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Unicast Communications Corp. in Greenwich, CT said its new AdController technology has been selected by NetGravity for use by its Web site clients, including Time Inc. New Media’s Pathfinder. AdController allows Web sites and advertisers to display content-rich advertisements between page views in pop up windows. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. “We are pleased to […]

Student Net Publishing’s Student.Com, which offers original daily content covering all aspects of college life, formed a distribution partnership with Zip2 Corp., a provider of local, ad-backed online city guides and directories. Zip2 will integrate Student.Com’s content into its own material which is distributed through its nationwide network of 152 online newspapers. Visitors to the […]

InterAd, a new European advertising sales house formed by the former European staff of SOFTBANK Interactive Marketing, signed its first site representation agreement with AltaVista.Telia. AltaVista.Telia, said to be Europe’s busiest site with around 85 million monthly European impressions claimed, was a major client site of SIM until terminating its contract with the U.S. operation […]

Derwent, part of The Thomson Corporation, introduced Patent Explorer as an Internet-based service to bring patent information to the desktops of all who need it. It is the latest step in nearly half a century’s work in compiling, translating, and abstracting patent information from more than 40 international patenting authorities. “In our highly innovative, fiercely […]

CacheFlow and Alteon Networks have combined the former’s CacheFlow 1000 with the latter’s ACEdirector Internet Traffic Director to increase the speed of Web page delivery. For Internet Service Providers (ISPs) it leverages existing bandwidth by a factor of four. This, claim the vendors, is twice that of other cache technologies. “Because the Web is the […]

Instant banner update technology is getting hotter. Both Darwin Digital and TotalNEWS are releasing applications for updating banners with news and fresh ads on the fly, and a third player, 7am News, already is offering the solution. 7am offers its InfoAd concept, comprised of a 5k Java applet and 1.6k of graphics. The banner ads […]

Andromedia Inc. introduced ARIA 2.5 at Spring Internet World in Los Angeles last week, the company’s high-performance, real-time Web site activity software. ARIA 2.5 now tracks activity on all major Web servers, including Netscape, Microsoft IIS, Apache, and Lotus Domino, the company said. In addition, the product adds network-level “on-the-wire” monitoring and the ARIA Exporter, […]

Urban Juice & Soda Company Ltd., maker of Jones Soda, said it is using Parable’s patent-pending

NEC Computer Systems Division launched a $6 million integrated advertising campaign that will debut at the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. The campaign includes television commercials, national newspaper advertisements, targeted direct mail, an online sweepstakes, billboards, and game summaries throughout the tournament. The idea is to strengthen the NEC CSD corporate brand and increase awareness of […]

San Francisco-based Abele Owners’ Network, a national listing service of homes For Sale By Owner (FSBO), signed a distribution agreement with Yahoo! Homeowners who advertise their property for sale on owners.com will automatically receive free exposure through Yahoo! Classifieds. Financial terms were not disclosed. Home buyers visiting Yahoo! Classifieds can click on owners.com property for […]

Alis Technologies reported it teamed up with Verity to offer powerful multilingual search and retrieval facilities for intranets and Web sites. The new technology will unite Verity’s indexing and search products with linguistic know-how from Alis Technologies. “This partnership with Verity directly addresses the need for international companies to provide access to information across a […]

Open Text Corporation introduced today Livelink Pinstripe, a Web search engine designed specifically to meet the needs of business users. Livelink Pinstripe returns highly focused search results, indexing only Web pages that are pertinent to business users. While it is available free to anyone with Web access, Livelink Pinstripe is also integrated with the next […]