NewsHosting news - 21 Dec 2001 - Listing Page: 3555

Here you find whtop.com daily webhosting news & hosting industry announcements.

Submit web hosting news

Verso Releases Multi-Customer Reporting for Shared VoIP - 📅 - Verso Technologies, Inc. (verso.com), an integrated
switching solutions company, yesterday that its Telemate.Net Software
Division has released Telemate 5.0, which the company is calling the
industry's first converged reporting solution to support multi-customer
reporting for shared VoIP infrastructures.



Telemate's 5.0 reporting solution enables Cisco's CiscoWorks Voice Manager
to provide carriers and large enterprises with individual call accounting
reports, by network ...
Towers Perrin To Use IBM Online Procurement Utility Robert B. Marks - 📅 - IBM (ibm.com) announced today that Towers Perrin (towersperrin.com), a major management and human resource consulting firm with offices in 23 countries, would be using their Quick Start e-procurement service to automate corporate purchasing operations over the Internet. The new agreement between Towers Perrin and IBM will securely connect the HR giant to an online global network of over 30,000 suppliers.

Quick Start is a procurement system designed to help companies conduct ...
The The webhost industry: week review - 📅 - Political turmoil in Argentina and a flurry of warnings Wednesday and Thursday erased some promising gains made earlier in the week.

After flirting with and finally passing the 2,000 mark Tuesday, the Nasdaq was dragged considerably lower afterward on warnings from such heavyweights as Juniper Networks and the collapse of Argentina's government leadership.

There was a fair bit of good news out of the Web hosting sector this week, including a surprising comeback story. Shares ...
Williams Communications Finalizes Purchase of CoreExpress - 📅 - Broadband provider Williams Communications
(williamscommunications.com) announced yesterday that it has closed on its asset purchase agreement to obtain the fiber-optic network, intellectual property, and Internet protocol capabilities of CoreExpress (coreexpress.com). Financial terms were not disclosed.



With the acquisition, Williams Communications says it will increase the
breadth of its virtual private network offering, launching in first quarter
2002, which will give ...
Wireless Leaders Commit to New Trade Organization - 📅 - Major wireless operators and equipment manufacturers have announced commitments to establish a new global wireless trade organization focused on the Americas that embraces popular wireless technologies. The new association will represent five principle technologies deployed in the Americas: GSM, TDMA, GPRS, EDGE, and WCDMA (UMTS). The group says this commitment marks a significant milestone, providing representation and cooperation for a smooth transition to 3G services in the Americas, ...
Integral Systems to Acquire Newpoint - 📅 - Integral Systems, Inc. (integ.com) today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Newpoint Technologies, Inc.
(newpointtech.com) of Salem, New Hampshire in an all-cash deal, subject to the approval of Newpoint's shareholders.



Newpoint is an provider of satellite and terrestrial network management
systems for control of data, Internet, broadcast, telecom, and hybrid
networks. Newpoint is a major supplier of software and systems for equipment
monitoring and ...
JDS Uniphase to Acquire IBM Optical Transceiver Business - 📅 - JDS Uniphase Corporation (jdsuniphase.com) announced that it
has agreed to purchase the optical transceiver business of IBM Corporation
(ibm.com) for $340 million, including $100 million cash. The pending acquisition will extend JDS Uniphase's product breadth to provide optical solutions beyond its existing telecommunications markets to growing data communications markets. IBM's optical data communications products include small form factor transceivers and Gigabit Interface Converters for ...
HP, IBM and SAP Promote UDDI for Java - 📅 - Hewlett-Packard Company and SAP AG announced yesterday that they have committed to support UDDI4J, an
open-source Java class library that supplies an application-programming
interface for interacting with Universal Description Discovery and
Integration registries.



UDDI4J benefits Java developers by providing them a common API for
programmatically registering services as well as for querying and accessing
information in UDDI-based registries. Agreement on UDDI4J can also ...
EuroTrust Merges Digiweb With DHT Hosting - 📅 - EuroTrust A/S (eurotrust.dk) today announced it has merged its Web hosting company, Digiweb (digiweb.dk), with DHT Hosting ApS, a
Denmark-based automated hosting company.



The combined entities will be known as EuroTrust Secure Hosting A/S and will
be based in EuroTrust's secure facility in Soeborg, Denmark. Under terms of
the transaction, EuroTrust owns 75 percent of EuroTrust Secure Hosting and
the founders of DHT Hosting, Jakob Albers and Lars Graae, own the ...
EarthLink Founder Launches New Wireless Networking Provider Robert B. Marks - 📅 - Boingo Wireless, Inc. (boingo.com), a new company spearheaded by EarthLink founder Sky Dayton, launched yesterday with an announcement that it would provide ultra-high-speed wireless Internet service in major public venues across the United States using a "Personal VPN" to ensure security over the connection.

The Boingo Wireless service is designed for business travelers who need high-speed access to deal with their offices. Using Wi-Fi, the pre-eminent standard for wireless ...