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Novell Software Development India, the four-and-a-half-year-old fully owned subsidiary of network software company Novell Inc., has developed the Novell Directory Service (NDS) for Solaris–Sun Microsystems’ UNIX operating environment. Novell has positioned itself as a directory company and its key products are NDS for Netware, Windows NT and Solaris. “We at Novell India realized that the […]

San Jose, CA-based CyberSource Corp., a provider of e-commerce transaction services, said it is expanding the CyberSource eTransaction Suite to include the Internet’s first real-time delivery address verification service, CyberSourceD@ve. D@ve enables Web merchants to avoid mis-shipments due to addressing errors that result in millions of dollars of unnecessary costs, loss of goods, and dissatisfied […]

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration Wednesday joined a growing number of organizations that are criticizing domain register Network Solutions Inc.’s weekend takeover of the InterNIC site. With no advance notice, Network Solutions “redesigned” its previous site and incorporated the InterNIC site into its commercial site this week-end, confusing and angering […]

Gateway Inc.Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ted Waitt has joined MP3.com Inc.’s board of directors, becoming the first person outside the company to be named a director. The MP3 site provides music downloads in the MP3 format, including MPEG 1 and Audio Layer 3. The company enables users to download thousands of songs. The site […]

Online auctioneer eBay is being sued by a software developer which maintains a program that lets eBay users post auction listings infringes on its patented technology. Network Engineering Software filed the suit late Thursday in a San Jose, Calif., federal court. The company is seeking unspecified damages and an injunction against eBay. Robert Irvine, an […]

Report2Web Corp., a Web-based enterprise reporting provider, Tuesday unveiled Report2Web 2.0. Report2Web 2.0, scheduled to be released in April, is designed to give users access to business information through a standard Web browser. The product uses Internet server technology to securely distribute reports through a single user-friendly interface. Report2Web is similiar to an external portal, […]

Irvine, CA-based NetPack Inc. said it will offer a scaled- down version of its First Internet Access Card to major grocery store chains as an addition to its First Internet Access Card program. “Many grocery chain stores presently offer membership cards to their customers,” said Nils-Eric Svensson, vice president of marketing for NetPack. “With our […]

Pearl River, NY-based Frontline Communications Corp. said that its subsidiary, WOWFactor.com, an online directory of women business owners, has acquired a database of more than 1.2 million women business owners who will be joining WOWFactor (Women On the Web) for a public re-launching next month. “WOWFactor is not about horoscopes or fad diets,” said Margaret […]

Dipping further into the e-commerce pool, CNET Inc. Tuesday acquired electronics comparison shopping network KillerApp, Corp. CNET will issue about 500,000 common shares for all of KillerApp’s stock. CNET said the acquisition will add consumer electronics to its shopping services. The company intends to integrate Killer App into its services immediately. “At CNET, we are […]

America Online Inc. subsidiary ICQ Inc. Monday released Signaler, new technology that automatically notifies ICQ users of chat requests. Signaler is the latest offering from NECS, a subsidiary of Israeli Bell South International Group. The technology will notify users regardless of whether they are currently online. “Signaler allows ICQ users to be reachable even when […]

BROKAT Infosystems AG, a provider of secure e-business solutions for the financial services industry and parent company of Atlanta-based BROKAT Infosystems, signed a merger agreement with MeTechnology AG, a provider of electronic banking and e-commerce solutions. Under terms of the agreement, after a period of partnership, MeTechnology will be merged into BROKAT, including the integration […]

WIZnet Worldwide Internet Solutions Network Inc. recently launched the “eCommerce Portal,” an online community where businesses can search, source and negotiate with each other on a range of products and services available on the Internet. The eCommerce Portal, with its 100,000-plus virtual catalogs, delivers the same form, fit and function of conventional paper catalogs but […]