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AOL subsidiary CompuServe Tuesday selected business-to-business Internet messaging provider Critical Path, Inc. to provide Web-based e-mail services to its 2 million members. Doug Hickey, Critical Path’s president and CEO, called the decision a “testament to our leadership position and our patent pending technologies.” The move is the third alliance announced today by major Internet player […]

Web sites operated by Network Solutions Inc. were hit by hackers Friday who redirected visitors to one of the company’s competitors. Starting before noon Eastern time, NSI officials discovered hackers were automatically sending its site visitors to the the Internet Council of Registrars — or CORE — as well as the Internet Corp. for Assigned […]

CyberSource Corp. announced an international payment processing solution for Internet merchants using the services of NatWest (National Westminster Bank), the largest acquiring bank in the U.K. A part of the CyberSource Internet Commerce Suite of services, the new international payment processing gateway allows merchants to accept payments in over 150 different currencies and can credit […]

Prompted by recent news reports, mozilla.org has released a statement on their homepage denying its future within the Netscape Communications division of America Online is in jeopardy. Questions about mozilla.org’s position with in the company have been repeatedly raised since AOLs purchase of Netscape last December. The mozilla.org statement reads, in part, “As a major […]

Internet portal Lycos Inc. and WingspanBank.com signed a multi-year e-commerce agreement that potentially could generate up to $135 million for Lycos. The agreement offers an array of financial products and services to Lycos users through the introduction of a Lycos/WingspanBank.com co-branded site. Lycos said the full $135 million is subject to certain performance thresholds being […]

CyberCash Inc. said this week it will acquire Tellan Software Inc., a provider of payment processing software, in a merger expected to be completed by mid-July. CyberCash said the acquisition will consolidate its dominance in the payment software market, including physical points of sale and integrated enterprise payment solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. Tellan, […]

RightPoint Corp., a provider of real-time e-marketing solutions, launched the RightPoint.net Real-Time eMarketing Portal , a subscription service delivering real-time marketing services to e-commerce Web sites. RightPoint said e-commerce companies can simply plug in to its marketing service portal and receive real-time e-marketing services as Internet transactions. As part of the initiative, RightPoint established alliances […]

CitX Corp. and Baltimore Technologies formed a partnership to provide secure Internet-based e-commerce solutions for the healthcare industry. Products will be marketed to physicians, hospitals, insurance companies and other related healthcare operations. As part of Baltimore’s Trusted World Partner Program, CitX, through its newly formed IntraMedX subsidiary, will incorporate Baltimore’s cryptographic tools and UniCERT PKI […]

DealTime.com launched an online shopping service that enables consumers to search the entire Web, including auction sites, for the products they want at the prices they want to pay. DealTime.com said it has the ability to track consumer deals over time and alert them to new deals that match their product selections using several methods, […]

NetMechanic has announced an upgrade to its on-line Web site improvement tools, now called the NetMechanic Pro. NetMechanic Pro is a bundle of Web site tools designed to improve Web site performance. The primary components of the NetMechanic Pro bundle are Link Check, HTML Check, Spell Check, Load Time Check, and Browser Compatibility services. These […]

Subscribers to AT&T’s high-speed cable Internet access are getting five months of free service as a result of complaints lodged following persistent problems. According to published reports, approximately 1,000 of TCI@Home’s customers in Cupertino, Milpita, Los Gatos, San Mateo, Belmont and San Carlos, Calif. were victims of interrupted service, decreased speed and intermittent outages since […]

Yahoo! Inc. has reversed a controversial policy that gave it ownership of all content created on its GeoCities Web community in response to a wave of outrage from members. However, one of the leaders of the boycott against GeoCities said Thursday that his group’s efforts to get Yahoo! to do more will continue. Late Wednesday, […]