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Freei.Net, America's eighth-largest Internet Service Provider (ISP), announced today that it is now available in 1200 cities and all 50 states Launched last fall, Freei.Net was previously available in select major U.S. cities and only 20 states. The move to national service delivery was made possible by a $10 million (US$) investment by Sequoia Cap...

Full service provider (FSP) Breakaway Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: BWAY) has announced that it will distribute and host the StarOffice suite of office productivity tools now offered by Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) The move is the latest development for a product offering that some industry analysts feel will permanently change the Microsoft-dominate...

Online mortgage lender mortgage.com (Nasdaq: XDCM) announced today that it has agreed to acquire three subsidiaries of a North Carolina holding company, significantly expanding its network of purchase-money mortgage lending in the business-to-business sector The Plantation, Florida-based company said it will acquire Capital Savings Co., Inc., a tec...

In the first major "post-Red Hat" Linux-related public stock move, open-source software developer VA Linux Systems has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) The Sunnyvale, California-based company, according to the SEC filing, is looking to raise $70 million (US$) through the sale of shares of ...

Microsoft Corp., which has relied upon online consumer information resource Ask Jeeves(Nasdaq: ASKJ) to help consumers with Windows 98, announced today that it will now use the service to cover other products as well "This is all about customers getting the answers they need to be successful," said Microsoft's Director of Online Support, Denise Run...

1-800-Flowers.com announced today that it has signed a multi-year deal with Internet portal Snap.com to become the anchor tenant in Snap.com's Flower Shop Although the specific length or terms of the agreement were not disclosed, 1-800-Flowers will be featured in an integrated online and TV media campaign. 1-800-Flowers will also be spotlighted in ...

IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Nokia (NYSE:NOK) announced today that they are teaming up to develop enterprise Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), an open, global specification that empowers mobile users with wireless devices to instantly access and interact with information and services The agreement calls for IBM to market and distribute Nokia WAP server so...

According to PC Data's September E-Tailing Report, a significant sales increase over the lackluster summer months is buoying hopes for a lucrative holiday season The top twenty e-tailers saw a combined total of 4 million buyers in September, and Amazon.com broke the 1 million mark for the first time. Fifteen of the top 20 retail sites posted double...

Music destination site MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) announced today that it has teamed up withi-drive, a company that gives users free personal Web space, to offer a new option for downloading and storing MP3 files Instead of immediately downloading a file whenever they see one they like, customers can now "sideload" files to their personal drive on i-dr...

E-commerce and enterprise security solutions provider Baltimore Technologies (London: BLM) announced this week that it has become the Certificate Authority (CA) for the World Internet Secure Electronic Key Organization (WISeKey) "Located in a high security bunker in the Swiss Alps," said a company statement, "WISeKey will use Baltimore UniCERT to i...

Online lender E-Loan (Nasdaq: EELN) announced today that it has received $26 million (US$) to help finance its push to gain a share of the online financial services market in Europe The Dublin, California-based company said that international joint-venture Atviso took a 37 percent stake in its European subsidiary in exchange for the investment.

Bell Atlantic and top modem maker 3Com Corp. (Nasdaq: COMS) have forged an alliance to sell high-speed Internet access to consumers. The new Infospeed networking service will allow Bell Atlantic customers to use a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) with a new 3Com modem for the first time Infospeed is part of a race by Bell Atlantic and other U.S. local...

As the battle for Internet chat dominance grows to a fever pitch, AOL has announced that Lycos, Inc. will be the latest company to distribute a customized version of the AOL Instant Messenger to its many visitors The specific terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Internet Gold (Nasdaq: IGLD), a leading Israeli ISP, announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft to establish a portal that will feature a Hebrew language search service The site will be called MSN Israel and will be running by the end of the year. The Rosh Haain, Israel-based Internet Gold -- which is called Internet Zahav i...

Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. announced this week that its multi-platform administration software product will now be included with the expanding line of open-source operating system (OS) solutions offered by TurboLinux According to Enlighten -- a provider of workgroup administration management solutions -- its EnlightenDSM 3.4 will be bundled...

Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) announced today that it is launching its "Portal-to-Go" browser, a product that will let consumers shop electronically from any existing mobile phone Portal-to-Go, to be launched at a telecoms conference in Geneva next week, is due to begin production next month. It will enable any mobile device to pull information from t...

Earlier this week, it was reported that eBay, Inc. and AuctionWatch.com failed to resolve a conflict that may now have to be settled by a judge The disagreement was sparked when eBay told AuctionWatch that the upstart search engine was no longer permitted to search its site.

According to a "Breadbox" study by Odyssey, L.P., 85 percent of consumers who have already engaged in e-commerce are "very satisfied" with their online shopping experiences Based upon a random telephone survey of 3,000 U.S. households, the San Francisco, California-based market researcher also discovered that three million new U.S. households will ...

IBM and AT&T announced today that they will join forces to develop, market and distribute end-to-end e-commerce packages for small and mid-sized companies The world's largest computer maker and the world's largest telecommunications provider launched the "technology alliance" to reduce the complexity of developing e-commerce Web sites. The turnkey ...

Shares of Healtheon (Nasdaq: HLTH), which has developed an online information and transaction platform for the health-care industry, gained nearly five percent, rising 1-7/8 to 39-5/8 on Tuesday after the company received a buy rating from U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray The investment firm gave Healtheon a $50 price target. Healtheon stock has been ext...