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It began as a malicious love letter and ended up as a wake-up call -- another nasty e-mail virus that seemed to prove that a truly safe Internet, if attainable at all, will be realized well in the future.

According to published reports, New Internet Company, a San Francisco, California-based company owned by Oracle Chairman Lawrence Ellison, will unveil a new $199 (US$) PC that is designed to do little more than surf the Web and send e-mail.

Aspect Communications (Nasdaq: ASPT) said today that its CRM software has been selected by the largest privately held transaction processing company in the United States.

Hong Kong-based Web Connection, a provider of e-business and CRM solutions to dot-com companies looking to penetrate the Asian market, announced Monday that it has entered into a strategic agreement with an Australian Internet integration company.

Mountain View, California-based Sagent Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGNT) announced Monday that it has established a partnership with Boston, Massachusetts-based DiaLogos to provide CRM solutions.

Staffware plc, a UK-based software firm engaged in the process workflow industry, announced Friday that it has acquired Arlington, Texas-based CRM solutions provider MarketForce in a $20 million stock and cash deal.

TeleTech Holdings (Nasdaq: TTEC) said Friday that it has been hired by DSL Internet access provider NorthPoint Communications (Nasdaq: NPNT) to assist in scheduling customer installations.

With ad serving technology now an essential component of many e-commerce operations, interactive advertising company 24/7 Media (Nasdaq: TFSM) announced Friday that it has filed a federal patent infringement lawsuit against controversial competitor DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK).

According to one security expert, the damage wrought by the so-called "I Love You" virus has already totaled nearly $100 million (US$) worldwide, and clones could push the figure over $1 billion by Monday morning.

Online brokerages saw record growth during the first quarter, as assets in accounts held by the firms topped $1 trillion (US$), according to a new report from U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. New accounts rose by more than 2.5 million during the quarter, the report found.

Recently, word came out that the owner of Hell.com was putting the domain name up for auction. Asking price: $8 million (US$). While most businesses are not likely to be interested in that particular domain name, the asking price does call into question the entire practice of paying big for domain n...

Capping what the head of the FBI's Chicago Office described as the agency's "most significant investigation of copyright infringement involving the use of the Internet," a U.S. grand jury indicted 17 people on Thursday for their role in posting pirated software valued at over $1 million (US$) on sec...

Americans are not likely to abandon their local supermarkets to shop for food on the Internet anytime soon, according to a new survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. In fact, only 18 percent of the 500-plus Internet users who participated in the 1999 PricewaterhouseCoopers Retail Intelligence System annu...

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Thursday cleared the way for a full House of Representatives vote next week to extend the ban on Internet taxes through October 2006. By a 29-8 margin, the committee approved legislation to extend the existing moratorium on new Internet taxes that had been due t...

Online consumer spending in Britain, Wales and Scotland will soar from $2.6 billion (US$) in 1999 to over $30 billion by 2005, according to Fletcher Research, the UK arm of Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR). The report, "UK Online Retail: From Minority to Mainstream," indicates that wireless devices...