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Bankruptcy Court Approves Sale of Comdisco's Availability Solutions - 📅 - Comdisco, Inc. (comdisco.com) has announced that, at the conclusion of a three day hearing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the
Northern District of Illinois, Judge Ronald Barliant approved the sale of
Comdisco's Availability Solutions (Technology Services) business to Wayne,
Pennsylvania-based SunGard Data Systems Inc. (sungard.com) for $825 million.



Closing of the transaction will occur as soon as possible, subject to a
favorable ruling by the United States District ...
E.spire Files Complaint Against Verizon For Unpaid Bills - 📅 - e.spire Communications, Inc. (espire.net) filed two
complaints against Verizon (verizon.com) charging that it has failed to pay millions of dollars of bills in violation of orders issued by the Maryland Public Service Commission and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.



The first complaint, before the Maryland Commission, points to Verizon's
alleged flouting of a June order of the Commission requiring Verizon to
continue to pay reciprocal compensation bills in Maryland in the wake of ...
NetRover Extends Agreement with WorldCom Canada as Wholesale IP - 📅 - NetRover Inc. (netrover.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of CyPost Corporation (cypost.com), last week announced that it has selected WorldCom Canada Ltd., a global business data and Internet communications provider, to continue providing NetRover with wholesale Internet services through and including April 2003.




As a result, NetRover will continue to offer its Canadian customer base
nationwide access to its Internet backbones, as well as superior bilingual
customer ...
qwest.comQwest Provides FAST Web Search With Advanced Hosting Services - 📅 - Qwest Communications International Inc. (qwest.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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-> lumen.com), the broadband communications company, announced that it has signed a three-year,
multi-million dollar Web hosting and networking services agreement with Fast
Search & Transfer (fastsearch.com), a leading developer of search and real-time filter technologies that power the information-on-demand economy.



Qwest will provide Web hosting for FAST Web Search, which supplies 24x7
private label Web search capabilities to major ...
MOM Manages Exchange Servers - 📅 - IT professionals now have a new scalable, enterprise-ready tool to monitor the health of their Exchange Server infrastructure. The Exchange Application Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 manages the performance of W indows 2000 Server's Active Directory service, Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000, as well as other Microsoft mission-critical business applications, helping Exchange administrators identify and resolve issues before end users ever notice a disruption in ...
Nortel to Deploy Optical Backbone for China Mobile - 📅 - Nortel Networks (nortelnetworks.com) has been awarded contracts valued at approximately US$18 million to provide Optical Long Haul backbone networks for China Mobile (chinamobile.com), the largest mobile
operator in the People's Republic of China and one of the largest in the
world. Already serving approximately 100 million GSM wireless subscribers,
China Mobile plans to use the increased speed and capacity that these new
optical backbones will provide to address growing demand for ...
The webhost industry: week review - 📅 - The Nasdaq began the week on a strong note, posting a three-day rally before heading back in to negative territory on worries about continued corporate losses.

A number of firms related to the Web hosting industry reported their quarterly earnings this week, garnering mixed reactions from investors.

Metropolitan fiber provider Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) reported Wednesday, posting a wider loss than a year earlier because of acquisitions and network expansion, but said ...
Sun Releases New Cluster Platform 280/3 - 📅 - Building on the proven methodology of its successful Cluster Platform 220/1000, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (sun.com) announced yesterday its
next-generation, entry-level Cluster Platform 280/3, which provides
significantly greater memory and storage flexibility. This is the fourth
offering to be added to the family of SunTone Cluster Platforms.



Powered by redundant UltraSPARC III chip-based Sun Fire 280R servers and
highly scalable, mirrored Sun StorEdge T3 arrays, the ...
Global Crossing Signs $700 Million Deal With CSC Robert Marks - 📅 - Communications firm Global Crossing Ltd. (globalcrossing.com) said yesterday it had signed a twelve-year contract with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a major consulting and IT services firm with over 60,000 employees worldwide. The agreement, which is worth $700 million, will see Global Crossing manage CSC's (csc.com) global wide area data and voice network.

One of the reasons for the deal is Global Crossing's fiber optic infrastructure and range of advanced IP services, ...
EDS' PLM Software to Serve as 'Digital Backbone' of Joint Strike Fighter - 📅 - Product Lifecycle Management software from EDS (eds.com) will
play a key role in helping the Lockheed Martin-led team develop the new
Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) - by serving as the "digital backbone" for the
landmark project.



EDS' Metaphase software will enable the Lockheed Martin (lockheedmartin.com)
team's virtual global enterprise - its 10,000 person-strong consortium of
BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman and an estimated 27 other partners and
suppliers - to create a ...