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Micromuse Ranked 15th Fastest Growing S.F. Bay Area Company - 📅 - Micromuse Inc. (micromuse.com), a leading provider of fault management and service assurance software, said on Thursday that it had been ranked number 15 on an annual list of the 150 fastest growing public companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, published by the San Francisco Business Times.



The company said its ranking was based on revenue growth of 320 percent, measured over a three year period ending in fiscal year 2000. Micromuse moved up 22 places from its number 37 ranking ...
Microsoft Security Breach Open Door for Some Hackers - 📅 - According to security experts, systems administrators should not hesitate in applying the patch to the latest security hole in Microsoft's Web server software.





On Monday, Microsoft announced that there was a flaw in the indexing element of its Web server software, the Internet Information Service. The breach could compromise the security of up to 6 million Internet sites, said the company. But at the same time, Microsoft released a patch for the flaw, advising strongly ...
Global Crossing Completes Core Worldwide Network - 📅 - Global Crossing Ltd. (globalcrossing.com), the operator of the world's most extensive global IP-based fiber optic network, announced on Thursday that it had completed its core network, linking 27 countries and over 200 major cities in Europe, North America, South America and Asia.



The final connection made was between Lima, Peru and South American Crossing, which was already operational in major Latin American markets including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela and ...
Group Seeks Injunction To Block Racist Hosting Company From Reaching France - 📅 - A French anti-racism group is asking for an injunction to block users based in France from accessing a "white power" Web site offering hosting-related services.



The site, titled Front 14, "offers free Web hosting and email exclusively to Racialists," according to the site.

The company lists hundreds of Web sites using the services of Front 14, including "White Racialist Women of Illinois", "Heil Hitler", and also provide mirroring services for a site titled "Jew ...
iAsiaWorks Cuts 127 Jobs - 📅 - iAsiaWorks (iasiaworks.com), a provider of hosting services in the Asia-Pacific region, announced today that the company has "significantly reduced staff in its U.S. and Hong Kong operations."



The company says the cost-cutting measures are being taken in order to preserve funds while the company looks for other ways to secure funding and "explore alternative to fully fund its business plan."

iAsiaWorks reduced its staff numbers from 288 to 161, including 50 ...
AT&T Expands Internet Portfolio With Purchase Of Bird On A Wire Networks - 📅 - AT&T Canada announced the extension of its services portfolio today after purchasing Bird On A Wire Networks (boaw.com) last week.

Terms of the deal, which was announced last Wednesday, were not disclosed.

Bird On A Wire, one of Canada's first managed hosting companies, specializes in high-end hosting services like dedicated, co-located and managed hosting. With the purchase, AT&T inherits a client base that includes a number of notable companies, including Famous Players ...
Asia Global Crossing to Provide Yahoo! Broadband With Backbone Service - 📅 - Telecommunications provider Asia Global Crossing (asiaglobalcrossing.com) announced on Wednesday that Yahoo! BB, a broadband service provided by Softbank Group and Yahoo! Japan, will be powered by Asia Global Crossing.





Yahoo! BB has selected Asia Global Crossing's high-speed IP Transit service as its main international backbone. With multiple Gigabit Ether connections, Yahoo! BB will use IP Transit to better meet anticipated demand created by its recently announced ADSL ...
Exodus Cuts Sales, Earnings Outlook - 📅 - Troubled Web hosting firm Exodus Communications dealt investors another blow last night when the company said it would miss estimates for the second quarter and the rest of 2001.

After the close Wednesday, the company said its second-quarter net loss would be $140 million, as compared to their first-quarter loss of $118.3 million. The company said the loss comes on revenue of $315 million, which was below the $355.3 million analysts were expecting.

Exodus also said revenue ...
Micron Posts Q3 Loss, Drops Dial-Up Business - 📅 - Micron Electronics said today it would post a third-quarter loss and shed its dial-up access unit in an effort to achieve profitability.

The company posted a loss of $9.1 million, or 9 cents per share. Revenues, however, were up significantly - the company generated revenues of $15.4 million for the quarter, compared with $10.2 million in the year-ago quarter.

With the sale of its dial-up unit and the recent completed sale of their PC manufacturing unit, Micron now becomes a ...
NaviSite Partners With Servecast Content Delivery Network - 📅 - Streaming media services provider NaviSite, Inc. (Navisite.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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) announced on Thursday that it has formed a relationship with leading European content distribution network Servecast, expanding the number of CDNs supporting NaviSite's leading streaming media management and content distribution platform, streamOS.





NaviSite says its customers will now have access to an expanded global network that will enable even more rapid delivery of high bit-rate streaming content with ...