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US Interactive was recently selected by Pioneer Electronics (USA) to assist in the launch of the Pioneer Direct online store. “US Interactive was a key player in the development of Pioneer Electronics’ e- commerce Web site,” said William Wood, Web producer at Pioneer Electronics. “Not only did US Interactive handle the backend programming, but they […]

Ad management service company AdForce said that its European partners, Euroserve Media GmbH and ADTECH Advertising Service GmbH, launched a centralized pan-European ad-serving data center. The new data center, located in Frankfurt, Germany, is based on AdForce’s proprietary centralized ad management technology and was modeled after AdForce’s primary data center in Costa Mesa, CA. The […]

ZDTV, an affiliate of Ziff-Davis, said that Egghead.com’s virtual superstore will contribute live online advertising to Internet Tonight, its daily program about the Internet. “This alliance creates one of the first partnerships of convergence advertising: live television via ZDTV combined with real-time information from Egghead.com’s Web site,” said Richard Fisher, executive vice president of ZDTV […]

In a move aimed at securing e-commerce transactions in Europe, Compaq Computer Corp. today announced that it was chosen as the prime contractor to implement the IT solution for credit card firm Visa’s pilot project in the Netherlands. Compaq said it is supplying its Internet, iTP Payment Solution and Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) technology, designed […]

IntraNetics, of Boston, Massachusetts, entered the European market with French, German and Dutch versions of its intranet-in-a-box software, IntraNetics 97. Available on a single CD, IntraNetics 97 is thought to be the first packaged intranet software to have been translated for European users. “Having recently expanded our operations into the Netherlands, IntraNetics is committed to […]

Simware Inc. inked a joint marketing and sales agreement with Logica, an international consulting, systems integration, and software company. The partners will deliver Salvo, an Enterprise-to-Extranet solution, to energy and utilities companies worldwide, and enable all divisions of Logica to resell Salvo to their customers in the Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Automotive […]

Based on 80 in-depth interviews with Latin America’s top access providers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela, a study released by International Data Corporation (IDC) reveals that the surveyed Internet access providers will spend up to US$6.3 million each in technology in 1998. The combined planned 1998 technology investments of the surveyed access […]

In response to what it is said is customer demand for faster access to the Net, Dell Computer Corp. today announced a slew of deals with AT&T World Net Service, Excite Inc. and SBC Communications Inc., to provide Internet access applications on the desktop of Dell Dimensions PCs. Under the agreements with AT&T and Excite […]

Taking a cue from the success of online car sales in the United States, Toyota is bringing the concept home. The Toyota Motor Company’s nationwide dealerships, incorporated under the name of Chiba Toyopet, will add online services in November in an effort to attract and improve their market share among younger drivers. “The introduction of […]

Yahoo! Inc. became the latest portal to jump on the AT&T bandwagon, as the two firms today announced the launch of “Yahoo! Online Powered by AT&T WorldNet Service.” According to the agreement, AT&T will provide Internet access to new Yahoo! Online subscribers, found at online.yahoo.com. The service will be co-branded and co-marketed, the firms said. […]

from Australia.internet.com Australian Internet Service Provider OzEmail launched MyMail, a free Web-based e-mail service to compete with similar freemail services like Hotmail. MyMail is designed to allow users to read, reply, compose and add attachments to mail items from any browser, after they have provided their user name and password and been authenticated by their […]

Contrary to earlier studies, a new report from Discovery Communications Inc. using Nielsen Media Research data found that television viewing for households with an Internet connection rose faster than that for all households from 1996 to 1997. The analysis, based on data from 389 homes, found residences with Internet access increased their viewing on a […]