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C&W Global Cuts Margin Forecasts - 📅 - Telecom giant Cable & Wireless
has cut its full-year sales and margin forecasts for its Global networking business,
dropping its shares towards their lowest point in over a decade.



C&W lowered its forecast for Global's second half earnings margin by two
percentage points, blaming "continuing difficult market conditions" for the
drop in Global sales.

C&W today issued its pre-close group trading update ahead of its financial
year-end at the end of March and the ...
Broadwing Introduces Third-Party SLAs - 📅 - Integrated communications provider Broadwing Inc. (broadwing.com -> lumen.com), announced yesterday a Service Level Agreement suite that guarantees latency, packet loss and availability both on and off the
Broadwing network for all of its IP products.



"Broadwing has stepped up to the plate and taken responsibility for its
customers' traffic regardless of where it travels," said Jason Knowles,
research analyst for Current Analysis. "Other providers guarantee their top
few traffic ...
NTT Communications Corp cuts operations back at Verio Inc. - 📅 - Reuters reported today that NTT Communications Corp., Japan's top Internet services firm will slash more jobs at its US subsidiary, Verio Inc., and will consolidate its data centers to restructure operations. The company plans to lay off a quarter of its workforce, totaling 2,600 by the end of the year, and close approximately 10 of its 22 data centers.



This is the second round of layoffs for NTT Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ...
Verio Tackles SME Market With New Hosting Solutions - 📅 - Verio Inc., a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced the availability of its Managed Private Server (MPS), a dedicated server aimed at small businesses that outsource their hosting infrastructure.



Taking on the complexity of managed hosting, Verio (verio.com 👉 Total Reviews: 28
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) will provide the benefits of outsourced hosting, including administration, security, equipment, bandwidth, and data backups, at an affordable cost. With the addition of a suite of managed services, the ...
Symantec Announces First Complete Line of Mac OS X Security Products - 📅 - Symantec Corp. (symatec.com), an Internet security provider, today
announced the industry's first complete line of Internet security and
problem solving products designed specifically for Mac users. The Norton
Internet Security for Macintosh 2.0 provides user-friendly security features
and complete problem solving capabilities, improving online productivity,
safety and privacy with the addition of a stealth protection mode,
confidential information controls and Internet ad blocking ...
Sun Launches Aggressive Marketing Tactic to Win Over NT Users - 📅 - Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware and software, today
announced an hard-hitting upgrade program to enable current Microsoft
Windows NT Server 4.0 customers to easily trade up to Sun Cobalt RaQ(tm)
server appliances or Sun Cobalt Qube(tm) appliances.



Following Microsoft's recently announced end-of-life plans for Windows NT
Server 4.0, Sun Microsystems's (sun.com)
new marketing strategy enables
users of the Microsoft operating ...
Yipes Extends Services to Europe via Partnerships - 📅 - Yipes Communications, Inc. (yipes.com), a provider of scalable Ethernet
services, announced yesterday that it is extending its
services across Europe and the United Kingdom in partnership with Storm
Telecommunications (stormtel.com), a
European provider of international network services, and Neos
(neosnetworks.net), a national provider
of gigabit Ethernet services in the United Kingdom.



By combining network access, the partnership between Storm, Yipes and ...
XS Data Solutions Launches Virtual Drive - 📅 - XS Data Solutions (xsdatasolutions.com) announced yesterday
the launch of XS Drive, a way to increase data storage space for home users
and businesses. XS Drive is a virtual drive designed to allow multiple users
to store, access, manage and back up data from any Web-enabled computer.



XS Data Solution's new SAN, which houses over 700 terabytes of storage
space, provides a complete line of secure storage services.

"XS Drive was designed to be user-friendly while ...
RoundHeaven to Manage Fincentric's Corporate Site - 📅 - RoundHeaven Communications Canada Inc. (roundheaven.com), a provider of enterprise managed hosting solutions, has been contracted by Fincentric Corporation (fincentric.com) to host the company's corporate Web
site.



"In choosing a provider, we were looking for a secure environment that
offered high reliability and significant bandwidth availability for
streaming video, full-motion graphics and user downloads," said Bruce Nunn,
Fincentric's marketing director. "RoundHeaven ...
Digital River and SPS Announce E-Commerce Alliance - 📅 - Digital River, Inc. (digitalriver.com), an e-commerce outsource
provider, and SPS Commerce Inc. (spscommerce.com),
a supply chain integration service provider, today announced an alliance. By leveraging
Digital River's outsourced e-commerce system, the companies are offering an
expanded suite of e-commerce products and services to the thousands of small
to mid-sized enterprises that SPS serves.



The integrated service offering will meet the quick time-to-market and ...