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The US$9.8-billion Sun Microsystems is to shortlist three cities in India to put up its first Java engineering center in the country. Sun is a global leader in enterprise network computing, technical network computing and workstations, and the origin of the worldwide Java technology paradigm. Sun already has competency centers for Java in Hyderabad and […]

Yahoo! Inc. Wednesday rolled out a series of new services aimed at small businesses and retailers who want to take their business online. The new services will be combined with Yahoo!’s earlier small business initiatives for businesses and merchants desiring an e-tail presence on the Net. Services include Yahoo! Site, Yahoo! Store, Yahoo! Connected Office, […]

America Online, Inc. Wednesday signed a three-year, multi-million dollar marketing agreement with music services company Columbia House. Specific financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement names Columbia as the preferred music service on AOL. Terms of the alliance include online and offline advertising promotions, product bundling, direct mail efforts and co-marketing and […]

Primark Corp. completed the acquisition of A-T Financial Information Inc. for $35 million in cash and said it will use the existing A-T Internet delivery system as the basis of a new investment service. The new Internet service will combine information–real-time and historical securities prices, indices, company financial reports and documents, ownership, insider trading, earnings […]

The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers has released preliminary guidelines to open up the domain registration process currently administered by government-sanctioned Network Solutions to other competitors. ICANN is the non-profit group begun by the late Jon Postel and is the successor to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Membership is comprised of leading international […]

America Online, Inc. Tuesday announced it will team with CNET in a two-and-a-half-year, $14.5 million content and e-commerce agreement. AOL also announced that its worldwide membership now totals more than 16 million members. Under the terms of the alliance, AOL is to receive guaranteed payments of $14.5 million and will be eligible for additional payments […]

The Indian subsidiary of the $3.1-billion Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) has all intentions to take advantage of its international head-start in India. SGI is on an Internet offensive in India and highly optimistic for the server business of its Rs 81-crore (about US$20 million) Indian subsidiary. Globally, the company only moved into the ISP-related business […]

Minneapolis, MN-based Navarre Corp. entered into a strategic alliance with online community site theglobe.com to become a supplier of software for globeDirect, theglobe.com’s e-commerce initiative. “Navarre’s strength as the market leader in distribution of entertainment software and theglobe.com as an exciting new Internet marketer, provide both companies with a terrific opportunity,” said Eric Paulson, president […]

The MIT Sloan School in Cambridge, MA is launching its next-generation Web site and a new Internet curriculum initiative, along with a Digital Time Capsule that will be “sealed” in the cornerstone of the school’s new Web site. The capsule contains digitized representations, drawn from the Internet, of the people, places, products, events, trends and […]

Aiming to boost awareness of its MSN portal, Microsoft Corp. Monday announced it is launching a multimillion dollar national advertising campaign. Separately, Microsoft debuted MSN WomenCentral which will offer content under an agreement with Women.com. The MSN consumer outreach expands on the company’s “Where do you want to go today?” campaign, created by Anderson & […]

Financial services company Story Street Partners Inc. has partnered with Thomson Financial Services subsidiary First Call Corp. to develop First Call’s Advantage Plus, a high-end, customized intranet portal for financial institutions. Story Street will provide various services to First Call customers, including the use of its Corporate Navigator platform for intranet content management. First Call’s […]

Spyglass Inc. Monday unveiled its Prism 2.2 content delivery platform which converts standard Internet content into formats matching the requirements of handheld Internet devices, televisions and mobile phones. The announcement came at the Wireless ’99 trade show. Spyglass Prism’s dynamic content conversion technology delivers optimized Web-based content. In addition, Spyglass Prism 2.2 can also format […]