John Lewell

Headspace Inc. today announced that Beatnik technology will be included in Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, NetObjects’ Fusion, and RandomNoise’s Coda Web site authoring tools. Headspace’s Beatnik enables developers to add high quality audio to their Web pages with minimal download times. Developers can add sound effects and hi-fi stereo music files to a Web page. With support […]

USA Business Networks unveiled Rivista this week, a software suite designed to automate the Web site creation and maintenance process. USA Business Networks claims the Web publishing tool can reduce development costs by up to 50 percent and maintenance costs by 60 percent in the long term. Designed for publishing companies and professional Web publishers, […]

Solbright Inc. today launched AdSuite, the first product suite designed to automate advertising sales, trafficking, and billing for Internet media companies. Solbright’s AdSuite provides Web-based management of processes including the electronic exchange of proposals and contracts through ad submissions, trafficking, and invoicing. The first available component of AdSuite, AdTraffic Manager 1.0, automates the ad submission […]

Luckman Interactive, Inc. this week released a major upgrade to its popular WebEdit Pro HTML authoring tool. The new version, WebEdit Pro 3.0, includes several tools and wizards that will enable even total beginners to create appealing Web sites. Many professional developers prefer to work directly in the HTML source code, avoiding WYSIWYG editors like […]

AdKnowledge, Inc., the result of the merger between ClickOver and Focalink Communications, today announced the availability of ClickWise 2, the newest version of its ad management software for Web sites. ClickWise 2 delivers enhanced inventory management and adds affiliate and customizable reporting, a four-fold increase in throughput, and central ad serving to its real-time, intelligent […]

Sane Solutions, LLC this week is set to release NetTracker 3.5, NetTracker 3.5 Professional, and NetTracker 3.5 Enterprise, three new versions of its new Web site usage tracking software. NetTracker was designed to provide corporate users and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with an easy-to-use solution for analyzing the traffic their Web site receives. Once the […]

C2Net Software today announced the first implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.0 protocol, the new, standards-based replacement for the popular SSL protocol that provides communications privacy over the World Wide Web. The specification for the TLS protocol was developed under the auspices of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to allow client/server […]

Macromedia this week announced its Design in Motion Suite, which Macromedia is billing as a complete vector graphics and animation application for Web designers. The suite includes FreeHand 8 and the latest release of the its design software, Macromedia Flash, along with Insta.HTML 2, which is used to export HTML files directly from FreeHand. FreeHand […]

O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. announced it will bundle WebMaster, Inc.’s ConferenceRoom Professional 1.5 with its own WebBoard 3.0, scheduled to be released early this spring. O’Reilly’s new enterprise/professional version of its popular chat/threaded discussion group software will enable up to 1,000 simultaneous users to join in an online chat using Webmaster’s ConferenceRoom Pro, IRC-compliant chat […]

GFI this week released Emailrobot LITE, an e-mail processing application that facilitates the management of e-mail. Emailrobot for Exchange and SMTP is designed to help companies handle the overload of e-mails that large Web sites tend to receive. It automates standard e-mail tasks and provides companies with a tool to manage and monitor their e-mail. […]

O’Reilly and Associates this week released WebSite Professional 2.1, its comprehensive Web server package. The next-generation version includes expanded Java support and full-strength encryption, as well as additional enhancements to WebSite Professional 2.0, which was released in September 1997. O’Reilly incorporated Live Software’s JRun technology into WebSite Professional 2.1, enabling developers to utilize WebSite servlets […]

Tenon Intersystems today announced WebTen 2.0, an upgrade to its industrial-strength, high-performance Apache Web server for Power Macs. According to the vendor, a new “supercache” feature boosts the Macintosh Web server performance leader by more than 400%. Tenon claims that WebTen, based on the latest Apache 1.2.4, is the fastest Web server on the Power […]