InternetNews Staff

Australia’s Internet Industry Association (IIA) recently gathered in Sydney to discuss legal and pricing-related issues for Australian ISPs and corporate Internet users. The Australian IIA, the peak national industry body for the Internet, was formed in 1997 to represent the interests of the country’s Internet industry, increase consumer confidence in e-commerce, promote progressive cyberlaws, and […]

Network solutions company Ascend Communications, Inc. today announced that global ISP PSINet Inc. selected its MultiVoice solutions for large-scale Voice-over-Internet deployment. Financial details were not disclosed. Ascend bills MultiVoice as an architecture for deploying “toll quality” voice and fax traffic over Internet Protocol and Frame Relay networks. The firm said it uses scalable WAN networking […]

Zapata Corporation announced today that its Internet subsidiary ZAP Corp. entered into an agreement to acquire the Attitude Network, operator of popular game Web sites including Happy Puppy and Games Domain. Financial details were not disclosed. Zapata said the latest additions will add more than 2 million unique users a month and more than 6 […]

Looking to target the rapidly expanding Chinese Internet market, domain registrar Network Solutions, Inc. today announced the signing of a bilateral agreement with China’s Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), the central domain name registry for the .cn country code top-level domain (ccTLD). Network Solutions and CNIC will jointly promote Internet address registration in the .com, […]

Online ad solutions company NetGravity launched NetGravity G-Force Partners Program, a new technology partner program, and relaunched its own Web site. Initial G-Force Program partners include ABC Interactive, the interactive auditing unit of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), Solbright and Vignette. NetGravity said the program formalizes its dedication to delivering complete, integrated online advertising […]

San Francisco-based WorldPages/WebYP Inc., an Internet white and yellow pages directory, entered into a strategic alliance with the Internet 800 Directory, a toll free number directory that also allows for “click-through” Internet telephony. Both directory services have created search vehicles allowing users to specify queries that will access their respective databases in order to search […]

Employment site CareerMosaic and Career Central Corp., an electronic recruitment and career services company, formed an alliance that will provide CareerMosaic users direct access to Career Central’s premium online recruiting service. Career Central CM is a co-branded service and is available immediately on CareerMosaic by clicking on the ResumeCM search engine, the companies stated, adding […]

Yoyodyne, an interactive direct marketing media company, launched “Clickthrough Plus,” a new enhanced value service of its long-running Get Rich Click program. Clickthrough Plus not only delivers guaranteed quantities of unduplicated traffic directly to sponsors’ sites, but also assists the advertiser in building their own opt-in list at the same time, at no additional cost, […]

Agency.com is merging with Eagle River Interactive to form the world’s largest interactive agency. The new company will retain the Agency.com name, and will have projected 1998 revenues of $80 million. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Headquartered in New York, the company will have more than 575 employees with offices in Avon, […]

OnHealth Network Co. said that Schering-Plough Corp.’s best-selling allergy remedy, Claritin, will be an exclusive sponsor of OnHealth.com’s newly relaunched Web site. The sponsorship, arranged through HealthTech Digital Communications, means that Claritin will have a prominent, exclusive sponsorship of the Allergy section of the OnHealth Personal Health Tracker. Spending was not disclosed. The Personal Health […]

Canadian Internet technology company WebSurfer Inc. announced today the signing of a deal with FutureNet Online for global distribution of its TV set-top boxes. FutureNet, a leading international network marketing company, will begin representing WebSurfer immediately through the company’s network of consultants throughout the world, the companies said. Financial terms were not disclosed. “Our new […]

Road Runner, the high-speed online service jointly owned by MediaOne Group, Time Warner, Microsoft Corp., Compaq Corp., and Advance/Newhouse, announced this week that it surpassed the 100,000 customer mark in the United States. The cable modem service is now available in 14 states served by Time Warner Cable and MediaOne, encompassing about 30 cities and […]