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TriNet Services announced it updated its Internet Voice Button Service, which initiates a voice connection over standard phone lines to a business with the click of a button on a Web site. The service enables customer service representatives to push Web pages directly to the screens of online users. The Internet Voice Button, developed by […]

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus Inc. (CBBB) said that its children’s privacy standards have won the support of America Online and Microsoft. “We applaud America Online and Microsoft for providing necessary leadership on this critical issue for the emerging interactive medium,” said Walter J. O’Brien, vice president […]

San Francisco-based LinkExchange Inc. and the BBBOnline, a program of the Better Business Bureau system, formed a partnership to promote ethical business online. They will work together to increase online awareness of good business guidelines, help encourage ethical business practices on the Web, and further educate the online community on the various pitfalls and opportunities […]

NetCreations Inc., an opt-in email marketing company, announced that they will manage the 213,332-name opt-in e-mail list of the WebPromote Internet marketing service. The deal boosts NetCreations’ PostMaster Direct Response database to 894,445 e-mail addresses, according to president Rosalind Resnick. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. The WebPromote list offers e-mail addresses of Internet users who […]

Born on the Internet and smartly clad in a gold diaper, the “Dancing Baby” is the star of the first television spot in a new advertising campaign launched nationwide by Blockbuster. The computer-generated baby, popularized as a screen saver on the Internet and featured on FOX’s “Ally McBeal” television show, dances energetically to Rick James’ […]

Ad network DoubleClick Inc. of New York City, appointed Thomas S. Murphy and Don Peppers to the company’s board of directors. Murphy is chairman and chief executive officer emeritus of Capital Cities/ABC Inc. and is a member of The Walt Disney Company’s Board of Directors.He was chairman and chief executive officer of Capital Cities/ABC for […]

Media Metrix, The PC Meter Company, launched a new local market audience measurement service, calling it “the first-ever body of research to explore the actual behavior of local market audiences on the World Wide Web.” The New York City company said the research offers advertisers, marketers and content providers an in-depth analysis of local market […]

Toronto-based ATI Technologies debuted this week a reference design for a Windows CE-powered set-top box that features the company’s latest 3D, video acceleration, and PC-to-TV convergence technology. Called the Set-top-Wonder CE, the design provides a platform from which PC, consumer electronics, and cable OEMs can combine key entertainment functions into low-cost, but high performance set-top […]

In a shift from the past 12 months, Internet users responding to Georgia Tech’s Graphic, Visualization, & Usability Center’s (GVU) 8th WWW User Survey, reported that privacy is the most important issue facing the Internet, with censorship holding second place. About 30.5 percent of respondents said that privacy was “the single most critical issue facing […]

AOL Interactive Services, the Internet division of America Online, Inc. today announced that Provident American Corp. will become the exclusive direct marketer of medical insurance on AOL and AOL.COM. Under the initial term of the agreement, which runs for one year following launch, Provident will make guaranteed payments to AOL totaling $8 million. If Provident […]

Salt Lake City-based DataMark Holding Inc. signed a partnership agreement for its WorldNow Online Network subsidiary with InfoSpace. The collaboration will offer online classified ads and directory services, along with chat and a variety of local information services for the Web sites of WorldNow’s television station affiliates. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]

The Canadian Banner Service launched Canada Hyperbanner –the first free Banner Exchange Service in Canada to display advertising banners on a large network of Canadian-only Web sites. Canada Hyperbanner is free to all Canadians and offers special services to Canadian sponsors, large site owners, partners, and advertising agencies, including use of animated banners, live event […]