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BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA — Slovak Internet providers filed a suit against local telecommunication company Slovenske telekomunikacie, a. s. (ST), a state-guaranteed monopoly in which Deutsche Telekom holds a 51 percent stake. The providers are alleging that ST does not obey the ruling of the market regulator. Slovak Internet providers, represented by their Association (API), entered into […]

Handspring Inc. announced Thursday drastically increased sales for the just-ended quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago, but only modest gains over the previous quarter. The company said that its revenues of $123.8 million for the third quarter that ended March 31 was a 261 percent increase over the same quarter a year […]

As the latest edition to MS’ flagship productivity suite, Office XP, Smart Tags ostensibly facilitate the next level of business automation. According to Microsoft VP Steve Sinofsky, Smart Tags will allow for a kind of multi-dimensional version of a hyperlink to be inserted into data files. Seemingly you could, for example, Smart Tag a company […]

While it’s difficult to ignore the overwhelming number of news reports showing the tech sector slowing down, a crowd of about 250 investors looking to fund 21 tech companies at Thursday’s WSA Investment Forum, demonstrated without a shadow of a doubt that the tech industry is still alive and well. “With an industry as large […]

Looking for a chance to practice your pitch? One Portland networking event is giving you a chance to streamline your pitch and then stream it online. Two Portland-based companies, Technoloft and JungleMedia, have teamed together to provide the PitchBox, an opportunity at E-Que events which will allow entrepreneurs to fine tune their “2-minute pitch” and […]

IBM said Friday it would release a new family of chips for Net appliances. The company said its PowerPC Internet Appliance Platform (IAP) includes a microprocessor and a series of optional features in a system-on-a-chip design. Manufacturers can select precisely which features they want. IBM says that with PowerPC IAP, it will assemble most of […]

Wireless ISP OmniSky said Thursday that it will license Handspring’s Blazer microbrowser and proxy server for use with its service. OmniSky would be the first vendor to license the Handspring technology, which will be used on Palm OS-based handhelds. OmniSky said it chose Blazer because of its speed, claiming that it renders the first screen […]

Network Attached Storage (NAS) vendor Auspex Systems, Inc. today announced that its NS2000 NAS solution has received extended certification from Rational(R) Software for the Rational(R) ClearCase(R) configuration management application in heterogeneous (UNIX/Windows) environments. According to Auspex, the new certification allows developers to experience a true “one-world view” for Windows and UNIX clients that enable sharing […]

Ideal Hardware today announced a partnership with StoreAge Networking Technologies to provide storage networking solutions in the United Kingdom and boost its Storage Area Network (SAN) offerings. StoreAge Networking Technologies manufactures a product called Storage Virtualisation Manager (SVM), which is a SAN Appliance that enables overall virtual volume management in a heterogeneous servers and storage […]

A proposal that proponents claim will insure compatibility between Bluetooth and 802.11b wireless local area networks was confirmed this week by a key unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The proposal, initially made by Mobilian Corp. and Symbol Technologies, was confirmed by IEEE’s 802.15.2 Coexistence Task Group as a “recommended practice” […]

SINGAPORE — Banking on its philosophy of carrier neutrality and ability to offer “communities of interest” that bring business value-add to its carrier, ISP, ASP and content service provider customers, Honolulu-headquartered Pihana Pacific has plunged into the local Internet data center (IDC) market with a US$35 million facility in the eastern part of Singapore. The […]

SYDNEY — Almost a year after their introduction for business, the Australian Business Number (ABN) has become an electronic entity with e-commerce security provider eSign the first authority able to issue ABN digital signing certificates (ABN-DSCs) to support electronic business transactions. eSign, which is an Australian VeriSign partner, has gained commercial accreditation as both a […]