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Intimate apparel company Maidenform launched Maidenform.com, an e-commerce site providing information and e-commerce as well as personalization through customer profiling and self-fitting. “Maidenform.com will show women the right styles to improve their appearance in clothes and we are therefore confident that satisfaction with the site and the product will make Maidenform the brand of choice,” […]

Zkey.com (formerly Zcentral.com), a division of SDN Online Inc., closed on $10 million in second-round financing from Bear Ventures, Ridgely Capital, Zone Ventures and Oracle Corp. Zkey.com said its vision is to make the Zkey a universal, ubiquitous key “for enabling simplified and accurate information exchange between businesses and people, both on and off the […]

Precise Software Solutions Inc. delivered Swift-e, a product that provides a proactive performance management software solution for Oracle-based e-business environments. The company said Swift-e continuously captures and analyzes even sub-second e-business transactions without adding overhead to the system, detecting and resolving the root cause of performance bottlenecks. Swift-e correlates metrics from critical system components and […]

vJungle.com Inc. recently launched an online groupware solution targeted specifically at small businesses. It is a free Web-based service that offers access to common group service needs such as e-mail, calendar/scheduling functions and real time chat and messaging. Businesses that sign up for the service receive a subdomain of the vJungle.com domain; i.e., yourbusiness.vjungle.com. Individual […]

A pair of Asia’s Internet elites have highlighted Singapore and Beijing as hotspots for Asian “cyber-hubs”. Speaking at a two-day conference hosted by The Economist Conferences, part of the Economist Group, Michael Yap and Lee Kheng-joo outlined their vision of the region’s immediate cyber-future. Yap, Chief Executive of Singapore’s National Computer Board, spoke of “The […]

A leading supplier of Web-based content management solutions, IntraNet Solutions Inc., Monday released a QuickStart program for its recently launched Xpedio Content Management system that provides packaged consulting services for clients. The QuickStart program includes an onsite technical services team dedicated to lend support in key areas such as: database installation, system administration and security […]

US WEST is looking to tap into the remaining 60 percent of American homes that do not have access to the Internet. The local telephone company wants to make “Web-tone,” the data equivalent of dial tone, for the majority of the U.S. homes that do not currently have access to online services. Over the next […]

High-speed Internet provider chello broadband Monday announced a deal with Global Telesystems that will dramatically increase chello’s broadband capacity in Europe. Initially the capacity will be 2.5 gigabits per second, increasing to 10 gigabits per second in late 2000. However, new multiplexing technology will deliver a 40-fold increase in bandwidth per fibre pair, yielding up […]

The number of small businesses with a Web presence has nearly doubled since 1998, and millions more are projected to come online next year, according to results of a new survey. The nationwide survey of small businesses (under 100 employees) was conducted for Prodigy Biz Corp., a subsidiary of Prodigy Communications Corp., and found that […]

Ford and Bolt Align for Strategic Partnership Ford Motor Co. is teaming up with teen destination operation Bolt Inc. to develop cars.bolt.com — a soon-to-launch co-branded destination on the Bolt.com Web site. Cars.bolt.com will provide Ford with information on the vehicular interests and needs of more than 3 million teens who visit Bolt.com daily. Financial […]

The Better Business Bureau system released a draft of its new Code of Online Business Practices and began seeking public comment on the code. It can be viewed here. The BBB said the proposed code builds on its eight decades of experience in fostering ethical business practices. The code also draws on the experience BBBOnLine […]

According to a report presented in Johannesburg on Tuesday by BMI-Techknowledge, large companies are dragging their feet in plans to commit to e-commerce. The BMI-Techknowledge IT Top 200 Report revealed that while 98 percent of the top 200 IT companies in South Africa had Web sites, only 10 percent of these were e-commerce enabled. The […]