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eMachines Selects WorldCom Hosting Services - 📅 - WorldCom (worldcom.com), a business data and Internet communications provider, yesterday announced that eMachines, Inc.
(emachines.com), the third largest provider of desktop personal computers sold through U.S. retailers, has selected WorldCom to host and manage the Web site for its new online direct sales channel.



Founded in Sept. 1998, eMachines has shipped more than 4 million personal
computers through leading retailers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France
and Spain, ...
tkg.com logoVeritas Software Acquires Kernel Group - 📅 - Further automating its disaster recovery solution, Veritas Software Corporation (veritas.com) today announced it has completed the acquisition of The Kernel Group Incorporated (tkg.com -> hostinger.com), a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas, for an undisclosed amount. TKG is the developer of Bare Metal Restore, a solution designed to fully automate system recovery of Windows and all major UNIX platforms in the event of data corruption or hardware failure.



Research firm Meta ...
Bell Canada to Trial Nortel Networks VoIP with Centrex Customers - 📅 - Bell Canada and Nortel Networks today announced plans to conduct the first North
American trial of Nortel Networks Interactive Multimedia Server, a new Voice
over Internet Protocol product designed to deliver advanced multimedia
services. Beginning this month, Bell will trial the product with its largest
enterprise Centrex customers, enabling them to increase employee
collaboration and improve productivity.



Nortel Networks Interactive Multimedia Server is designed to ...
Yipes Builds National Data Network for Wolverine Trading - 📅 - Yipes Communications, Inc. (yipes.com), a provider of
Ethernet services, announced yesterday that its gigabit optical networks are
delivering real-time market information to offices of Wolverine Trading,
L.P. (wolve.com) in Chicago and San Francisco, with plans to add locations in New York and Philadelphia. Wolverine also uses Yipes for high-speed Internet service and connectivity to its London office over a virtual private network.



Wolverine is a major global equity and ...
qwest.comQwest CEO Named Chairman of FCC Advisory Group - 📅 - Qwest Communications International Inc. (qwest.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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and CEO Joseph P. Nacchio has been named to head the Federal Communications
Commission's (fcc.gov) Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC).



In addition to his role as chairman of the NRIC, Nacchio is vice chairman of
the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), a
select group of industry executives that provides advice on security and
emergency preparedness issues to U.S. ...
Lucent Names New President and CEO - 📅 - Lucent Technologies (lucent.com) yesterday named Patricia F.
Russo, formerly of the Eastman Kodak Company, as the company's president and
CEO. Russo, 49, succeeds Henry Schacht, 67, who will serve as chairman of
the company.



Russo most recently served as president and chief operating officer of
Kodak. She now returns to Lucent where she was one of the founding
executives who helped launch the AT&T spin-off in 1996. Russo has spent 20
years in senior executive leadership ...
Interland Withdraws Pursuit of E.spire Hosting Business - 📅 - Interland, Inc. (interland.net), a Web hosting service
provider, today announced it has decided not to further pursue an
acquisition of e.spire Communications' (espire.com) Web hosting
subsidiaries, FloridaNet, Inc. and CyberGate, Inc.



"As we've committed to our shareholders, Interland will only acquire
business when it meets our strategic objectives and accelerates our path to
profitability. While we did believe the accounts could be a good strategic
fit for Interland, ...
McDonald's Selects IBM Canada to Host Canadian Sites - 📅 - IBM Canada Inc. (can.ibm.com) announced today that McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Ltd. (mcdonalds.ca) has chosen IBM to host two of the company's Web sites. The agreement has IBM hosting McDonald's public Web site and an internal site for employees. IBM is providing all hardware,
system software and support services.



"McDonald's is the largest quick service restaurant chain in Canada, and
with IBM's Fully Managed Hosting we're ensuring the continued growth of ...
Digex to Host Microsoft eBusiness Acceleration Center - 📅 - Digex (UK) Ltd. (digex.co.uk), a managed hosting provider, today announced that Microsoft Corporation's eBusiness Acceleration Center, a technology competence center in Nice, France, has chosen Digex UK to host its infrastructure.



Founded in 1999, the eBusiness Acceleration Center (eBACenter), was
established by Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Compaq Computer Corporation as a
collaborative project to accelerate the evolution of business on the
Internet. It has since become ...
Infonetics Expects Spending on European App Hosting to Grow 460% - 📅 - Between 2001 and 2005, European end-user application hosting service expenditures will grow 460%, from $678 million to $3.8 billion, and worldwide application hosting service expenditures grow 371%, according to Infonetics Research's (infonetics.com) latest study, User Plans for Application Hosting Services, Europe 2001.



"As in the US, the hosting market in Europe has been damaged by the weak
economy, which has forced many ASPs out of business, along with many ...