InternetNews Staff

Fresh-faced portal myGO.com Wednesday added a variety of services to its site, including e-mail and homepage hosting. myGo.com is new on the portal scene, created in December 1998. It features links to more than 100 sites in categories ranging from business and computers to recreation, music and health. Recent enhancements include a search engine designed […]

Balisoft Technologies Inc. in Toronto delivered its E-mailContact app, e-mail response management software designed to intelligently route and track customer queries. E-mailContact “is a next generation standards-based solution that seamlessly integrates with any SMTP / POP3 e-mail server and client software combination,” enabling companies to manage and monitor in-bound e-mail queries from customers. E-mailContact can […]

Bank of America Wednesday rolled out a new pilot program that uses fingerprint recognition to give individuals access to their online banking services. Before using the system, the bank stores a customer’s online banking login, passcode and fingerprint on the chip attached to a multi-application smart card. The customer then follows a customary login process […]

Embattled e-commerce site Shopping.com Wednesday announced a management shakeup. The changes come amid published reports and message board postings from customers complaining of inaccurate credit card charges, connection problems and shipping delays. Frank Denny, who had been shopping.com’s chairman, assumes the chief executive officer spot previously held by John Markley. Markley will remain a member […]

For advertisers and marketers, tensions in 1999 will build to an explosion in 2000, with stemming from electronic marketing, the Internet and global advertising. According to Hall Dickler Kent Friedman & Wood LLP’s annual ADLAW predictions, globalization will cause unforeseen problems. “We expect the European Community to determine how its strict rules on privacy can […]

Market Research firm Harris Black International Ltd. (HBI) launched a new operating group, Harris Interactive, which will develop new data collection methodologies harnessing the Internet and other new technologies. Among the new unit’s current Web-based client services is Harris Poll Online, a full, online counterpart to the firm’s traditional, telephone-based Harris Poll. Harris Interactive’s market […]

E*TRADE Group Inc. entered a strategic marketing partnership with CNNfn.com, furthering its strategy of obtaining a significant branded presence on top financial news and information sites. “CNNfn and E*TRADE are a great cyber-marketing match,” said Jerry Gramaglia, senior vice president of marketing for E*TRADE. “E*TRADE is targeting the 10 million to 15 million investors who […]

CDKNet.com retained Commonwealth Associates, a New York based investment bank, to act as an adviser in evaluating whether to accept competing offers which have been made to acquire a controlling interest in the company. The company, which markets proprietary technology for use in audio, video and e-business and advertising multi-media projects, said it has been […]

Streaming media pioneer Real Networks Inc. Tuesday announced it would enhance its support of the QuickTime authoring format. The company also debuted RealProducer G2 for the Mac which will allow Web developers to author in QuickTime and take advantage of G2’s advanced capabilities. Real said the new release gives Macintosh users the ability to experience […]

NetObjects Inc. Tuesday began shipping its Authoring Server Connector for Microsoft FrontPage, which allows files generated in FrontPage to be seamlessly integrated into intranets where administrators can manage them using NetObjects’ Authoring Server Suite 3.0. NetObjects said Authoring Server Connector gives FrontPage users an easy way to integrate existing documents rather than being forced to […]

America Online Inc. and Tel-Save.com Inc. Tuesday announced a two-year extension to an existing marketing agreement that gives AOL members discounted telecommunications services from Tel-Save. The new agreement will net AOL $150 million, which includes the value of the original contract. It extends Tel-Save.com’s right to offer long distance service to AOL customers through 2003. […]

Concentric Network Corp. Tuesday announced a new partnership that will expand the coverage area of its high-speed Internet service for small and medium-sized businesses in the San Francisco area. The company is partnering with Wavepath, a Bay Area high-speed wireless provider, to offer symmetric Internet connectivity at speeds of 384 kilobits a second. The service, […]