Paul Nicholls

eSafe Technologies, Inc. today announced the release of eSafe Protect Gateway 2.0, the product formerly known as ViruSafe FireWall. The solution integrates anti-vandal and anti-virus protection for firewalls with URL filtering, spam blocking, cookie blocking, and keyword-based blocking at the gateway level, the company said. “With the proliferation of the Internet, virus infections now occur […]

Market research firm ActivMedia said its latest study shows the online business sectors poised for the fastest growth in 1998 are computer hardware and software, real estate, publishing and information services, finance and Internet services. Online executives across all business sectors responding to an annual survey anticipate revenue growth of 63% in 1998–slightly higher than […]

In a move aimed at further expanding its automotive e-commerce presence, Microsoft Corp. today announced it signed deals with two firms to distribute its CarPoint online automotive service. Under terms of an agreement with AutoSite, a vehicle research site, Carpoint’s New Car Buying Service will be made available to AutoSite users, while online community Infospace […]

GlobeSet Inc. in Austin, TX, a provider of SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) software for OEM solutions, said it has successfully completed interoperability testing between a variety of GlobeSet Payment System and IBM Payment Suite software payment applications. These include: GlobeSet Wallet v1.1 with IBM Consumer Wallet v1.0.11, v1.2 GlobeSet POS v1.1 with IBM Payment Server […]

Priceline.com, the name-your-own-price e-commerce system, said that General Atlantic Partners LLC, an equity investment firm focused on the software and information technology sectors, invested $20 million in the Stamford, CT-based company. General Atlantic’s William E. Ford has agreed to join priceline.com’s board of directors, which includes former Time Warner Inc. co-CEO N. J. Nicholas Jr., […]

iMALL Inc. and GEN International Inc., a hosting service for online merchants, announced that GEN will exclusively offer iMALL’s Bolt-on e-commerce solution to its new and existing Internet merchants. Under the agreement, GEN will offer its base of more than 35,000 hosting clients iMALL’s browser-based e-commerce solution made to enable Web merchants to add commerce […]

eCommerce Corp. announced this week it launched a turnkey electronic commerce solution for businesses. With its turnkey system, eCommerce said it offers credit card authorization and settlement, along with total integration with a 150,000-square-foot fulfillment house and state-of-the-art fulfillment back-end system. Client pricing details were not disclosed. The integration of the front-end Web site with […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. said that VeriSign Inc. is now a strategic partner in the HP Praesidium partner program. VeriSign’s participation will immediately enable qualified international banking customers using HP VirtualVault to employ the strongest encryption legally available for export to date for all their international business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications over intranets, extranets and the Internet, the […]

K-tel International signed an agreement with Muze Inc., a provider of digital information about music, books and movies, to include Muze’s home video content on K-tel Express, K-tel’s online music and home video service. Muze, which currently provides K-tel Express with its music information database of album reviews, credits, track listings and images, will begin […]

Digital Commerce Corp. said it is providing an intuitive user interface technology as a key component of an Internet electronic commerce catalog pilot program sponsored by CommerceNet and the U.S. government. The goal is to make government catalogs more cost-effective. In the first stage of the pilot, DCC will provide the capability to allow comparison […]

Security First Technologies and BroadVision Inc. said they established an alliance that includes cross equity investment, joint product development, joint marketing and a reseller relationship. Security First, a subsidiary of Internet-only bank Security First Network Bank, is a provider of Internet-based financial services applications in North America. BroadVision markets one-to-one Internet applications for business relationship […]

TechWave in Seattle, an electronic commerce service provider, delivered a new PersonalStore program designed to enable anyone to operate their own online software superstore, which comes fully stocked with more than 30,000 brand name software titles. TechWave’s PersonalStore is currently available at techwave.com/pstore, and can be set up in less than 10 minutes, the company […]