Essent Kabelcom and its ISP subsidiary @Home will reach 180,000 potential new customers as the company extends its Dutch network over the coming year, further entrenching the country's second-largest cable ...

SAP releases a new version of its Business One solution. This release is consistent with SAP's efforts to deliver a solution that meets the needs of its partners and ...

Actional ports its SOA management products to .Net, allowing a central point of management for .Net and Java Web Services. Most competitors in this emerging space, however, either already have ...

Seeking to extend its presence in existing accounts and hoping to attract new ones, MicroStrategy adds an enterprise reporting component, MicroStrategy Report Services, to the MicroStrategy 7i Platform. ...

AFC has been selected as Verizon's FTTP supplier. A good public endorsement for AFC, but with lab and field trials still ahead before dollars are discussed, and Verizon including a ...

SAVVIS fulfills its new strategic goal, leveraging its recent acquisitions and a partnership with HP to introduce an end-to-end media services platform. While not alone in the market, the ...

Leap looks to make WLNP its elevator out of bankruptcy and into new growth; the carrier has dropped the price of its unlimited local service to just under $30 in ...

Sprint announces its Ready-Link Push-to-Talk service which offers decreased latency times that hurdle Sprint's solution over Verizon Wireless's. The carrier has fallen short of dethroning Nextel, but offers a compelling ...

easynet and nl.tree have successfully (if temporarily) blocked KPN from following through on its offer to supply free broadband Internet to Holland's 10,000 schools, blazing the trail for alternative operators ...

BellSouth, Verizon, and AT&T all made MSPP vendor announcements in 2003, with established vendors declaring victory. Even though it looks like the MSPP is winning the war, battles that ...

Vodafone Spain launches a November university campus road-show offering students discount multimedia handsets plus goodies as incentives for signing up friends. However, bad market timing threatens a great promotion ...

Sourcefire, the company founded by the creators of SNORT, thinks it knows what the future of IDS technology looks like. Surprise, it's not IPS. ...

The JBoss Group moves to indemnify support customers against legal actions related to copyright infringement. The move takes away one objection that has prevented the "approved" use of JBoss in ...

Sun Microsystems and Vignette Corp. announced an agreement to extend the level of integration between the two companies' product lines. This is a good agreement for the companies, although it ...

Cisco's planned acquisition of Latitude Communications, a collaboration software partner, brings some much-needed focus to a heretofore hazy, if not incoherent, communications applications strategy. ...

KPN gives consumers more bang for the broadband buck with a new branded portal offering various types of multimedia content, but it will take time to discern what content consumers ...

Alcatel announced new Smart High-density modules for its OmniSwitch 7000 and 8000 platforms which trade 2:1 or 4:1 oversubscription for a 50-65% savings in price per port, helping Alcatel reach ...

Pironet NDH has launched a standard SAP/VPN service with the ERP application installed, managed and maintained from its data centre. The challenge will continue to be a matter of differentiation ...

Cisco's acquisition of its collaboration software partner will serve as a starting point as it develops apps that can effectively compete with Nortel's MCS 5100 and Siemens's OpenScape. However, Cisco ...

Sprint introduces the next generation of its 1ktv streaming slide-show, MobilTV, offering "real-time" video and audio streaming, yet at $10 per month, in addition to the cost for Vision, the ...