InternetNews Staff

iPass, the clearinghouse for global roaming services on the Internet, has added another 15 Internet service providers partners in Europe, bringing its European total to 60 and its world total to over 500 partners with more than 3,000 Points of Presence. Among the new European partners in the iPass service are the UK-based ISPs Direct […]

Critics of The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) came out swinging this week, in reaction to the group’s Nov. 6 proposal to The Commerce Department outlining plans to transfer the Domain Name System from government to private-sector control. On Tuesday, a consortium of international country-code top level domain administrators (ccTLDs) banded together […]

Excite Inc. unveiled Excite Express Order, which lets shoppers enter billing information once and use it repeatedly to buy merchandise quickly and easily from retailers on Excite. Excite Express Order functions as a virtual credit card wallet for consumers, Excite said. The service is available immediately in Excite’s Holiday Shoppe. The initiative will be supported […]

CommerceInc said that McGraw-Hill’s Business Week has become a portal partner in its business-to-business e-commerce initiative. Since late September, CommerceInc in partnership with Dun & Bradstreet, has been building online business communities with listings that include details about 11 million individual small businesses such as address, CEO, products, services, territories and DUNS number. Searchable by […]

Technauts Inc. Wednesday began shipping its eServer 152, a new thin server designed to allow small and medium-size businesses to quickly set up Web and e-mail access and to establish their own intranets. The company said the eServer 152 offers business a flexible feature set while also emphasizing easy set-up. Technauts said the system can […]

The streets between Avenida Amazonas and Juan Leon Meron in Quito, Ecuador–home to many tourist hotels and restaurants–also host an astonishing density of Internet cafes: almost a dozen in a region of just a few blocks. Many of these Internet cafes are less than three months old, such as the Interactive Cafe on Fosch street. […]

Web community GeoCities Wednesday acquired Starseed Inc., a provider of technology that allows Web sites on similar topics to be organized in groups, known as “rings.” GeoCities paid $2 million in cash plus 775,000 shares of stock in exchange for all outstanding shares and options of Starseed. Starseed also maintains the free Web service WebRing, […]

Intellipost Corp. Wednesday acquired several e-commerce assets from credit information and database provider Experian. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Experian will take a 19.9 percent stake in the combined company and will become a global strategic marketing partner of Intellipost, which runs the e-mail rewards program BonusMail. Among the assets Intellipost will receive […]

Domain registrar Network Solutions Inc. in Herndon, Va. has signed independent Internet provider Earthlink as a member of its Alliance Program. The program enables Network Solutions and participating companies to provide reciprocal distribution channels. Under the terms of the agreement, Earthlink will provide its customers with a link to Network Solutions’ domain name registration and […]

Netgateway Inc. has entered into a binding agreement to purchase StoresOnline.com, broadening Netgateway’s menu of e-commerce solutions and storefront building services. StoresOnline.com will become a wholly owned Netgateway subsidiary that includes more than 400 customer accounts, proprietary software systems and StoreOnline.com’s Web site. Financial terms of the stock deal were not disclosed. Netgateway said its […]

Consumer Reports Online, the Web site from Consumer Reports magazine, said it has created a special “information hub” to help holiday shoppers “save time, money, and sanity when shopping this holiday season.” The Guide to a Hassle-Free Holiday also offers suggestions for sharing the seasonal spirit in ways that can make the holidays enjoyable without […]

Netscape Communications Corp. Tuesday announced new technology, code-named NGT, which will serve as the foundation for all of its future client releases. Netscape said NGT will result in smaller, faster, modular applications for a variety of computing platforms, devices and information appliances. NGT’s new browser engine will allow the company to quickly develop new browser […]