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PC Flowers & Gifts named a new management team to lead and build the marketing department. Tom Ponosuk was named executive vice president of marketing and Marie L. vanRooyen was named director of marketing and product development. Ponosuk will cultivate new marketing partner opportunities, test and develop marketing programs and coordinate marketing communications for PC […]

RealSelect, operator of home listing site Realtor.com, is teaming up with Kmart, America Online and Yoyodyne to present the Realtor.com “Win Your Next Home Here” Sweepstakes. Hosted and operated by Westlake Village, CA-based RealSelect, the sweepstakes are sponsored by Kmart, and AOL, and is being produced by relationship marketer Yoyodyne. Total spending was not disclosed, […]

SYNTAX Design+Interactive, an independent strategic design and interactive media development agency in Amman, Jordan, announced the launch of its integrated interactive media services business and its new Web site. The past few months have seen an increase in demand for Internet related products and services in the Middle East, the company said. Saudi Arabia, the […]

Amplify.Net is offering a solution for large Webs sites that need to do a better job at balancing the traffic into their servers. The company introduced as ISPCON today what company president Pauline Lo Aker calls the next generation of bandwidth management solutions. In addition to providing better controls over how bandwidth is used, the […]

Intel and Netscape Communications Corp. showed their faith in the growth of the Linux operating system by investing in Red Hat, a company that builds, maintains and provides technical support for its branded version of the operating system. The companies made the announcement during a panel discussion of Linux and the open source code distribution […]

Today InterVu announced at ISPcon that it is adding Qwest Communications and AT&T CERFnet to its list of virtual network partners. Both companies’ Tier 1 backbones will now be used to deliver multimedia content for InterVubs clients which include CNN, NBC, Major League Baseball, and others. CERFnet vice president Pushpendra Mohta said the decision fits […]

iBeam Broadcasting unveiled details of its satellite based network at the ISPcon show. The iBeam Network will broadcast Web content and streaming media to ISPs who subscribe to the network and deploy the iBeam remote servers. The company said the network will help ISPs reduce bandwidth costs and improve end user quality of service. “The […]

CacheFlow said it is upgrading its line of caching hardware servers with the 500 series, with the new products targeting Internet connections from between one to four T1 lines. “From a deployment standpoint, the critical issue is how much bandwidth a cache can support,” said Kelly Herrell, vice president of marketing for CacheFlow. Prices for […]

Applied Computer Science, Ltd. (ACSL), the UK-based publisher of the SPARC Product Directory, launched STORAGEsearch.com, a new Web directory for locating computer storage products for all major platforms. The firm identified potential customers as worldwide users of storage products. STORAGEsearch.com helps end-users, resellers and others to find manufacturers of RAID, RAM, winchesters, optical drives, tape […]

Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) released a statement today commenting on the one-week extension it reached yesterday with officials from The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), allowing NSI to continue to provide domain name registration. Yesterday The Department of Commerce and NSI agreed to extend the period of the five-year Cooperative Agreement […]

Bigfoot International, Inc. announced agreements to incorporate Snap and Alexa’s Related Links into its NeoPlanet v 2.0 Internet environment. NeoPlanet, launched in October of 1998, is a Web browser and directory described as an alternative to Netscape and Microsoft’s offerings. Under terms of the agreement with Snap, NeoPlanet will share branding on the Snap content […]

Web hosting firm Sage Networks, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Web hosters GEN International Inc., or Global Entrepreneurs Network. The acquisition of St. Petersburg, FL-based GEN will add approximately 10,000 domains and a large network of resellers to Sage’s current operations, the company said. Sage will consolidate operations into its Atlanta data facility and […]