NewsHosting news - 05 Jul 2001 - Listing Page: 3536

Colt and Dante Create World's Largest Research Network - 📅 Jul 5, 2001 - As part of a project designed to allow researchers across Europe to work faster and more efficiently, European telecommunications provider Colt Telecom Group (colt-telecom.com) signed a multi-million Euro, multi-year deal with research association Dante, creating one of the world's most powerful research networks.



Dante operates a high-powered research Internet, connecting university research networks in 25 European countries, in an effort to deliver a platform that will allow ...

FutureLink Seeks Buyer For UK Operations - 📅 Jul 5, 2001 - Application service provider FutureLink Corp. (futurelink.net) confirmed this week that it is actively investigating the sale of its U.K. operations.





FutureLink acquired the U.K. operations in November of 1999, when it bought the server-based computing and connectivity solutions distributor KNS Distribution Limited, and launched its ASP business as FutureLink Europe Ltd.



The company said in a statement released earlier this week that it has received ...

Level 3 and BT Deliver Live Wimbledon Broadcast - 📅 Jul 5, 2001 - Level 3 Communications, Inc. (level3.com) announced today that BT Broadcast Services (broadcast.bt.com), a subsidiary of BT, is using transatlantic capacity purchased on Level 3's global fiber-optic network in order to transmit live television signals from The Championships at Wimbledon in London to NBC's broadcast facilities in New York.





``We are pleased to be working with BT Broadcast Services to deliver television signals from Wimbledon to NBC,'' said Bob Yates, ...

Kalan Gold and Siemens Malaysia Announce Partnership - 📅 Jul 5, 2001 - Kalan Gold Corporation (visionnetwork.com), the parent company of Malaysia-based Animated Electronics Industries and its subsidiary Perwimas Telecommunications, and Siemens Malaysia (ic.siemens.com) announced on Wednesday that they have formalized a long term strategic business relationship to tap opportunities in the emerging broadband market in Malaysia and the South East Asian region.




Under the Agreement, Siemens will extend preferred payment terms to Kalan for equipment ...

NTT, Compaq, Microsoft Form E-commerce Alliance - 📅 Jul 5, 2001 - Compaq Computer's Japanese unit is teaming up with Microsoft and telecom giant NTT to form an e-commerce software firm, a Japanese business daily said today.



The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that the three companies will form a company in August which will provide e-commerce software to businesses.

The daily also said NTT Data, a subsidiary of telecom Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT), will take a majority stake in the company. Microsoft and Compaq would ...

WorldCom Adjusts Financial Guidance - 📅 Jul 5, 2001 - Global communications firm WorldCom Inc. reduced its cash-earnings outlook for 2001 today, citing accounting changes related to the restructuring of its ownership interest in Brazilian carrier Embratel.

WorldCom said it would not combine Embratel's financial results with its own as previously planned. The company has a 19 percent stake in Embratel, Brazil's larges long-distance telephone company.

The restructuring of ownership, coupled with WorldCom's May 2001 debt issuance ...

Indotek Announces New Hosting Service - 📅 Jul 4, 2001 - Web hosting provider Indotek LLC (indotek.com) added to its services on Wednesday, announcing new low cost Web hosting solutions designed for entrepreneurs and small to medium sized businesses.





The new service will make use of dedicated Sun Cobalt Raq 4 servers running the Linux operating system, and the Apache Web Server. According to Indotek, although each of the servers can handle loads of up to 250 Web sites, and over 35 million page hits per day, the company plans to ...

Frontera To Power Official NFL Site of Dallas Cowboys - 📅 Jul 4, 2001 - Frontera Corporation (fronteracorp.com), an Application Service Provider (ASP) that hosts, delivers and manages customer-facing platforms and applications, today announced that the Dallas Cowboys have selected the Company to host and manage its suite of e-business software for its Web site (dallascowboys.com).



Frontera will install, host and configure BroadVision's suite of applications, including the One-to-One Enterprise software and Retail Commerce suite, for the ...

Interxion, Cidera Team Up To Provide Satellite Delivery of Broadband Content - 📅 Jul 4, 2001 - UK-based Interxion, (Interxion.com), who operates a network of Internet Exchange Centers across Europe and satellite broadcasting specialist Cidera (cidera.com) announced today they have teamed up to provide services that offer satellite-based delivery of broadband content.



By using satellite delivery, the comapnies say content can bypass the Internet's congested landline infrastructure, making it possible for ISPs to deliver high-quality rich media to millions of end users. ...

Digital Island to Provide Web Hosting for Major League Baseball - 📅 Jul 4, 2001 - Web hosting service provider Digital Island (digitalisland.net) announced this week that Major League Baseball Advanced Media LP (mlb.com), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, has selected the company to provide managed hosting and content delivery services for the official league Web site.





Digital Island says that MLBAM, which manages the MLB.com Web site and each of the 30 individual club sites, chose Digital Island's Internet ...