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News.com.au Desktop
Downloads News.com.au Desktop offers the top 7 headlines from a selection of 7 sections from Australias news network. There is also an integrated News.com.au search feature and a quick link to our news lab research and development Web site.
[June 1, 2007, 13:14]
News Burst: netimperative.com bites the dust
News British Internet news service netimperative.com has gone into liquidation following an emergency board meeting Monday. This comes just days after British online retailer boo.com folded. A statement from the company blames its collapse on ill-judged...
[May 22, 2000, 10:47]
Cnet news.com Newsreader
Downloads Cnet news.com Newsreader supports following feeds from News.com they are Cnet News.com (mainfeed), Business Tech, and Cnet Top 20. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com. Features include auto scroll, manual scroll, define time for...
[August 1, 2007, 13:00]
Here's a pic from news.com
Talkback FYI http://news.com.com/2300-1039_3-6170636.html? tag=ne.gall.rbcs I'm interested in seeing how this thing develops.
[May 16, 2007, 17:12]
News Burst: Breathe.com gasps its last
News The Internet service provider Breathe.com collapsed under a load of £50m in debts last week, and on Friday PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was appointed as its administrator. Breathe.com is to be sold without redundancies among its 140 staff.
[December 18, 2000, 10:35]
News Burst: Adabra.com disappears
News Adabra.com, which launched a group-buying service last autumn, has sold its business and brand to Dealpartners Network in the latest aftershock of April's dot-com downturn. Other European sites to use the model include letsbuyit.com, which recently...
[July 31, 2000, 11:03]
News Burst: Lastminute.com buys French company for £59m
News Lastminute.com could creep into the black earlier than anticipated after its £59m buyout of French online travel agency Degriftour, announced Monday. See techTrader for more technology investment news, plus quotes and research.
[August 14, 2000, 10:05]
News Burst: Lastminute.com shares drop
News Travel site lastminute.com saw its shares fall on the London market after announcing a loss of £9.3m for the second quarter, ending 30 June. See techTrader for more technology investment news, plus quotes and research.
[August 3, 2000, 10:27]
News Burst: Dot-com execs have 'unsavoury backgrounds'
News Executives at dot-com Internet firms are four times as likely to have an "unsavoury background" than traditional company executives, according to research from corporate security consultants Kroll Associates.
[October 24, 2000, 8:51]
News Burst: Investors may exit Lastminute.com early
News Online booking agent Lastminute.com faces the possibility of its early investors selling out of the company this week, when the lock-up extensions they agreed in September expire. Lastminute.com share prices have more than halved to 81.5p since the...
[December 11, 2000, 9:25]
News Burst: John Lewis to buy buy.com
News High street department store John Lewis is expected to announce Monday that it has purchased the UK operations of buy.com. According to reports, a deal was finalised at the weekend after the troubled dot-com announced that its British arm was up...
[February 5, 2001, 9:13]
News Burst: Losses and users up at Lastminute.com
News Despite a huge rise in users, Lastminute.com made a net loss of almost £36m in the year to September 2000. The dot-com, recently voted the UK's worst travel site, recorded a big increase in transactions.
[December 4, 2000, 9:23]
News Burst: MP3.com dips its toe into WAP waters
News MP3.com launched its first WAP-enabled application Wednesday, a service allowing users to locate and purchase tickets to live events in any country from WAP-enabled mobile devices with MP3.com's Wireless Live Events Calendar version 1.0.
[May 31, 2000, 18:16]
News Burst: Dot-com workers clueless about security
News Find out at the Hackers News Special Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. E-commerce firms in the UK are in a particularly poor state of health, with IT professionals blaming workers for ignoring security risks, according...
[November 22, 2000, 10:34]
News Burst: Amazon.com to share customer information
News Customers of retail giant Amazon.com are being notified that their personal information could be shared with other organisations despite consumer concern over privacy. Full story to follow
[September 1, 2000, 12:33]
News Burst: AOL invests in Blockbuster.com
News The deal will make Blockbuster a premier provider in AOL's video channel. The two companies will also work together to develop broadband content and delivery. Full story to follow
[November 3, 1999, 12:07]
News Burst: Geldof rules out Deckchair.com flotation
News See techTrader for more technology investment news, plus quotes and research. Criticising the UK finance establishment for a failure to understand technology companies, Geldof commented that e-business is the "new rock and roll", but continues to...
[October 29, 1999, 12:00]
News Burst: Virus downloading from Softseek.com
News Internet security Web site, PCHelp, has issued a security alert accusing popular software download site Softseek.com of infecting the computers of unwitting users with Trojan horse program, NetBus. The trojan leaves users vulnerable to remote attack.
[October 8, 1999, 10:37]
News Burst: Investors not put off by dot-com crash
News See techTrader for more technology investment news, plus quotes and research. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. Despite last year's collapse in tech stocks, twice as many companies went public in 2000 compared to 1999...
[January 2, 2001, 9:26]
netimperative.com finds a buyer
News netimperative.com, the news Web site that was the second UK Internet startup to call in the liquidators earlier this month, confirmed it has accepted a buyout offer from a new business consortium. Bright Station has separately agreed to buy the...
[May 30, 2000, 11:25]
