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With at least seven outsourcing megadeals worth more than an estimated $20 billion, IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing (BPO) are the fastest-growing service lines in the financial services sector, according to research firm Gartner . Although Gartner analysts say that while BPO has emerged as one of the fastest growing service opportunities in the […]

Cheaper Chips The price of wireless LAN chips is going to continue to drop like a stone, according to market research firm TechKnowledge Strategies. According to their current findings, the average price of an 802.11-based chip in 2002 was $16.06 and will drop to $6.61 by the end of this year. Even though companies will […]

Northern Light, a Cambridge, Mass., search and database classification specialist, is returning as an independent company. The move comes after former CEO C. David Seuss bought the assets from Divine Inc. for $81,000 at a recent bankruptcy auction. After the acquisition, Seuss contacted users of the firm’s market research portal product and assured them that […]

Jupitermedia has launched a new Web site to preview the 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo to be held June 25-27 at Boston’s World Trade Center. 80211 Planet Live contains stories about: new wireless technologies that will be unveiled at the show, including security measures and roaming architectures; discussions about how Wi-Fi is changing business; information […]

Nearly two years after the project initially went into development, Lufthansa and Boeing on Tuesday have entered into a definitive service agreement to solidify the German carrier’s relationship as the launch customer for the Connexion by Boeing in-flight, high-speed information service. As previously reported, the agreement calls for the Connexion by Boeing service to be […]

Today, Linksys — which, as of the first quarter of 2003 was the leader in supplying wireless LAN products according to Synergy Research Group — announced the Wireless-G Ethernet Bridge (model WET54G), a WLAN adapter that will plug into the existing RJ-45 Ethernet jack on any computer, printer, game console, etc. to let it access […]

Internet Photonics, a maker of optical networking gear for service providers, has tapped ADC to handle installation and integration of its products. Neither the value, nor duration of the deal between the Shrewsbury, N.J., and Minneapolis companies was disclosed. ADC will work with Internet Photonics’ LightStack product line, which is used as optical transport platforms […]

Computer Sciences Corp. , which competes with IBM and EDS for big-money IT outsourcing contracts, has landed the industry’s latest deal. The El Segundo, Calif., company has signed a 10-year, $735 million deal with Marconi, a telecom hardware, software and services firm. Under the pact, CSC will: manage Marconi’s IT help desk, desktop computing, networking […]

San Francisco-based LookSmart has launching new “distributed crawling” technology its says has the potential to dramatically improve search. The offering, dubbed Grub, is downloaded as a screensaver by a user or Webmaster from www.Grub.org. It taps idle processors on the user’s computer to crawl Web sites, including the users’ own. Grub sends a compressed feed […]

Delayed by a over a year to get the security just right, Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 finally arrived last month. Now the ancillary packages are trickling out and among the first is the Windows Server 2003 Mobile Admin Pack (MAP), a wireless control set for managing your 2003-based server or servers remotely. The MAP will […]

Growth is visible for the optical module market, as In-Stat/MDR predicts increased revenues of over a billion dollars from 2002 to 2007. Sporting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.5 percent, the market is expected to swell to $3.5 billion. In-Stat/MDR believes that if not for the economic downturn, optical modules would be the […]

The market for application infrastructure provider (AIP) outsourcing and managed services will grow at a percentage rate in the mid-teens over the next five years, according to Framingham, Mass.-based research firm IDC. According to IDC, the five-year growth from 2002 to 2007 for the worldwide and U.S. AIP outsourcing/managed services markets will be approximately 17.6 […]