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Global Crossing Purchase Talks Ended - 📅 - Hutchinson Whampoa (hutchinson-whampoa.com) and Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte. Ltd. (stt.st.com.sg) announced on Saturday that they have ended discussions to purchase bankrupt telecommunications company Global Crossing (globalcrossing.com) after months of unsuccessful negotiations.





The companies say that ?both ST Telemedia and HWL have invested a significant amount of time, effort and resources in trying to reach an agreement with Global Crossing's creditors and ...
FBI Asks Web Host to Remove Pearl Video: Reports - 📅 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has asked a Virginia-based Web hosting firm to remove video footage of the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, several news outlets reported.



Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan earlier this year. According to Wired.com, Web hosting firm Pro Hosters (Prohosters.com -> hostinger.com) was contacted by agents from the FBI's Newark field office late last week. The agents asked the company to remove the video from Ogrish.com, a Web ...
GlobalSCAPE Partners for Web Content Management - 📅 - Content management solution developer GlobalSCAPE Inc. (globalscape.com) announced on Friday that it has signed a technology license agreement with Hannon Hill Corporation in order to develop a Web content management product.





Under the terms of the agreement, GlobalSCAPE, developer of the popular CuteFTP software, says it will have exclusive worldwide rights to create derivative works for the Microsoft Windows platform based on Hannon Hill's SuperUpdate software. ...
Springboard Provides Hosting for ListStream - 📅 - Data center and Web hosting company Springboard Managed Hosting (springboardhosting.com) announced on Monday that it has signed a hosting agreement with real estate industry Internet solution provider ListStream (liststream.com).





According to the agreement, Springboard will provide fully managed servers, enterprise backup, managed security and comprehensive 24x7 monitoring and management of ListStream's expanding national customer base.



ListStream's suite of ...
Veritas Helps Lead Storage Standards Initiative - 📅 - Storage software firm Veritas (veritas.com) unveiled its leadership role late last week in the development of "Bluefin", the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) newest initiative to create industry-wide standards aimed at simplifying the management and ensuring interoperability of networked storage environments.



Veritas said the technology standard, which was unveiled Wednesday, emerged from APIs and management tools developed by both itself and other SNIA member ...
Lynn to Retire in 2003; McLaughlin to Go Half-Time - 📅 - Marina del Rey, California USA (27 May 2002) ICANN President and CEO
Stuart Lynn has announced his intention to retire from the position with
ICANN effective around March 2003. He informed the Board of his plans
this past weekend to ensure that the Board had ample time to organize
and conclude a search for his successor, and to enable an orderly transition.
Lynn came out of retirement in March 2001 to assume his current ...
Numerous Companies Eyeing KPNQwest: Report - 📅 - Between five and 10 companies are interested in buying parts of KPNQwest's (kpnqwest.com) network, Reuters reported today.



The European communications firm filed for protection from its creditors yesterday.

A source told Reuters that while a story in the Financial Times naming Cable & Wireless, BT and AT&T as potential suitors was "pretty accurate," there were other companies interested.

KPNQwest, a joint venture between Qwest and Dutch telecom KPN, said last ...
L-Soft, F-Secure Team Up to Offer Enhanced LISTSERV - 📅 - E-mail software and outsourcing services firm L-Soft (lsoft.com) said this week it had partnered with antivirus firm F-Secure to offer enhanced security in the newest version of its popular LISTSERV e-mail manager.



Originally launched in 1986, L-Soft said LISTSERV has been equipped with a redesigned Web interface that improves the facilitation list management. The company's partnership with F-Secure makes LISTSERV the first and only e-mail list manager in the industry that ...
divine Approves Reverse Stock Split - 📅 - Enterprise services firm divine Inc. (divine.com) said yesterday its board of directors had authorized a reverse stock split at a ratio of 1:25 in order to maintain the Nasdaq's minimum bid price requirement.




The company said it had set May 29 as the date for the split.


"We continue to believe in the fundamental strength of our business and the extended enterprise market focus," said Andrew "Flip" Filipowski, divine's Chairman and CEO. "In addition, divine meets ...
Thomson Financial, PR Newswire Launch IR Web Hosting - 📅 - Financial industry information and technology solutions provider Thomson Financial (thomson.com) and PR Newswire (prnewswire.com) announced on Thursday the launch of their joint project, Thomson IR Web Hosting, a set of investor relations Web pages customized to support a company's brand.





To facilitate shareholder communication, Thomson IR Web Hosting provides a range of financial data and multimedia content, including Thomson First Call estimates, Custom event ...