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Asia-Pacific Region To Have 27 Million Internet Users By Year 2001 Internet usage in the Asia-Pacific region is forecast to rise by 93 per cent from this year to 27 million users by 2001, according to Kuala Lumpur-based industry research firm Asia Network Research. Internet users in the region now number an estimated 14 million, […]

Standards Australia, Australia’s peak Standards body, has fast-tracked work on standards critical to the implementation of a Public Key Authentication Framework (PKAF) for secure electronic commerce. The organisation released for public comment drafts of the first two PKAF-related Standards being proposed, and comments will close at the end of this month. The drafts are believed […]

Networking solutions provider Lucent Technologies today said it signed an agreement with Atlanta-based WorldPort Communications Inc. to supply optical networking transmission equipment for WorldPort’s network in the Netherlands. In June, WorldPort acquired EnerTel N.V., an alternative public telecommunications operator (PTO) in the Netherlands. Under today’s agreement, Lucent said it will supply its WaveStar OLS 80G […]

In what it is billing as the first case of its kind, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it is barring an allegedly fraudulent e-tailer from conducting Internet-based business for life. The FTC said in a statement it reached a settlement yesterday with the defendant, Craig Lee Hare, a.k.a. Danny Hare, of Lake Worth, FL. […]

Online investment firm E*TRADE Group, Inc. is the latest addition to the growing list of Web sites offering users a free e-mail service. E*TRADE said its Web-based “E*TRADE Mail” solution will feature encryption based on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, spam-blocking technology, and quick attachment downloads. Premium features such as archiving, certified delivery and […]

An Australian senator, Tasmanian Independent Brian Harradine, proposed that Internet Service Providers should be fined for knowingly transmitting pornographic and violent images over the Internet. Senator Harradine called on both the Liberal and Labor parties to support the legislation, which would make it a criminal offence for ISPs to carry such images. This proposed legislation […]

The UK’s National Westminster Bank and InterTrust Technologies Corp., of Sunnyvale, California, formed a global alliance to provide electronic commerce and digital information security over the Internet. Within the alliance, NatWest has the right to use InterTrust’s digital commerce and information security technologies for applications in unlimited vertical markets. “This development is a natural extension […]

Microsoft is looking to extend the reach of its HomeAdvisor online real estate resource under an exclusive distribution agreement with leading community site GeoCities. Under terms of the agreement, HomeAdvisor will be the sole provider of real estate listings for GeoCities’ new Real Estate Center. Neighborhood data, home-buying tutorial information and links to HomeAdvisor’s site […]

HomeSeekers.com Inc. said it entered into a marketing agreement with Homebuyers Guide, a publisher of new home publications with circulation in California and Nevada. The joint marketing agreement was formed to establish HomeSeekers.com’s newest offering, NewHomeSeekers.com. NewHomeSeekers.com will database New Home projects in various geographic areas. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. “We are very excited […]

iMALL Inc. said it expanded the scope of its marketing and retailing agreement with animalhouse.com. Under the expanded five-year agreement, iMALL will have exclusive retailing rights for the sale of music, books, and travel within the animalhouse site. The previous agreement granted iMALL retailing rights for virtually all other products and services. iMALL will now […]

The steering committee of FAST Forward, an alliance of industry trade groups created at Procter & Gamble’s recent Future of Advertising Stakeholders (FAST) Summit last month, named some of its committee heads, according to ChannelSeven.com. Mike Donahue, executive vice president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, will head the ad models task force; Robin […]

Skyline Multimedia Entertainment Inc. in said it entered into an exclusive co-marketing agreement with InfoSpace. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. Skyline Multimedia is a holding company engaged in the development and operation of “next generation” entertainment facilities. New York Skyline Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, owns and operates the “New York Skyride,” a multi-million dollar […]