The Walt Disney Company, Cisco Systems and Intel Corporation, through its investment arm Intel Capital, have invested US$48.5 million in MovieBeam, Inc, a newly formed datacasting entertainment venture.

Search software vendor, ISYS Search Software, has won a deal with the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel, which has chosen ISYS:web 7 to provide advanced search and retrieval of Queensland legislation via its public website.

An impressive list of major search engine representatives from Australia and abroad will be at Darling Harbour in Sydney to speak at a one day industry conference, Search Engine Room on 14 March.

Internet users are becoming increasingly concerned about the security implications of doing business over the internet but cannot resist the lure of the convenience, accordng to a new survey.