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Internet Operations Center Acquires Universal Data Publishing - 📅 - Internet Operations Center, Inc. (iocenter.net), a leading e-business service provider, announced yesterday that it has acquired the
continuing business activity and employees of Universal Data Publishing Corp., located in Cornelius, N.C. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.



Universal, specializing in business and web
application development, was established in 1981 by C.
Dennis Jones. Universal's staff of five will all work
with IOC as direct employees or ...
qwest.comGE and Qwest to Revolutionize Medical Info Management - 📅 - GE Medical Systems Information Technologies (gemedicalsystems.com),
a clinical information management unit of General Electric, and
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have formed an exclusive, multi-year technology
agreement to provide clinicians at healthcare systems
with secure, reliable access to their patients'
clinical information.



GE and Qwest will offer a robust Application Service
Provider model that enables hospitals across the
country to ...
Cable & Wireless Completes Acquisition of Digital Island - 📅 - Cable and Wireless plc (cwplc.com)
and Digital Island, Inc. (digitalisland.com) announced
today the successful completion of the previously
announced merger of Digital Island and Dali
Acquisition Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cable
& Wireless. Upon completion of the merger, Digital
Island became a wholly owned subsidiary of Cable &
Wireless.



As a result of the merger, outstanding shares of
Digital Island common stock have been converted into
the right to ...
Former UUnet and Genuity Exec Joins Cable & Wireless - 📅 - Cable & Wireless (cw.com), a global
telecommunications group, has announced the
appointment of Doug Loewe as president of enterprise
markets for Cable & Wireless Global, where he will
lead a 1,000-strong global team handling business
worth more than US$1 billion.



Loewe, who is based in Barcelona, Spain, is
responsible for the ongoing strategic development of
the enterprise division, which delivers advanced
business communications to national and global
corporations ...
Digital River and WebSideStory to Provide E-Com Intelligence - 📅 - Digital River, Inc.
(digitalriver.com), a leading global e-commerce outsource provider, and WebSideStory, Inc.
(websidestory.com), a leading global provider of outsourced e-business intelligence services, yesterday
announced a partnership designed to complement Digital
River's existing e-commerce reporting services.



Under the agreement, Digital River will offer
WebSideStory's real-time e-business intelligence
services to its network of more than 8,000 clients.
The ...
Sprint and Dell Collaborate to Host SMBs - 📅 - Sprint Corp.
(sprint.com), a global integrated communications provider, and Dell (dellhost.com), a premiere computer
systems company,have formed an alliance to optimize the core offerings
of both organizations.



Sprint and Dell expect the alliance, which focuses on
enhancing and growing Web hosting and e-commerce
offerings to the small and medium business markets, to
generate hundreds of millions of dollars in sales
between the two companies over the next seven ...
Diageo to Use WorldCom Hosting Services - 📅 - WorldCom (worldcom.com), a leading
global business data and Internet communications
provider, has been awarded a three-year contract to
provide and manage the Web hosting operations for
Diageo (diageo.com),
one of the world's leading premium drinks companies.



WorldCom will provide Diageo with data center space,
hardware, software, Web hosting services, 24x7 site
management and connectivity to its expansive IP
network. Diageo will use WorldCom's Web hosting
services ...
Ameritech Proposes ?Broadband Summit? - 📅 - Ameritech Michigan (ameritech.com)
president Gail Torreano yesterday proposed a "Michigan
Broadband Summit" to develop industry recommendations
on opening the way for rapid, efficient and effective
deployment of broadband capabilities throughout
Michigan.



In a letter to cable and telecommunications providers
of high-speed Internet access, Torreano said, "As
Governor John Engler highlighted in his 'State of the
State' address, broadband access is critical to ...
Dell to Exit Web Hosting Market - 📅 - Dell Computer Corp. is selling its Web hosting business to Sprint Corp., according to a report published today in The Wall Street Journal.

Financial terms of the deal were not released.

Under the agreement, Sprint will pick up DellHost's customer base and technology assets. In return, Sprint will base its hosting offerings on the Dell hardware platform.

The two companies put out a press release yesterday which announcing a Web hosting "alliance", with the firms ...
Public Web Hosts - Last Week in Review - 📅 - The tech-heavy Nasdaq spent pretty much the entire week in negative territory, although investors went on a little bit of a buying spree Friday afternoon, ensuring gains on the last day of the trading week.

The index picked up 13.76, or 0.77%, to end the week at 1805.44.

There was also some good news out of the Web hosting sector today, as managed solutions provider Worldport Communications announced two new partnerships designed to expand its service offerings to ...