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Plesk Announces New Spanish Language Support and Partnership - 📅 - Plesk Inc., (plesk.com) which provides hosting automation solutions for Web hosts, today announced the availability of Spanish language and customer support for its popular Plesk Server Administrator.



The company said that hosting firms currently using PSA will now be able to target a much wider audience, as Spanish is the second most widely spoken language in the United States, and the fourth most widely spoken language in the world. A single copy of PSA can now support ...
telehouse.com logoTELEHOUSE America Announces Year-End Profitability - 📅 - TELEHOUSE America, a neutral, power-protected, and secure co-location space and services provider, today announced that it is releasing positive net profit results for its 2001 fiscal year. A privately funded company, TELEHOUSE (telehouse.com) has generated revenue growth for five consecutive years. It has five facilities in the U.S.



?Our success is due to the quality and level of service and choice of carriers that we provide to our customers,? said Yasuhiro Shintani, ...
Bandwidth Market Reduces Private Line Pricing - 📅 - Bandwidth Market Ltd. (bandwidthmarket.com), a leading online wholesale market for telecommunication services, announced that it has reduced prices for private lines connecting 50 major US and Canadian cities.





Customers, says Bandwidth Market, can connect any two of the 50 cities at speeds of OC-3, OC-12 and 10 Gigabits per second ?wavelengths.?



Bandwidth Market says its prices are for circuits throughout the US and Canada, including both protected cirucuits, ...
Cisco Says Chinese Demand Of Products Will Grow - 📅 - Cisco Systems Inc., a network provider, today announced to the Dow Jones Newswires that the demand for its networking equipment products is still strong in China.



Supplying equipment to Industrial & Commercial Bank Cisco will enable the bank to build a nationwide Internet network to link 30, 000 of its local savings offices. The company sold roughly $1 billion worth of its products in China in 2001, a significant percentage of its $19.3 billion in annual revenue.

In ...
IBM, Microsoft and VeriSign Announce Web Service Security Specification - 📅 - Tech giants Microsoft, VeriSign and IBM today announced the publication of a new Web services security specification designed to help organizations build secure Web services applications.



The new specification, known as WS-Security, was jointly developed by all three firms. The companies said they plan to submit the specification to a standards body.

The companies said WS-Security supports, integrates and unifies several popular security models, mechanisms and ...
level3.com logoLevel 3 Announces Internet Contract With BELNET - 📅 - Level 3 Communications, Inc., a communications and information services provider, today announced it has signed a one-year agreement to provide up to one-gigabit of Internet access service to BELNET (belnet.be -> combell.com), the Belgian national research network for education, research and public services.



Providing IP and network services to educational institutions and ministries, BELNET is as a non-commercial government ISP. Under the agreement, BELNET will use Level 3's (Level3.com) ...
ICANN Announces Membership of Security Committee - 📅 - At its November 2001 meeting, the ICANN Board directed
the ICANN President to appoint a President's standing committee on
the security and stability of the Internet's naming and address allocation
systems (also known as the "Security
Committee"). In February 2002, ...

Manulife, IBM Sign $850 Million Canadian Contract - 📅 - IBM Canada Ltd., the Canadian portion of technology giant IBM (ibm.com), announced on Tuesday that it has signed a service agreement with Canadian financial services group Manulife Financial (manulife.com).





According to the agreement, IBM will manage Manulife's information technology infrastructure and operations. The contract's value, says IBM, is estimated at about $850 million Canadian over a 10-year period.



IBM says it will manage the infrastructure ...
internap.com logoInternap Extends Service To Accommodate Phoenix-Based Customer - 📅 - Internap Network Services Corporation, an online, intelligent routing services provider, today announced it is offering service in Phoenix, Arizona, and has already signed a Fortune 500 manufacturer in the region.



Part of Internap's (internap.com -> inap.com) virtual extension program, the expansion is part of a new market strategy in which the company expands services once a customer's commitment is confirmed. Because of Internap's mature Service Point footprint of highly redundant ...
Globix Reorganizes To Emerge From Bankruptcy - 📅 - Globix Corp., a Web hosting and network services provider, today announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court confirmed the joint pre-packaged Plan of Reorganization filed by Globix and certain subsidiaries. The company plans to emerge from bankruptcy later this month.



Calling for bondholders to exchange Globix's (globix.com) outstanding $600 million principal amount of senior notes for their pro rata share of $120 million in new senior secured notes, the company is also ...