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The The webhost industry: week review - 📅 - North American markets had a fairly strong week, with the Nasdaq surging above the illustrious 2,000 mark for the first time since early August on Wednesday and the Dow above 10,000 for the first time in three months.

The rallies had a mixed effect on hosting and communication firms, many of whom had major announcements this week.

On Friday, communications firm Level 3 said it had reached an agreement to buy the wholesale dial-up Internet access business of McLeodUSA Inc., ...
Telus Captures Gold at CICA Annual Report Awards - 📅 - Telus (telus.com) has captured the Gold award in the Telecommunications category of the 50th Annual Report Awards presented today by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (cica.ca) and National Post (nationalpost.com).



The Annual Report Awards recognize the top financial reporting models in
Canada. Annual reports are judged on their ability to communicate financial
information in a clear and concise manner, paying particular attention to
management discussion and ...
radiant.net logoRadiant Completes First Step Toward Going Public - 📅 - Radiant Communications Limited (radiant.net 👉 Total Reviews: 2
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 2
👈 Official Responses: 0
-> hostpapa.com) has announced
that they have signed an engagement agreement with Canaccord Capital
(canaccord.com) to develop a framework for going public. As part of this agreement Canaccord will be the lead manager in the private placement of up to $5 million of securities. These funds will be used by Radiant to complete its expansion and to fund its growth. As part of this process, Radiant has signed a letter of intent with Castle Bay Enterprises Ltd. to ...
rackspace.com logoComputerworld Names Rackspace Top Emerging Company - 📅 - Rackspace Managed Hosting (rackspace.com 👉 Total Reviews: 16
🙌 Average Rating: 3.3 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 4
👎 Bad Reviews: 12
👈 Official Responses: 0
) announced yesterday
its selection as the only Web hosting company included in Computerworld's
Top 100 Emerging Companies for 2002. Rackspace today also announced it is
the subject of a new Tier 1 Research report, in which the company is called
the "pioneer of profitability."



Computerworld (computerworld.com) attributes Rackspace's success to the company's focus on customized, dedicated servers and its own brand of "fanatical" ...
SMBs No Strangers to Outsourcing, Yankee Group Finds - 📅 - Research firm The Yankee Group (yankeegroup.com) released information this week indicating that more than half of small to medium sized businesses (SMB) use outsourcing for their IT needs to some degree. The information comes from the Yankee Group SMB Networking and Infrastructure Study of October 2001.



The study found that while over 51% of SMBs rely on a third party for IT needs, under 14% do so exclusively. The rest rely on a mix of in-house IT staffing and outsourced ...
Sprint Signs Contract with MFN for Enhanced Access - 📅 - Sprint (sprint.com) announced yesterday that it has signed a multiyear contract with Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. (mmfn.com), to lease metropolitan area fiber in major U.S. markets.



The agreement fuels Sprint's plan to connect its long distance voice, data
and PCS networks with a high-bandwidth metropolitan area optical
infrastructure. Additionally, the agreement should help put Sprint in
control of its access cost structure. Sprint says it plans to use MFN's
fiber-optic ...
Weather Channel Selects WorldCom for Hosting - 📅 - WorldCom (worldcom.com), a data and Internet communications provider, today announced that The Weather Channel has selected WorldCom to provide Internet co-location services for weather.com, a popular source of weather, news and information on the Web.



Averaging 350 million page views and 14 million unique users per month,
weather.com features comprehensive weather information for 77,000 locations
worldwide. Maps and other features available on television can also ...
Invite Internet Releases New Account Manager - 📅 - Invite Internet (invite.net), a provider of hosting and
e-business solutions, announced yesterday the release of its new Account
Management software. Located at hostingaccount.info, the Web-based software
offers easy management of a customers Web site account, plus a built in
reseller module which ads advanced reseller capabilities to all hosted
accounts.



Via its Reseller Program, the company provides a broad selection of
customizable hosting solutions coupled with a ...
F5 Networks Joins HP Blade Server Alliance Program - 📅 - F5 Networks, Inc. (f5.com -> hostinger.com), a provider of Internet traffic
and content management products, announced that it has delivered the first
load balancing solution to run on Hewlett-Packard Company's new blade server
series and has joined the HP (hp.com) Blade Server Alliance Program.



F5's BIG-IP software, when integrated on an HP-certified blade, provides
high availability and intelligent traffic management across Web servers,
caches, firewalls, and other services and ...
Genuity Launches Black Rocket Voice - 📅 - Genuity Inc. (genuity.com), a provider of Internet
infrastructure services and e-business network platforms, today announced
Cisco Systems, Inc. and Verizon Communications as the first customers of
Genuity's Black Rocket Voice, a new VoIP service for enterprise businesses.
A step forward in the convergence of voice and data services, Black Rocket
Voice is the latest addition to Genuity's Black Rocket e-business Network
Platform, which combines Internet access, managed hosting and ...