InternetNews Staff

San Francisco-based digital business agency Novo/Ironlight said it has been awarded the Park City, UT Mountain Resort account, which will be home to the next Winter Olympics. Novo/Ironlight said it will create a Web site for Park City Mountain Resort that will be both information rich and dynamic for the end user. Billings were not […]

NetGravity said that its AdServer Network solution has been selected by Preview Travel Inc., a provider of branded online travel services. AdServer will assist in the management of Preview Travel’s online advertising inventory by dynamically targeting ads and generating performance reports for advertisers. “Preview Travel offers advertisers the opportunity to reach a growing audience of […]

Boston-based Viant (formerly Silicon Valley Internet Partners) said it named Frank Dudley as its chief creative officer (CCO) and David Rose as director of the Viant Design Studio. Viant describes itself as a professional services firm specializing in building digital businesses. Prior to joining Viant, Dudley, who was the first director of the Internet Advertising […]

Internet computer marketer Cyberian Outpost and consumer electronics company Roxy Systems have signed up with Webstakes in New York City to use its new opt-in e-mail service, DirecToMe. The retailers are using Webstakes’ new system to distribute offers and branding messages to targeted audiences on the Web via e-mail. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. Currently, […]

Automotive Information Center (AIC), a provider of objective information on new and used vehicles, said it plans an in-house, integrated content advertising program on its AutoSite to meet the challenges of advertising on the internet. Westborough, MA-based AutoSite’s primary audience is the undecided automobile consumer in the research-to-buy mode. AutoSite, which features a 30,000 page […]

K2 Design Inc. in New York City has been selected by Audio Book Club in Boca Raton, FL to manage its Internet media strategy. Audio Book Club said it will use K2 Design’s expertise as a full service interactive agency for interactive media planning, strategic alliances and media management. Billings were not disclosed. K2 and […]

Cleveland-based OfficeMax Inc. said it signed a two-year comprehensive sponsorship and marketing agreement with Excite Inc. Under terms of the agreement, OfficeMax OnLine will be the premier online retailer of office products throughout numerous areas of the flagship Excite site. The deal will give Excite’s more than 20 million monthly users direct access to OfficeMax […]

Apple Computer Inc. announced Monday its Java strategy and demonstrated its next generation desktop computer for consumers at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Presiding over the annual gathering in San Jose, Calif., Apple’s interim CEO Steve Job said the company has licensed the PowerPC version of Symantec Corp.’s Just In Time compiler for Java and will […]

Nacimiento Software Corp. today announced the release of AppletVIEW Toolkit 1.0, a product used to develop Java applets that communicate over the Web through virtual instrumentation servers to instruments and devices. The AppletVIEW Toolkit facilitates the creation of graphical user interfaces that are used to access and control electrical or mechanical systems via the Internet […]

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced the release of the CSS2 (Cascading Style Sheets, level 2) specification as an official W3C Recommendation. The CSS2 specification, while remaining backwards compatible, will enable developers to create richer and more accessible Web pages. For a specification to become an official W3C Recommendation, the specification must be proven […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. said today it filed two new motions in U.S. District Court in San Jose, CA to add preliminary injunctions to its original Java language suit filed against Microsoft Corp. The company said it asked the court to require that Microsoft’s Windows 98 release be shipped with a compatible implementation of the Java […]

InterVU Inc. and MatchLogic Inc., the co-developers of trueVU, a shopping solution for delivering rich media in online advertising, will host a series of seminars called “Rich Media Day.” The seminars target advertising and new media professionals and will explore and demonstrate strategies, benefits and techniques for using online advertising that incorporates rich graphics, video […]