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Search payments cause a wave of concern for surfers
News Overture and Google are the leaders in this mode of marketing, licensing results to portals, Internet service providers and other dot-coms, which split the fees from clicks. The Federal Trade Commission remains concerned that consumers may not be...
[October 14, 2003, 15:15]
Microsoft in new Web 'land grab'
News Gunadhi added, however, that he doesn't see this as a threat to his company specifically because Wisenut hopes to license its search service to major portals such as MSN. The Web's once common "page not found" errors are themselves going missing...
[September 6, 2001, 9:23]
Extended ERP: The path of least resistance?
News We're able to do the whole range of CRM, from call centres to portals and self-service -- with the added benefit that everything can be linked to the back office," he says. It might surprise you to learn that the world's leading supplier of supply...
[December 12, 2003, 11:10]
Online music site climbs the charts
News It's created compilation CDs for sports giant FILA, and it's created subscription services for French and British portals Wanadoo and LineOne. It sounds like a genuine blast from the past: an online music site on an acquisition binge, expanding...
[August 21, 2001, 12:58]
Win XP windfall for PC makers
News Clearly, the portals are interested, and search engines are interested. Microsoft's decision to give PC makers more freedom in customising Windows XP may give profit-starved computer manufacturers an unexpected windfall: cash bonuses from software...
[August 2, 2001, 9:57]
Listen.com flirts with Napster links
News The Recording Industry Association of America has pressured most commercial file-swapping companies to remove or limit their services, and none of the big consumer portals has yet dared to add any kind of file-swapping search engine.
[April 17, 2001, 9:16]
No guarantees for Google in its mobile mission
News Carriers appear less likely in the near term to partner with the portals [such as Google] because they know what they will have to give up in exchange," said Brian Cowley, chief executive of mobile ad provider Ad Infuse.
[February 8, 2008, 15:42]
US Report: Consumers fume over AOL-Netscape
News The fact is that in order to increase its reach and properly manage its portals, AOL will have to keep the browser viable outside of AOL proper," he wrote. But others said a new superpower might be just what the Internet needs to balance the power...
[November 27, 1998, 9:33]
Is a 3D web more than just empty promises?
News They're licensing the Flux technology for distribution, and they're using it for the 3D content engine for their rich media portals. The time for 3D on the Web has come, insists Tony Parisi, co-creator of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML...
[May 19, 2005, 11:55]
Microsoft adds to Web services arsenal
News The software lets companies create Web pages -- or portals -- that offer their employees, customers or business partners a single point for accessing vital information typically stored in a mishmash of disparate human resources systems or sales...
[October 7, 2002, 8:06]
Startup Spotlight: QAZ.com
News I wanted to set up a site that would be made up of a collection of linked micro-portals. If you are looking for a car or a holiday, now you can go straight there by just typing the word into the Web address followed by QAZ.com.
[May 12, 2000, 13:58]
US Report: AOL 4.0 assimilates the Net
News These sites, termed "portals," began as tools for searching for information on the Web, but in recent months have transformed themselves into multi-featured services, with features such as chat rooms, e-mail, personalized news and information, and...
[September 29, 1998, 11:45]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! ducks online ad issue
News That ad inventory auction -- and second-tier portals -- may reveal more about the dot-com fallout. executives did their best to allay fears that the dot-com shakeout won't hurt the Web giant's advertising prospects, but they raised more questions...
[July 12, 2000, 13:00]
Predictable McNealy sings same song - slamming MS
News Of course, McNealy's new way of computing, which favours thin clients and fat servers, fits in with Sun's product line of expensive, enterprise servers capable of hosting applications and portals. McNealy used large portions of his keynote address...
[June 18, 1999, 9:07]
Give your users a better search tool
News And a well-designed metadata framework is key to improving the performance and accuracy of search engines, not to mention all of the other delivery platforms, like portals, personalisation engines, syndication engines, and other content-rich...
[November 5, 2002, 12:44]
US Report: Mixed verdict on Netscape's media moves
News For one thing, those deals will mean a lot more marketing dollars for the portals. In recent days, the company's shares soared after Mike Homer, Netscape's executive vice president, said the company was exploring partnerships with Disney, ABC, Fox...
[July 10, 1998, 10:28]
WebLogic software gets a revamp
News A recent research note from Gartner noted that Java application server vendors, including BEA, IBM, Sybase, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Iona Technologies, have bundled integration middleware and portals with their application servers.
[December 13, 2002, 14:39]
AOL unveils portal plan
News The growth of broadband connections has made video a must-have for portals and other sites as well. Time Warner on Wednesday announced it will give away email, software and other Web services for free to high-speed Internet users in a bid to boost...
[August 2, 2006, 17:10]
The powerful allure of Linux
News Some, such as Intel, are hedging their bets. The more operating systems the company supports, the more chips it can sell. Others, such as Infoseek are porting products to Linux based on customer demand.
[March 1, 1999, 17:07]
Portal woes kick in
News The remaining Web portals that are not AOL Time Warner's America Online, Yahoo! After hyped mergers of Internet content and broadband access, the harsh lesson for Excite@Home and other companies is that running a Web portal is an incredibly...
[January 31, 2001, 12:27]
