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Tomb Raider Web Site Handles the Hits - 📅 - In addition to an outstanding showing at the box office, Angelina Jolie's performance as video game heroine Lara Croft in the movie Tomb Raider, which opened this weekend, was a big hit online, and a big success for Microsoft Windows Media, according to Keynote Systems (keynote.com).


The self-proclaimed ?Internet performance authority? announced its findings on Wednesday regarding the performance of the Windows Media streaming services on the movie's official Web site ...
TELUS To Pay $77 Million For PSINET's Canadian Operations - 📅 - Troubled American ISP PSINet announces today that it would sell its Canadian operations to Calgary-based TELUS for $77 million (US).

The Canadian telecom had entered in to an agreement with PSINet to purchase all of the company's Canada-based assets and businesses earlier this month. However, details of the deal, including sale price, were not released at the time.

The agreement is subject to approval by both the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and the Ontario Superior Court Both ...
ManagedOps.com Unveils New Managed Operations Services - 📅 - On Tuesday, application service provider ManagedOps.com introduced three Managed Operations services, Entry-Level, Standard and Select, for the Microsoft Great Plains and Siebel applications that it hosts and delivers over the Internet to customers worldwide.





The three services, which are based on customer preferences, vary by the number of applications supported, range of services, and price. ManagedOps.com says all three provide predictable costs for the benefits of ...
Asia Global Crossing Moving From Nasdaq to NYSE - 📅 - Web hosting company Digital Island, Inc. (digitalisland.com) today announced an outsourcing agreement with Bloomberg L.P. to provide ongoing live streaming services and broadcast Bloomberg Television live on Bloomberg.com.

Bloomberg will use Digital Island's Footprint Live Streaming Media services, which provide an uninterrupted stream of Bloomberg Television to Web audiences. Bloomberg television programming includes real-time breaking news and floor reports from stock exchanges ...
Digital Island To Stream Bloomberg Financial News Site - 📅 - Web hosting company Digital Island, Inc. (digitalisland.com) today announced an outsourcing agreement with Bloomberg L.P. to provide ongoing live streaming services and broadcast Bloomberg Television live on Bloomberg.com.



Bloomberg will use Digital Island's Footprint Live Streaming Media services, which provide an uninterrupted stream of Bloomberg Television to Web audiences. Bloomberg television programming includes real-time breaking news and floor reports from stock ...
C&W Completes Tender Offer for Digital Island Common Stock - 📅 - Cable and Wireless (cwusa.com) and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Cable & Wireless USA, Inc. and Dali Acquisition Corp., announced today the completion of their tender offer for all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Web hosting company Digital Island, Inc. which expired at 12:00 midnight EST on Monday.



The companies are also providing for a subsequent offering period which begins today and ends Tuesday, July 17, 2001. During this offering period, shares ...
Global Crossing Financial Markets and Withit.com to Provide Streaming Services - 📅 - Global Crossing Financial Markets, a division of Global Crossing Ltd (globalcrossing.com) and provider of global network services to the financial services community, announced an agreement on Tuesday to distribute the streaming media broadcast system of Withit.com to Global Crossing Financial Markets' clients globally.





According to the agreement, Global Crossing and IPC Information Systems, a product division of Global Crossing Financial Markets and a leading supplier ...
Google Chooses Metromedia Fiber Network for Internet Infrastructure - 📅 - In an effort to provide faster, more reliable services to millions of users, Google Inc., recognized as the largest search engine on the Web, will co-locate its Internet servers in Metromedia Fiber Network's (mmfn.com) Internet Service Exchanges.



Under the terms of the agreement, Google will lease space from MFN in two of its ISX facilities in San Jose, Calif. and McLean, Va. This deal makes MFN a major provider of co-location space to Google.

MFN's ISX combines the ...
Markets: Oracle Shines, Exodus Flops - 📅 - Shares in computer software giant Oracle were up considerably in early morning trading Tuesday after the company reported fairly positive earnings after the bell yesterday.

Last night, the company posted Q4 earnings of $855 million, or 15 cents per share, which beat analysts' lowered expectations.

Investors have been cheering the news in morning trading today, sending shares in the company up more than two dollars to about $16.80.

"While the economy slowed our sales ...
Ensim and Compaq Extend Hosting Automation Project to Asia-Pacific - 📅 - Ensim Corporation (ensim.com), the dominant hosting automation provider, and Compaq Computer Corporation (compaq.com) announced at the CommunicAsia trade show on Tuesday, that they have worked out an expansion of their agreement that initiates a joint sales program in Asia Pacific to deliver greater Microsoft Windows 2000 and Linux server automation.





The thrust of the new program is the effective regional packaging of Ensim's flagship product, ServerXchange(TM), with ...