Patricia Fusco

Free Internet service provider NetZero, Inc. Wednesday teamed up with eToll, Inc. to sell users popular software titles at discounted prices. Launching the new e-commerce initiative as a “Software of the Month” promotion, NetZero’s goal is to transform its 5 million-plus subscriber base into active online consumers. Each month, NetZero users will be presented with […]

This week Bigstep.com managed to land a multi-year alliance with America Online Inc. to provide its free small-business site building services across all of America Online’s brands. As if that weren’t enough, Bigstep.com can put 100,000 candles on its birthday cake to commemorate signing up the same number of small businesses to use its e-business […]

Proof positive that there is no shortage of money or acronyms in the application service arena, former Ernst & Young Technologies this week christened its ASP offering as the duly dubbed EYT. The well-established consulting firm has cast off its ASP business as a standalone firm that is set to feature integration, hosting, implementation, and […]

Merging legacy network functions in real-time routinely requires that application service providers’ pool their resources to deliver the goods. Corio Inc. and Apropos Technology Inc. are two of the latest ASPs to co-mingle systems in search of delivering superior customer relationship management interaction. Corio Tuesday implemented Apropos’ Total Interaction Management programming through Apropos external technical […]

AT&T Strategic Ventures Tuesday invested $10 million in Nuera Communications in order to accelerate its ability to deliver packetized voice services worldwide. Nuera Communications is a leading provider of voice over Internet protocol solutions. The company’s Open, Reliable Communications Architecture enables seamless voice traffic transport between public switched telephone networks and packet or IP-based networks. […]

Bart Simpson is not the only popular FOX.com entertainer to mingle broadcast and Internet content by providing co-branded dial-up services for free. FOX.com parent company News Corp. Ltd., Monday said it signed deal with 1stUp.com Corp. to offer free Internet access branded for the popular sci-fi show “The X-Files.” FOX.com originally signed up with 1stUp.com […]

Broadcom Corp. Monday snatched up optical communications chip maker NewPort Communications Inc. The all-stock transaction is estimated to be worth $1.24 billion and requires that Broadcom issue more than 5.5 million shares of common stock to seal the deal. The acquisition adds OC-48 and OC-192 Synchronous Optical Network transceivers, framers, and serial 10-Gigabit per second […]

Internet infrastructure provider Conxion Corp. and Europe’s Versatel Telecom International N.V. Monday struck a joint long-term data deal. The strategic relationship calls for Conxion to acquire Versatel Internet subsidiary SpeedPort. Conxion also intends to pick-up European network services from the Amsterdam-based telecommunications firm. On the flip side of the deal Versatel plans to contract for […]

Internet access is transforming the way that transport is served from an all-you-can-eat bandwidth binge to a lean, mean price-per-destination machine. In order survive in a brutally competitive market, successful ISPs have expanded service portfolios to offer differentiated products over existing infrastructures, but never tapped into the means to bill for bandwidth consumed by packets […]

Just 10 months after launch, Freeinternet.com managed to glean a gaggle of more than 3.2 million registered users. Freeinternet.com further reported this week that it received more that 98 million-page view in July, according to data published by PC Data Online Reports. The site-tracking firm listed Freeinternet.com as the 10th most popular Web destination among […]

Application utility company FutureLink Corp. Friday forged a long-term deal with hardware specialist Spectrant LLC. FutureLink will be responsible for building, hosting, and maintaining Spectrant’s network servers for the next three years. Spectrant plans to leverage FutureLink’s application delivery expertise to improve internal access to its widely used SalesLogix software. FutureLink will also provide ASP […]

The Gartner Group Inc. believes the worldwide application service provider industry is poised for explosive growth. Gartner’s Dataquest Inc. unit predicts that the ASP market will grow from $1 billion in 1999, to more than $25.3 billion by 2004. The research firm forecasts that the worldwide ASP market is on pace to produce $3.6 billion […]