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Australasian Internet service provider OzEmail has announced that its Internet telephony business, Interline, has added New York-based telecommunications carrier Teltran International as an affiliate. The three year agreement adds Teltran to Interline’s global affiliate network. The network reportedly now delivers Internet telephone calls to more than 200 countries. Financial details of the agreement were not […]

Chris Peterson, president of Times Direct Marketing, Inc., a San Francisco direct marketing agency, will be the keynote speaker at the E-Commerce Workshop sponsored by The Direct Marketing Association’s Marketing Technology & Internet Council. Peterson’s presentation will be made Nov. 10, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City. Peterson […]

Plumtree Software Monday released an updated version of its intranet utility, Plumtree Server. Version 2.0 is made to allow intranet access to documents and databases via a corporate portal-type hierarchy. Content from Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange databases, as well as data warehousing reports from Cognos PowerPlay and Informix-MetaCube On-Line Analytical Processing applications will be […]

Many Internet users would pay a higher monthly service fee to their current Internet service provider rather than switch ISPs, according to a study from The Strategis Group. In the current edition of “Internet Users Trends,” home Internet users currently pay an average of $18.83 per month for Internet access. More than half of the […]

America Online Inc. and IP solutions provider GRIC Communications Inc. on Monday signed an Internet roaming agreement in a bid to expand AOL’s international presence. Terms of the pact call for GRIC to provide 700 points-of-presence (POPs) in 48 countries to AOL members. The POPs are available via the GRIC Alliance, a network of more […]

Two private companies, Ortel Communications and Surevin Consultants, have become the first private ISPs to receive licenses for Internet access in the Indian market. Government-owned telecom provider MTNL has also received licenses for the Delhi and Mumbai Internet markets, and the government monopoly ISP for commercial services has announced aggressive new plans for the Internet […]

MetaCreations Corp. announced a new version of Kai’s Power Tools, called KPT 5. It will provide professional designers and illustrators with some hot special effects when using the tools with Adobe Photoshop and MetaCreations Painter. With an interface refined to control numerical values precisely, KPT 5 will now create particle growth effects and professional blurs. […]

Houston-based Tidel Technologies Inc. introduced Chameleon, “an Internet-savvy, interactive multimedia kiosk that combines the security of traditional Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) banking networks with the e-commerce options of the Internet.” The new machine would allow an ATM user, for example, to make a cash withdrawal, and then buy airline tickets and book a hotel reservation, […]

The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) late Friday revised its bylaws to answer critics who said the board was not doing enough to keep the public informed and that its leadership structure did not reflect the Internet’s global reach. The group also told the Department of Commerce it is ready to begin […]

Mecklermedia Corp. Monday expanded its Internet.com network with the acquisition of three new Web sites. Jumbo contains more than 300,000 shareware and freeware programs organized by category, JustSmil focuses on the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language and NewsLinx is a collection of continuously updated technology news items from sources around the Web. Terms of the acquisitions […]

Ira Magaziner, President Clinton’s senior advisor on Internet issues, has announced he will leave his post by the year’s end. Magaziner,who has been a senior Clinton administration official for more than five years, announced his pending resignation late Friday. The news comes as the government is preparing to hand over control of the Internet’s domain […]

Automotive Internet retailing services, research firms and Web site development consultants will speak at the Auto Retailing on the Web Conference Nov. 16 and 17 at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville, TN. Expected to attend are representatives from automotive manufacturers, Internet referral companies, advertising agencies, Web developers, and a large contingent of auto dealers. A […]