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Microsoft Corp. Monday introduced the Microsoft Windows Smart Card tool kit, which will enable developers and clients to build a broader range of smart-card applications more easily by utilizing a common operating system. Windows Powered Smart Cards have a crypto-capable microprocessor and can perform a number of usable applications, such as secure corporate log-ons for […]

Financier Chausson Finance has confirmed that French Internet start-ups are attracting phenomenal numbers in the venture capital arena. During the first semester of this year, 32 companies have raised $45.8 million, according to results from a semester indicator presented by Chausson Finance. Chausson Finance, a specialist in raising funds for start-ups in the IT and […]

Intranets.com Monday launched its business services and personal online shopping guides with enhanced application functionality to address business and individual needs for online commerce. The business services guide links users to more than 200 vendors delivering relevant and customized goods and services to make them more effective at work. The personal online shopping guide is […]

Global Crossing and Hong Kong telco powerhouse Hutchison Whampoa Monday inked a deal for a 50/50 Internet venture in Hong Kong that the two companies expect to eventually use as a foothold into the mainland. Hutchison Global Crossing (HGC) will receive a total injection of $1.2 million from Global Crossing. Global Crossing will offer Hutchison […]

French e-commerce software editor Access Commerce will become the latest to list on the Nouveau Marché, with the date set for Tuesday. Thirty five percent of the company’s capital will be offered at a price between 16.4 and 18.9 euros. Access Commerce aims to raise 50 million francs (US$7 million) through the IPO. After Integra, […]

Is the Internet in the process of cannibalizing traditional media? No, according to the 13th annual Communications Industry Forecast just released by media industry merchant bank Veronis, Suhler & Associates. The report concludes that by 2003, Americans will spend just under 10 hours per day consuming various forms of media — almost a half an […]

E-commerce ratings site BizRate.com said it has added 1,200 merchant sites in the past six months and now has exclusive real-time access to more than 60 percent of all customers making online retail transactions. This brings the total number of companies agreeing to participate in BizRate.com’s continuous customer-rating program to more than 2,200 online stores. […]

The Business Software Alliance (BSA), striking out against illegal trafficking in software on the Internet, filed a lawsuit against 25 individuals accused of participating in the “warez4cable” IRC channel, an Internet chat forum allegedly used to traffic in pirated software. This is the first lawsuit ever filed against individuals for allegedly pirating software in an […]

GEO confirmed a deal with Energis PLC in which Energis will pay a fee of 7.5 million pounds for the rights to market GEO’s Emblaze streaming media services and applications throughout Europe. GEO will provide the technology for these services and Energis will deliver the bandwidth and hosting infrastructure through its subsidiary, Planet Online Ltd. […]

Planting itself in the center of Stockholm’s Wireless Valley, Intel Corp. Friday unveiled its Intel Wireless Competence Center. The center intends to bring industry leaders together to develop technology standards, products and services in order to bring the high-bandwidth wireless Internet market forward. The think tank will serve as a resource for the company’s global […]

Catcha.com, a growing search engine portal in Southeast Asia, plans to apply for MSC (Multimedia Super Corridor) status and a possible listing on one of the regional bourses. According to its chief operating officer, Nic Lim, Catcha.com regards Malaysia as one of its important Asian markets and has submitted its application for the MSC status […]

All of the company’s original investors participated in the second round, including Softbank Technology Ventures, RRE Investors, E*TRADE, David Coulter, former chairman and CEO of Bank of America, and Kenneth Langone, co-founder and director of Home Depot. Accel Partners is a new investor in the company. “Launching and running an Internet company today demands capital, […]