NewsHosting news - 26 Jul 2001 - Listing Page: 3525

BellSouth and Dell Announce Broadband-Enabled Computers - 📅 Jul 26, 2001 - BellSouth (bellsouth.com) and Dell (dell.com) yesterday announced the availability of broadband enabled computer systems for new BellSouth FastAccess DSL customers.



The companies say this exclusive offer will provide consumers with a simple
broadband experience backed by the reliability and know-how of two market
leaders.

The broadband enabled PCs are pre-configured to support BellSouth FastAccess
service. Dell pre-installs each FastAccess DSL modem before ...

Bell Intrigna Completes First Phase of Alberta's SuperNet - 📅 Jul 26, 2001 - Yesterday,the Bell Intrigna- (bellintrigna.com) led consortium, including Bell Nexxia (bellnexxia.com) and Axia IP Services Ltd. (axia.com), together with the Government of Alberta signed contractual agreements to complete the province's SuperNet initiative. Alberta's SuperNet project is a three-year, $295 million undertaking to expand high-speed Internet and broadband capabilities to 90% of Albertans.



On November 2, 2000, the Government of Alberta selected Bell Intrigna, ...

Easynet France Improves Response Time With Network Attached Storage - 📅 Jul 25, 2001 - French ISP Easynet France (easynet.fr), announced an improvement in service
today after switching from server-attached storage to network attached
storage. The company said it has experienced rapid growth in its Internet
service provider and web hosting businesses, forcing improvements in every
area but particularly in data storage. The local storage used in the past
made it impossible to meet the company's performance targets, especially
when it was necessary to access data across the ...

Corning and Furukawa Acquire Lucent's Fiber-Optic Interests - 📅 Jul 25, 2001 - Corning Incorporated (corning.com), and Furukawa Electric Co. (furukawa.co.jp) announced yesterday that they have reached an agreement with Lucent Technologies (lucent.com) to purchase the struggling telecom equipment maker's fiber-optic cable division for $2.75 billion.



Furukawa will pay $2.525 billion, and Corning will pay $225 million in cash,
and receive interests in two Chinese joint ventures. Corning's purchase of
these interests is subject to the approvals of the ...

Commerce One and Intel Team to Deploy e-Marketplaces - 📅 Jul 25, 2001 - Commerce One, Inc. (commerceone.com), a global e-marketplace company, has selected Intel Online Services, Inc. (intelonlineservices.com) as a provider of global managed hosting services for its new Managed Application Services.



Commerce One Managed Application Services combines Commerce One
e-marketplace solutions, which enable online business-to-business commerce,
with Intel Online Services networking, hardware and operating system
support. Commerce One plans to ...

Birch Announces Addition of E-commerce Services - 📅 Jul 25, 2001 - Birch Telecom (birch.com) yesterday announced the addition of e-commerce to its Web hosting options and the expansion of its Unix and NT solutions for small to mid-size businesses. These new products are meant to complement the company's popular Sp@ce Genie package, which provides customers point and click capability to build their own Web site without investing money in development.



"Businesses can now choose from a vast array of Web hosting options packaged
to meet even ...

Innerhost Offers Content Delivery Service - 📅 Jul 25, 2001 - Clearway Technologies (clearway.com), a subsidiary of Mirror Image Internet (mirror-image.com) and Xcelera Inc. (xcelera.com), today announced a partnership with Innerhost (innerhost.com), a global provider of complex managed hosting and application services. Under the terms of the agreement, Innerhost will offer the company's FireSite Service as part of its suite of Microsoft-based solutions for building, deploying and managing scalable and integrated Web-based applications. ...

Interliant Offers Real-Time Performance Monitoring - 📅 Jul 25, 2001 - Interliant, Inc. (interliant.com), a leading global
application service provider (ASP), announced today the launch of its INIT
Report service, a Web-based reporting tool that allows customers to access
performance measures for their hosted information technology
infrastructure.



Available for Interliant's INIT managed hosting Solution, INIT Report
ensures optimal performance and enables customers to track uptime against
Service Level Agreements. Based upon network and ...

Telus Speeds up ADSL Roll-out in Alberta and B.C. - 📅 Jul 25, 2001 - Telus (telus.com), one of Canada's leading telecommunications companies, yesterday announced that its original target completion date of 2005 for expansion of high-speed ADSL service will be reached two years ahead of schedule.



Due to higher than expected customer demand and the company's ability to
meet this demand, Telus Velocity ADSL high-speed Internet service will be
available to over 95% of homes and workplaces in 38 specific communities by
the end of 2003. More than ...

Univision Selects Loudcloud to Outsource Web Operations - 📅 Jul 25, 2001 - Loudcloud Inc. (loudcloud.com), a leading managed services provider, today announced that Univision (univision.com), the largest Internet destination for the Spanish speaking community in the United States, has outsourced its Internet operations to Loudcloud.



Univision.com will now be deployed, scaled, managed and monitored using the
Loudcloud service, and its Opsware automation technology.

Univision.com provides the Spanish speaking community with the ...