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Sharper Image Chooses Totality for Managed Services - 📅 - Totality Corp. (totality.com), a provider of application and infrastructure management services, announced yesterday The Sharper Image (sharperimage.com) as a new customer. The multi-channel specialty retailer selected Totality's site management and operational services for Sharper Image's fast-growing e-commerce site.



"The Sharper Image e-commerce site was launched in 1995 and has been a huge
success," said Michael Carrier, CTO of Totality. "With Totality's 24x7 ...
Shell Signs $250M Contract with Cable & Wireless - 📅 - Shell Information Technology International B.V. (shell.com)
and Cable & Wireless (ce.com), a global telecommunications group, yesterday announced a strategic relationship, signing a three-year contract worth over USD 250 million.



The strategic relationship enables the Royal Dutch/ Shell Group of Companies
to consolidate a series of telecommunications arrangements under a single
supplier network in order to improve the management of its global
telecommunications, offer a ...
Sun Streamlines Server Appliance Management - 📅 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (sun.com) introduced yesterday the
Sun Cobalt Control Station, a flexible tool that helps maximize resource use
by streamlining the management of hundreds of server appliances while easing
the provisioning of new services.



Coupled with Sun Cobalt RaQ and Qube server appliances, the Control Station
allows service providers to marshal their resources more effectively,
thereby helping to enabling them to expand their service offerings ...
Details for ICANN Meeting in Marina del Rey, 12-15 November 2001 - 📅 - The homepage for the 12-15 November 2001 ICANN meeting in Marina de Rey,
California, USA, has been posted: <https://www.icann.org/mdr2001>.
The meeting homepage includes available information on meeting schedules
and agendas, hotel options, visas, webcasting and remote participation,
press and media contacts, and sponsorship ...
Sun Takes on Microsoft with Aggressive Pricing Move - 📅 - In a fierce move against Microsoft yesterday, Sun Microsystems announced today a migration program to encourage current Microsoft Internet Information Server customers to easily trade-up to iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition 6.0 (iplanet.com/gosecure).



The trade-up includes detailed migration guides that help simplify the
transition to iPlanet Web Server, free Sun Chili!Soft ASP software that
allows customers to run Microsoft Active Server Pages code unchanged ...
Netopia to Participate in Road Shows With France Telecom - 📅 - Netopia, Inc. (netopia.com), a market leader in broadband gateways and Web platform software, has announced that Netopia will be working with France Telecom (francetelecom.com) to host a series of road shows, "Les Rencontres Solutions Partenaires" throughout France to assist resellers in understanding Netopia's an d France Telecom's bundled solutions for secure broadband Internet connectivity. The road shows will take place in fourteen cities throughout France from Oct. 16th through December ...
Packet Losses Reported in Pakistan; U.S. Web Performance Normal - 📅 - Matrix.net has reported that since early morning Oct. 8, Internet transmissions from Pakistan have experienced a great increase in packet loss. Almost simultaneously, there has been a decrease in latency for Internet traffic in Kazakhstan. Moreover, a large number of sites in Saudi Arabia have become unreachable.



These anomalies occurred at the time of the second military strike on
Afghanistan.

In all likelihood, the packet losses are the result of ...
Primus Raises Positive EBITDA Guidance For Q3 - 📅 - Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated (primustel.com), a global facilities-based Total Service Provider, yesterday provided updated financial guidance for the third quarter and full year of 2001.



"We are pleased to announce that the company expects to report positive
EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) for
the third quarter of 2001 approximately 20% to 30% higher than our previous
guidance of $5 million," said K. Paul Singh, ...
Ardent Adds 20,000th Customer - 📅 - Ardent Communications, Inc. (ardentcomm.com), a provider of
broadband access and bundled data services, announced yesterday that it has
signed over 20,000 customers to date. Ardent's customer base includes
businesses from a wide-range of industries that subscribe to a variety of
service offerings.



Ardent's services include dedicated Internet connectivity, Web hosting and
co-location services, satellite back-up connectivity, and virtual private
networking ...
Orangatango Launches Browser Branding Solution for ISPs - 📅 - Orangatango, Inc. (orangatango.com) announces the launch of its new, private labeled VirtualBrowser service aimed at helping Internet Service Providers reduce content costs and improve user recruiting,
retention, and revenues.



VirtualBrowser turns an ISP's Web site into a private labeled, web-based
browser offering the ISP many of the advantages enjoyed by larger ISPs,
like AOL and MSN, who can afford to build and distribute their own ...