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Napster founder in AppleSoup, Men dominate the Internet outside US, Oracle on ASP track, Spike hits spike
Napster founder in AppleSoup, Men dominate the Internet outside US, Oracle on ASP track, Spike hits spike
e-commerce technology is moving faster than implementation time, with companies holding off their e-commerce rollouts to make sure their solution is the most up to date in the marketplace.
ASP added to ISPCON, 3d3.COM launches into Japan, Collage expands into data compression, Asia Online and on-tap
Australian and international Internet usage is following US patterns of the past two years, according to the latest figures from Nielsen//NetRatings.
Net legal no badland'
LookSmart has ended its content deal with Channel E in favour of InvestorWeb, the global search engine announced today.
Digital signatures on the way, according to ATO, Expansion into NZ through music for ehyou, Retailing alliance
A new player in online auctions has landed on the Australian marketplace, and it won't be selling a thing! Boston-based FairMarket last week launched its new Australian subsidiary with offices in North Sydney and a new hosting centre at the Optus facility in Rosebury.
Melbourne IT's share price jumped 45 cents within hours of the announcement that its domain name registration business, Internet Names WorldWide, has licensed the rights to provide Chinese character-based domain names.
Industry observers are still trying to assess the impact on e-commerce of the new digital signatures law in the US. In recent discussions, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer joined with several heads of high tech companies to assess the impact of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, or E-Sign.
One in seven German Internet companies risks running out of money within the next 24 months, according to a new study by the research and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
E-commerce triumvirate Chrome Global is set to begin a marketing offensive in the Asia-Pacific, using a new partnership with Malaysian IT player Amtech Solutions.
Dot-com incubator ePark has appointed three law firms as the first members of its Alliance Partner Program designed to assist e-business startups prosper.
A superportal of 14 of Australia's biggest enterprises was announced today, but officials say the venture will account for little more than 1 per cent of the nation's industrial expenditure.
The application service provider (ASP) phenomenon leaves plenty of room in the channel for both traditional resellers and new players, according to IBM's local director of commercial business, Stephanie Carullo.
Sausage consults Oracle, denies pending alliance; Election.com heads for landslide; Local team triumphs at IT Olympics.
Wireless Internet access is hot, but up till now the services have been too slow for anything beyond text messages and e-mail. Metricom aims to change that with its next-generation, 128Kbps Ricochet wireless service, which is slated to launch in Atlanta and San Diego at the end of July.
While Australian companies lead the Asia-Pacific in online purchasing, the value and frequency of transactions showed an infancy in Internet adoption in the region, an IDC report has suggested.
After a week of silence over reports that David Jones would rescue floundering e-tailer TheSpot, the department store confirmed yesterday it has taken over the dot-com to bolster its own e-commerce business.
No longer thrilled by the novelty of the experience, today's e-commerce customers can't be fobbed off with any old rubbish, according to Keng Lim, president and chief executive officer of e-commerce service provider Escalate.