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Amazon Anywhere, launched with much fanfare as the mobile e-commerce division of e-tailing giant Amazon.com in October of 1999, reportedly is being scaled back as fewer consumers than expected are using the so-called “m-commerce” service. The initiative had been designed to let consumers buy products on Amazon using WAP-enabled cell phones and various other mobile […]

CAPE TOWN — Vodacom World Online South Africa (WoL), local version of the worldwide group of ISPs and portals, boasts that they now offer more than 500 courses online through their online academy. The courses are divided into two areas, technical and end-user. Interestingly, users aren’t charged per course. Instead, students subscribe for a period […]

BERLIN — The Karlsruhe-based Web.de AG is the first Internet company in Germany to receive its own local area code from the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (RegTP). The allocation of the number 01212 creates a local Web.de network for users, which is comparable to an area code such as 089 for Munich or […]

Responsys Gets More Dough, Changes Management Palo Alto, CA-based Responsys, Inc. has closed an additional $5 million in funding from RSA Ventures and Foundation Capital. This comes on top of the $20 million it received recently from Accel Partners, Foundation Capital, Redpoint Ventures and Sigma Partners. The company also announced changes to its management team. […]

internet.com Corp. Monday launched a new division that will publish IT-specific research reports spanning sectors around the world. Sharing the same brand of the CyberAtlas.com Web site and e-mail newsletter (40,000 subscribers), the CyberAtlas Research Division will showcase studies delivered electronically via PDF files. The formation of the division is more or less a formality, […]

A hardware vendor claimed Thursday to have the solution for “skyjacking,” or unauthorized access to corporate wireless LANs by wireless devices. Bluesocket Inc. said it will introduce a Linux-based wireless bridge that will solve the concerns about the security of 802.11b networks as well as Bluetooth access. Recent studies have indicated that 802.11, which is […]

Internet infrastructure giant Genuity met first-quarter financial targets but will lay off about 620 workers, 12 percent of its staff, because customers are delaying orders. Contract worker cuts will bring the total number of job reductions at the Woburn, Mass. company, to 800. Genuity did not say which offices or departments would be hit hardest. […]

SOUTH AFRICA — A visit to ITWeb this morning revealed that the IT news site had been defaced by a group calling themselves Prime Suspectz. “Prime Suspectz owned itweb h0h0h0h0” read the message. This is the same group responsible for the defacement of the South African sites for Nintendo, Asics and Samsung, according to Attrition.org. […]

Merging online and off line health care companies, e-MedSoft.com will buy Chartwell Diversified Services in a deal worth approximately $90 million. e-MedSoft, of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., is an application service provider. Privately held Chartwell, of Lowell, Mass., offers administrative and operations management. The combined company, to be called Med Diversified, will boast 9,000 employees and […]

A new report from Frost & Sullivan, "The Global Market for 5GHz Wireless Technology," says that the market for 5 GHz fixed wireless equipment will will leap from $0.01 billion in 2001 to $4.75 billion in 2005. The report predicts that increasing miniaturisation of 5Ghz silicon technology, plummeting costs, lower power consumption, and wider availability, […]

Promise Technology, Inc. this week announced the release of UltraTrak100(TM) TX4 and TX8, external SCSI-to-ATA RAID 3, 5 storage subsystems designed for Ultra ATA/100 drives. The UltraTrak100 TX Series is operating system and platform independent, working with any platform that has embedded or add-in SCSI controller support. According to Promise, the UltraTrak100 TX4 (four-drive enclosure) […]

StorageNetworks , a Waltham, Mass., company that handles data storage as an outsourced service for businesses, has won a contract with Ford Motor Co. . Ford will convert its existing data storage system to a “storage area network” environment, meaning StorageNetworks will house the data on its servers, which will be linked to Ford corporate […]