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UMTS is going to establish itself more slowly than many people expected. It is anticipated that by the year 2010, only one out of every two German mobile phone users will be taking advantage of third-generation services. The other half will be content with GSM services. However, the UMTS operators will serve financially stronger customers. […]

[Johannesberg, SA] – Collaboration is being touted as the defining theme for a new era of e-commerce but are B2B players ready for the shift? From Ariba to Commerce One and SAP, e-merchants are styling themselves as ‘collaborative commerce providers’ and are hosting an array of collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) services. However valuable […]

Relera, an outsourcer of managed hosting and solutions providers, is opening an Internet data center (IDC) in Richmond, Va. Designed, built and operated by the Denver-based Relera, the IDC will provide “Silicon Valley-caliber” technology solutions to companies looking to expand and accelerate their businesses. Relera’s solutions provide a combination of on-demand storage, intelligent load balancing, […]

In a bid to avoid delisting from the Nasdaq exchange, New York-based interactive shop Worldwide Xceed Group announced a one-for-ten reverse stock split in order to get its 15-cent share price above the $1 benchmark bid. But in early trading Wednesday, the measure doesn’t appear to be helping the company’s strategy. With the one-for-ten reverse […]

N2H2, Inc., late yesterday, unveiled a new plan to vault the company towards cash-flow positive status within 6 months, a quarter ahead of Wall Street expectations. The company has shifted its primary focus, increasing its efforts to serve the enterprise market’s need for Internet Filtering. N2H2 will largely devote its efforts now to the business […]

With the spotlight on Napster shining so brightly over the past few months, digital media distribution has been pushed into the fast lane. RealNetworks, along with mobile power Nokia unveiled the Mobile RealPlayer for Nokia’s new 9210 Communicator, a top end phone and PDA in one. Mobile RealPlayer, the wireless version of Real’s digital media […]

A new Web browser announced Monday by Japanese company Access Co., Ltd. supports WAP, i-mode and XHTML, the company said. The company said its Compact NetFront Plus microbrowser has native support for those three standards, which predominate the wireless mobile space. Its existing Compact NetFront microbrowser is used on more than 10 million i-mode phones […]

Intel Corp. said Tuesday that it will use IBM to provide embedded software for its Personal Internet Client Architecture (PCA) architecture for wireless devices and Internet appliances. Intel’s platform is aimed at vendors of next-generation Net devices as well as application vendors and wireless carriers. Specifically, Intel will include with the platform IBM’s WebSphere Everyplace […]

A Brooklyn man was arrested and charged Thursday with what is described as the largest identity theft in Internet history. Abraham Abdallah is suspected of stealing millions of dollars by using the Web to invade the personal financial lives of celebrities, billionaires and corporate executives. The 32-year-old bus boy allegedly invaded the bank, brokerage and […]

Caldera’s OpenLinux Workstation 3.1 – successor to OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 – enters open beta OpenLinux Workstation 3.1, the Caldera platform for developers wanting to deploy applications on Caldera high-performance, Linux/UnixWare enterprise platforms, has entered open beta and is now available for download. The platform is built around Linux 2.4 kernel, and features a complete self-hosting […]

[London, ENGLAND] E-business consultancy Cambridge Technology Partners announced Tuesday the delivery of a multi-lingual WAP service to Touring Club Suisse, enabling drivers in Europe to get real time traffic information. Touring Club Suisse, the Swiss automobile association, will provide the service to its 1.4 million members. As a result, users will be able to avoid […]

The insurance industry is the focus of the National Office for the Information Economy’s (NOIE) latest investigations into the benefits of e-commerce, as a new study has outlined the potential benefits of new economic perspectives within the sector. The report, Insurance@Risk, investigates how business processes may be made more efficient through the adoption of e-commerce, […]