Paul Nicholls

Rockville, MD-based SpaceWorks Inc. rolled out Version 3.0 of its OrderManager extranet application. The e-commerce solution automates the supply chain transactions for larger companies and their trading partners over the Web. This third generation of the OrderManager application adds expanded capabilities to strengthen real-time, Internet/extranet-based “self-service” order processing channels created between a company’s back-end enterprise […]

E-commerce software company INTERSHOP Communications and Intelligent Catalogs, owners of CatalogFinder, an online yellow pages services for catalogs, signed a technology and marketing partnership to bring thousands of print catalogs to the Internet. Using San Francisco-based INTERSHOP’s e-commerce technology, Intelligent Catalogs aims to convert thousands of printed catalogs into online shopping sites. Financial details were […]

Informix Corp., a provider of database technology, and Fort Point Partners Inc., a San Francisco-based Internet database consulting firm, announced the expansion of technology to support the e-commerce Web site of Egghead Computer Inc. Fort Point Partners will be adding Informix’s Universal Data Option, the next generation of its Web Integration Option to Egghead’s Web […]

CMPNet’s Custom Content Network, a division that creates custom Web sites on behalf of advertisers, and IBM have created a new Web site aimed at helping businesses find the best solutions to their e-commerce challenges. Along with its e-commerce content covering the Internet, intranets, and extranets, the new NetBusiness site includes “wrap banner” ads that […]

A new study reports the number of U.S. households using online services to buy food and other goods and services for the home is expected to grow from fewer than 200,000 as of now to 15 million to 20 million by 2007. The study by Andersen Consulting said these households will represent a wide range […]

Oracle Corp. and Symantec Corp. announced a bundling agreement today aimed at enabling customers to easily create enterprise business applications. Oracle will include Symantec’s Visual Page Web authoring program with Oracle Application Server 4.0, which is currently in beta. Oracle said the inclusion of the Visual Page HTML editor will allow users to easily move […]

Good news for online marketers: ActivMedia’s FutureScapes study shows that 70% of respondents expect to replace catalog shopping with online shopping. The study also indicates that the Internet is becoming a way of life for many, with 80% saying it has improved relationships, nearly 20% ordering more take-out food, and more than two-thirds saying their […]

Irvine, CA-based Who? Vision Systems Inc., an XL Vision and Safeguard Scientifics partnership company, delivered TactileSense, a fingerprint verification technology for the personal computer user. By eliminating cost, reliability, and size constraints, TactileSense allows mainstream computer users to securely access their desktops and the Internet with the touch of a finger, the company said. The […]

Netscape reports today that Security Dynamics has licensed Netscape Directory Server software and Netscape FastTrack Server software for the company’s newly unveiled SecurSight products. Security Dynamics plans to bundle Netscape Directory Server with the next release of its SecurSight Manager, and will embed Netscape FastTrack Server into SecurSight Manager to provide users with Web-based management […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. rolled out an enhanced Web-based ordering service for its new Darwin workstations, and a custom integration service for its more complex high-end workstation and low-end server products. “Our ultimate goal is to make the Web the primary desktop access for all customers, including resellers, to do business with us, and we will […]

Delray Beach, FL-based Office Depot, which claims to be the world’s largest office products retailing chain, is opening its first Web store. The officedepot.com, site will be an extension of Office Depot’s $6.7 billion store and delivery business, the company said. The store will target the small and home-based business sector–currently the fastest-growing business segment […]

Palo Alto, CA-based Instill Corp., a provider of electronic commerce and information services for the food service industry, said that $180 million worth of food and supplies were purchased using its e- store online purchasing service in 1997. This volume represents 2% of the 1997 business-to-business electronic commerce, which totaled $6 billion, according to International […]