PointCast, MS To Prompt 'push' Web Broadcasting
News A feature called PointCast Connections in PointCast 2.0 will allow publishers to send information to user desktops. So far, push developers including PointCast and BackWeb have been incompatible with each other.
[March 12, 1997, 15:32]
MS, PointCast Tie Up For IE 4.0
News Microsoft announced yesterday a key content tie-up with PointCast to deliver live newsfeeds via the Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0 Active Desktop. The deal turns the screw tighter on Netscape as IE will also become the internal browser for a...
[December 12, 1996, 11:40]
US Report: Sources Say PointCast Sale Imminent
News The sources say the two sides have reached a memorandum of understanding for PointCast's acquisition. Analysts said they would be surprised if PointCast commanded anywhere near the $450 million reportedly offered by News Corp.in 1997.
[December 3, 1998, 9:42]
Why We Should Push For "Intelligent Push Technology" In Mobile Environments
White Papers Web-to-desktop push technologies promised much but ultimately delivered little with failures such as PointCast. Web-to-desktop push technologies gained a bad reputation with the demise of PointCast and the concurrent emergence of portals and other...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Five Years Ago: Netscape Fires Blank, MS Bids For 'push' Reins
News Although, firms like PointCast, BackWeb and Marimba pioneered push, Microsoft clearly spies an opportunity to gain control. The software giant has already signed up PointCast and is working with other push clients to integrate services in its...
[May 8, 2002, 7:31]
Netscape Fires Blank, MS Bids For 'push' Reins
News Although, firms like PointCast, BackWeb and Marimba pioneered push, Microsoft clearly spies an opportunity to gain control. The software giant has already signed up PointCast and is working with other push clients to integrate services in its...
[May 9, 1997, 9:59]
Lanacom Joins Push Shove
News Like other push products such as Pointcast and BackWeb, Headliner presents information by Web-casting Web site data. However, it differs from them in that users can add their own Web sites and be alerted to changes in sites.
[May 22, 1997, 14:58]
BackWeb 'pushes' Into Europe
News Like PointCast, BackWeb uses Internet idle time for downloading information to users' desktops. 'Push' technology in Europe took another step forward yesterday when the US's BackWeb launched a European version of its broadcast service.
[February 11, 1997, 9:56]
UK Gets IE 4.0 Push Content
News Microsoft has said that the BBC, BSkyB, the Financial Times, Virgin Net, Vogue, New Scientist, the Pointcast Network, Emap Online, LineOne and The Microsoft Network will provide the browser's active content for UK users.
[August 8, 1997, 17:08]
Netscape Skips CDF For Netcaster
News Mimicking Microsoft's tie-up with PointCast, Netscape will also bundle Marima's Castanet client software for receiving pushed content with Netcaster, as well as offering remote access, offline browsing and subscriptions to content so that selected...
[April 16, 1997, 15:42]
Netscape 'pushes' NetCaster
News Netscape is also expected to incorporate support for Marimba 'push' channels delivery vehicle, replying to Microsoft's similar deal with PointCast for Active Desktop channels. Formerly known by its Constellation codename, NetCaster will be...
[April 15, 1997, 10:24]
MS' Gregory Sees One Streaming Standard
News If you look at the work we've done with the World Wide Web Consortium, and PointCast, BackWeb and Air Media in Web broadcasting, we've been the good citizen. "From a Microsoft point of view the motivation is to avoid a standards battle," Gregory said.
[July 23, 1997, 16:07]
One Year Ago: Netscape 'pushes' NetCaster
News Netscape is also expected to incorporate support for Marimba 'push' channels delivery vehicle, replying to Microsoft's similar deal with PointCast for Active Desktop channels. Netscape will tomorrow christen and showcase the NetCaster 'push...
[April 15, 1998, 7:00]
P2P: Barksdale And Andreessen Are Back!
News Although details are slim on how Zodiac aims to do this, sources say the company is developing a model that takes a page from Akamai and peer-to-peer companies like Napster, with a bit of now-defunct PointCast's old push technology thrown in.
[March 6, 2001, 8:40]
MS Webcasts Push Plans
News Big Green said Dow Jones, Forbes, Fortune, PointCast, Reed Elsevier and the Wall Street Journal will be among content providers when Internet Explorer 4.0 launches later this year. The publishers will all provide pushed Dynamic HTML content to what...
[May 22, 1997, 15:20]
Veitch Speaks: Return Of The Dinosaurs
News Step aside and take your ra-ra skirts with you Netscape, Marimba, PointCast. Don't expect Raquel Welch in a skimpy fur bikini, but it's beginning to look like One Million Years BC again. While all those fab startups that we raved about a few years...
[October 17, 1998, 12:19]
A Year Ago: Amazon Will Be Next To Snap Up A Portal
News There are other portals and portal wanna-bes that are candidates to buy or be bought, including AltaVista, McAfee Online, PointCast, GeoCities, The Mining Company and HotBot. We have already seen the union of AOL/Netscape, and yesterday @Home and...
[January 20, 2000, 6:00]
Leader: Amazon Will Be Next To Snap Up A Portal
News There are other portals and portal wanna-bes that are candidates to buy or be bought, including AltaVista, McAfee Online, PointCast, GeoCities, The Mining Company and HotBot. We have already seen the union of AOL/Netscape, and yesterday @Home and...
[January 20, 1999, 13:38]
