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From australia.internet.com This year’s Internet World Australia Pacific 98 Conference and Exhibition has broken previous attendance records for the fourth year in a row, with organisers and exhibitors alike delighted with the size and quality of the attendance. Exhibitors told Internet World reporters they were impressed with the quality of visitors to the event, indicating […]

Australian ISP OzEmail Ltd. announced its entry into the Internet travel market this week with the launch of iTravel. The travel site is divided into different categories including airfares, travel guides, hotels and cars, and features an interface designed to enable users to build their own travel itinerary, book flights, select and reserve hotel rooms, […]

From australia.internet.com As part of the build-up to an expected federal election, rural families, Australian indigenous communities and senior citizens should benefit from an Australian Government initiative to bolster Web use in regional areas. The ‘Networking the Nation’ grants, totalling AUS$11.5 million, come from the Regional Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (RTIF) and will aid 44 projects […]

Individual Investor Online announced it will team up with three more Web sites on the heels of an agreement with Yahoo! this week. The alliances call for Individual Investor Online to supply its financial information through Cyberinvest, Wall Street Sports and Investorlinks. Cyberinvest and Investorlinks users can access information through links to Individual Investor content, […]

Newspaper consortium Classified Ventures named David G. Israel, president of Macmillan Computer Publishing USA, as its new president and CEO. Israel succeeds Tim Landon, Classified Ventures’ creator and founder, as head of the national online network of newspaper Web sites for auto, real estate and apartment classified advertising listings, resources and services. “David Israel brings […]

InterVU Inc. launched a Rich Media Site Integration Program, created to boost the rich media integration process for Web publishers and ad networks. Upon completion of the testing phase, InterVU said it expects to provide program participants with smooth and transparent delivery of rich media ad campaigns and new content incorporating rich media elements. InterVU […]

San Francisco-based Intellipost and CommTouch Software, a provider of >free Web-based e-mail solutions, established a strategic alliance aimed at spurring membership in BonusMail, Intellipost’s flagship, reward-based e-mail marketing program. “This is a match made in cyber heaven,” said Steve Markowitz, Intellipost president and CEO. “CommTouch provides a sophisticated free e-mail service, and we provide compelling […]

Web advertising growth will be increasingly dependent on the successful introduction of real targeting, according to research from Jupiter Communications presented at its third annual Jupiter Online Advertising Forum in New York. The research stated that the promise of highly targeted advertising is currently not being met, and failure to do so could severely hinder […]

From australia.internet.com Australian e-commerce developer Creative Digital Technology (CDT) has chosen the Internet World Australian Pacific 98 conference and exhibition to showcase its new SET-compliant merchant server application, NetCommerce II. According to CDT, NetCommerce II is the only product in its category to provide complete online transaction processing that includes credit card processing with the […]

CitySearch has postponed its planned initial public offering in favor of a merger with Ticketmaster Online, an alliance that will create a powerful new player in the local content arena. CitySearch, which produces and delivers local U.S. city guides on the Web, said its board put the planned initial public offering on hold after receiving […]

In the first case of its kind handled by The Federal Trade Commission, community Web site GeoCities–the firm whose initial public offering was well received on Wall Street this week–has agreed to a settlement over Internet privacy charges. The FTC charged GeoCities with misrepresenting why it collected personal information from adults and children. When users […]

Ashutosh Roy and Gunjan Sinha, the founders of the Web-based directory company WhoWhere? which was just sold to Lycos for $133 million in stock, have launched a new start up company called eGain that offers a solution for addressing the volume of customer inquiries that Web sites receive. eGain, with its eGain Email Management System […]