Interland follows its recent acquisition of Web.com with news of a name change to better reflect the company's primary line of business; however, its marketing message is more of one ...

Level 3 has completed its acquisition of WilTel less than two months after the deal was announced. This merger will form a larger carrier, but will not solve Level 3's ...

Business Objects and MySQL expand their relationship and introduce three product bundles. Business Objects deepens its penetration of the open source market, while MySQL adds more credibility through its ...

Tatara's got a solution to deliver laptop-based, Vonage-like, one-number VoIP. In a sea of FMC specialists, it's unclear how this sets it apart and whether Tatara is up to the ...

Perimeter Internetworking picks up a strategic alliance with Synergent, gaining another vector into the credit union sector, though this deal is a blip compared to Perimeter Internetworking's past partnerships with ...

Interland reverses its recent slide of downsizing with the acquisition of Web.com assets, bringing needed new revenue streams to its leaner operations; however, the company will need future enhancements to ...

DataMirror announces the latest version of Transformation Server (5.3). While the company is offering a number of new and/or enhanced features that strengthen the offering, few of these features are ...

LAS announced LAS NameInspector, a new tool designed to assess the quality and characteristics of the names in customer databases. The software complements LAS' other offerings, and it should ...

Firefly is lighting up Cingular's shelves, bringing the kiddie phone out of Target and into the place where grownups shop for phones... and family plans. Despite some UI design ...

MCI is extending its VoIP relationship with Cisco to Linksys, to offer a versatile, automated combination of VoIP gear and service for smaller businesses. But the carrier doesn't expect to ...

SkyTerra purchased a 50% stake in Hughes Network Systems in April 2005 in a joint ownership arrangement with DIRECTV. Now, it's gone back to DIRECTV to buy out the ...

Motorola dips into its RAZR bag and pulls out a version with a megapixel camera, iTunes, and expandable memory, a RAZR for CDMA - finally! - and a pair of ...

Motorola is pointing out potential pitfalls with HSDPA, and hinting that its solution solves these problems. But, with competing solutions finding more initial commercial success, is Motorola's kit doing anything ...

Lucent puts another feather in its cap with a fresh deployment of portions of its IMS portfolio at BellSouth. The deployment is considerably less substantive than previous IMS deployments ...

With just $27 million left in the cash drawer, McLeodUSA has filed for bankruptcy for the second time since 2002, seeking to reduce its $677 million in debt and to ...

SBC ends its $14.95 a month DSL offer, but also restructures all of its DSL services that makes them more affordable with a reduction in regular prices by $20 to ...

AT&T's brand in Asia is strong and resonates well with the target customer audience. SBC has been pragmatic in retaining the AT&T brand. However, far more fundamental issues around products, ...

Firstlogic announces an agreement with SQLiaison. The agreement will help Firstlogic expand its presence in Canada, although it does nothing to help the company in other markets and it may ...

From a next-generation telephony standpoint, Ericsson's acquisition of Marconi's assets will neither hinder nor significantly help the Swedish telecommunications equipment maker's pursuit of leadership in the burgeoning IMS space. ...

Ericsson is picking up Marconi's product lines. Outside microwave overlap, optical products will improve the vendor's mobile transport offer. However, the real value could come from routing and ...