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SINGAPORE — Chilipadi.com, a portal providing content and applications for mobile devices, has announced a technology alliance with U.S.- based SignalSoft to market and sell location-based wireless services to network operators in the region. Through SignalSoft’s local.info Alliance program, the partnership will involve testing and demonstrating SignalSoft’s solutions and chilipadi.com’s content to ensure compatibility and […]

SYDNEY — Monash, Sydney and Queensland Universities are embarking on a project to improve IT curriculum for school students to help prepare them for a wired workplace. The universities have received a $1.35 million Federal Government grant for the three-year Building the Internet Workforce project, which will update school curriculum to be in sync with […]

SYDNEY — Budget airline carrier Impulse has launched a new Web site in a renewed push to make its online presence its primary sales tool. The new site and URL, impulse.com.au (from impulseairlines.com.au) will form the basis of Impulse’s quest for market share. The site already conducts an average of 65 per cent of daily […]

StorageNetworks of Waltham, Mass., satisfied a market looking for any shred of good news Wednesday, reporting quarterly revenues that were up nearly 500 percent and the hiring of a president and COO. First-quarter revenues were $27.1 million, up 28 percent from the fourth quarter and 489 percent from the $4.6 million in revenues generated in […]

Signs of the high-tech downturn were evident at last night’s TechViews event, the ritzy hi-tech venture gathering held bi-annually atop the Columbia Tower. The name of this season’s event, “Staying Alive in the Digital Economy,” was represented by a lower attendance than usual, and the presence of a biotech company among the start-ups. Despite the […]

While Costco Wholesale Corporation has always had a fair share of the office supply market for small businesses, with companies like Indoff and Office Depot making the most of the Internet, much of the medium-to-large business market has ignored the giant warehouses. In what is a bit of a late entry to the online office […]

Radiant Communications, Inc., one of western Canada’s largest Internet services for businesses, has taken its first step into the US market by opening an office in Seattle, Washington serving the Pacific Northwest. The Vancouver-based company offers a range of Internet products and services designed for small and mid-size businesses across North America. Patrick Smith will […]

SOUTH AFRICA — Web Services may succeed in smoothing the progress of business-to-business communications over the Net but they still have a lot of ground to cover before realizing their potential. Currently only a select few — HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Sun – are promoting Service products as an adjunct to already existing or […]

SINGAPORE — Elipva has formed a strategic alliance with living systems Asia to bundle and integrate technology to deliver agent-based e-business solutions in the region. Both companies are advocates of using open standards technology, Java and software agents to build their e-business platforms and solutions. According to company officials, elipva and living systems Asia will […]

NEW ZEALAND — Telecom has come up with a shortlist of three preferred vendors to take responsibility for managing its entire network infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand. Simon Moutter, Telecom’s group general manager of networks says the company has short-listed Alcatel, Lucent and NEC but it could be several months before the details are […]

LONDON — In association with Ericsson, its main supplier of 3G infrastructure, Vodafone UK has made a voice call over its 3G network of 30 radio base stations in the Thames Valley. The call was made from a prototype 3G handset from one of Vodafone’s chosen device manufacturers – Casio, Ericsson, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic […]

Enterprise software company Neomar Inc. announced second-round financing of $15 million from Clearstone Venture Partners (formerly idealab Capital Partners) this week. Neomar’s product line is focused on Internet, intranet and corporate applications to mobile professionals. “Clearstone’s investment is a validation of our business strategy and the growing interest in wireless in the enterprise. It also […]