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Online brokerage Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) and Sprint PCS, the first carrier to launch nationwide wireless Internet services, announced today that they have formed an alliance that will enable Ameritrade customers to access accounts, place trades and receive stock alerts via Sprint PCS wireless phon...

The Debian GNU distribution of the Linux operating system has taken a step closer to bringing the famous "non-commercial" software to a new commercial arena by garnering backing from industry mainstays VA Linux Systems, O'Reilly Associates and SGI, Inc.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Palm Computing (Nasdaq: COMS) announced today that Nokia will license the Palm Computing Operating System (Palm OS) to run mobile phones that can access the Internet.

In a new report released this week, Hambrecht & Quist (NYSE: HQ) Electronic Brokerage Research Analyst Gregory Smith warns online trading companies that the industry's rapid growth, along with the surge of online retailing as a whole, presents "both windfalls and headaches."

Priceline.com, the name-your-price seller of airline tickets and other products, has added mortgage and new car buying services to its Web site.

Poised for a major re-launch later this month by new parent company CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI), global Web directory AltaVista announced today that it has launched a Swedish site.

In a deal that industry observers see as part of an all-out effort by America Online to rapidly grow a struggling subsidiary's subscriber base, CompuServe will now be teamed up with AAA to deliver co-branded Internet service to AAA's 38 million U.S. members.

Earlier this week, when Microsoft Corp. announced that it will employ Ask Jeeves to answer customer questions on a wide range of its applications, the Emeryville, California-based search engine's stock soared.

Myplay, Inc., backed by a $5 million (US$) bankroll from private investors, has launched a site that gives digital music fans access to their favorite tracks without having to carry the music with them.

Calling itself one of the world's first online business to business marketplaces for small and medium-sized companies, mondus.com announced the launch of their U.S.-based site yesterday.

The innovative but still commercially unknown e-book industry received a boost from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) today when the software giant announced that it will sponsor an e-book literary award with a $100,000 (US$) first prize.

Broadscape.com is attempting to carve a niche in the electronic marketing landscape by offering free 19-inch color monitors to the first 100,000 consumers who request one and agree to watch advertisements on the screen whenever they use the Internet.

According to a Frost & Sullivan research report, Internet gambling continues to expand as the U.S. government sits on the sidelines.

IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner warned an international audience at a meeting of the United Nations-sponsored Telecom '99 that "any customer, or nation, that gets trapped by a closed architecture runs the very real risk of being left behind."

Since the advent of online trading and e-commerce, message boards and chat rooms have become havens for those who want to take shots at or float rumors about different companies and their top management.


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