InternetNews Staff

Atlanta-based Web hosting specialist Interland, Inc. continues to be busy on the acquisition front, announcing a deal to gobble up the assets and business of competitor Dialtone Internet. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With the acquisition, Interland said it narrowed the gap on rival Verio in the small and medium enterprise (SME) hosting […]

Sony Electronics today introduced a new StorStation. Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) library that, at one rack-unit (1.75″) high, is the slimmest tape library on the market today, and features the industry’s highest tape storage density per cubic foot. The newest member of the Sony StorStation family of storage solutions (model LIB-81), houses one AIT-1, AIT-2 […]

Auction giant eBay Inc. is taking another step from its beginnings in Pierre Omidyar’s living room, this time working a deal with Accenture Ltd. to create a service aimed at helping big companies sell excess merchandise. The management and technology consulting firm will operate a new service called “Connection to eBay.” Launch is planned for […]

Disc drive manufacturer Seagate today announced its latest Cheetah enterprise-class disc drives, the Cheetah 15K.3 and the Cheetah 10K.6. The new disc drives are designed for all enterprise applications and serve the needs of IT managers focused on lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their storage systems by using drives with the highest […]

Anticipating that wireless local area network (WLAN) will become the preferred means of connection to public networks for mobile users, Europe’s second largest carrier, Lufthansa, plans to deploy the technology over the next two years on 80 of its aircrafts, plying between the routes of Europe, North America and Asia. The wireless broadband technology will […]

The SCSI Trade Association (STA) and the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) announced today that the Serial Attached SCSI proposal presented to INCITS Technical Committee T10 at their May 2 meeting was accepted and that T10 voted to develop a Serial Attached SCSI standard. T10 is responsible for developing and maintaining all SCSI […]

The STORServer Inc., S10000 Backup Appliance is a small, low cost Backup Appliance that includes everything a company needs when it comes to complete storage. It’s an all-in-one backup solution that offers three distinct products in one package: backup, archive and disaster recovery. The new S10000 contains all the functionality of a larger Backup Appliance […]

By Erin Joyce 1-800-Flowers.com has snapped up goodie-gift seller The Popcorn Factory in a $12.2 million cash and stock deal. The acquisition nets the Woodbury, NY-based online flower and gift seller a similarly-focused company, which sells premium popcorn, chocolates and other food gifts online and through its catalog. The purchase includes a customer database that […]

By @NY Staff Media and cable conglomerate Viacom Inc. has hired IBM Corp. to help it create new digital media products and beef up its in-house information technology. The goal of the seven-year contract is to build a “cross-enterprise computing platform capable of supporting digital media as well as computing services delivered on demand.” The […]

Citing personal reasons, EarthLink Inc. President and Director Mike McQuary resigned Monday. Garry Betty, chief executive officer of the Atlanta, Ga.-based ISP, will take up McQuary’s day-to-day duties. McQuary will continue to work on special projects for the company and Betty. “In his tenure as president, Mike has been greatly responsible for many of the […]

Looking to provide a service-level management view into multiple versions of BEA WebLogic application servers, the computing infrastructure they are running on and the applications themselves, BMC Software Inc. , an infrastructure ASP and independent software vendor (ISV), yesterday announced PATROL for BEA WebLogic 2.1. PATROL for BEA WebLogic 2.1 is designed to monitor WebLogic […]

By Erin Joyce That giant clicking sound you hear? That’s the heretofore free, advertiser-supported content getting pushed farther behind a paid firewall — or at least some of it. As free Web sites devise ways to fill the crater in their balance sheets where advertising revenues once were, the rush to charge for content is […]