASPs tomorrow in Orlando. First is Ensim RackConnect, a strategic partner program for Internet infrastructure vendors desiring to key in on technology constraints which currently limit Web-hosting, content distribution and ASPs from building highly scalable […]

Seattle.internet.com has learned that Real Networks will release today new versions of three of their downloads in an integrated suite of products known as Real Entertainment Center. The package combines RealPlayer8, RealJukebox2, and RealDownload4 (formerly known as Download Demon). The Entertainment Center can be downloaded for free from the company’s website. By combining the three […]

Interactive entertainment provider Broadband Studios Inc. (BBS) and NDS Group plc, a supplier of interactive applications, will jointly market and promote direct-to-home, interactive, multi-player games by integrating two platforms. Uniting BBS’ Jive online gaming platform server with NDS MediaStorm IP datacasting platform will make the BBS’ PowerPlay Network available to users of NDS MediaStorm-based data […]

ASP start-up Wrapzap this week unveiled its Internet service that would allow users to easily create and deploy interactive Web and e-mail applications. < Wrapzap users can create a standard Web interface using their HTML editor and tools of choice, as Wrapzap works with any HTML tool. Then Wrapzap finds the form and analyzes it, […]

Borders Books and Music Thursday revealed that it is setting up digital, interactive kiosks that enable customers to access and preview the music titles in a store’s inventory, simply by scanning the product barcode. The e-listening stations rely on inventory updates that are stored on an Internet database. The music can be accessed by scanning […]