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With the help of Fatbrain.com‘s secure digital publishing technology known as e-Matter Wells Fargo & Co. this week created a company bookstore. With the tool, the financial services giant provided approximately 70,000 employees worldwide access to Information Exchange — two centralized sources for knowledge resources including books, technical documents and training solutions. Wells Fargo’s (WFC) […]

Activate Tuesday signed a formal relationship agreement with Unit.Net, a European streaming media company, to provide streaming media to a global audience. The two companies will work together to provide streaming media services, including network infrastructure and production facilities, to customers that need to reach global marketplaces. This relationship will also provide a dedicated global […]

With the goal of offering secure capabilities to protect content on the Internet, ASPSecure.com increased its range and yesterday introduced the TrustData Family of Application Solutions. ASPSecure.com, supplier of Digital Rights Management software and services to the ASP market, described the TrustData Family of Application Solutions as an application suite facilitating e-commerce by providing a […]

Internet issues showed no signs of rebounding in Tuesday’s mid-afternoon trading. Getting hit especially hard were shares of CMGI, Exodus, and Inktomi. Incubators and business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce stocks remained out of favor with investors. At noon Eastern, internet.com’s Internet Stock Index was off 64.19, or 7.49 percent, to 793.39, the NASDAQ composite had plunged 280.09 […]

MSN Tuesday announced it is aggressively stepping up advertising and marketing efforts to make the most of its recent surge in online popularity. MSN reported an unprecedented growth trend in new membership over the past four months. The Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) subsidiary said it added 500,000 new users since December 1999. As a part of […]

Launched just under a year ago, the ASP Industry Consortium yesterday announced it has already far surpassed membership goals. Working with the 25 founding members in May 1999, the ASP Industry Consortium hit 100 members in less than three months, doubled that figure by early November 1999 and added its 400th member last week. Traver […]

Internet service providers looking to tap into the next surge of subscribers may want to seek out senior citizens and Baby Boomers in the U.S. market. According to Media Metrix, Inc., U.S. Baby Boomers and seniors comprise the fastest growing Internet access demographic group. The research firm reports that the number of 45- to 64-year […]

U.K. pay-TV company Yes Television is to get cash injections from two Hollywood-based studios. Yes, which specialises in delivering video on demand via conventional copper telephone lines, has confirmed that Warner Brothers and Walt Disney’s Buena Vista will respectively take a 10 per cent and nine per cent stake in the company prior to its […]

Bad news for Internet stocks, which continued their plunge in Monday’s trading. Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce issues led the decline for the second straight week as investors were awaiting U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s ruling in the Microsoft antitrust case. internet.com’s Internet Stock Index dropped 102.65, or 10.69 percent, to 857.58 and the Nasdaq Composite […]

OnePath Networks Monday launched its converged broadband access platform dubbed iPath to deliver high-bandwidth communications services to multiple-dwelling residential subscribers. Dave Stehlin, OnePath chief executive officer, said the access platform delivers video, data and voice broadband services over a single coax or fiber connection. “Our new iPath access platform is capable of delivering 10 Megabit-per-second […]

Making the latest play in the instant messaging game, Yahoo! Inc. Monday rolled out Yahoo! Messenger 3.0, a new version of the popular messaging tool. The upgrade offers voice chat capability, tighter integration with Yahoo!’s (YHOO) online tools and services, and the ability to join online conversations with others who are browsing the same content […]

WebSideStory further developed HitBox, its ASP offering of Web audience analysis and Internet intelligence, to make it applicable to wireless users and wireless Internet sites. WebSideStory launched HitBox just over three years ago to compete with log file software. According to Geoff Johnston, vice president corporation communications, while there are similarities between HitBox and log […]