Telenor is the first operator to combine a local telecom solution with Microsoft's new Office 2003. Both parties hope that this will trigger a higher uptake of their offerings. ...

VeriSign put out an announcement regarding its partnership with Enterasys and its support for that company's Dragon IDS solutions. However, the necessity for this is puzzling, given its long ...

IONA and the JBoss Group form an alliance that has IONA providing support and products for JBoss users. The deal gives IONA needed service revenue and possible license revenue and ...

Onyx makes an unsolicited bid for Pivotal. This bid would make more sense if Pivotal weren't on the eve of already being acquired by another firm. Instead it might be ...

Vertical Networks targets the retail vertical with an app that monitors calls at distributed stores. While the software meets the needs of specific customers, it does less to respond to ...

Lucent's been demonstrating 3G as Wi-Fi backhaul for a while; its partnership with Top Global gives it a commercial product and sales support. The concept extends the value of 3G ...

The mobile industry is heading for a Christmas handset supply crisis. Operators must come up with both an acceptable spin and strategy to convince subscribers to sign up to waiting ...

Cablevision is boldly moving into the voice market with its Optimum Voice, now available in all its markets. The new voice over cable telephony service is highly price competitive, ...

easynet offers managed firewall services to its SureStream access customers, increasing its potential for recurring revenues on top of access and tapping businesses that previously were not exposed to the ...

Buried deep within HP's recent Adaptive Management offerings announcement was the official release of its access management product. It is very understandable why the company wanted to talk about ...

Allied Telesyn unveils its RG613 product in an effort to further target the growing residential gateway market. Now the company needs to diversify its gateway offerings in order to stand ...

Plumtree Software, Documentum, BEA Systems, and Sun Microsystems, announced POST for sharing portlets developed according to the JSR 168 and WSRP standard. POST goes live with credibility, and it ...

Surebridge looks to step out beyond its mere xSP play with a more comprehensive end-to-end solution that includes delivering Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions, further differentiating its services in the ...

Interactive Intelligence enhanced its Communit?? unified communications solution to support secondary markets in search for wider appeal. However, any would-be competitive edge is minimized, since rivals already occupy the ...

Cisco announced its WebVPN solution for Cisco 3000 series VPN concentrators, marking its late entry into the SSL VPN fray. Cisco's entry may be late, but its strategy is ...

SAVVIS unveiled its strategy to target managed media services, building on its WAM!NET acquisition, a move that could help it gain clients looking for alternatives as C&W looks to exit ...

Mobile video services have captured the imagination of customers, but not much cash from their pockets. With video now adding a new dimension to mobile handsets, operators need to ...

salesforce.com announces the Winter "04 release of its CRM service. Customers will see hundreds of improvements without seeing an increase in their monthly subscription service as salesforce.com strives to continually ...

UK operators are managing MPLS IP VPNs for corporates that are primarily used for data. Running voice over their IP network is next on the agenda but will MPLS ...

Following up on commitments made last May, Trend Micro has released two security appliances for the remote/branch office market that support firewall, VPN, and antivirus. ...