Thor Olavsrud

Faced with the borderless nature of the Internet — the ability to commit fraud in one country against a victim in another — the United States and 12 other countries Tuesday unveiled plans to gather and share cross-border e-commerce complaints through a new site, econsumer.gov. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will host and maintain […]

Two key Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) vendors set aside their differences Monday in order to develop a standard XML-based OLAP query API — a move industry watchers predict will accelerate the adoption of Internet business intelligence software and grow the market. At the Hyperion Annual Global Conference, Solutions 2001, Microsoft Corp. and Hyperion said they […]

Leading cable broadband provider Excite@Home Monday moved to reinforce its new strategic focus on its core broadband business with the official departure of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer George Bell in favor of Telocity and Sprint veteran Patti S. Hart. Bell, who lead the company into the content arena through the merger with Excite and […]

E-Stamp Corp. is moving to jettison its transportation management solutions business and cash in on the potential of the corporate e-learning market through a merger with learning services provider Learn2.com. Financial terms of the deal — announced Friday — were not disclosed, but the companies said that upon completion of the merger, E-Stamp shareholders will […]

F5 Networks Inc. Thursday inked a strategic alliance with Inktomi Corp. to beef up its caching products. F5 will integrate Inktomi Traffic Server network cache and Traffic Server Media-IXT software with its EDGE-FX family of products to create appliances that “will enable enterprises and service providers to scale their network infrastructure and optimize performance by […]

Atlanta-based EarthLink Wednesday picked up an estimated 125,000 dial-up subscribers with the acquisition of FirstWorld Internet Services’ dial-up subscriber base. The subscribers were put on the block by FirstWorld parent Verado, which is in the process of divesting its non-core business assets to focus on the Web hosting and managed services industry. Terms of the […]

Despite the troubled times most ISPs and tech concerns in general appear to be experiencing, Internet and media behemoth AOL Time Warner Inc. seems to be weathering the storm better than most, and it was buoyed Wednesday by first quarter numbers that showed strong growth in subscriptions to the AOL and Road Runner services as […]

Excite@Home, which has long worked to build up its media presence, Tuesday said it would return its attention to its core broadband business in light of weakness in the market for online advertising and marketing services. “Our core broadband business is strong,” said George Bell, Excite@Home chairman and chief executive officer. “Subscriber growth continues at […]

eBusiness automation software provider WebGain Inc. Tuesday struck a deal with Hewlett-Packard Company to deliver enterprise-class ebusiness solutions on the HP Bluestone Total-e-server application server. The application server is the heart of the HP Netaction family of products, which utilizes XML standards and technologies to provide a bridge between Microsoft Corp.’s .NET platform and Sun […]

Red Hat Inc. Monday unleashed Red Hat Linux 7.1, the latest distribution of its highly popular flavor of Linux, with a host of new features to make the operating system even more enterprise-friendly. The distribution is built around 2.4 kernel, the latest kernel approved by Linux creator Linus Thorvalds. The coupling of the release with […]

A mere two days after Santa Clara, Calif.-based Yahoo! Inc. announced that it would allow partners to sell pornographic material in its Yahoo! Shopping channel through an “Adult and Erotica” store, the bellwether portal company made an about face and said it will remove adult-related merchandise from its network. Yahoo! said adult-related products — like […]

Juno Online Services Inc. won a victory against arch-rival NetZero Inc. in federal court Thursday, as a judge lifted a restraining order that kept the NY-based ISP from displaying third-party ads on its Juno Guide floating ad banner. NetZero filed a lawsuit against Juno in late December, charging the company with patent infringement over a […]