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Internet research firm Jupiter Media Metrix , is predicting that interactive television will grow 83 percent by 2005 to reach about 46 million U.S. homes. The rub, however, is that growth would be fragmented in regions as well as globally. The expected growth rate for interactive, or two-way television is quite accelerated compared to the […]

[March 26-China] Telecom giant Nokia has announced that the company will supply China’s Jiangsu Telecom with equipment to wire nine cities within the province for broadband Internet access. Terms of the deal have not yet been made public. France’s Alcatel recently concluded a deal with Jiangsu’s main mobile operator, Jiangsu Mobile, to provide US$180 million […]

Melbourne-based ISP and network integrator GPM Internet has moved to dispel industry rumours that Australia’s Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) service is not operating efficiently, insisting the technology is sound but its implementation is not always suiting business. The company has responded to reported claims nationwide that particularly corporate users are experiencing “brown-outs” when using […]

[HANOVER, Germany] mediaWays, together with local providers, is making good on its promise to take on T-Online. Over the weekend at CeBIT, mediaWays and BITel signed a contract on network interconnection and a declaration of intent on cooperative work in the area of broadband access. CeBIT is international trade fair that specializes in information technology […]

Microsoft Corp. and New Jersey-based WebMD Corporation today announced that they have executed a letter of intent pursuant to which they will execute definitive documents to revise their comprehensive strategic partnership, which was originally entered into in May 1999. Under the terms of this relationship, the companies will work together to promote WebMD as the […]

Orange has confirmed that it is to launch GPRS services this summer. The company joins Vodafone and BT Cellnet in having announced the rollout of the next-generation mobile technology. Presenting its annual results, the company also pointed to the rapid growth in non-voice services, which augurs well for GPRS takeup. Orange says that it is […]

Dot coms may have more woes than cash burn to face, with more than half of Australia’s workforce saying it has no faith in working with a dot-com company, according to a new survey by MBT. MBT, a division of global recruitment agency TMP Worldwide, found that on top of the 52.5 per cent of […]

China Telecom and France’s Alcatel have signed a framework agreement for the roll out of broadband Internet access services through China Telecom’s countrywide fixed line network. Under the deal, Alcatel will work with China Telecom to upgrade the company’s copper wire infrastructure in order to provide broadband DSL services. The financial terms for the deal […]

When Ma Bell boosted its Internet efforts Thursday by acquiring NorthPoint Communications’ assets, it dually took away MSN’s DSL service. Microsoft, which relied on NorthPoint for its high-speed service, Friday revealed that it will soon be unable to provide suscribers with the MSN DSL service because NorthPoint Communication is unable to provide wholesale access to […]

AT&T’s efforts to offer high-speed Internet service could get a boost now that the phone giant has the go-ahead to buy the assets of bankrupt DSL provider NorthPoint Communications. The transaction was approved by a California bankruptcy court and is valued at about $135 million. It includes substantially all the assets of Emeryville, Calif.-based NorthPoint, […]

A major vendor of products based on the HomeRF wireless home networking standard insisted Thursday that Intel is not completely abandoning the standard. Proxim, Inc. (Nasdaq:PROX) said that Intel will continue to sell and support products based on the HomeRF 1.0 standard even though the company recently announced future wireless home networking products will use […]

OpenTV Thursday released its upgraded Spyglass Prism 3.3.0 server platform for transforming Web content to that usable on Net devices. Version 3.3.0 transcodes content between a variety of formats, including HDML, WML and, now, i-mode. The company said in a statement that it added support for i-mode because of the rapidly increasing support for that […]