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KING Products signed an agreement with Canada Payphone Corporation of Burnaby, British Columbia, and ATCOM/INFO of San Diego, CA to develop new public Internet terminals. KING will supply Canada Payphone with flat panel touchscreen, multimedia networked terminals that will enable public access to e-mail functions, the World Wide Web, and electronic commerce transactions. The terminals, […]

Interactive agency Nicholson NY named Cris Popenoe as managing director of its new Internet Retailing unit. Popenoe brings to the agency more than 25 years experience in media publishing, marketing and retail and catalog sales. She was most recently a managing associate in Coopers & Lybrand Consulting’s media practice developing e-commerce strategies with clients. Among […]

San Francisco-based ISP Surfree.com said it launched an advertising campaign comparing its service to that of AOL, hoping to woo dissatisfied customers. The company said it hopes to introduce AOL users to the “Real Internet” through Surfree.com. “They’re bigger–we’re better,” said Adam Portnoy, founder and president of Surfree.com. “People’s reluctance to change e-mail addresses prevents […]

WebRep in San Francisco announced a new advertising sales partnership with National Geographic Interactive. The National Geographic Society’s Web site, considered a premier destination for education, exploration and entertainment, claims six million page impressions per month. The site takes visitors on assignment with National Geographic writers, photographers, and explorers. It also features photo galleries, interactive […]

New Web measurement service NetRatings Inc. said the top banner ad for the week of March 29, viewed by 42% of the total Web population, was Amazon.com’s sponsor button which shows up when a Web user does a search on Yahoo! Sex site Xpics, with a ranking of 15, has the highest concentration of male […]

Andromedia Inc. said it has donated ARIA, the company’s Web site activity analysis solution, to the University of California, Berkeley, the alma mater of the company’s founders and many of its current high-ranking employees. The donation of ARIA is in advance of a formal program Andromedia is establishing to make it easier for educational institutions […]

Big Flower Holdings Inc. disclosed that it made a strategic investment (dollar figures were not announced) in 24/7 Media Inc., the newly formed Internet advertising network based in New York City. “We are pleased to be a part of this innovative and powerful new business. We believe that our own operating companies will benefit from […]

DoubleClick Inc. said Lee Nadler is returning to DoubleClick’s headquarters in New York as director of global marketing after recently working with DoubleClick International to launch operations in Japan and Australia. Also announced was David A. Williams appointment as senior marketing manager. Nadler, who joined DoubleClick as director of marketing in August 1996, was responsible […]

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. will incorporate Intel’s Intercast technology into Microsoft’s WebTV for Windows 98, the companies announced today. Microsoft and Intel said they see this as the first phase in blending TV programming with data from various platforms, such as PCs equipped with TV tuners. Analog broadcasts will be the first area of […]

With Netscape as its poster child, the free software community came together yesterday to explore ways to combine commercial business with Internet-based collaboration that results in high-quality free software. The panel vaunted the open development model which gave rise to the nuts and bolts of the Internet: the sendmail protocol for transporting e-mail messages, BIND, […]

CDnow, Inc. will become the exclusive music retailer for Europe’s Lycos Bertelsmann in a $5.5 million agreement announced today by the companies. Terms of the deal call for CDnow to sell and distribute music-related products via Lycos Bertelsmann in 11 countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland, as well as the United Kingdom. European […]

What the barons of free software were proponing was using their open source model to make commercial software faster, better and cheaper than any vendor can using a closed model, because proprietary software stagnates between releases. “The Internet is growing at an incredible speed and the need for reliability and added features is greater than […]