Sprint and Nextel have merged in order to benefit from their respective consumer and business focuses. Although the new carrier will be stronger in the long run, technology differences ...

In a bold and sweeping move, Symantec has acquired storage management leader VERITAS. Symantec has made it clear that the security market wasn't big enough for its designs, and ...

Telenor has acquired Spray's 200 SME accounts and the network assets that Spray acquired from Tiscali earlier this year. This move increases Telenor's position in the Swedish business market and ...

Interface Software, a CRM provider focused on relationship intelligence for the legal market, found an unusual white knight in LexisNexis. Such oddball deals could be the lifeline for the ...

Siemens decides to sell off its partial equity holdings in Juniper via the sale of 13 million shares of Juniper stock. The sell-off makes Siemens a handsome sum and will ...

Symantec continues to squeeze out services and revenue opportunities from its Brightmail acquisition, introducing a new subscription service, Symantec Premium AntiSpam. With the proliferation of spam, this will undoubtedly ...

AT&T is playing the family friendly card with new CallVantage features, from distinctive phone numbers for family members for a monthly fee to a "soccer mom" broadcast message feature. ...

Cisco continues its investment in the Japanese market with the establishment of a Japan-based research and development center in Tokyo - positioning Cisco to leverage unique Japanese market conditions to ...

Nortel has a new PDSN "unveiled" in Sprint's EV-DO vendor announcement, but details have been scant. A new OEM partnership might explain this announcement strategy, while providing details to ...

The Treo 600 was the first converged device with a phone form factor that crossed the "good enough" threshold for use as a phone, PDA, and messaging device (a VGA ...

The original Sidekick was extremely bulky to carry around. The current unit's form factor has been improved and it is now slim enough to hold up to your head, ...

Qwest has reached the million DSL subscriber mark, aided by the deployment of 4,000 remote terminals that bring broadband to outlying neighborhoods. Still, with only 65% of subscribers within ...

Even as it concedes in the Oracle fight, PeopleSoft announces a routine partnership agreement to resell contact center applications from, and to jointly develop application to contact center systems adapters ...

Cogent debuts two new levels of managed security to protect clients against service disruption, though with its hands-off third-party approach, it may do little to differentiate itself in this field ...

BigBand joins the DSG crescendo by securing DSG qualification for its Cuda CMTS during CableLabs first DSG certification wave. BigBand can now wield the DSG qualification to further fuel its ...

PWE3 was developed by router vendors, but could also be used to try and evolve SONET into a new data aware role suitable for migration to (and participation in) the ...

Siemens Communications announced its intention to acquire Chantry Networks. Siemens sees WLAN as an integral part of VoIP. It is an odd move for the company, which is ...

Strategies to lure the youth market to 3G are increasingly important to mobile operators as they plan their prepaid 3G launches. However, the youth market is fickle and harder ...

Terayon, looking to maintain its strong position in the digital video infrastructure market, has unveiled the CherryPicker software release 4.0, which enables distributed video processing/redundancy and expanded IP video networking ...

Oracle is finally going to acquire PeopleSoft. The acquisition will certainly have a profound impact on the middleware, data warehousing, and portal markets; vendors and users should be prepared. ...