Streamwaves' Exciting Deal.(Brief Article)

Streamwaves Inc, which launched its streaming digital music service last August, forged a partnership with the Excite Network to offer a co-branded version of the service on the Excite and iWon portals. Excite has some major catching up to do in the music service realm. Rival Yahoo offers the label-backed Pressplay service and its own LaunchCast service as well. Lycos offers the Rhapsody service from Listen.com.

The deal with Excite is also key to Streamwaves - it's the company's first major portal deal. The Dallas start-up has been around since 1999 and says it secured