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In a move to help streaming-content providers choose reliable hosting and content delivery network (CDN) providers, Microsoft Corp. today announced the Windows Media 9 Series Hosting Provider Certification Program. The program is designed to provide a rigorous certification process that will help content providers make more informed decisions about which hosting providers have the technical […]

Verizon Wireless announced Thursday it would purchase 50 PCS wireless licenses from Long Island, NY, cable provider Cablevision Systems , for about $750 million in cash. Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications and UK’s Vodafone Group, said it signed an agreement with Northcoast Communications LLC, an affiliate of Cablevision, to purchase the licenses […]

Finnish phone giant Nokia and IBM are teaming up to deploy mobile enterprise applications for 3G mobile devices built on the Symbian platform. IBM Global Services said it would act as a system integrator of Nokia’s Mobile VPN product geared for Symbian-based mobile handsets and devices such as Nokia’s 9210 Communicator handheld computer-handset hybrid. The […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its December 2002 survey from 35,543,105 sites. Although this represents a decrease from the number of responses received in November, it is still greater than October’s all-time low of 35.1 million sites. It is, however, […]

Looking for positive signs of life in the ASP market? LivePerson Inc. appears to be alive and well in an industry still looking for solid financial footing. The New York-based ASP that offers real-time sales, customer-support and marketing services today announced improved financial guidance for 2003. Based on what LivePerson describes as strong preliminary fourth-quarter […]

What were Internet users looking for? Google, Yahoo!, and TerraLycos compile the highest ranking search terms for 2002. Top 20 Gaining Queries Worldwide 1 spiderman 2 shakira 3 winter olympics 4 world cup 5 avril lavigne 6 star wars 7 eminem 8 american idol 9 morrowind 10 warcraft 3 11 natalie portman 12 dungeon siege […]

Deutsche Bank, jumping aboard the outsourcing bandwagon that’s become popular among financial services firms, has awarded IBM a 10-year services contract worth about (US) $2.5 billion. The arrangement calls for IBM to manage back office and business process functions across some of Deutsche Bank’s European operations in order to help the banking giant cut about […]

To meet what it calls an “accelerating demand” for Web-based meeting services in Asia, WebEx Communications Inc. , today announced that has expanded its global communications infrastructure by adding a Japan hub to its network. WebEx, a San Jose, Calif.-based ASP that specializes in Web-based meetings, reports that it has also opened a new Tokyo […]

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America Online cut 300 jobs from its rolls on Wednesday, a spokesman for the company confirmed. The layoffs had been expected as part of a plan to turn around AOL, following a two-year drop in sales and revenue which CEO Jon Miller discussed last week. A spokesman said about half of the job cuts took […]

Wireless giant NTT DoCoMo Wednesday said it is working with Apple Computer to put improved audio/video technology in its new handsets. The technology, also known as Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), is a standard based on the MPEG-4 file format, which is heavily steeped in Apple’s QuickTime technology. Tokyo-based NTT DoCoMo said it will support […]

To help evaluate the thousands of security events generated by firewalls, anti-virus services and intrusion detection systems (IDS), OpenService Inc., a network security management software provider, yesterday introduced Security Threat Manager. According to Westborough, Mass.-based OpenService, the Security Threat Manager suite is designed to enable real-time detection and correlation of blended, high-risk network attacks. Security […]