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Centraal Corp., operators of the RealNames service, signed a strategic agreement Wednesday with domain registrar Network Solutions Inc. to give Web site operators a new way to increase traffic. Network Solutions has agreed to market, sell and service RealNames subscription orders directly. Network Solutions is also investing $4.2 million in Centraal, which gives it about […]

Lucent Technologies Inc. Wednesday signed a series of optical networking agreements with service providers in Europe and Asia worth $90 million. The service providers include KPN Telecom BV of the Netherlands, Spain’s Telefonica de Espana, Korea Telecom and the Posts and Telecommunications Administrations, which operates in several Chinese provinces. The providers plan to employ Lucent […]

Cyveillance, a provider of what it calls “intelligent Internet surveillance,” said an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 Web sites are selling luxury consumer goods this holiday season, and 10 to 20 percent of those are peddling counterfeit wares. These knock-offs and imitation goods are posing as elite brands such as Gucci, Coach, Calvin Klein and Rolex, […]

AT&T Corp. Tuesday purchased IBM Corp.’s Global Network for $5 billion in cash in a deal that will raise the profile of AT&T’s international Internet business and allow the company to move beyond its traditional long distance core. IBM Global Network serves the networking needs of several hundred large global companies, tens of thousands of […]

Web hosting company Sage Networks Inc. will offer Mercantec’s SoftCart to its customers for sales transactions on their e-commerce sites. Mercantec is a provider of retail electronic commerce solutions that will allow Sage Networks’ customers to create a new virtual store or add commerce capabilities to an existing Web site without changing its look and […]

HomeCom Communications Inc. in Las Vegas, a provider of solutions for the financial industry, said that First Brokerage America, affiliated with First Banks Inc. of St. Louis, will market insurance products using HomeCom’s online insurance program, Insure Rate. First Banks Inc., with assets exceeding $4.4 billion, operates 136 offices in Missouri, Illinois, California and Texas […]

net.Genesis Corp., a provider of e-business intelligence solutions, said that its flagship product, net.Analysis, will interoperate with IBM Net.Commerce software. As a Web data mining solution, net.Analysis will work with IBM Net.Commerce to collect Web site visitor data from various servers and cross-correlate, analyze and discover trends. Companies using both software applications benefit from a […]

Novell, Inc. Monday announed plans to ship NetWare 4.2, its network solution that enables enterprises to manage and control complex networks, by year’s end. The new product replaces intraNetWare and NetWare 4.11. It uses NetWare 4 as its foundation, adding support for Novell Directory Services. Novell said the latest version delivers system reliability, efficient centralized […]

Sendmail Inc., whose products are used by many Internet providers for handling e-mail delivery, Monday released Sendmail Pro, its first commercial product. Built on open source software, Sendmail Pro features a variety of enhancements, services and support. Through its acquisition of Sendmail for NT from MetaInfo Inc., the company plans to unite Sendmail Pro and […]

Cisco Systems Inc. Monday announced a new way for Internet service providers to track the usage patterns of their customers. The ISPs can then use this data to control costs, decide whether they can cost-effectively expand their services and to create new revenue opportunities. The technology, known as distributed session management protocol, or DSMP, communicates […]

Electrifier Inc. Monday released its Electrifier Pro utility, designed to create fast-downloading Web multimedia content. Users can create bitmap and vector animation, digitized audio, synthesized music (MIDI), video, 3-D, VR panoramas and more than 150 special effects. Its features include drag-and-drop authoring and seamless integration with popular tools like Adobe Photoshop and PageMill. “Electrifier Pro […]

Warner-Lambert Co. launched a site called “I Finally Found It!” featuring tried-and-true Warner-Lambert products that are still popular with consumers, but are difficult to find in stores. Products include things such as Black Jack, Clove and Beemans Gum, Corn Husker’s Lotion, Lubriderm Advanced Therapy GelCreme and Schick Injector Razors, along with other confectionery, oral care, […]