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Pay-per-click search engine Kanoodle.com named Michael Feeley president of the company. Feeley was one of the original creators of the company’s bid-for-location business model. He was promoted from his previous post of director of business development for the company, where he helped build out its distribution network. Kent Keating, who previously served as Kanoodles president, […]

Enterprise Storage Snapshots offers a weekly wrap-up of what’s going on in the storage industry. Here are our storage news highlights for the final week of October: MaXXan cruises into the SAN management space with its SANCrusier system, Quantum goes second generation with its disk-based backup system for enterprises, StorageTek’s new MirrorStore data replication appliance […]

The Forest Hill neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario, was the subject of an article in this week’s Toronto Globe and Mail about how the area is hoping that its “free wireless Internet village” will help bounce it back from hard economic times following the SARS outbreak, West Nile virus problems and the August power outage. They […]

No-frills Internet service provider United Online will continue using Level 3’s network to deliver dial-up service in hundreds of U.S. cities under a contract extension announced today. Exact terms between the Westlake Village, Calif., and Broomfield, Colo., companies were not disclosed, but Level 3 said it was a multi-year, multi-million-dollar deal. In addition to managed […]

The Apache project has released two new versions of its HTTP server software, providing bug and security fixes for the primary development branches, versions 1.3 and 2.0. Both releases address problems in a pair of modules meant to handle redirecting web clients to alternate web pages. Under fairly complex configurations, mod_rewrite and mod_alias, modules that […]

EMC and Nortel will collaborate on new service to help enterprises use optical metropolitan area networks and wide area networks for remote data mirroring. The storage and networking companies announced the partnership today at the Storage Networking World trade show in Orlando. They believe the service will appeal to large corporations that need to retrieve […]

Jupitermedia Corp. this morning announced moves to gain a foothold in a critical and fast-changing IT area — digital rights management. The Darien, Conn.-based company (which publishes this Web site) has acquired the DRMwatch.com Web site and e-mail newsletter from GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies and its principal Bill Rosenblatt. Terms were not disclosed. In addition, […]

Enterprise ASP Corio Inc. strengthened its SAP offering this week through the acquisition of Nexus Technology, an applications management, hosting and professional service provider with a specialty in SAP enterprise applications. “This acquisition adds significant customer relationships and deepens our domain expertise with SAP application services,” said George Kadifa, chairman and CEO of Corio. “We […]

The National Security Agency (NSA) has purchased licensing rights to Certicom’s MQV-based Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) intellectual property. The $25 million agreement gives the NSA a non-exclusive, worldwide license with the right to grant sublicenses of MQV-based ECC covered by many of Certicom’s U.S. patents and applications and corresponding foreign rights in a limited field […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) Thursday issued a radio frequency identification policy (RFID) to improve the management of inventory with hands-off processing. The new policy will require suppliers to put passive RFID tags on the lowest possible piece part or case or pallet packaging by January of 2005. The military begin using RFID during the […]

AT&T Wireless on Thursday launched Wi-Fi service at the Philadelphia International Airport. The operator has three service plans: unlimited wireless Internet access from a single location for 24 hours for $9.99; up to five 24-hour sessions from a single location for $29.99; and up to ten, 24-hour sessions from a single location for $49.99. AT&T […]

For the second time this year, long-distance provider AT&T is talking merger with regional telecom BellSouth , according to the Wall Street Journal. Executives from the two companies met this week to discuss the possible combination, two months after initial negotiations broke down, the newspaper reported. “As a matter of policy, AT&T doesn’t comment on […]