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CAPE TOWN — With technology rampantly destroying old skills and creating new ones, success in the future -the near-future – will require continuous education. The Web, it is said, is the best tool for the job. And this is where South African company eDegree thinks the smart money is. According to the IDC, 47% of […]

Networked attached storage vendor Network Appliance, Inc. today announced that NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is upgrading and expanding its network infrastructure with Network Appliance(TM) storage solutions. According to Network Appliance, the solution enables on-demand public access to massive amounts of astrophysical research information and data from the observatory’s networked archive, enabling people around the globe […]

LONDON — More iTV news, as beeb.com launches its Holiday Shopping Guide on Telewest’s interactive TV platform BBC Worldwide’s online shopping portal has been successful in its initial move on to Telewest’s iTV platform, having garnered over ten thousand unique users and 100,000 page impressions since it was initially rolled out three weeks ago. The […]

Imperial Technology, a manufacturer of solid state disk and cache systems, this week announced an in-house Interoperability Lab for testing Storage Area Network (SAN) components. “The importance of testing various vendors’ offerings for interoperability within an open SAN environment cannot be underestimated,” said Emanuel Allen, president of Imperial Technology. “As customers transition into a SAN, […]

RELERA Inc. this week announced the opening of an Internet Data Center (IDC) in Raleigh, N.C. In addition, RELERA has signed the new IDC’s first customer, BioSignia, a Chapel Hill-based company that develops evidence-based disease risk profiling. Raleigh, together with Durham and Chapel Hill, is the home to the Research Triangle Park (RTP), and is […]

Fort Lauderdale-based online business news company LocalBusiness.com has ceased operations and sent about 75 employees packing. The company, formerly d-business, operated nearly 25 Web sites that covered local business news in Atlanta, Denver, New York, and Seattle. Officials could not be reached for comment. On Saturday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that an estimated “60 […]

SINGAPORE — StarHub, Singapore’s second full-fledged info-communications company, and local cable operator and broadband Internet access provider SCV are in talks to explore the possibility of a merger. If the merger goes ahead, StarHub’s fixed-line, wireless, long distance and Internet service business units will be combined with SCV’s cable TV and residential broadband Internet access […]

HONG KONG — Hong Kong Internet service provider HKNet, a joint venture of Japan’s NTT Communications and Hong Kong’s CCT Telecom Holdings, has announced a two-fold increase in its international bandwidth capacity from 91Mbps to 173Mbps, enabling its 400,000 subscribers to enjoy speedier and wider bandwidth access, and reliable connectivity to enhance their Internet experience. […]

LONDON — AOL Time Warner, the world’s largest media group, and NTL, the UK’s biggest cable operator, are in discussions over a European partnership. AOL Time Warner already has business interests in a number of media sectors such as film, music, cable, and television. It has been reported that the group is now looking at […]

Linksys(R), a leading provider of broadband, wireless and networking hardware for the home, small office/home office (SOHO), and small/medium business (SMB) corporate environments today announced plans to incorporate the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) open networking architecture into its line of popular selling broadband Cable/DSL Routers, Print Servers, Network-Attached Storage and upcoming line of Residential […]

SYDNEY — Web developer Nethead has unveiled what it claims is the first locally developed open standard interactive TV (iTV) application, which has now been commissioned by Network Ten to use in its digital strategy. The application has been developed for Ten News and offers viewers with a set top box the ability to select […]

Following last Monday’s changing of the guard and a renewed commitment to its core broadband franchise, Excite@Home Corp. Monday reportedly slashed 380 jobs, about 13 percent of its workforce. According to an internal memo posted to DotComScoop.com, later confirmed by the company, jobs will be cut from all the company’s business units, with certain units […]