VeriSign makes its presence felt in the managed security space with the acquisition of Guardent, a solid contender in the market, which will likely have competitors dreaming of counter strategies ...

Siemens announces an end-to-end PoC product offer that highlights standards compliance, following similar moves by Nokia and Motorola. Success will depend on a differentiated product offering, but what that ...

Equant has added five countries to its DSL coverage footprint in Europe. This goes some way to redress a weakness in its coverage area, yet the lack of SLAs ...

Qwest has unveiled its disaster recovery services, including a new mobile option and remote recovery from its CyberCenters or customer premise. This, along with its depth of consulting options, ...

The VoIP cable telephone deluge started with Cablevision and Time Warner Cable. Now Cox is stepping up to the plate. Already well-versed in lifeline cable telephone service, Cox ...

We have been skeptical of HP's true commitment to the identity management market since its acquisition of Baltimore Technologies's access management technology earlier this year but this announcement eases those ...

TIM's new enterprise-targeted WLAN trial poses more questions than it answers. TIM doesn't have a hotspot network - but Telecom Italia does. ...

T-Mobile's HotSpot offer has proven most successful in the enterprise space and the carrier's partnership with iPass aims to build on that momentum as T-Mobile signs its first inbound roaming ...

ATG takes a step further than many competitors and provides actual Web Services into its application, to be used for B2B or internal operations. This could shake up the B2B ...

The new Ofcom regulator in the UK is promising a far-reaching review of the telecoms sector. With mobile phones reaching most of the population, then greater scrutiny is inevitable ...

Network Associates has released new versions of its GroupShield and SpamKiller products for use in Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino environments. These releases deliver more integrated solutions for anti-virus, anti-spam, ...

SBC has delivered a dizzying flurry of rabbit punches to would-be metro optical services competitors by launching two new optical Ethernet services, upgrading its flagship GigaMAN Ethernet service, and debuting ...

BackWeb Technologies and Plumtree Software announced that Plumtree will resell BackWeb's Offline Access Server. The agreement is also a major plus for BackWeb, although it is not clear that ...

T-Mobile Deutschland strikes an agreement with sister fixed-line division T-Com to roll out a joint German network of 5,200 hotspots by the end of 2004. Who'll be first to blow ...

Responding to Oracle's APB-1 OLAP benchmark results that favorably compared Oracle9i to an outdated version of Essbase, Hyperion's demonstration of high performance positions it once again as the vendor to ...

In adding session control functionality to its softswitch and media gateway, Sonus is looking to wring out additional incremental revenue by taking on the tasks of standalone session controllers, a ...

KPN will increase its national ADSL coverage in the Netherlands from 87% to 97% of the country, granting the incumbent even greater access to both direct and indirect broadband customers, ...

Wanadoo France lowers ADSL prices in reaction to regulator-driven reductions to France Telecom's connection fees and amidst a flurry of activity among local ISPs to lower prices. Wanadoo's action ...

Kingston gives go ahead to Marconi SoftSwitch deployment across its national network. While the operator is keeping up, 2004 is shaping up to be an eventful year for the ...

Bluewin has launched a Web-based managed firewall service for its Internet Highway, Broadway and Gateway customers. While the offer is one of the most competitively priced, alternative operators are not ...