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Linuxcare, Inc. recently entered into a strategic partnership with Densa Techno Tokyo K.K. (DTTS) -- a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Electronics Services Co., Ltd. -- to provide Linux-related technical service and support for the Japanese open-source market Under terms of the agreement, Linuxcare will provide high-level support for DTTS suppor...
A new study indicates that e-commerce operations are 57 percent more likely to experience a security breach than other online sites, and 24 percent more likely to be the target of a hacker/cracker attack. E-commerce companies involved in the study have been impacted by most examined breach categories "The 1999 Information Security Industry Survey" ...
A report recently released by International Data Corp. (IDC) -- "eCommerce Software Applications Market in Asia/Pacific" -- indicates that by the year 2003, the e-commerce applications market in the Asia/Pacific region will top $1.3 billion (US$). IDC defines such applications quite simply as those that enable companies to conduct business online A...
OfficeMax, Inc., the number three office supply superstore, (NYSE: OMX) announced Friday that it launched international Web sites in Japan and Mexico. This expansion comes on the heels of the company's recent success in domestic U.S. e-commerce efforts Both sites use the native language of the host countries, and the Shaker Heights, Ohio retailer a...
London-based Ovum, an independent research and consulting company, has released a report stating that companies engaged in e-commerce need to shift to a reliance on software testing tools for evaluating the quality and integrity of in-house developed applications "The speed, transaction volume and lack of human sanity checks of transaction-based We...
Does spending less time worrying about bills translate to more time to spend on spending? PayMyBills.com hopes so, as it introduces its new service to take the worry out of monthly bill payments. PayMyBills.com has launched a new online personal bill management service, allowing consumers to securely view and pay all their bills via the Internet Th...
Last week's highly successful initial public offering for China.com caught many of the pundits off guard and demonstrated that the Asian-Pacific market -- despite its numerous obstacles -- is too inviting for many e-commerce companies to pass up ZiaSun Technologies, Inc., an Internet holding company, is hoping that the attention being paid to e-com...
As the searing summer sun continues to bake city sidewalks up and down the East Coast, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and TicketMaster Online-CitySearch (Nasdaq: TMCS) decided to produce a little asphalt heat of their own The two companies announced Monday that TicketMaster-CitySearch would acquire Microsoft's MSN Sidewalk city guides for $240 million (U...
The nation's largest telecommunications company is opening its wallet to help minorities get on the Internet and get around once they are there AT&T said this week it will give $510,000 in grants to minority groups to build Internet-based "tech centers" in cities. AT&T had already pledged more than $700,000 to southern California communities for ge...
Surfing the wave of concern about the dissemination of private consumer information by e-commerce companies and Web organizations, IBM announced today the formation of a consulting services group to convey privacy issues to businesses The company said the services were a tool-assisted methodology derived from extensive research and would ultimately...
As the threat of Onsale (Nasdaq: ONSL) and Egghead.com (Nasdaq: EGGS) combining their resources to grab a larger market share in online software sales looms, online software superstore Beyond.com (Nasdaq: BYND) is using partners to help extend its brand On Thursday, Beyond.com announced the launch of a co-branded online software store for direct ma...
Despite concerns about Y2K readiness raised by the U.S. Congress' investigative arm, the National League of Cities says most of its members will be ready in time for the calendar to turn to the year 2000 The cities group released a study this week saying more than 90 percent of cities' computer-driven systems will be able to avoid the problems expe...
Recording industry executives, as well as online merchandisers, will be watching closely two new experiments in the use and distribution of digital audio via the Internet Virgin Megastores plans to marry Internet audio distribution with standard retail selling when it allows in-store customers to create custom CDs using music available on Internet ...
When it comes to two companies fighting it out for industry supremacy, the traditional sanctity of the court gives way to the immediacy of the press San-Francisco-based Providian Financial Corp. responded Friday to NextCard's Thursday press release announcing they filed a lawsuit against Providian by saying the suit "is totally without merit." ...
Applix, Inc., (Nasdaq: APLX) a solutions provider for the UNIX and Linux markets, this week announced the creation of SmartBreak.com, a new Web site intended to accelerate support for users and developers working with open-source environments SmartBreak features a searchable knowledge base, containing information and documents to assist in solving ...
The nation's largest telecommunications company is opening its wallet to help minorities get on the Internet and get around once they are there AT&T said this week it will give $510,000 in grants to minority groups to build Internet-based "tech centers" in cities. AT&T had already pledged more than $700,000 to southern California communities for ge...
Penguin Computing, a manufacturer of Linux-based hardware solutions, predicts that Linux will soon become the operating system of choice in developing countries -- but don't count Microsoft out Nick Thompson, Penguin's director of marketing and the author of a book comparing development in Ghana and Thailand, said Linux makes economic sense in coun...
Saying that Providian Financial Corp. (NYSE: PVN) deliberately copied one of its banner advertisements to divert consumers to its own credit card origination site, online consumer credit company NextCard (Nasdaq: NXCD) announced Thursday that it filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement and unfair business practices San-Francisco-based NextCa...
Perhaps hoping to puncture the high hopes China.com built up this week with its successful stock debut, top competitor SINA.com announced today it remains the top portal in China. SINA.com, which has been online since 1995, cited a recently released survey by the China Network Information Center, an official Internet statistics agency in China Acco...
A major media company and an emerging online network for broadband-enabled consumers are teaming up to offer an alternative for movie fans who are tired of waiting in long lines at their local theater. Today, Tribune Media Services, which is a subsidary of Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB), and On2.com (AMEX: ONT), which is creating a network of Web channels that deliver video-rich, interactive content via broadband, are working together to launch a new service that will offer online ticketing for more than 29,000 movie screens nationwide...
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