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BEA Systems has announced new e-commerce and personalised Web content-management applications that could help extend the company's growing technical lead in what some analysts predict will be a close race with IBM for the top spot in the application server market.

Bank One Corp.'s WingspanBank.com, a stand-alone, Internet-only bank, will be downgraded to a test lab because it didn't attract enough customers, bank officials said this week.

Bank One Corp.'s WingspanBank.com, an attempt to create a stand-alone Internet-only bank, will be downgraded to a test lab.

Information technology managers said they're on guard against a new distributed denial-of-service attack tool called Trinity that preys on Linux servers and uses Internet Relay Chat channels to unleash IP packet floods on targeted host machines.

Several information technology managers said they've gone on guard to protect their systems against the Trinity distributed denial-of-service attack tool, which came to light earlier this week as a vehicle for using Internet Relay Chat channels to unleash floods of IP packets from compromised Linux servers.

Web-based e-mail services from Critical Path Inc. were, until Thursday night, vulnerable to malicious hackers who could gain access to accounts, where they could read, write and delete messages as long as the user was logged on.

Since the emergence of e-commerce, companies have struggled to implement a successful online sales and marketing strategy. But even as they come to terms with the problems that this brings, those on the leading edge are moving to the next level: developing integrated strategies that leverage the strengths of real-world and virtual channels to the benefit of the other.

It's the end of an era: The last edition of NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software developed solely by Dragon Systems makes its debut this week.

ARN: There has been a lot of talk in the media about hacking and IT security in general. Do you think end users are really aware of all the security implications? Perry: What we're [noticing], which is backed up by independent industry analyst research, is that consumers are very aware. That's been borne out by research which shows that over one in 10 e-commerce transactions is abandoned by a consumer because of privacy and security concerns.

Dan Borgmeier has had it with online trading. A 31-year-old executive at a Minneapolis Internet startup, Borgmeier set up an ETrade Group account in late 1997 and got hooked on trading after raking in $US30,000 from hot tech stocks while paying only $US2,000 in commissions.

Monex, a 10-month-old Japanese online stock broker, made a roaring debut Friday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's "Mothers" market for high-growth stocks, becoming the first Japanese online brokerage firm to go public. The company also conducted what it called "the world's first major Web-based IPO," issuing more than half of the new shares to individual investors online.