SURETRADE adds calendar schedule management
LINCOLN — SURETRADE.com, one of the nation’s leading online brokerages, announced the addition of calendar, schedule and event management to its online tools in partnership with eCal Corporation, the pioneer of Internet calendar communications. The calendar went live last Thursday. “Online calendering allows our customers to be able to track and be reminded of anything that is important to them. It should be especially useful to investors tracking bond maturities, options expiration dates, Fed meetings and earning announcement dates, among other uses,” said Donato Montanaro, president of SURETRADE. ECal’s patented Internet Calendar Engine(SM) helps people manage their time and share information. Multi-functioned and feature-rich, eCal’s engine provides comprehensive personal information management functionality, including calendar, e-mail, address book, to-do list, individual and group meeting creation, paging and reminder service, plus sync with PIMs and PDAs. eCal maintains a vast event directory aggregating information for a wide range of interests, including financial news, sports, arts, concerts, movies, horoscopes, and weather – all of which are easily added to a user’s calendars with the click of a mouse.
e-tel corporation gets $2.5 million to market
WEST WARWICK –e-tel corporation, the visionary behind the industry’s first, standards-compliant line of IP telephones, announced that it has secured $2.5 million in early-round financing. The funding will enable e-tel to market its FreeRide family of voice-over-IP phones, IP appliance phones, and low density residential VoIP gateways. Aimed at carriers, ISPs, CLECS, ILECS and cable operators, e-tel’s phones allow service providers to easily supply IP switched voice and enhanced digital services directly to the customer desktop. e-tel’s FreeRide phones range from a simple, single line telephone to a multi-featured screen model. They are available with an additional standard telephone line interface for routing calls over an IP network or the existing telephone network. Operating like a standard telephone, each model includes advanced features such as local and remote configuration, using Web, SNMP and CTI device management interfaces. e-tel’s VoIP phones are fully H.323 standard compliant. Support for MCCP and SIP is optional. Thephones also offer multiple codec support, including G.711, G-723.1A, G.729A and G.729AB and integrate cleanly with existing network infrastructures.
EMC data storage company sales roar
HOPKINTON, Mass. – EMC Corp. data storage systems reported a 48 percent increase in fourth quarter sales, compared with last year. As a result of such sales success, the company announced plans to hire about 4,000 people this year, 1,000 of them in Massachusetts where the company already employs 6,700. The company reported it was on target for $12 billion in sales for 2001. EMC reported it had successfully integrated Data General’s storage product line into its own system which is aimed at small and mid-sized businesses. EMC acquired Data General Corp., a computer hardware manufacture of Westborough for $1 billion. Data General’s design and production of server computers will continue as a separate division of EMC, the company reported.
AT&T orders Internet hardware from Infolibria
WALTHAM, MASS. – Infolibria, Inc. reports that AT&T has ordered 40 of its DynaCache devices for use on its new program to provide enhanced Internet services to its customers. Infolibria makes Internet-caching hardware. Financial details of order were not disclosed, but The Boston Globe reported that DynaCache units carry a list price of $25,000 each. Infolibria was founded by Boston University researchers in 1997 , and makes hardware used to store copies of the most requested information on a network.
InterLeaf being acquired by California company
MALDEN, MASS. – InterLeaf Inc., which makes software designed to make it easier for companies to create and publish content on the Internet, is being acquired by BroadVision of Redwood City, Calif. The acquisition is being made for about $852 million in stock. BroadVision publishes software that enables companies to design and build their own Websites.
Breakaway Solutions acquiring Eggrock
BOSTON – Breakaway Solutions Inc. said it was acquiring Eggrock Partners for about $252 in stock. Both Breakaway, of this city, and Eggrock of Concord provide software consultants, Web hosting and other services for business to business transactions.
The top 10 destinations on the World Wide Web
The top 10 properties and networks on the World Wide Web for December 1999, based on the number of different or unique visitors, as reported by Internet survey company MediaMetrix: 1. America Online, 53.8 million unique visitors; 2. Yahoo!, 42.4 million; 3. Microsoft, 40.5 million; 4. Lycos, 30.3 million; 5. ExciteAtHome, 27.7 million; 6. Go Network (go.com), 21.3 million; 7. Amazon.com, 16.6 million; 8. NBC Internet, 14.9 million; 9. About.com, 12.6 million; 10. Time Warner, 12.2 million.
