John Townley

Nokia has unveiled its 3rd Generation System Solution, providing a complete Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) network for mobile operators. This cutting edge system will enable true personal mobile multimedia applications and services, when combined with future multimedia handsets. Based on public 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Program) industry standards, the Nokia (NOK) WCDMA System […]

BG Technology’s Managed Intranet Solution tool recently won the Best Intranet 99 Award from Cranfield University. The Applied Knowledge Solutions business at BG Technology developed this Lotus Domino-based management tool for the BG Intranet called Knowledge and Information To Everyone. BG Technology developed MAiNs, the basis of KITE’s success, to enable easier management of the […]

MP3.com and RealNetworks Inc. Friday extended the reach of RealJukebox by integrating it with a range of new music available from MP3.com. The gold releases of RealJukebox and RealJukeboxPlus, released Thursday, are immediately available at from Real’s site. MP3.com will feature RealNetworks’ RealJukebox as a preferred software application for downloading, managing and listening to music. […]

Amplify.net today announced iSurfRanger for Broadband Service, an end-to-end broadband access service management solution for carriers, service providers and enterprises. Amplify.net’s new iSurfRanger solution provides automatic and dynamic provisioning, which will allow a network service provider to reduce service order costs, improve customer service and offer value added services. “One of the major advantages of […]

RealNetworks Inc. Thursday announced the Gold release of RealJukebox and RealJukebox Plus, which includes new music video support allowing users to download, playback and manage music video. Additionally, said it will provide support and integration with portable devices from Samsung Electronics and Innogear, a developer of hardware accessory solutions for the Palm Computing Platform. Other […]

IBM Corp. Wednesday announced that it has agreed to acquire DASCOM, Inc., a Web-based and enterprise security technology company. The acquisition was made to strengthen IBM’s leadership in e-business and security by leveraging DASCOM’s access control technology portfolio and expertise in Internet and intranet security, the firms said. DASCOM, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., will […]

A new report by MRG shows how CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers) and IXCs (Inter-Exchange Carriers) are aggressively pushing into the multi-billion dollar local phone service market with a mix of high speed data, DSL, system integration, voice and Internet services. Given the growing demand for both Internet and “corporate intranet” applications, CLECs are tailoring […]

Beatnik Inc. Tuesday secured $11 million in new financing from a group of investment firms, including Mayfield Fund, Entertainment Media Ventures and Zomba Group of Companies. “Beatnik is thrilled with this significant round of funding provided by key influential investors in the technology, entertainment and music industries,” said Lorraine Hariton, Beatnik president and chief executive […]

Teleglobe Communications Corp. and iBEAM Broadcasting Wednesday signed a partnership to put iBEAM content servers on Teleglobe’s global Internet backbone network. This agreement will give Internet users in over 100 countries improved access to CD quality audio and broadcast quality video content from iBEAM. “Our recent experience with successful broadcast events such as Woodstock ’99 […]

Wavo Corp. partnered with the Virgin Entertainment Group, Inc. to create Virgin JamCast, a Web site and service designed to end waiting for downloads of popular digital music and games. When the service launches, Virgin JamCast users will be able to listen to digital music already loaded onto their PCs or set-top boxes, with no […]

Three companies targeting corporate e-mail customers are scheduled to launch IPOs next week. Two of these companies – Kana Communications and eGain Communications — sell competing e-mail management software, while the third (Yesmail.com) provides direct marketing e-mail services. Today we’ll look at the software competitors. Company: Kana Communications Nasdaq Ticker: KANA Shares Offered: 3.3 million […]

Sigma Designs and TOLMA SA revealed yesterday the deployment of real-time MPEG-2 video streaming at Haute Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, the leading business school in France. The TV2PC integrated solution, based on FORE Systems ATM adapters and REALmagic NetStream 2 digital video decoders, will be presented at the FORE booth in Paris during the […]