Archive: May 2001

AP Digital, a division of Associated Press, has partnered with interactive TV provider MetaTV. The deal allows cable and satellite network operators to offer international news and photo content from the AP’s 240 bureaus worldwide.… Continued

Netronics , a spinoff magazine of Electronic Design, launches this month offering network engineers the latest information on the technology behind network design. Before pitching, bone up on your network design lingo. For example, the… Continued

Ziff Davis isn’t the only one turning its focus to IT’s upper crust. IDG is launching Computerworld Executive Suite, an online community that IDG execs claim goes beyond content delivery. The site, designed to be… Continued

You can bid on everything from laptops to lava lamps online, so why not professional speakers? Speakersdirect.com offers nearly 1,000 orators for event planners, PR pros, and company heads looking to fire up the troops… Continued

Ziff Davis mailed its first issue of CIO Insight last week, offering senior level technology execs strategic advice on their IT and business information needs. The premiere issue, tailored to the cream of the IT… Continued

Hachette Filipacchi joins with Generation Y media powerhouse Alloy.com to launch the companion Web site to its new title, ELLE Girl. Alloy, which generates astronomical traffic from teen girls, will assist in generating editorial content… Continued

Howell Raines, editor of the editorial page of The New York Times for the last eight years, will succeed Joseph Lelyveld as executive editor in September. Ari Fleischer, Assistant to the President and White House… Continued

The National League of Cities sent a release far and wide announcing Mayor Bruce Tobin’s recent testimony before the Senate Environmental and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries,Wildlife and Water. Tobin . . . .or shallwe… Continued

Two thousand minimum wage-earners stand to get a raise from their Santa Monica beachfront employers — hotels and restaurants — that have profited from what amounts to city subsidies in the form of beach reclamations… Continued

How many times do major media cover ordinary missing persons? Without a concerted publicity campaign, not often. That’s why the Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation launched a major media blitz on behalf of missing Washington,… Continued