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Domain name registrar Network Solutions Wednesday entered into a strategic alliance with Web directory Looksmart, with the intent of targeting their products and services to businesses. Under terms of the agreement, businesses will be able to access Network Solutions’ services, including domain name registration, from Looksmart’s Web services area. Network Solutions’ customers will be able […]

The Singapore Broadcasting Authority’s (SBA) National Internet Advisory Committee (NIAC) met recently in response to calls from local parents who expressed fears of their children seeing offensive content on the Web. The agenda of the meeting was to discuss Singapore’s position as a hub for the creation of Web content in Asia and the implementation […]

Private Internet service providers (ISPs) will be allowed to set up gateways in their service areas only, but those with a nationwide license will have the option to set up gateways anywhere in the country, according to a new set of guidelines drawn up by the inter-ministerial committee on Internet security. Although ISPs normally set […]

NetPhone Inc. Tuesday unveiled the NetPhone IPBXmail visual voice mail system, which enables access to voice mail messages from a Web browser and integrates e-mail and voice mail. Additional capabilities are designed to help users screen, prioritize and queue calls, plus route calls automatically to home or cell numbers or to coworkers. IPBXmail will be […]

San Francisco-based Bria Communications has acquired e-commerce developer Tianrong Internet Products and Services Inc. Financial terms were not disclosed. Tianrong Internet holdings include A-Web Internet Services Co., which provides a full range of Internet services including Web hosting and design. In addition, A-Web is an Internet service provider and offers turnkey e-commerce solutions for corporate […]

Amarillo, TX-based Thomas A. Edison Inc. is delivering a turnkey e-commerce server/software solution that it says “features everything a business needs to build an electronic storefront.” The e-commerce solution is targeted to merchants who want a low-cost “out-of-the-box” electronic storefront. The Thomas A. Edison Commerce Suite uses a patent pending technology and e-commerce software suite […]

Auction Universe said that during the month of April, Auction Universe will offer a 10 percent rebate on all Bid$afe purchases. It will also award, on behalf of its merchants, up to $200 to each of its buyers this month in the form of BidBucks, which can be used to buy even more items from […]

eBay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar and his first full-time employee, Jeffrey Skoll, recently turned over stock now worth almost $2.4 billion to repay loans of $1.5 million. In the new math of Internet company finance, though, the steep price of the loan was probably worth every penny, Bloomberg News said. In June 1997, when the […]

The Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) today has put Asia’s first English-language telephone stock quote system and the world’s first Mandarin-language telephone stock quote system on trial in Singapore to complement its brokers’ existing investment in Internet trading. The stock quote system, SpeechQuotes, is developed by SpeechWorks International Inc. in collaboration with a local institute, […]

IBM Corp. Tuesday formed a new business unit that will develop and market new products for Internet service providers. The company also unveiled the group’s first new initiative, dubbed the IBM Business Partner Program for ISPs. The program is designed to help ISPs deploy advanced applications and enter new markets by gaining access to technology, […]

The UK-based telecom giant Worldtel has proposed signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Maharashtra government to develop its Internet infrastructure. “The $100 million project, which would provide Internet backbone for local language and content, was proposed at a meeting in Mumbai with Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Rane, the state’s finance minister, planning board […]

Cable & Wireless USA Tuesday unveiled plans for a new $670 million high-capacity Internet network that will enable the company to offer a range of integrated Internet, data, voice and messaging solutions. Construction of the network, which will span 60 U.S. metropolitan areas, is estimated to take two years. It will support transmission speeds of […]