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Advanced Fibre Communications will cut 94 jobs, or 11 percent of its workforce, and close its Buffalo Grove, Ill., facility as demand for telecom equipment continues to lag. A spokeswoman for the Petaluma, Calif., firm said work done at the Buffalo Grove facility will be moved to the company’s other plants in California, Texas and […]

Wireless giant Motorola has invested in a telecommunications equipment maker whose technology could drive voice and video over 3G networks. Dilithium Networks, of Larkspur, Calif., makes a carrier-class, high-density multimedia gateway that connects 3G wireless networks and packet networks. The enabling technology, dubbed Unicoding, is proprietary. “Dilithium’s Unicoding technology may have far-reaching potential in the […]

Search specialist iPhrase Technologies has introduced a new analytics package to help companies improve their Web site customer service. The offering, available with the Cambridge, Mass., company’s One Step platform, provides feedback about what products and services visitors are seeking, the language they use and which requests are going unfulfilled. iPhrase customers can use this […]

Significant differences were found among The Lycos 50 for the week ending April 19, 2003 and the Yahoo! Buzz Index for the week ending April 20, 2003. While searches for “IRS” and “Internal Revenue Service” dominated both lists, the remainder represents two vastly different user groups. Noticeably absent from the Yahoo! Index were the week’s […]

Napster may be dead and gone, but the legal battle rages on. Two of the largest recording labels filed suit Monday against San Francisco-based investment firm of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners including partners John Hummer and Hank Barry. Lawyers with Universal Music Group and EMI Recorded Music, which filed their complaint in a Los Angeles […]

AOL Time Warner Inc. , already under regulatory scrutiny over how it accounted for some advertising deals in its AOL unit, is reportedly facing new probes by the Securities and Exchange Commission on ad deals. The news hit the same day the company announced a $1.22 billion cash sale of its 50 percent stake in […]

Overture Services has completed its purchase of FAST’s Web search unit, and expects to close it acquisition of AltaVista by month’s end. The deals will allow the Pasadena, Calif., firm to offer paid placement, paid inclusion and algorithmic Web search products and services to portals, Internet service providers and other search destination sites. Additionally, Overture […]

In a move designed to produce a completely outsourced call center service, RightNow Technologies, a Bozeman, Mont.-based ASP that specializes in customer service and support, today announced a partnership with Ineto Services. RightNow’s applications are designed to provide integrated incident tracking and management across phone, e-mail, chat and Web customer service channels along with advanced, […]

EarthLink , the Atlanta Internet service provider, today launched new software tools to help its Web hosting customers build online stores. The Miva Merchant offering features ordering, inventory tracking, statistics, data encryption and mailing list management tools. A more advanced version also comes with currency conversion and automatic UPS shipping calculations. “With Miva Merchant, businesses […]

Looking to tap into a growing market, Motorola‘s broadband unit today announced the retail availability of a key home networking component. The SBG1000 is a cable modem, wireless networking access point, Ethernet router and switch, print server, and advanced firewall, all in one. In addition to PCs and laptops, the device links printers, fax machines, […]

Verio, a Englewood, Colo.-based Web hosting provider, today announced that it is extending its viaVerio Consolidator Promotion until June 30. The program is designed to offer cash incentives to resellers that serve the small to medium enterprise (SME) hosting market. According to Verio, resellers receive from $100 to $1,000, depending on the plan, for each […]

After three years of development, Netli, a Palo Alto, Calif., company has launched a service promising quick response times, high availability, and secure access for enterprise Web applications. Dubbed NetLightning, the offering uses dispersed data centers, high-performance transport protocol and content optimization software (among other technologies) to cut distance-related delays by reducing the number of […]