Ryan Naraine

New York-based ISP Juno Online Services Inc. agreed Monday to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of deceptive advertising for its “free” and fee-based dial-up Web access services. A statement from the FTC said Juno reached a consent agreement that advertising for some of its Internet access services was “deceptive, in violation of […]

Last March, when Jason Devitt and David Joerg braved a Manhattan office building with no heat to build out the first official version of their Vindigo product, venture capitalists and beta testers hailed it as a “can’t miss” business prospect. The homegrown Silicon Alley start-up created buzz with its database application for the Personal Digital […]

Web page defacement attacks by hackers have escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours, with technology news site CNET, Webex and game developer Blizzard.com among those hit this morning. At 2:00 p.m today, 153 defacements were reported by Alldas.de a site which archives posts mirrors of hacking attacks around the world. Executives at Web-based meeting […]

The alternative domain name gambit from the recently launched New.net outfit has received a thumbs-up from New York-based Internet Service Provider (ISP) Juno Online Services. New.net, a start-up that launched last May by incubator idealab! to challenge the existing system for regulating URLs, has signed an agreement with Juno to promote the alternative domain names […]

Back in 1999, when fixed-priced Web marketplace Half.com was looking to get some visibility, it cooked up a quirky plan to land on the map — literally — by convincing the town of Halfway, Oregon to change its name. In exchange for $100,000, two-dozen computers for the town’s elementary school and Web consulting service, the […]

New York-based tech consulting behemoth Accenture is shrugging off the jittery state of the public markets, filing an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a $1 billion initial public offering. Pricing and other details of the IPO have not been announced. The company said the shares would be traded on the NYSE exchange […]

With mounting debt and creditors lining up with outstretched hands, broadband backbone provider Winstar Communications Inc. on Wednesday filed a $10 billion lawsuit against Lucent Technologies Inc. for allegedly violating a vendor financing agreement. Winstar accused the telecom equipment giant of failing to meet obligations of a supply agreement, which Winstar said forced it to […]

The decision by parent company Winstar Communications Inc. to lay off 2,000 employees and cancel expansion plans has left New York-based Office.com in a lurch. Burned by the Winstar restructuring, Office.com laid off 90 of its 170 full-time employees yesterday and plans to gradually reduce the content published on its small business portal. Winstar, a […]

The music television network that made it hip to wear tongue-jewelry has jumped on the digital-music bandwagon in a big way, announcing a deal with five major record labels and application service provider RioPort to launch a paid download service. New York-based MTVi, the online arm of Viacom’s music entertainment network, plans to sell some […]

Feeling the heat from a sharp decline in online trading activity, financial services pioneer E*TRADE has moved ahead with its clicks-and-mortar strategy by opening a “super-store” in midtown Manhattan to hawk a range of Internet trading services. E*TRADE officials unveiled the spanking new store, located at 540 Madison Avenue, Wednesday morning. Now, the online discount […]

When Krishnamurty Kambhampati (“just call me KK”) looks around, he sees a world connected to the hilt by pagers, PDAs, laptops and cell phones. And those are just the tools in the office. If the uReach CEO has his way, his company’s message consolidation service could be the answer to the never-ending communications tangle. uReach […]

If you turn to the Web for play-by-play broadcasts of your favorite baseball team, Major League Baseball has a little message for you: no more freeloading. Taking a page from the book of the National Basketball Association, which has used the pay-per-listen model for the last four years, Major League Baseball has inked a pact […]