Maura Ginty

Ramping up to the August launch of the RioPort platform, Diamond Multimedia subsidiary RioPort Inc. Tuesday inked deals with music industry heavyweights Universal Music Group and MTV Networks. In the Universal deal, the record label conglomerate will deliver music downloads to RioPort’s SDMI-compliant portable flash memory devices. RioPort will receive content from Universal Music Group’s […]

The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to call off its $1 registrar fee, and continued to defend its ability to get the job done on time, just one day after the deadline for the domain registration test bed phase was pushed back for the second time. In a letter to […]

New deals continued as the name of the game today, accounting for most of the very few price leaps in the Internet sector as the market awaits this week’s earnings reports. The internet.com Internet Stock Index closed down 16.69 or 3.03 percent, to 534.38, the Nasdaq Composite fell further from midday, dropping 34.10 to 2,830.38 […]

Internet messager Mail.com, Inc. went on a shopping spree Monday, acquiring online calendar company eOrganizer and taking a 19 percent stake in Internet fax specialist 3Cube, Inc. Mail.com said the purchases were in line with the company’s strategy to offer e-mail messaging services to both the consumer and corporate market. Under terms of the deal […]

Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.’s RioPort Inc. Monday announced that its Rio 500 portable Internet audio player can be pre-ordered through various electronics retailers, its own online store, and Amazon.com. The new player, which is scheduled for shipment on August 18th, supports both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. “The countdown is on for the retail launch […]

Nokia Friday inked a $300 million agreement with Fujian Mobile Telecommunications Bureau to expand its dual band GSM network in China, extending its capacity to 4 million subscribers. Nokia will deliver mobile switching centers, home location registers, base station controllers, base stations and short message service (SMS) centers. Customer services, network planning, training and software […]

Fresh off its acquisition by CMGI Inc., AltaVista has a slew of plans to propel the search engine into Internet fame and glory, including switching from search engine to personalized portal and free ISP. AltaVista primary plan of attack against its online rivals is to become a portal and ride the free ISP wave into […]

AltaVista, Intershop and CyberSource Wednesday rolled out Homebase StoreFronts, an e-commerce solution for small and mid-sized businesses which allows merchants to generate traffic off the AltaVista network. Homebase StoreFronts has expanded basic advertising to full e-commerce transaction capability within a partner’s portal site. Sell-side electronic commerce hosting solutions provider Intershop Communications will offer the technology […]

Following Schwab’s and DLJDirect’s plunge into the Japanese brokerage market, Fujitsu Ltd. and The Nikko Securities Co., Ltd. Wednesday announced plans for an alliance that will include a joint venture Internet brokerage, dubbing the company-to-be Japan’s first “introducing broker.” Both companies expect the combined service provided by the two well-known names will “thrive amidst the […]

Yahoo! Inc. Wednesday announced Yahoo! Germany has rolled out a German version of its auction service. Sellers can hawk their items in German marks, U.S. dollars, the euro, Swiss francs and Austrian shillings, among other currencies. Yahoo! will not take commissions or charge listing fees. “Yahoo! continues to offer users around the world valuable commerce […]

In a move to globalize its brokerage empire, E*TRADE Group Inc. Tuesday acquired international financial services company TIR Holdings Ltd. in a stock deal worth $122 million. E*TRADE is calling the move a “critical element” in its aim to create the first cross-border trading network for online investors. TIR offers global multi-currency securities execution and […]

Joining the domain registration fray just weeks after the extension of the testbed deadline, The Internet Council of Registrars (CORE) Monday announced its registration of the .com, .net and .org top level domain names is open for business. CORE now joins register.com as one of two current domain registration rivals to Network Solutions. Register.com launched […]