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Miva Corp., a Web-based independent software vendor (ISV) that specializes in e-commerce services, today announced a new payment gateway service. Miva Payment is designed to simplify the process of setting up and processing credit card payments on the Internet. The service, according to the San Diego-based Miva, was built to its specifications by CyberSource , […]

Atomz, a San Francisco-based ASP, today announced that collaboration software provider Groove Networks Inc. has selected Atomz Search for its corporate Web site and DevZone, an online resource for developers. Atomz Search is a Web-native site search engine designed to deliver fast, reliable and relevant search results. “The [Atomz Search] interface is easy to implement […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its November 2002 survey from 35,686,907 sites. This represents a slight increase from October’s all-time low of 35.1 million sites, and after four consecutive dips, it is the first time the number of sites has […]

IBM today unveiled a new medical imaging workstation and storage networking solutions designed to make it easier for clinical staffs within hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities to share, manage, and protect patient information, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electrocardiograms, computed tomography (CT) scans, and other digital images. At the Radiological Society of North America […]

OpenService, a Westborough, Mass.-based network security management service provider, today announced what it describes as “a major upgrade” for NerveCenter, its correlation and root cause analysis software. NerveCenter allows companies to correlate events in real-time from diverse network and security devices, UNIX and NT systems and applications. It then automatically pinpoints problem causes, eliminates false […]

IBM’s $2.05 billion sale of its hard drive assets to Hitachi has been approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to the companies. Hitachi and IBM plan to combine their hard disk drive operations, forming a new company to be called Hitachi Global Storage Technologies with Hitachi owning 70 percent of the new entity. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — As a wireless standard, 802.11 (also known as Wi-Fi ) is an increasingly popular technology that provides high-speed wireless Internet access in airports, cafes, corporate offices, universities, factories and homes. But while tapping into your local hotspot like those offered by Starbucks is all well and good, making sense (and money) […]

Level 3, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) has reached a definitive agreement with Genuity, Inc. (NASDAQ: GENU) to acquire substantially all of Genuity’s assets and operations for $242 million, subject to adjustments. Under the terms of the deal, which has the full support of Genuity’s two largest creditors—the global consortium of banks that provided Genuity with a […]

Sun Microsystems Inc is reportedly talking to major Internet service providers (ISPs) to include its StarOffice productivity suite of office software into the ISPs’ respective services. According to a Friday report from Computerwire, the Santa Clara, California-based company is hoping to gain 10 percent of the market dominated by Microsoft Corp. and its Office suite […]

By boston.internet.com Staff Struggling networking services provider Genuity is set to sell its assets to Level 3 Communications in a deal said to be valued at $240 million. While an official announcement is not expected until next week, there are rumblings the sale of Genuity’s assets will be done through a pre-packaged bankruptcy reorganization. Reports […]

While uncertainty reigns in terms of overall enterprise IT spending, a pair of recent studies from Infonetics Research suggests that the VPN/firewall and intrusion detection markets are experiencing at least modest growth. Infonetics says worldwide VPN/firewall hardware and software revenue hit $668 in the third quarter of this year, up from $642 million in the […]

McDATA today announced that Pier 1 Imports has standardized on McDATA’s SANavigator software and hardware SAN solutions to lower its IT costs and ensure the highest levels of data access and reliability. McDATA sais that its SANavigator and core-to-edge SAN have allowed Pier 1 to mitigate costs while keeping pace with rapidly growing data volumes […]