Stories about: Excite.com

IBM and Websense are separately issuing their semiannual security trend reports this week, and the picture isn't pretty for Web sites, open source software and social networking programs.

Microsoft's Office Live Web service was designed for small businesses that needed an easy, low-cost solution for creating and hosting Web sites and business-branded e-mails. When it was first introduced in November 2006, there were three versions: Basics (free), Essentials (US$19.95 per month) and Premium (US$39.95 per month). The latest, reconfigured version -- now called Microsoft Office Live Small Business (MOLSB) -- simplifies things by offering a single service with a number of for-pay add-ons.

A Silicon Valley startup aiming to catapult wikis into the mainstream and transform the editable Web sites into an application development platform has attracted a flood of interest for its product beta.

Security experts are warning Microsoft customers about silent Internet attacks that exploit a security flaw in the Internet Explorer Web browser, potentially allowing remote attackers to run malicious code on vulnerable machines.

In a San Francisco bankruptcy court Tuesday, a judge will likely ease Excite@Home Inc.'s way to an orderly shutdown.

Struggling At Home Corp., best known for its Excite@Home brand, suffered its second major setback this week as cable system owners Cox Communications Inc. and Comcast Cable Communications Inc. notified the company that they will terminate their distribution agreements, effective June 4, 2002.

Excite@Home Inc. will close its offices in Germany, France and Spain this July, resulting in the loss of 85 jobs across Europe, the company announced Wednesday.

What should have been a gratifying event turned sour a few years ago when my IT department provided performance-based bonuses to our worldwide staff. We discovered some international employees view bonuses as entitlements rather than rewards, and the local personnel were the only ones familiar with this notion. As a result, we ended up revising the bonus plan to ensure we met the conditions applicable to each country.

Excite@Home Inc., still trying to make the Web easier to use, has revamped its Precision Search service on Excite.com so you can "Zoom In" on a topic, refine your search, and even misspell your subject.

Excite Australia Pty Ltd. is the fastest growing Internet portal in Australia and has grown traffic 65 percent and total page views 71 percent over the past six months, boosting it into the country's top 10 web sites, according to the latest Nielsen/NetRatings.

High-speed Internet service provider Excite@Home Inc. announced Tuesday that George Bell, its chairman and chief executive officer, will resign from his position as CEO soon as a suitable replacement is found. The ISP's board of directors has already set up a search committee to find a new CEO.