NewsHosting news - 18 May 2001 - Listing Page: 3642

Exodus CEO Ellen Hancock Addresses Massachusetts Software & Internet Council - 📅 May 18, 2001 - At the 2001 Spring Membership Meeting of the Massachusetts Software & Internet Council held today at the Boston Marriott Copley, Ellen M. Hancock, president and CEO of Exodus Communications, detailed "Hosting's Second Act: Adapting to the New New Economy."



In her speech, debunking F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous dictum that "there are no second acts in American lives," Hancock discussed web-hosting in the aftermath of the dot-com euphoria. Hancock described her company's shift ...

Web Conference Sees Europe As Setting Internet Standard - 📅 May 18, 2001 - On Wednesday, the organizer of a canadian conference on Web technology said that North America should be following Europe's example when it comes to considering financial incentives to accelerate the adoption of new standards to upgrade the Internet.





A European task force designed to study the means to a smooth transition to newer high-capacity Internet standards by 2005 will review funding measures including tax breaks and training, as well as test networks and market ...

Vogue Publisher Signs Web Hosting Deal With iXguardian Conde Nast Hosts Ten Online Magazines Through Europe's Largest Web Hosting Centre - 📅 May 17, 2001 - Lifestyle magazine publisher, Conde Nast, has chosen web-hosting specialist, iXguardian, to host the online versions of its ten titles, including Vogue, GQ, Glamour and Conde Nast Traveller. The move is part of Conde Nast's strategy of targeting its content at the growing number of PC and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) users who are looking for
timely and convenient access to news and features on style and fashion.

"PDA and mobile PC users fall within our reader profile and are ...

CSC and Kyberpass Team to Expand Offerings to Scandinavian Marketplace - 📅 May 17, 2001 - Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) (NYSE: CSC) and Kyberpass® Corporation, a leading provider of e-security software for trusted e-business today announced a partnership which strengthens the position of both companies in the growing Scandinavian e-security market. This partnership will add the Kyberpass TrustPlatform(TM) family of products to CSC's existing offerings.

``Through this partnership CSC will be able to support the Nordic banking world with knowledge about and delivery ...

CityNet Enters LayerOne Exchanges - 📅 May 15, 2001 - LayerOne Inc (layerone.com -> equinix.com), a leading provider of optical transport exchanges and connectivity services, announced on Monday that CityNet Telecommunications Inc. (citynettelecom.com), a provider of high-speed metropolitan fiber optic networks, would participate in LayerOne's NEXUS Optical Distribution Exchanges in telecommunications markets throughout North America.


CityNet, a leader in providing last-mile broadband services for telecom carriers and network service provider ...

VeriSign Close to Closing Domains Deal - 📅 May 15, 2001 - The Department of Commerce expressed on Monday that it was confident it would grant VeriSign Inc. (verisign.com), the Internet's leading source of domain names, extended rights to manage the most popular domain names, including those with the .net and .com extensions.



On Monday, officials from the Department of Commerce, VeriSign and the oversight board for Internet names met for several hours to discuss the deal, which could mean millions of dollars in revenue for VeriSign, ...

Worldcom Expands Suite of IP-based VPN Services - 📅 May 15, 2001 - Internet communications company WorldCom today unveiled IP VPN Select Access Edition, the company's first customer-managed IP VPN offering.

WorldCom IP VPN Select Access Edition, which uses Cisco Systems technology, allows companies to design, administer and upgrade their dedicated, IP-based VPN (Virtual Private Network) solution as required. VPNs, which allow companies to build Internet-based private networks (or "extranets"), are becoming serious business. According to industry ...

ICANN Accredits New Top-Level Domains— .biz and .info Registration Process To Begin This Summer - 📅 May 15, 2001 - (15 May 2001) Marina del Rey, California, USA.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced
today that it has finalized accreditation agreements with the new .biz and
.info top-level domain (TLD) registries. This will mark the first
introduction of new global top-level domains since the mid 1980s when the
current domain name system became operational. These new registries will
add to the already ...

Internap Launches Channel Partner Program - 📅 May 14, 2001 - Internet connectivity and routing company Internap Network Services unveiled a new partner program today in order to expand its services into strategically important businesses.

The new program is aimed at Internap partners who provide various Internet-based services, including system integrators, technology developers, Application Service Providers (ASPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs).

The Channel Partner Program will feature four distinct components: training, ...

Exodus to Host Covisint Internet Operations - 📅 May 14, 2001 - Exodus Communications Inc. (exodus.net), a leader in providing complex Internet hosting and managed services, announced on Monday that it had landed what may prove to be one of the largest hosting deals in the business-to-business sector. The company has been chosen to provide infrastructure to support the worldwide Internet operations for Covisint (covisint.com), the global automotive e-business exchange.



Officially launched in February of 1999, Covisint is a joint ...