Stories by Carolyn Duffy Marsan

XML Search Engine to Ship

Web surfers can conduct detailed searches and find information with pinpoint accuracy - at least that's the promise of Xdex, an indexing engine for Web information written in XML. Sequoia Software will ship Xdex tommorrow.

IETF Accuse Web Caching Vendors of IP Violation

Is Web caching bad for the Internet? Debate on this question raged within the Internet engineering community last week, as leading Web-caching vendors caught flack for a communications protocol they developed to support load balancing and network-traffic redirection.

Investors Still Keen on Net Ventures

The unprecedented volatility of high-tech stocks last week sent shivers through the investment community. But Wall Street watchers say companies involved in the Internet's infrastructure - network equipment vendors and service providers - are among the best-positioned to weather these market storms.

Online Financing Exchange to Launch

CapitalStream, a Seattle provider of software for leasing brokers, will launch on Monday what the company claims is the first online exchange for matching businesses looking to finance equipment purchases with brokers, lenders and leasing companies.

Aerospace Firms Look to Build Big B2B Web Site

The nation's leading aerospace companies have joined forces with software suppliers Commerce One Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to create what is expected to be the largest and most complex business-to-business e-commerce Web site ever built.

Web Site Feedback Service Gains Ground

Online Lab of Dundee, Ill., has signed up more than 200 customers - including Virgin Airlines and Chiquita - for a Web site user feedback service launched in November.

Web-Based Unified Messaging Hitting Stride

It's the traveling executive's dream: By dialing a single number on a cellular phone, you can hear and reply to voice mail, e-mail and faxes. Even better, the system lets you respond to messages with the same commands - browse, save, skip, forward - that are commonplace in today's e-mail and voice mail systems.

IETF Nixes Wiretapping, Eyes Wireless

When the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meets next week in Adelaide, Australia, one topic that won't be on the agenda is wiretapping.

IETF Rejects Wiretap Proposal

As expected, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has rejected a proposal to develop protocols that would make it easier for law enforcement agencies to intercept communications over the Net.

Cisco, Microsoft Give IPv6 Shot in the Arm

Two heavyweight holdouts - Cisco and Microsoft - last week threw their support behind IPv6, giving the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's primary communications protocol a much-needed boost.

Cisco embraces IPv6

Cisco Systems this week affirmed for the first time that its software and hardware products will support IPv6, an enhanced version of the communications protocol that underpins the Net.

NTT unveils first commercial IPv6 service

NTT, the Japanese telecommunications giant, yesterday announced the first commercial Internet service supporting IPv6, a comprehensive and controversial upgrade to the 30-year-old communications protocol that underpins the Net.

Seeking New Challenges

When John Koskinen agreed to be President Clinton's Year 2000 czar in the summer of 1997, his friends thought he was crazy.

Domain Name System Gets Net Upgrade

The network that powers the Internet's Domain Name System is getting an overhaul just as the company most associated with that system is being sold to VeriSign for some $21 billion.

VeriSign, NSI Deal May Ease Web Administration

VeriSign Inc.'s acquisition of Network Solutions Inc. - a $21 billion stock deal announced this week - will create an Internet colossus that offers corporate network managers one-stop shopping for an array of services, including domain name management, user authentication, encryption and credit card payment.