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Next week at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship golf tournament in Irving, Texas, spectators can follow the play on their laptops. SBC Communications is setting up 10 FreedomLink hotspots at the course powered by 29 SBC Yahoo! DSL lines (which will also be available for wired connections in hospitality tents). The DSL equipment is provided […]

By: Ron Miller Nortel Networks extended its relationship with cable provider Charter Communications this week in a new deal to provide softswitch equipment. The agreement announced Tuesday covers Charter’s Midwest and Great Lakes operating divisions and builds on a December 2002 joint partnership between the two companies. In-Stat/MDR’s Norm Bogen told internetnews.com the partnership is […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its May 2004 survey from 50,550,965 sites. This is about 800,000 more sites than responded in April. May was the 16th consecutive month of growth for the Web. The upswing began in February 2003 when […]

By Ron Miller News aggregation vendor NewsGator Technologies has inked a deal with Microsoft Outlook search vendor X1 to speed up access to aggregated information stored in the popular e-mail application. The partnership takes advantage of NewsGator’s ability to aggregate RSS feeds in Outlook and provides users with a way to locate any entry in […]

By: Ron Miller and Erin Joyce “On-Demand” has been a buzzword in the software industry for a couple of years now, a catch-all phrase to describe the shift to pay-as-you-go computing services and software. Among investors, however, these providers used to be called “Application Service Providers” before the tech bubble burst and buyers’ ASP interest […]

By Ron Miller A small Massachusetts software company wants to stop spammers by making sure they feel some pain in their pocketbooks. The company, eMstamp, has applied for a patent to add an electronic postage system to the existing SMTP e-mail protocol, all in an effort to stop spammers by upping their costs of business. […]

Golden Tree Communications of Irvine, Calif., says its deployed wireless in more hotels than anyone, and is working on installation number 820. They have locations in the US, UK, Mexico, and South Africa. The release neglects to mention what hotels they’re in, but the Web site has a list that includes Holiday Inns, Marriott Fairfields, […]

By Ron Miller Communications outsourcer Equant has won a six-year, $144 million contract to handle telecom services for Japan Tobacco International (JTI). Equant will take control of several thousand pieces of equipment and provide services including data services based on Internet Protocol VPN , Internet access, managed security, remote access, LAN management, IP telephony, contact […]

By Ron Miller Worldwide PC sales remained brisk in the first quarter this year with Dell leading the way with a quarterly sales record of 7.68 million units shipped. According to IT researcher IDC, Dell led its closest competitor, HP, in worldwide sales by more than three percentage points. Dell total market share increased from […]

T-Mobile Hotspots are in many retail establishments and airport lounges, but now the company is looking to grab the education market. Starting today ten buildings on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C. will have Wi-Fi access for visitors available via T-Mobile. This way, the campus doesn’t have to open up its wireless LAN […]

By: Ron Miller Microsoft’s legal troubles with the Department of Justice continued this week when a technical committee charged with overseeing compliance found problems with the documentation supplied with licensed Microsoft server protocols. The documentation is part of the final outcome of the landmark DoJ settlement that requires Microsoft to make key parts of its […]

By Sean Michael Kerner TORONTO — Government IT organizations and corporate enterprises that have to manage increasing requirements with decreasing budgets have an ally in Linux, an HP told attendees of the Real World Linux show Wednesday. “Linux’s killer app is not Apache, it’s cost,” HP’s C.J. Coppersmith, HP’s director of Linux strategy, said. “The […]