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By Sean Michael Kerner Content delivery technology powerhouse Akamai is pushing ahead with plans to ramp up the power of its globally distributed content delivery platform, announcing a deal with Equinix to expand in the United States and Asia. Financial terms of the deal were not released. The partnership clears the way for Akamai to […]

By Ron Miller Worldwide PDA shipments declined last year as consumers turned to intelligent phones combining a mobile handset and a personal information manager (PIM), according to a pair of research reports just out. “Smart and enhanced phones will primarily be a consumer purchase in 2004 and will erode the low-end of the PDA market […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Two weeks ago, users of Red Hat operating systems received an “end-of-life” (EOL) e-mail notifying them that support for the popular Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8 versions was ending. The move, while not unexpected, left customers with a choice of migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or […]

By Ron Miller The broadband market is set to explode, with access expected to more than double to 46 million-plus households in the United States by 2008, up from 21.5 million at the end of last year. That surge, spurred by increased competition between cable and DSL providers, is forecast in a reported released today […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Infineon Technologies AG Wednesday said it is positioning itself to move into the lucrative home gateway market. Best known for its DRAM products, the Munich, Germany -based chipmaker said it has entered into an agreement to acquire ADMtek, a fabless, integrated circuit (IC) design company based in Taiwan. Infineon execs said […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Generating awareness and driving Web site traffic can be financially draining for any organization. The challenge is even greater for non-profits, which often limit marketing expenditures to ensure more money and resources are directed to the causes they represent. An adjunct to Google’s AdSense contextual advertising program, currently in beta release, […]

By Ed Finn eBay Monday said it plans to spend approximately $152 million to acquire mobile.de, a leading German classifieds Web site for vehicles. The San Jose, Calif.-based online auction giant said the purchase would bolster its German automobile category, considering mobile.de’s market share and classified ad format. Based in Hamburg, mobile.de offers over 800,000 […]

By Craig McGuire Nortel Networks is negotiating with Singapore-based contract manufacturing outsourcer Flextronics to sell off the remainder of its manufacturing operations, a move the Toronto-based networking equipment maker projects would save it $2 billion annually. A positive outcome of the ongoing talks with Flextronics would result in the contractor assuming the majority of Nortel’s […]

By Sean Michael Kerner How the mighty have fallen. The acquirer gets acquired. Once mighty Cable and Wireless America, itself expanded as the result of the acquisition of bankrupt hosting companies like Digital Island and Exodus Communications has now had its assets acquired by Savvis Communications . The Herndon, Va.-based Savvis announced Friday that it […]

The 3000 hotspots announced by Truckstop.net and Sprint last November are on the way to deployment. IP network service manager LogiSense says that 500 of the locations will be running by the end of March, using the LogiSense EngageIP Hotspot Suite software, naturally. The software handles authentication, roaming, billing, and adding on new services as […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Is the world’s pre-eminent open source license, the GNU General Public License (GPL) unconstitutional? That is one of the many questions that could be addressed as a part of the SCO Group’s $3 billion lawsuit against IBM that challenges intellectual property in parts of Linux. SCO claims that the Linux program […]

By Sean Michael Kerner After almost five months of giving hosting away for free, 1&1 Internet has now officially opened up shop in the U.S and is signing up paying customers for its hosting services. 1& 1 Internet is a subsidiary of United Internet AG, a European public company with over 3,500 employees. 1&1 operates […]