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- Sweden
Remains Top IT Society; U.S. Slips
- Online
Holiday Returns Pass $1B Mark
- Asia,
the Emerging Net Giant
- Online
Ads Drive New Site Growth
- Killer
Tech Hub Forming in D.C.?
- Wireless
Web Set For Exponential Growth
- DSL
Set To Grow Globally
- IDC Forecasts
Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Revenue Will Surpass $53 Billion in 2004
- E-Mail
Habits Getting More Complicated
- Streaming
Media Consumers Among Net's Most Active Users
- IT,
Network Spending Headed Up, Despite Economic Slowdown
- Bad
Reception
- Just in Time
- Home
Web-Without-Wires Faces Battle Over Standards
- Top
17 Information Technology White Papers and Topics
- Music
Shipment Stats Prove Their Point
- Thirty-Two
Million Electronic Checks Processed in 2000
- PC-Based
Music Will Outlive Napster - Webnoize
- Online
Marketing in Canada
- Searching
for terms across the world
- Wireless
Web gaining ground in US
- Half
of i-mode users pay for content
- Six
million households to prepare tax returns online
- 60
percent of USA now online
Sweden
Remains Top IT Society; U.S. Slips
Norway and Finland knock the U.S. out
of second place in the race to access and absorb information technology.
Online
Holiday Returns Pass $1B Mark
Online shoppers in the U.S. have already
returned about US$1 billion worth of merchandise purchased during the 2000 holiday
season, according to a report released by the Yankee Group. Asia,
the Emerging Net Giant
More than 100 million new Internet users are expected
to come online in Asia by 2004, representing 27 percent of all users worldwide.
But while Hong Kong is well on its way, places like Vietnam lag behind.
Online
Ads Drive New Site Growth
Although the Internet advertising industry has
taken a hit in recent months, a report released finds that online firms should
not be so quick to scale back their Web-based marketing efforts in a bid to trim
operating budgets. Killer
Tech Hub Forming in D.C.?
Reputations are hard to change. Just ask the
good folks at the District of Columbia's chamber of commerce. But a recent survey
shows there are 332 technology firms in a city better known for high murder rates.
Wireless
Web Set For Exponential Growth
The wireless devices industry got some
good news with the results of an adoption and usage of wireless devices study
by the interactive products and services group DSL
Set To Grow Globally
IDC predicts that the worldwide market for DSL Internet
access is set to explode from 4.5 million lines in 2000 to 66.4 million in 2004.
IDC
Forecasts Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Revenue Will Surpass $53 Billion in 2004
The disk storage industry will grow at double-digit levels. According to IDC,
worldwide revenues in this market will increase at a compound annual growth rate
of 12%, to $53.3 billion in 2004 from $28.4 billion in 1999. E-Mail
Habits Getting More Complicated
Consumers' e-mail use has evolved, with
nearly three-quarters of consumers (74%) now owning two or more e-mail addresses
for an average of 2.6 per consumer Streaming
Media Consumers Among Net's Most Active Users
Internet usage as a whole
may be dropping off slightly, but Americans are spending more of their online
time using streaming media IT,
Network Spending Headed Up, Despite Economic Slowdown
IT procurement budgets
are not being slowed by fears of an economic slowdown, according to a survey of
Global 2000 corporations Bad
Reception
Today's latest buzzword is 'digital.' Fifty years down the road
this may seem dopey, but for now, this little word symbolizes everything that's
new and up-to-date. Just
in Time
Rising inventories are a reality in the new economy as well as
the old. But this time around, they may not be as painful. Home
Web-Without-Wires Faces Battle Over Standards
Two camps of technology
giants are slugging it out for the hearts of would-be sofa Web surfers.
Top
17 Information Technology White Papers and Topics
Bitpipe Inc., the leading
syndicator of in-depth information technology (IT) content, announced today the
Top 17 Information Technology research documents and topics for the month of January,
2001. Music
Shipment Stats Prove Their Point
While awaiting court action that could
put the nail in Napster's coffin, the recording industry is holding up a new batch
of numbers as further proof that downloading songs for free hurts sales of recorded
music Thirty-Two
Million Electronic Checks Processed in 2000
The Electronic Payments Association
estimates that 32 million paper checks were converted into electronic checks at
retail locations in 2000. PC-Based
Music Will Outlive Napster - Webnoize
As the future of Napster as a company
teeters on the brink of legal oblivion, the idea of listening to songs on a personal
computer will live on, but for a price, according to a new study released today.
Online
Marketing in Canada
Canadian marketers currrently spend more of their
net budget on building their websites, but, they'll spend more on site promotion
in the future. Searching
for terms across the world
Proving once again that sex sells, a recent
report found that terms like "sex" and "playboy" were among the most-searched-for
online. Wireless
Web gaining ground in US
Seven percent of US adults say they or someone
in their household accesses wireless Internet services on a mobile phone, according
to Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch. Half
of i-mode users pay for content
Forty-eight percent of the 18.8 million
users of i-mode, the Japanese wireless service, are paying for content, according
to an NTT DoCoMo executive who was speaking at the Business Mobile Forum 21.
Six
million households to prepare tax returns online
As many as 6 million
U.S. households could be filling out income tax returns online this year, a healthy
increase over the 2 million that did the same thing last year 60
percent of USA now online
Internet penetration in the United States reached
a milestone in January, according to audience measurement data just released by
Nielsen/NetRatings. ---
E-PRODUCTS NEWS - Ellison
Aims Linux Device At Microsoft
- Compaq
heats up storage race
- MS Users
May Experience Pain
- Zend and
the art of open-source
- Sony
Unveils World's Thinnest TV and Computer Screens
- The
Battle for the PDA Market
- Wireless
LANs Have Serious Security Flaws
- Kodak
unveils MP3 camera/video cam
- Toshiba
touts slimmer, stronger batteries
- Pipe
Dreams
- Joy Announces JXTA
- Microsoft
enters security business with firewall software
- Chipmaker
wants to revive the free PC
- Mac-made
movies won't work on all DVD players
- Potential
Security Weakness Found In Hotmail
- Microsoft
Touts Windows XP For Consumers
- Transmeta's
Linux
- Inventor creates chip
for high-fidelty experience
- Micron
To Boost Memory Production In Japan
- "McKinley"
set to star at Intel conference
- Digital
camera vendors offer peek at spring line
- iTunes
updated to support third-party CD-RW drives
Ellison
Aims Linux Device At Microsoft
A low-cost Internet device on display at
LinuxWorld a week ago is offering to drive the cost of accessing the Internet
below $200. Compaq
heats up storage race
While many people are trying to slim down, Mark
Lewis constantly thinks about bulking up. He has to. MS
Users May Experience Pain
Microsoft's next generation "XP" software prevents
piracy by locking down the number of installations and requiring registration.
But the software may irk users who frequently need to rebuild their PCs.
Zend
and the art of open-source
An Israeli startup goes up against Microsoft,
Sun and Allaire with open-source PHP software for customizing Web pages
Sony
Unveils World's Thinnest TV and Computer Screens
In a move that could
transform the manufacture of computer screens in the future, Sony unveiled the
newest threat to the market dominance of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels
The
Battle for the PDA Market
Who's going to win the personal handheld battle?
It's not only a three-company race, but it appears as if there's a division of
the hemispheres as well. Wireless
LANs Have Serious Security Flaws
A computer security group at Berkeley
says it has discovered a number of serious security flaws in wireless LANs, and
one analyst predicted "script kiddies" will start mounting attacks against enterprise
nets within six months. Singing
shutters: Kodak unveils MP3 camera/video cam
Photo giant Eastman Kodak
unveiled a portable device that combines a digital camcorder, an MP3 player and
a digital still camera. Toshiba
touts slimmer, stronger batteries
Toshiba publicly Advanced Lithium Batteries
(ALB), which will allow electronics manufacturers to create small devices with
the staying power of larger ones. Pipe
Dreams
The pneumatic tube industry thrives doing what computers can't:
transporting objects from point to point. If only the manufacturers could get
along with one another. Joy
Announces JXTA
One might have expected that this week's O'Reilly conference
on peer-to-peer software might have been dominated by the recent Napster decision.
As fate would have it, however, the Napster case was just one of many ingredient
in the P2P stew this week. Microsoft
enters security business with firewall software
The software vendor is
preparing to release enterprise-level firewall and Web caching technology that's
being billed as its first products aimed purely at IT security uses. Chipmaker
wants to revive the free PC
ZF Linux Devices, which makes a low-cost microprocessor
called the MachZ, has developed a blueprint for an inexpensive PC called the Z-Port.
Mac-made
movies won't work on all DVD players
Apple is touting its new iDVD software
as a way to create movies that people can watch on consumer DVD players
Potential
Security Weakness Found In Hotmail
A Canadian Web security company said
it has discovered a weakness in the Microsoft Hotmail filter system that leaves
millions of mailboxes open to attack Microsoft
Touts Windows XP For Consumers
Formerly code-named "Whistler," Windows
XP is Microsoft's first operating system geared toward consumers that uses the
same code base as Windows 2000 and Windows NT. Transmeta's
Linux
Transmeta plans to release its version of the Linux operating system
for Internet appliances and other devices as early as next week so that developers
can begin testing it. Inventor
creates chip for high-fidelty experience
An invisible hand seems to be
confidently plucking guitar strings a few feet away. Bass thumps heavily and unmistakably,
but without distorting vibrations. The room feels ringed with drums. Micron
To Boost Memory Production In Japan
U.S.-based chipmaker Micron Technology
Inc. will take control of the rest of the shares it doesn't already own in a Japanese
computer memory manufacturing venture. "McKinley"
set to star at Intel conference
Intel has completed the design of its
"McKinley" processor for servers--a manufacturing milestone that will likely be
one of the highlights of the Intel Developer Forum Digital
camera vendors offer peek at spring line
A broad selection of digital
cameras for consumers with a range of interests and expertise are poised to appear
over the next few months from major digital camera players Canon, Fujifilm, and
Sony. iTunes
updated to support third-party CD-RW drives
Apple addressed the No. 1
complaint users have about iTunes, the companys CDripping and MP3 encoder and
player application -- no support for anything but Apple drives. ---
E-SERVICES - American
Express Joins Internet Free-For-All
- Amazon.com
to consolidate European service centers
- Shipping
Costs Bleed E-tailers Dry
- eBay
Expands Policy on Outage Credits - Without Selling Its Soul
- New
Snail-Mail Service 'Ads' Up
- DSL
Customers in Dark as ISPs Can't Pay Bills
- Baby
Bells Could Send AT&T To Retirement Home
- The
Price of Being Free
- Bank of
America hit with online banking glitches
- Few
Options for Yakkin' Flyers
- CheckFree
Stakes Out Singapore
- Tech law
firm opens New York, Salt Lake City offices
- VegasLobby
Bets on Wireless Gambling
- GM's
OnStar Adds Real-time Stock Trading To In-vehicle Service
- Listen
Before You Leap
- Streaming wars
spawn wireless weapons
- Wireless
LANs Reach Places Other LANs Can't
- E-mail
Sorting Made Simple?
- Collaboration
service on tap from Flypaper
- Web
Phones: For the Elite Few?
- Web
Delivery Services in Crisis
American
Express Joins Internet Free-For-All
Credit card giant American Express
has launched a service that offers cardholders the opportunity to sign up for
a free Internet connection, even as other blue chip companies have retreated from
similar free services. Amazon.com
to consolidate European service centers
Amazon.com's European division
is closing its customer service center in the Netherlands and said it will offer
to relocate some 240 workers there to other offices in the U.K. and Germany.
Shipping
Costs Bleed E-tailers Dry
While e-tail fulfillment problems have been
a steady source of dissatisfaction among online consumers, a report released concludes
that they also often dampen efforts by Web merchants to achieve profitability.
eBay
Expands Policy on Outage Credits - Without Selling Its Soul
In response
to several lengthy January outages, online auction pacesetter eBay announced that
it is increasing the scope of the fee credits it offers customers in the event
of a site crash. New
Snail-Mail Service 'Ads' Up
Can't send an e-mail and don't have any of
those 34-cent stamps lying around? Try Zairmail. They'll send it for you, along
with some targeted advertisements. DSL
Customers in Dark as ISPs Can't Pay Bills
Covad Communications cut off
service to two high-speed Internet service providers, abruptly disconnecting digital
subscriber line (DSL) service to thousands of customers across the United States.
Baby
Bells Could Send AT&T To Retirement Home
The continuing insistence
of baby Bells to try to maintain their local service monopolies is thwarting competition
and could deliver a ringing knockout to already punch-drunk telecom contenders
like AT&T The
Price of Being Free
Free Internet service seemed like a good idea at the
time. But now only NetZero remains - and it's looking for new ways to get people
to pay. Bank
of America hit with online banking glitches
The Bank of America Corp.
has apparently fixed unspecified network problems that caused sporadic problems
recently for online banking customers. Few
Options for Yakkin' Flyers
You want to make a phone call in flight, but
there's an airborne ban on the use of cell phones. You also don't want to foot
the bill for making a call on airplane seat-installed phones. What are your alternatives?
CheckFree
Stakes Out Singapore
Internet billing and payment provider CheckFree (Nasdaq:
CKFR) announced it has opened an office in Singapore in response to growing demand
for its services in the region... Tech
law firm opens New York, Salt Lake City offices
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich
& Rosati, a top technology law firm based in Palo Alto, Calif., will open
offices in New York and Salt Lake City as part of its strategy to continue growing
beyond its Silicon Valley roots. VegasLobby
Bets on Wireless Gambling
Gamblers, your PDA is about to get a little
more personal. VegasLobby.com, a privately held online casino launching this month,
is planning a wireless service that will let users receive sports scores and casino
news on wireless devices. GM's
OnStar Adds Real-time Stock Trading To In-vehicle Service
General Motors'
OnStar unit is teaming with Fidelity Investments to provide stock quotes and market
information as part of its in-vehicle communication service. Listen
Before You Leap
Online retailer Walmart.com allows buyers to listen to
30-second snippets of every track before purchasing a CD Streaming
wars spawn wireless weapons
The battle between Microsoft, RealNetworks
and other streaming software companies is moving from the desktop to the cell
phone. Wireless
LANs Reach Places Other LANs Can't
Businesses are starting to deploy wireless
LANs for more than just letting employees roam from office to office with their
laptops E-mail
Sorting Made Simple?
E-mail's transformation from the days of "Reply,"
"Reply To All" and "Forward" will get another push with the launch of Abridge,
a company that wants to add "Collaborate" to the list of e-mail functions.
Collaboration
service on tap from Flypaper
Flypaper's platform uses a browser-based
authoring technology that lets users design a custom portal into the collaboration
features they choose. Web
Phones: For the Elite Few?
Internet World Wireless is saturated with wireless
service providers targeting the big ISPs and telcos. Their products are certainly
not geared to the everyday person. Analysts aren't sure the market will let them
flourish. Web
Delivery Services in Crisis
Home delivery of groceries and other sundries
ordered online will endure, according to industry observers, but some leading
Internet providers might not, unless they can adapt to marketplace demands and
find offline partnerships to become profitable. ...
E-MARKETING NEWS - Market
slump means great things for Linux
- E-tail
Invades the Real World
- GM Considers
Online Sales Site For All Car Makes
- Catalogers
Are Beating the Odds, Emerging as eCommerce Powerhouses
- eMarketplaces
Are a Booming Business in Europe
- Not-Com
Online Ads Grow, But Dot-Coms Still Dominate
- Beware
Ads in Fun Clothing
- Network
Solutions' parent selling database information
- PeopleSoft
Sharpens 2001 CRM Focus
- PC
rebates no more
- MS Fantasy
World Gets Real Dark
- B2C sales
reached USD28bn in 2000
- VeriSign
Has Been Selling Customer Data For A Year
- Copycats,
Your Number's Up
- Net Anonymity
Firms Seek Their Market
- SIIA
Says Census Data Shows High-Tech Growth
- IBM
tops in worldwide server sales
- Wireless
Access Devices Look Toward 2001
- Follow
the bouncing email
- Buying online
for your Valentine
- Digital
Dilemma of the US Latino Population
- Payphone
business killed itself
- Fry's
accuses site owner of cyber Squatting
Market
slump means great things for Linux
The self-proclaimed open-source evangelist
is ecstatic over the sorry state of technology stocks--more opportunities for
low-cost Linux software E-tail
Invades the Real World
Although the Internet created cyberspace, which
does not exist in a physical sense, the Web is entering the real world in a new
way.
GM Considers Online Sales Site
For All Car Makes
Citing research claiming that car buyers prefer to do
their online comparison shopping at an independent Web site, General Motors said
it's planning to launch one that will offer vehicles through dealers of multiple
makes and models. Catalogers
Are Beating the Odds, Emerging as eCommerce Powerhouses
Catalog mail-order
firms are beating the odds in the direct marketing industry. Despite stiff competition
from top vendors, catalogers have branched out to become successful third-party
Internet telesales resellers of computer products. eMarketplaces
Are a Booming Business in Europe
European business-to-business (B2B) Internet
commerce will increase in value from 61 billion euros in 2000 to over 1.5 trillion
euros in 2005 Not-Com
Online Ads Grow, But Dot-Coms Still Dominate
Even though companies with
quarterly sales of $500 million or more increased their weekly online ad impressions
to 37 million (up 18% from 30 million) during the fourth quarter of 2000
Beware
Ads in Fun Clothing
He's not trying to get you sneezing and coughing,
and he doesn't want to ruin your computer with some errant bit of code. Rather,
Hockin is fixing to get an e-mail to you that will so titillate you, make you
so sick with pleasure, that you'll have no choice but to forward it on to your
friends, who will in turn feel faint with the need to pass it along to others.
Network
Solutions' parent selling database information
The parent company of domain-name
registrar Network Solutions is aggressively selling the data gathered when a company
registers a Web address. A spokeswoman points out that all the information can
be found on the company's Web site. PeopleSoft
Sharpens 2001 CRM Focus
Enterprise software giant PeopleSoft stumbled
in the marketplace recently, and analyst comments in published reports leveled
criticism against the company for failing to take full advantage of its 1999 acquisition
-- to the tune of US$547 million -- of CRM software vendor Vantive. PC
rebates no more
The days of the $400 rebate for PC buyers who also sign
up for three years of Internet access may be numbered, the latest dose of bad
news for PC makers already suffering from sluggish sales. MS
Fantasy World Gets Real Dark
Why did Microsoft suddenly get rid of its
volunteers in the popular Asheron's Call role-playing game? Was it fear of litigation,
or just another sound business decision? B2C
sales reached USD28bn in 2000
Total online retail sales for 2000 in the
US are estimated to have reached USD28 billion, up from USD17.3 billion in 1999,
and USD7.7 billion in 1998, according to the US Census Bureau. VeriSign
Has Been Selling Customer Data For A Year
Officials for VeriSign Inc.,
the oldest and largest seller of Internet domain names, confirmed that the company
is selling parts of its massive customer list to marketers, but contended that
the sale does not violate the company's posted privacy policy. Copycats,
Your Number's Up
Industry giants IBM, Intel, Matsushita and Toshiba are
working together to make the digital copying of audio and video on your PC all
but impossible Net
Anonymity Firms Seek Their Market
As an Internet user and online shopper,
you may have more in common with your friendly neighborhood spook at the CIA than
you think - both you and the agents who look out for your national security are
concerned about remaining anonymous online SIIA
Says Census Data Shows High-Tech Growth
A Census Bureau report on the
information sector shows major spikes in revenue for software and information
technology companies IBM
tops in worldwide server sales
Sun Microsystems may have won round one
in the fight for server market share in the United States, but IBM has come back
with a swift uppercut to take the lead in the worldwide server market.
Wireless
Access Devices Look Toward 2001
Total sales of PDAs reached 6.1 million
units in 2000, a nearly 50 percent increase over 1999, according to a study by
the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Follow
the bouncing email
In a fraction of the time it takes to read this article,
you could register a new e-mail address free of charge. Buying
online for your Valentine
Online sales of Valentine's Day gifts and flowers
in the US are expected to top USD2 billion this year, up 32 percent from 2000.
Digital
Dilemma of the US Latino Population
Latinos in the US are online, but
they are generally visiting websites written in the English language. eMarketer's
Latin America analyst Noah Elkin examines the trends among wired Latinos.
Payphone
business killed itself
The Payphone business is dying. BellSouth is just
the latest big brand name to announce they were exiting the business. Fry's
accuses site owner of cybersquatting
A favorite tech shopping mecca known
for its eclectic collection of goods, Fry's has threatened to sue a man who posted
the company's newspaper advertisements on his Web site, Frysad.com, according
to the site's owner. ---
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- SPSS Says ShowCase
Acquisition Crimped 4Q
- Diversification
creates partner opportunities
- New
Battle of Britain Over High-Speed Internet
- Some
Users Of SAP's Retail Software Still Hitting Installation Bumps
- Catalyst,
Kewill Forge Supply Chain Connection
- Startups
get smart
- Supply chain gets
new link
- MicroStrategy Chooses
Informatica for CRM
- Business
Gets the Message
- P2P Goes in
Search of 'Doogle'
- Alorica
Swings U.S. Robotics Customer Care Deal
- ASPs
tapping into lucrative B2B market
- Yipes
pens deal with FiberNet
- Buzzsaw.com
unveils e-management services
- Rival
groups agree on e-commerce messaging spec
- European
B2B markets due for rationalization
- Can
software sales save VerticalNet?
- Asia
the exception in B2B forecasts
- C&W
turns to ART to speed wireless provisioning
- PeopleSoft
extends mid-market strategy to CRM
- Fuji
Electric Plugs iBaan Apps
SPSS
Says ShowCase Acquisition Crimped 4Q
CRM analytical software maker SPSS,
Inc. said its acquisition and subsequent integration of business intelligence
software maker ShowCase Corp. was one of the factors that led to a fourth-quarter
slowdown Diversification
creates partner opportunities
Partners have more choices, as database
vendors deliver expanded products menus. New
Battle of Britain Over High-Speed Internet
The battle over broadband in
the UK intensified Thursday as British Telecom competitors, including Freeserve
and America Online, accused the company of hoarding broadband capacity in favor
of its own Internet service provider. Some
Users Of SAP's Retail Software Still Hitting Installation Bumps
SAP's
business applications for retailers continue to be stung by a series of high-profile
installation problems that illustrate the complexity of fitting integrated ERP
systems into a retail operation. Catalyst,
Kewill Forge Supply Chain Connection
Catalyst International and Kewill
Systems plc announced an agreement to integrate, develop and market applications
for supply chain management, fulfillment, knowledge management and vendor quality
management. Startups
get smart
New companies look to achieve critical mass through resellers.
Supply
chain gets new link
What Ariba's acquisition of Agile means for solutions
providers. MicroStrategy
Chooses Informatica for CRM
Business intelligence software provider MicroStrategy
Incorporated has licensed the Informatica data integration platform to consolidate
business information for MicroStrategy's CRM application suite... Business
Gets the Message
With corporate America - and the U.S. Navy - embracing
instant messaging, pressure is building to establish universal standards.
P2P
Goes in Search of 'Doogle'
Search engines are, in a sense, the lifeblood
of the Internet. But in the decentralized world of peer-to-peer technology, such
databases are not easily organized. That's why P2P advocates are trying to put
the 'D' (decentralized) in Google. Alorica
Swings U.S. Robotics Customer Care Deal
Alorica, Inc. has signed a three-year
deal to provide customer care and support services to modem giant U.S. Robotics
Corporation. ASPs
tapping into lucrative B2B market
As application service providers struggle
to find new customers in a tougher Internet economy, some are finding fertile
revenue streams by tapping business-to-business marketplaces. Yipes
pens deal with FiberNet
Yipes Communications Inc., a provider of on-demand
network bandwidth services for buildings, has signed an agreement with FiberNet
Telecom Group Inc. to gain access to 40 million square feet of office space around
the United States. Buzzsaw.com
unveils e-management services
Buzzsaw.com Inc., a digital marketplace
for the $3.9 trillion construction industry, unveiled two services for boosting
the efficiency of construction management and bidding. Rival
groups agree on e-commerce messaging spec
Two competing specifications
for sending electronic messages are converging thanks to the decision by the group
overseeing ebXML to integrate SOAP into its work. European
B2B markets due for rationalization
Jupiter Media Metrix predicts that
the European B2B market, which is currently worth EUR200 million (USD185.7 million)
or 1.5 percent of all European business, will grow to EUR1.8 billion (USD1.7 billion)
by 2004. Can
software sales save VerticalNet?
As business-to-business company VerticalNet
comes off a topsy-turvy year, analysts are trying to figure out whether it can
get its new software division up and running fast enough to offset sluggish marketplace
sales. Asia
the exception in B2B forecasts
Gartner Group has cut its global forecast
for B2B revenues over the next four years because of the slowing of the US economy
and other underlying economic factors. C&W
turns to ART to speed wireless provisioning
The ISP and ART have inked
a 10-year deal worth $11 million. Cable & Wireless will use ART's fixed wireless
network to provision its IP services to large business users in markets around
the U.S. PeopleSoft
extends mid-market strategy to CRM
PeopleSoft can deliver a package of
help desk, support, sales and marketing applications within 10 weeks. Fuji
Electric Plugs iBaan Apps
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software
developer Baan, a business unit of Invensys plc, has announced a major distribution
agreement with Fuji Electric, one of the largest electrical equipment manufacturers
in Japan. ---
CONTENT, PORTALS & COMMUNITY
- GM executive: E-commerce, IT won't be affected
by cuts
- Free E-Mail Gone Without
a Trace
- Gnutella swaps cookies,
too
- Ex-Los Alamos Computer
Whiz Jailed
- One year After
DoS attacks, Vulnerabilities Remain
- French
Activists Ask U.S. Court To Throw Out Yahoo! Suit
- Making
Tech Less Tacky
- Programmer
Shortage Slows Wireless Development
- Is
Amazon's Honor Plan Honorable?
- Sens.
Shelby, Dodd Resubmit Privacy Bill
- U.S.
Shuts Down Web-Site Name Scam
- Are
Napster's days numbered?
- Outrageous
Fortune
- Ready for Fiddler on
the Web?
- Oracle's first applications
conference on tap next week
- Web
Content Filters Fail
- Trouble
rushes the Net
- Hiring start-ups
help ease pink slip blues
- A
Not-So-Typical Valley 'Divorce'
- Are
Unions Strangling E-Commerce?
- "Onthefly"
worm uses Anna Kournikova ruse
- This
time Stephen King gives it away for free
GM
executive: E-commerce, IT won't be affected by cuts
The president of the
automaker's e-GM division, which is responsible for GM's Web-based consumer businesses,
says he's optimistic that a projected economic downturn won't affect IT initiatives.
Free
E-Mail Gone Without a Trace |
ZDNet U.K. and Australia shuts down its
free e-mail service without notice, and that's only the half of it. Users find
themselves unable to retrieve messages or information they'd previously saved
to their folders. Gnutella
swaps cookies, too
Web surfers trading free music and other digital goods
over one of the Web's most popular file-swapping networks are sharing much more:
sensitive data files that could expose them to identity theft. Ex-Los
Alamos Computer Whiz Jailed
The 21-year-old computer whiz accused of causing
more than $1 million in damage by hacking into eBay, Qualcomm and other prominent
high-tech companies was jailed Thursday after missing a deadline to make bail.
One
year After DoS attacks, Vulnerabilities Remain
A year after distributed
denial-of-service attacks blasted the likes of Yahoo!, eBay, CNN.com and eTrade
offline, no one has found an easy way to defend against a flood of unwanted IP
packets French
Activists Ask U.S. Court To Throw Out Yahoo! Suit
Another legal volley
was fired in the international battle over Yahoo! auctions of Nazi memorabilia.
Making
Tech Less Tacky
'Workspheres,' a look at new products and designs for
work spaces, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Programmer
Shortage Slows Wireless Development
Recruiters, analysts and some users
say a shortage of programmers and technical architects trained in developing wireless
applications is making some companies cautious about launching projects.
Is
Amazon's Honor Plan Honorable?
Amazon's new honor system gives the company
new power to track customers. It's saying "trust us, we won't peek." Critics smell
a fox near the henhouse. Sens.
Shelby, Dodd Resubmit Privacy Bill
Sens. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Christopher
Dodd, D-Conn., today reintroduced privacy legislation that would require schools
to get parental consent before collecting personal information from students for
commercial use. U.S.
Shuts Down Web-Site Name Scam
The U.S. government said Thursday that it
shut down a scam that duped at least 27,000 Web-site owners into needlessly registering
variations of their online addresses. Are
Napster's days numbered?
Napster had its day in court this week, but the
future of the popular file-swapping service is still up in the air. Outrageous
Fortune
CommerceNet, a nonprofit booster of e-business, won respect throughout
Silicon Valley because it was an honest broker. So how did a few of the group's
executives make millions for themselves? Ready
for Fiddler on the Web?
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and New York
University are collaborating on an online musical. Actors and musicians will perform
together, yet be located in different places. Oracle's
first applications conference on tap next week
The software vendor will
hold the first U.S. version of its new Oracle AppsWorld conference, which has
caused a major rift with the independent Oracle Applications Users Group.
Web
Content Filters Fail
A Consumer Reports test of Web filters found that
most allowed access to as many as one in five objectionable Web pages.
Trouble
rushes the Net
A virus posing as a photo of Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova
spread aggressively across the globe. Hiring
start-ups help ease pink slip blues
Ailing dot-coms in the Bay Area may
be firing workers, but newly funded technology companies are scrambling to hire
them. A
Not-So-Typical Valley 'Divorce'
The longtime partner of the former COO
for E-Trade up and left to be with another woman and is suing for equal assets.
It's not only the talk of the town in Palo Alto, Calif., but of the Bay Area's
legal and gay and lesbian communities. Are
Unions Strangling E-Commerce?
The news of labor strife at Amazon.com,
Webvan and Etown has industry observers asking this question: Are unions responsible
for the struggles of online businesses, or do e-tailers only have themselves to
blame for the dot-com union movement? "Onthefly"
worm uses Anna Kournikova ruse
A stealthy e-mail worm that hides itself
with encryption slipped onto the Net, using LoveLetter tactics and traveling in
an attachment named for pro tennis star and media darling Anna Kournikova, online
security company F-Secure warned. This
time Stephen King gives it away for free
Three excerpts of the author's
novel Dreamcatcher will be available for download at no charge on Time.com.
...
GOVERNANCE & GOING GLOBAL
- German CD Makers Push Anti-Piracy System
- FBI
takes the teeth out of Carnivore's name
- European
Commission Hatches New Plan for E-Commerce
- Brazil
ISPs Drop Like Dot-Coms
- ICANN
Gets Criticism From House Subcommittee Over Domain Selections
- Bill
Would Extend Internet Tax Moratorium Five More Years
- Seeking
to modernize, NSA may set up its own research firm
- Copyright
or Copy Wrong?
- 'Stupefied'
by Child Porn Sentences
- How
much is that intellectual property in the window
- New
Bill Kicks Off Battle Over Internet Tax Moratorium Extension
- Congress
To Take on Spam Again
- HP Embraces
U.S.-Europe 'Safe Harbor' Privacy Deal
- Bush
Names Nominee For Antitrust Post
- Cuba's
Net Connection Crisis
- Congress
Attacks Wireless Junk Mail
- Ukraine
Is Copyright Enemy No. 1
- Spam
Oozes Past Border Patrol
- Phillipine
Government Hopes To Cash In On Bluetooth Technology
- Germany
gives green light on e-signatures
- Concern
About New Web Monitors
- Can
regional online collaboration deliver?
German
CD Makers Push Anti-Piracy System
A trade group has developed a system
for identifying and blocking access to sites that offer illegal downloads. Now
it's trying to sell the idea to ISPs. FBI
takes the teeth out of Carnivore's name
The FBI has dressed its online
wolf in sheep's clothing, changing the name of its controversial e-mail surveillance
system, known to this point as Carnivore to DCS1000 European
Commission Hatches New Plan for E-Commerce
The European Commission (EC)
published a plan on Friday aimed at developing e-commerce in the financial services
sector. The plan addresses the harmonization of national consumer and investor
protection laws Brazil
ISPs Drop Like Dot-Coms
Internet service providers offering free Internet
access are responsible for the record number of Brazilians that came online last
year. But these ISPs are failing to turn a profit and closing their doors. What
next? ICANN
Gets Criticism From House Subcommittee Over Domain Selections
The Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers was told today by key members of the
U.S. House of Representatives that it's becoming too much of a policy-making organization.
Bill
Would Extend Internet Tax Moratorium Five More Years
Lawmakers in the
House and Senate today reintroduced legislation to extend the current moratorium
on new Internet taxes for another five years. Seeking
to modernize, NSA may set up its own research firm
With the director of
the National Security Agency warning that the NSA is behind the curve in technology,
some analysts are suggesting that it's time for the agency to sponsor its own
private venture capital research firm. Copyright
or Copy Wrong?
Sen. Orrin Hatch thinks content companies have too much
power thanks to federal law. Bruce Lehman thinks technology companies do.
'Stupefied'
by Child Porn Sentences
A British judge jailed seven men involved in the
world's largest Internet child pornography ring, the Wonderland Club, but their
sentences, the longest of which was 30 months, were immediately criticized by
children's rights groups as being too lenient. How
much is that intellectual property in the window
The continuing liquidation
of technology companies is adding a new wrinkle to the New Economy. In many cases,
the only thing of any real value left after a company goes under is the technology
or intellectual property they developed. New
Bill Kicks Off Battle Over Internet Tax Moratorium Extension
A new push
to extend a moratorium on the addition of taxes aimed at e-commerce began in the
U.S. Congress last week, but state governments and brick-and-mortar retailers
are challenging the notion that the Internet should be a tax-free zone.
Congress
To Take on Spam Again
The U.S. Congress will take another crack at passing
anti-spam legislation this year, with the reintroduction of a bill that provides
criminal penalties for companies that send unsolicited commercial e-mail and gives
Internet service providers (ISPs) the right to sue those who send spam over their
networks. HP
Embraces U.S.-Europe 'Safe Harbor' Privacy Deal
Hewlett-Packard has signed
up to adopt the safe harbor data privacy provisions negotiated by U.S. and European
officials, providing the struggling privacy effort with its biggest boost to date.
Bush
Names Nominee For Antitrust Post
President Bush delivered two names to
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, one for assistant attorney general of the
Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, and another for assistant attorney
general for the office of legislative affairs Cuba's
Net Connection Crisis
Cuban citizens pay more for a month of Internet
access than most people there earn in a year Congress
Attacks Wireless Junk Mail
A bill waiting to be heard in Congress would
trash unsolicited wireless advertising before it gets off the ground. Ukraine
Is Copyright Enemy No. 1
High-tech and copyright trade groups recommended
that 58 countries be put on a list that singles out nations with low standards
in protecting intellectual property. Spam
Oozes Past Border Patrol
U.S. politicians are promising to shield e-mail
inboxes from spam, and Congress appears poised to vote on a bill this year. But
is there anything legislators can do about spam from overseas? Phillipine
Government Hopes To Cash In On Bluetooth Technology
Bluetooth technology
four to five years from now, the research and technology arm of the Department
of Science and Technology (DOST) is pouring a significant part of its attention
and resources in developing products that integrate the Bluetooth standard.
Germany
gives green light on e-signatures
The German Parliament's lower house
has passed an electronic signature directive that will bring Germany into line
with the U.S. on the law relating to e-signatures Concern
About New Web Monitors
Web intelligence agencies allow businesses to keep
track of posted rumors in real time and to issue immediate PR responses. Privacy
advocates fear such practices will harm free speech Can
regional online collaboration deliver?
The majority of countries in Asia
have embarked on formal IT and Internet drives to modernize their economies and
turn themselves into electronic nations. ...
PARTNERS & DEALS NEWS
- IBM, RAM Pair for Healthcare CRM
- Caldera
sweetens deal for SCO's Unix products
- Delta
cuts Priceline a break by redoing investment deal
- eB2B,
Pangea Tinker with Fulfillment
- EarthLink
and Sprint Update Alliance Terms
- Schmooze
Network Sold
- IBM, Interwoven
Pair for Personalized Content
- Start-up
tries to pocket wireless niche
- FreeMarkets
cuts sweet deal with Nestle
- Eagle
Wireless and Burst.com announce alliance
- CMGI
signs over Signatures to managers
- U.S.
Okays Merger Creating Dominant Web Real Estate Firm
- Hewlett-Packard
Teams With Inktomi On Servers
- SEVEN
to Join Forces With Microsoft to Make Wireless Data Access Easy For Carrier Deployments
to Enterprises
- Intel, Network
Appliance ink $1 billion deal
- Universal
and Sony in Napsterless Harmony
- Turbolinux,
Linuxcare To Merge
- Qwest deal
signals ongoing sea change at HP
- IBM
and Lawson Target Health Insurance Market
- UK,
Canada Digitally Ink E-Commerce Pact
IBM,
RAM Pair for Healthcare CRM
RAM Technologies, a provider of Web-based
information technology, announced it is working with IBM to provide CRM capabilities
to the healthcare industry based on HEALTHsuite Caldera
sweetens deal for SCO's Unix products
Caldera had planned to buy UnixWare
for $7 million. Now, for an extra $24 million, SCO will throw in OpenServer.
Delta
cuts Priceline a break by redoing investment deal
Delta Air Lines agreed
to restructure its investment in Priceline.com in an agreement that the struggling
online discounter said will save it about $280 million in dividend payments over
the next six years. eB2B,
Pangea Tinker with Fulfillment
eB2B Commerce, Inc. and PangeaToyNet.com,
a toy community owned by PANGEA Toy Network, Inc., have announced a partnership
to provide better B2B fulfillment for manufacturers, distributors, importers and
retailers in the toy industry.. EarthLink
and Sprint Update Alliance Terms
New Provisions Allow EarthLink and Sprint
to Continue Leveraging Each Other's Strengths While Giving Both Companies More
Flexibility Schmooze
Network Sold
Just six months after buying one of the largest international
schmooze events for Internet entrepreneurs, a startup screening company is selling
it. IBM,
Interwoven Pair for Personalized Content
Building on an existing
relationship, Interwoven, Inc. and IBM have joined forces to integrate Interwoven's
content management software with IBM WebSphere to provide users with highly personalized
content... Start-up
tries to pocket wireless niche
PocketThis, a startup wireless company,
has signed agreements with VoiceStream Wireless and France Telecom to begin distributing
PocketThis FreeMarkets
cuts sweet deal with Nestle
FreeMarkets, a maker of business-to-business
exchanges, has signed an agreement with Nestle USA to use its marketplace software.
Eagle
Wireless and Burst.com announce alliance
Eagle Wireless International
today announced it has made an equity investment in Burst.com and inked an exclusive
licensing arrangement for the San Francisco-based company's patented video-on-demand
technology to complement a key Eagle product. CMGI
signs over Signatures to managers
After about 16 months together, Internet
incubator CMGI Inc. has sold its majority interest in Signatures SNI Inc., an
entertainment and celebrity merchandising company, back to the Signatures' management
team. U.S.
Okays Merger Creating Dominant Web Real Estate Firm
Homestore.com said
that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has signed off on its planned purchase
of Move.com, setting the stage for the Net's largest real estate firm to become
even more dominant. Hewlett-Packard
Teams With Inktomi On Servers
HP will be jumping onto the server appliance
bandwagon armed with Intel-based servers running Inktomi software on top of Linux
SEVEN
to Join Forces With Microsoft to Make Wireless Data Access Easy For Carrier Deployments
to Enterprises
The SEVEN Global Network Will Integrate Seamlessly With
Microsoft Mobile Information Server and Other Microsoft.NET Enterprise Server
Products Intel,
Network Appliance ink $1 billion deal
Intel and Network Appliance have
signed a seven-year, $1 billion cross-purchasing agreement. Universal
and Sony in Napsterless Harmony
The big labels are tuning up together
to launch their own online music schemes and Napster's not in the band.
Turbolinux,
Linuxcare To Merge
San Francisco-based Linux support company Linuxcare,
which provides technical support to high-profile Linux users, said, that it will
merge with Turbolinux, a distributor of high-performance Linux for clusters.
Qwest
deal signals ongoing sea change at HP
The reinvention of Hewlett-Packard
Co. took another interesting twist this week when the company announced a multi-faceted
deal with Qwest Internet Solutions that involves multiple HP lines of business
IBM
and Lawson Target Health Insurance Market
As a result of their participation
in the Partner World for Developers program, IBM and Lawson Software have announced
a strategic alliance to deliver ERP applications to healthcare insurers.
UK,
Canada Digitally Ink E-Commerce Pact
The United Kingdom and Canada digitally
signed a pact promising to cooperate on developing e-commerce and e-government
initiatives. ---
MOVERS & SHAKERS NEWS
- Lucent: SEC examination of revenue reporting
not a surprise
- Patenting the
War on Viruses
- Who's gonna
sign for this?
- EarthLink, Sprint
No Longer Going Steady
- Microsoft's
lucky break?
- Venture Capitalists
Exit the Dot-Com Freeway
- Asian
Internet Access Cut for Millions
- Digital
Recorders calls NextBus patent infringement claims groundless
- Amazon
Loses Patent Suit Round
- Microsoft
readies "Hailstorm" against AOL
- Multiple
Web sites defaced in hacking spree
- Can
Cell Phones Crash Planes?
- DOJ
Investigates Microsoft Over Investment In Corel
- Intel
Shuts Net Media Division
- Judge
approves domain name penalty on eReferee
- Venture
firms gobble up $69 billion last year
- Covad
Wins Round 1 in DSL Battle
- Microsoft
Drafts Political Heavyweights For Antitrust Fight
- Oracle
grants a vision at OAUG
- Sega
sues Kmart over Dreamcast orders
- DOJ
slams publisher of DVD code
- Napster's
Billion Dollar Blues
Lucent:
SEC examination of revenue reporting not a surprise
Lucent Technologies
said it's cooperating fully with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding
a $679 million reduction in its reported revenue, although it added that reports
of an SEC investigation into the matter are "not new news." Patenting
the War on Viruses
Security software-maker Symantec is drawing fire over
two recently announced patents for updating and downloading antivirus software
incrementally. Who's
gonna sign for this?
Linux does the heavy lifting, as open-source rolls
into selected glasshouses EarthLink,
Sprint No Longer Going Steady
The ISP and the long-distance phone company
have ended the exclusive terms of their alliance, including Sprint's right to
buy the ISP - paving the way for someone else. Microsoft's
lucky break?
A decision in an unrelated case has given the company new
ammunition against U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. Venture
Capitalists Exit the Dot-Com Freeway
E-commerce has hit a dangerous curve
because the venture capitalists who were driving it have found the freeway off-ramp.
Asian
Internet Access Cut for Millions
Internet access for millions of people
in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore has been disrupted, though the reason
for the massive outage is in dispute Digital
Recorders calls NextBus patent infringement claims groundless
Digital
Recorders said that allegations made by San Francisco-based NextBus claiming the
release of certain products by DRI's Talking Bus unit would infringe patent rights
NextBus holds are without merit. Amazon
Loses Patent Suit Round
Barnesandnoble.com wins the latest round in its
legal dispute with Amazon, its chief rival in online book retail. Amazon is suing
Barnes & Noble for infringing its patent for one-click shopping Microsoft
readies "Hailstorm" against AOL
Microsoft is pushing to sell developers
on an upcoming set of Web services building blocks code-named Hailstorm that could
be used as part of a new offensive against America Online and its dominance in
instant messaging. Multiple
Web sites defaced in hacking spree
A group of malicious hackers defaced
a string of corporate Web sites this week, including ones belonging to companies
such as Compaq, Intel and Hewlett-Packard. Can
Cell Phones Crash Planes?
Cell phones have been blamed for interference
with aircraft systems and investigated as a possible cause for at least one airplane
crash. Could the cell-phone industry be held liable? DOJ
Investigates Microsoft Over Investment In Corel
The Department of Justice
confirmed that it has launched an antitrust-related investigation of an investment
deal and strategic alliance that Microsoft signed last fall with struggling office
software rival Corel. Intel
Shuts Net Media Division
Nine months after its launch, Intel is closing
down a streaming media content usiness that the world's largest chipmaker said
would serve an estimated $2.5 billion market by 2004. Judge
approves domain name penalty on eReferee
In one of the broadest crackdowns
ever issued against a domain name holder, a federal judge has ordered eReferee.com
to stop using the word "referee" in all of its domain names. Venture
firms gobble up $69 billion last year
Amount raised from investors was
double the previous year's total, as mega funds came into their own. Covad
Wins Round 1 in DSL Battle
A judge ruled in favor of Covad Communications
Inc. in a case brought against the company by an Internet service provider cut
off from Covad's high-speed connection last week. Microsoft
Drafts Political Heavyweights For Antitrust Fight
Washington In a city
where allegiances are known to change as quickly as issues, the battle between
Microsoft and the government has brought together a Who's Who of Washington players
who once sat on opposite sides of the political field. Oracle
grants a vision at OAUG
In different forms and in different octaves, the
ringing sound of high-powered corporate marketing echoed through the concrete
halls of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center the way Mardi Gras music is carried
along New Orleans' Canal Street, a few blocks away. Sega
sues Kmart over Dreamcast orders
Sega is suing Kmart for allegedly failing
to pay $2.2 million of a $25.9 million order for Dreamcast game consoles, according
to a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court. DOJ
slams publisher of DVD code
The DOJ this week filed with the appeals court
a brief that strongly backs the position of the Motion Picture Association of
America, the plaintiffs in the case. Napster's
Billion Dollar Blues
The recording industry scoffs at Napster's settlement
offer as if it were a 'Shatner Sings Metallica' album. Back
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