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Semiconductor specialist Texas Instruments today unveiled a new system-on-a-chip offering for Internet protocol phone makers. The new TNETV1050 IP phone processor boosts processing power needed to support IP phone standards, and allows handset makers to add new services and generate new revenues. Some examples of possible features include adding video games, security features or a […]

Making yet another acquisition to enhance its telecom infrastructure line, Motorola has bought fabric switch maker Paceline Systems for an undisclosed amount of cash. Paceline, privately held and based in Acton, Mass., makes computer interconnect products based on the InfiniBand specification. The equipment boosts throughput up to eight times over Gigabit Ethernet and TCP/IP interconnects; […]

Continuing to rack up government customers, Qwest has won a multi-year, multi-million-dollar contract from the state of Texas. Qwest will provide voice, video and data service for the University of Texas system, the nation’s second-largest state university system with nearly 170,000 students. UT will use it for classroom teaching, distance learning, training, research, public service […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded grants totaling $20 million for rural broadband development in 40 communities across 17 states. More than $8.2 million of the grants will benefit 13 Native American and Native Alaskan communities. The Community Connect Grant Program is designed for underserved communities under 20,000 inhabitants. It is part of the […]

Gartner said sales of service provider routers (SPR) slipped 4 percent in the first quarter, however analysts with the Stamford, Conn., research firm said the market for has stabilized. SPR sales totaled $428.2 million during the first three months of 2003, down 4 percent from the last three months of 2002. “(The decline) is probably […]

IAB Signs VeriSign for Cross-Media Study The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced on Thursday that VeriSign would participate in the IAB’s cross-media optimization research project. VeriSign, which offers Internet security and domain-registration services, will be the first business-to-business participant in the research series, which studies the effectiveness of increasing online’s role in multi-media ad campaigns. […]

Saying the deal puts it in control of its future, Outtask, an Alexandria, Va.-based ASP and business services provider (BSP), today announced that it has completed a stock repurchase from investor Divine. In February, Chicago-based Divine filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code when its aggressive build-by-acquisition strategy crashed down around […]

Endeca,a Cambridge, Mass., enterprise search engine, has signed a deal with Quixtar, a Grand Rapids, Mich., health and beauty products seller. Neither the value of the deal, nor its duration, was disclosed. Four-year-old Quixtar will use Endeca’s Infront product to improve Web site search and navigation on its Web site. “(Endeca’s technology) is flexible enough […]

RSA Security , a maker of identity and access managment software, is looking to boost business by helping customers limit the risk of deploying XML Web services . Organizations rushing to capitalize on Web services may be setting themselves up for security breaches and identity fraud, the Bedford, Mass., firm said. Because of the nature […]

Car air conditioning systems were once a pricey option, available only in luxury nameplates. But as technology improved and manufacturing costs sank, AC became standard even in economy cars. Verizon’s move to provide free Wi-Fi with home or small business broadband contracts will likely trigger a similar transformation in the telecom industry. Although Verizon’s push […]

Worldwide PC unit shipments are likely to take a hit sequentially in the second quarter though the numbers will be up year-over-year, research firm Gartner forecast Wednesday. George Shiffler, principal analyst for Gartner’s computing platforms and economics research, told internetnews.com that Gartner predicts shipments will decline 9 percent from the first quarter of 2003, but […]

The bumpy journey appears to have ended for beleaguered Interliant, a pioneer of the ASP industry, which has struggled for survival for the past year. NaviSite Inc. , an Andover, Mass.-based application infrastructure and management services provider, today announced it has won the bid at a bankruptcy auction to acquire the assets and certain liabilities […]