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Concord, Mass.-based Manufacturers’ Services Limited , has won a new contract from Colubris Networks to manufacture its 802.11 equipment. Neither the financial terms nor duration of the deal was not disclosed. MSL spokesman Mac Blythe said Colubris is the company’s first Wi-Fi order, although it will pursue others. Waltham, Mass.-based Colubris makes secure Wi-Fi gear […]

Amdocs , a provider of billing, customer relationship management and directory services, is reportedly negotiating a lucrative contract with Verizon . The proposed five-year pact is worth around $700 million and could rise to $1 billion, according to U.S. telecom industry sources cited by Globes, an Israeli business publication (Amdocs is based in Chesterfield, Mo., […]

Sprint , which yesterday said it would quit the Web hosting business to focus on communications services, has landed a new contract with Agilent Technologies . The carrier will help Agilent, a maker of semiconductor test equipment, improve its network efficiency and help it cut costs. Earlier this year, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Agilent cut staff […]

Telecom equipment maker Lucent today announced new contracts that accomplish two of its strategic goals: boost business in China; and increase services revenues. The Murray Hill, N.J., company will provide technical support, management consulting, staff training and network optimization for a subsidiaries of Unicom Horizon Mobile Telecom and China Netcom. Neither the duration nor the […]

German enterprise software giant SAP AG Wednesday unveiled the SAP Customer Services Network, a new initiative offering coordinated access to a comprehensive scope of SAP services. Additionally, SAP has completed a year-long integration of all of its local and regional SAP Global Professional Services consulting units into a global organization to be known as SAP […]

In 2003, the worldwide business process outsourcing (BPO) market is expected to grow 10.5 percent — to $122 billion — up from $110 billion in 2002, according to Gartner Inc., and the Aberdeen Group predicts 13 percent annual growth until 2005 when the market will reach $248 billion. BPO allows organizations to form strategic partnerships […]

Expanding its reach, Covad is acquiring 23,000 business digital subscriber line customers in two dozen states from Qwest . Covad will pay $3.75 million cash for the accounts and release Qwest from an earlier contract that would have required Qwest to buy Covad services valued at nearly $9 million. Qwest may receive up to $1.25 […]

Network operator Sprint is shuttering its money-losing hosting and co-location business and laying off 500 employees. The move will result in a second-quarter charge of between $400 million and $475 million, about $300 million of which is for the impairment of hosting assets. The remainder is related to the closure of eight Sprint facilities (Atlanta, […]

Broadcom will be one of the beneficiaries of Motorola‘s recently announced “connected home” initiative. The Irvine, Calif., firm said it has extended its contract to be the main supplier of computer chips for Motorola’s new DCT6000 line of cable set-top boxes. Financial terms of the new deal, which runs through 2004, were not disclosed. Broadcom’s […]

In 2001, Dell and EMC signed a five-year networked storage partnership that combined the direct sales model of the former with the advanced technology of the latter. Since then, the firms have: tallied more than 4,100 customers, including Cox Communications, Mercedes-Benz and Warburg Dillon Read; built new products for firms of all sizes; and inked […]

The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web sites, nearly 90 percent are “orphans” to which no other sites link. Security Space’s Web server survey counts only those servers […]

Hosted content management CrownPeak Technology Monday announced that it has been awarded certification by the US General Services Administration (GSA) and has been added to its prime contractor’s line of products and services. Advantage CMS can now be acquired directly by federal and state agencies. “Our solution is a natural for government agencies, and GSA […]