Innovative Systems announced Synchronos, its CDI solution. Synchronos expands the company's overall capabilities and should open up a number of new opportunities. However, the market is competitive, and Innovative needs ...

The trends established in 2003, namely market consolidation, will continue in 2004. This gives CRM vendors two things to think about - how to bulk up on resources and ...

Albacom and Cisco agree to collaborate to deliver pure packet-based business communications. The positive initiative should bolster Albacom's position and contribute to greater momentum for business-class IP services in ...

The metro edge market has been, and will remain, very competitive. New entrants are showing up, GFP, VCAT, and LCAS become mainstream and enable MSPPs to compete with metro ...

Rupert Murdoch has followed through and acquired GM's ownership of Hughes Electronics, placing it under News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment Group. It's great news for DIRECTV, but bad news for ...

The Sage Group will acquire ACCPAC in a deal that is a win for everyone involved. Best Software can use this acquisition to further fuel its SME dominance, while ...

Allegiance Telecom has been on the block since it declared bankruptcy in May, and now that Qwest has made a $300 million play for the CLEC, other suitors may follow. ...

T-Mobile Deutschland is first-to-market with a live TV streaming service over its GPRS network. The timing here is irrelevant - the important point is T-Mobile Deutschland beat Vodafone D2 ...

Check Point announced it is acquiring Zone Labs. While parts of the acquisition are complementary, Zone's core expertise overlaps significantly with Check Point's existing portfolio, raising concerns over how ...

Ireland's broadband market failure is hurting its competitive edge, and the government is reacting with a flurry of infrastructure plans and promises of tougher regulation of eircom. We've heard ...

ComCom awarded GSM1800 licenses to In&Phone and Tele2 for innovative projects. With Tele2 well known for a cost- conscious strategy and wide consumer appeal and In&Phone attacking the in-building market, ...

Oracle has been gaining attention in the identity management market over the last several months and this latest partnership announcement will only add to that buzz. ...

Vodafone D2 slaps down its ace and launches the most disruptive international roaming service the market has ever seen. Vodafone World offers unbeatable international tariffs, and competitors can't hold a ...

IDT is launching its local/long-distance IDT America bundles in six new states. While IDT's brand isn't immediately recognizable, the company may see success in parts of New England where Verizon ...

Trillium Software announced Delivery Point Validation and certification for Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g. Good announcements, although some competitors have DPV and the Oracle relationship is not exclusive. ...

With EDGE's faster speeds as a leverage point, AT&T Wireless is looking to win back customers (or potential customers) it ceded to Verizon and Sprint PCS when it could only ...

It isn't bad enough for competitors in Qwest's territory that the RBOC is rolling out a redesigned bundled service emphasizing flexibility and ease of use, but the company is also ...

Telecom Italia will deploy a 640 Kbps entry-level DSL product in the New Year for the same price as its current 256 Kbps entry-level offering. The offensive move will drive ...

IBM announced the acquisition of Green Pasture Software. The acquisition helps strengthen IBM's overall content management capabilities, although market reaction could be limited because IBM already offers some of ...

Who would've thought that discount ISP United Online would hit the technology cutting edge? Yet the ISP has launched improvements to its dial-up Web acceleration services, plus bigger mailbox ...