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The SABRE Group said that its Travelocity site and Visa have formed a marketing alliance to leverage the growing online travel market. Under the terms of the agreement, Travelocity will designate Visa as its preferred payment card. Visa will receive prominent branding and banner advertising throughout the Travelocity Web site. The partners also will collaborate […]

Vignette Corp. Tuesday delivered its Vignette Syndication Server (VSS), calling it the industry’s first server for building automated trading networks between affiliated online businesses. VSS, compatible with the Information & Content Exchange (ICE) specification, is designed to enable businesses to distribute their electronic goods and services beyond their individual Web sites through a network of […]

IPNet Solutions Tuesday released IP-Web.link, a browser-based solution made for users of IP-Net.Suite to conduct electronic transactions with partners on the Internet. The product is designed to enable companies to give their trading partners a no-cost electronic commerce option for making transactions. It can be fully integrated with the vendor’s enterprise EDI solution, IP-edi.link, for […]

Intel Corp. will invest $20 million in @Home Network’s Dutch broadband venture, @Home Nederland. An Intel spokesman declined to specify what portion of @Home the $20 million brings Intel, but it will only be a minority stake. The Dutch language high-speed Internet service is a joint venture between @Home and Dutch cable operators Edon/CasTel and […]

A survey of 5,234 Internet households released Wednesday from J.D. Power and Associates gave the Microsoft Network top marks in customer satisfaction among the largest national Internet service providers. Rounding out the top five in J.D. Power’s 1998 Internet Customer Satisfaction Study were AT&T WorldNet, Prodigy, Compuserve and America Online. Together, the providers serve about […]

Tippecanoe Systems recently introduced a new approach to the traditional business card, claiming that it has solved the age-old problem of keeping business cards from getting out-of-date: virtual business cards. The VBCard Web site links paper business cards to ‘virtual’ cards accessible over the Internet. The linking is made possible by printing a ‘username’ and […]

The Internet Advertising Bureau said second quarter spending on Internet ads rose 20 percent to $423 million compared to the same period a year ago. Figures from the IAB’s “Advertising Revenue Reporting Program” showed Internet ad spending rose for the ninth consecutive quarter. According to the report, which was presented by PricewaterhouseCoopers at the IAB’s […]

BBBOnLine, a subsidiary of the Council of Better Business Bureaus Inc., said that two dozen major companies are now spearheading the creation of a privacy seal program to inspire confidence in Web consumers. AMR Corp. (American Airlines and Travelocity), Eastman Kodak, Microsoft and US WEST are the most recent companies to provide leadership and funding […]

Microsoft is making available two new (and free for the download) components for its Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition, one for auctions and one called The Commerce Interchange Pipeline Manager. The new auction component is intended to enable site managers to auction products, accept bids and determine winners using rules ranging from simple to sophisticated. […]

An 86 percent jump in online revenues in the third quarter helped Internet publisher and television programmer CNET Inc. eclipse Wall Street estimates. The company late Monday reported earnings of $3.7 million, or 21 cents a diluted share, compared to a loss of $6.2 million, or 45 cents a share, in 1997. Third-quarter revenues leaped […]

Cisco Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday debuted a new program geared to Internet service providers (ISPs) seeking alternatives to flat-rate pricing. Dubbed “The HP and Cisco Internet Usage Program,” the initiative is based upon the Internet usage platform, announced in April that uses HP’s smart Internet usage and Cisco NetFlow technology. The companies say […]

Y2K Newswire of Cody, Wyoming is offering daily Y2K news and analysis in a free e-mail alert format. The service is available from its new Web site, launched this week. Its content will combine news, analysis, and “what if” scenarios of the Y2K problem. Y2K Newswire will not only summarise the day’s news but will […]