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Sair, Inc. has introduced a "train-the-trainer" series of sessions as part of the international launch of its Sair Linux and GNU Certification program. Training sessions have recently been held in both Australia and the United States Seeking to meet the increase in integration of Linux-solutions by businesses -- including e-commerce operations -- a...

Armed with strong online sales figures, a group of public radio stations is teaming up to create a bigger, more profitable presence on the Web Fifteen major public broadcasters, led by major market stations WNYC-New York, WGBH-Boston and WETA-Washington have formed a for-profit online radio venture to extend their radio audiences beyond their local...

Intershop Communications, Inc. and Cap Gemini -- a French management consulting and systems integration company -- have joined forces to push e-commerce solutions According to a joint statement, the two companies will share international sales opportunities, collaborating to assist telecom operators and service providers to "define their e-commerce...

Saying it will draw upon its experience in building successful e-commerce businesses -- Netscape announced today that it is expanding its Chinese Netcenter by launching two portals with localized content The company said the launching of the portals -- one in traditional Chinese for Hong Kong and Taiwan and the other in simplified Chinese for the m...

The revenues keep on growing for leading e-commerce retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN). So do the losses On Wednesday, Amazon.com reported its second-quarter results, announcing that net sales were $314.4 million (US$), an increase of 171 percent over the same period last year. The company also reported a second-quarter pro forma net loss of $82.8 ...

A decisive court victory last week for Bill Gates and company may -- or may not -- affect the outcome of Microsoft's government antitrust case, so argue legal pundits. But for the cynics of the world, there's little doubt but that it will After deliberating three days, a four-woman, four-man jury ruled in favor of Microsoft Corp. on all but one cou...

A new Web portal says it has created a sheltered place for kids to surf the Web, in advance of rules from the Federal Trade Commission that will mandate certain online protections for children. This.com is launching its service Wednesday with what it calls a "friendly filter" that filters out Web sites, e-mails and chat rooms that are unsuitable for children...

US Search, a recently public company that bills itself as the "public record portal," now has a home on top portal site Yahoo! Today, Yahoo! and US Search, which helps customers find long-lost friends or relatives, announced a premier merchant agreement. US Search's services will now be featured on Yahoo! via category page banners, fixed placement ...

While an 'end of the world as we know it' tune is still being carried by alarmists and others warning of the possibly dire consequences of a Y2K computer glitch, GartnerGroup, Inc. (NYSE: IT) recently issued a report indicating another area of concern Companies, according to Gartner, including e-commerce operations, should beware of those that prov...

A gateway for Generation "Y" shoppers who talked their parents into establishing a credit card account on the site, RocketCash announced Wednesday that it secured $8.2 million (US$) in a second round of equity funding The privately owned Saratoga, California-based company said investment firms Sierra Ventures and Interwest Partners were the primary...

Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) this week announced the availability of its Oracle8i for Linux, a database designed specifically for the Internet that could end up being widely utilized by e-commerce operations The company commented that the release comes after "a successful early adopter's program," with over 50,000 downloads of Oracle8i from th...

Despite Intel's disappointing second-quarter earnings, the world's No. 1 chipmaker has come back swinging -- still aggressively pursuing its e-commerce quest Last week, the Santa Clara, California company once again displayed the stubborn resilience of a champion prizefighter by shaking off what could have been a knockout punch and immediately scor...

It may be starting to look like advertising is taking over some Web sites, with traditional ad banners and jazzy new pop-up windows with rotating marketing messages closing in on the actual content space of most pages. That has not stopped Net-mercials.com from searching for new places to squeeze in some more ads The new Net-mercials fill the time ...

The competition is fierce among leading online women's networks with major players like iVillage (Nasdaq: IVIL), Oxygen and Women.com battling for eyeballs and dollars. iVillage just added a little more ammo Monday, e-commerce fashion site Styleclick.com (Nasdaq: IBUY) announced that it has signed a deal with iVillage to host a co-branded shopping ...

Back in early 1998 when Laurie McCartney was pregnant with son Jack and shopping for maternity and infant clothes, she surely could not have envisioned herself 18 months later issuing press releases about receiving $14 million in equity funding for her start-up company That in a nutshell is the e-commerce industry, where a notion yesterday could be...

Fatbrain.com (Nasdaq: FATB), an online bookstore designed for corporate professionals, suddenly has more than 140,000 new potential customers Today, Fatbrain.com announced a multiyear deal with leading telecommunications and network company Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU). Lucent has signed up for Fatbrain.com's FindITNow intranet bookstore program,...

Red Hat, Inc. announced moves into the European Linux market this week. The Durham, North Carolina-based Linux vendor will work out of offices in London and Stuttgart, providing products and support The new European organization, functioning as a wholly owned Red Hat subsidiary, will expand upon the company's current distribution, engineering and s...

Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC) is following the the nation's largest consumer electronics chain onto the Internet to push sales of TVs, VCRs, stereos and, fittingly, computer products. The company announced a plan to relaunch its www. circuitcity.com site Wednesday as an online store. The Web site has been primarily a source of product information and a store locator until now...

Having found success for itself on the Internet-crazy stock market of the late 1990s, Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS) is now reaching out to help find funding for online start-up companies. The search engine operator this week founded Lycos Ventures L.P., a venture capital fund that pools money from a handful of Internet investors The Waltham, Massachus...

Penetrating China's great walls and tapping into its huge marketplace has been the dream of Westerners since the days of Marco Polo. Perhaps this explains the investor buying frenzy that took place last week, when China.com made its debut on Wall Street The first day out, China.com's initial public offering soared from a modest $20 per share to a c...