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NetStudio Corp. of Berkeley, Calif., a Web graphics software firm, and NetObjects, a provider of site building software, have formed a bundling alliance to deliver a solution for creating, editing and managing professional-looking e-commerce Web sites. The joint initiative targets the growing number of companies that require an easy, effective way to improve and expand […]

College & Pro Webwear Inc. in Sharpsville, Pa., an Internet retailer of team licensed merchandise, launched its second generation online storefronts, designed to make ordering faster and easier. The upgraded site offers a new product line of authentic NFL, NHL and MLB jerseys that customers can customize with any player name and number. Founded two […]

ModaCAD Inc. launched a new holiday gift finder on its Fashion Trip Web site. Vendors at the site include Amazon.com, Buffalo Jeans, Nicole Miller, Steve Madden and Urban Decay. Users enter information including gift category, relationship to the shopper, gender, age, price and occasion and gift finder searches through its selection of products and selects […]

Community site theglobe.com launched an e-commerce Holiday Survival Guide featuring shopping options, gift advice, games, contests and festive recipes. The Holiday Survival Guide features 13 different commerce partners including: 3COM, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Crutchfield, Virtual Vineyards, Lowestfare.com, Lenox Collections, Cyberian Outpost, Cars.com, Flowers USA, Countdown Clocks International, Chip Shot Golf and Delta 3. “The Holiday […]

Internet service provider netgenie Online expanded its community services Thursday with the rollout of its own portal. The company, which offers a one-time service fee of $99.95, is currently available in 300 cities, about 80 percent of the United States. Its Web site offers channels, chat rooms and newsgroups with links to a variety of […]

Rivals of Network Solutions were caught off guard by Wednesday’s announcement that the company would provide millions in funding and marketing services to Centraal Corp., providers of RealName technology. Network Solutions agreed to market, sell and service RealNames subscription orders directly. Network Solutions is also investing $4.2 million in Centraal, which gives it about at […]

Impulse Software released Impulse 4.0, an upgrade to its e-commerce site builder that allows any non-technical small business owner to create and manage a sales Web site using any ISP. The company said Impulse 4.0 is more than just a shopping cart program and can be used to create a fully functional and secure commerce-enabled […]

GlobalPhone delivered WebCallBack, a method of putting e-commerce site customers in touch with a service representative via phone in “less than 10 seconds.” “WebCallBack’s program offers a Web site visitor the ability to immediately talk to someone that can help them, simply by clicking a button and entering their phone number,” GlobalPhone president Stephen McCarthy […]

Planet City Software in Montreal, Canada, delivered its new E-COMM-KIT, calling it “E-Commerce with Eeze” that “brings e-commerce to the masses without massive overhead.” The E-COMM-KIT provides simple tools needed to set up a commercial Web site, including more than 100 templates and Web icons, as well as Web design tutorials. In addition, it includes […]

Electronic Software Publishing Corp. (ELSOP) Wednesday released version 5.2 of its LinkScan tool, featuring enhanced power and flexibility. The Web site management tool uses multi-threaded simultaneous processing designed to check external links at a rate in excess of 40,000 links per hour, and features improved navigation, reports and quicker scanning for orphaned files. Also added […]

Networking giant 3Com Corp. and German telecom giant Siemens AG Wednesday announced a joint venture to develop network telephony and multimedia products. Today’s announcement is an extension of a previous 18-month alliance. The co-produced products are already under development and are slated for availably in 1999. They will provide enterprises with local area network services, […]

As more telephone companies begin offering Digital Subscriber Line technology to their customers, a new advocacy group is being launched to promote competition and affordable pricing in the high-speed Internet market. The High Speed Access Coalition, or HiSAC, said it will act on behalf of households, home and office businesses and telecommuters who can only […]