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CSC and Kyberpass Team to Expand Offerings to Scandinavian Marketplace - 📅 - 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 - 📅 - 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 - 📅 - 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 - 📅 - 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 - 📅 - (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 - 📅 - 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 - 📅 - 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 ...
Hewlett-Packard Hesitant to Adopt Linux - 📅 - While the ongoing development of the free and collaborative operating system Linux continues to create a real Opponent for Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system, dividing the tech world, computer-making heavyweight Hewlett-Packard (hp.com) is staying adamant that it will remain in the middle ground.



In the past few weeks, the company has worked to assert that while continues to become a bigger factor in Internet and network computing, the operating system is not likely ...
Data Return Releases Earnings, Cuts Jobs - 📅 - Web hosting company Data Return (Nasdaq: DRTN) announced late Friday that it would be cutting 18 percent, or approximately 100 employees, in order to save the company at least $2.4 million per quarter.

The company, which specializes in providing managed Web hosting solutions specific to the Microsoft platform, anticipates a one-time charge of $1.0 million to $1.5 million in the first fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2001 because of the restructuring. Data Return said it anticipates that ...
Cable & Wireless Buys Digital Island - 📅 - Cable & Wireless (cw.com), one of the largest providers of global IP infrastructure, and Digital Island Inc. (digitalisland.com), the struggling US-based Web hosting firm, announced on Monday that they have entered into a merger agreement that will see Cable & Wireless buy all of the outstanding shares of Digital Island.



The all cash transaction will take place at a price of $3.40 per share of Digital Island common stock, a premium of 8.7 percent to Friday's closing price of ...