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Intellectual Property Owners Lobby For Better Whois Database Mike Drach - 📅 - Internet domain name sellers should be forced by Congress to keep better public records of Web site ownership, members of the business community told a congressional panel yesterday.

Copyright owners and trademark holders represented by two groups told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property that a thorough and precise whois database is necessary to protect against piracy and IP theft. While for years whois domain registration has made it ...
vFirm Launches Application Suite For Small Business - 📅 - vFirm Systems, Inc (vfirm.com) announced yesterday the launch of the vWebTop, a suite of web-based business applications offering small business professionals a hassle-free alternative to purchasing and hosting applications themselves.



By partnering with leading web-based application providers like Opendesk, Elite, Punch Networks and OnProject, vFirm has established a collaborative groupware suite with email, contacts, and chat along with specialty applications like billing ...
Telefonica to Invest $88 Million in Mexican Data Market Mike Drach - 📅 - Telefonica, a leading Spanish telecom company, recently announced plans to expand its empire into Mexico, and to invest $88 million in its Mexican data unit over the next four years.

"The group is taking another step to consolidate its presence in this market," Raul Flores, marketing director for Telefonica Data Mexico, said at a news conference. Mexico is the only major Latin American market that Telefonica has not had a major stake in until now.

Telefonica Data Mexico is ...
Nasdaq Introduces New System, But Traders are Wary - 📅 - The Nasdaq Stock Market (nasdaq.com) debuted its new stock-trading engine this week, but has come under fire by some traders because of glitches in the technology and recent outages.



The new system, named SuperSOES, was launched on Monday, replacing SOES (Small Order Execution System). Although it initially handled only 18 stocks, Nasdaq intends to implement the new system completely by July 30. Designed to handle up to 999,999 shares at a time, it is able to keep up with ...
q9.com logoQ9 Networks Selected By TD Securities for Web Infrastructure Solution - 📅 - Q9 Networks Inc (Q9.com -> equinix.com), a leading Canadian provider of Internet infrastructure and managed services, announced Wednesday that TD Securities, one of Canada's leading investment dealers, has selected Q9 to provide a complete Internet infrastructure solution.



"At TD Securities, we need to move very quickly and confidently to keep pace with the rapid changes in our business and Q9's advanced networking center fits extremely well with our needs," said Ed Rennie, managing director ...
Report From COMDEX: Microsoft Launches bCentral.ca at Comdex Toronto - 📅 - The lights dim, and to the slightly jarring sounds of Jimi Hendrix's "are you experienced?," Frank Clegg, president of Microsoft Canada takes the elaborately decked-out stage to address a subterranean auditorium packed with the media representatives and attendees of the Comdex Toronto 2001 conference.

Clegg discussed topics as varied as Microsoft's portfolio in an hour-long keynote presentation Thursday, as polished as you?d expect from the software giant, that included, at times, a ...
Report From COMDEX: Microsoft Heralds New Era Of Computing With .NET Platform - 📅 - If software giant Microsoft gets its way, Web hosting companies can look forward to implementing a slew of applications that will introduce entirely new methods to data storage.


At his Comdex 2001 keynote speech in Toronto Thursday, Microsoft Canada President Frank Clegg outlined a new system of data storage and distribution based on Microsoft's new .Net OS platform. The company hopes .Net will become the industry-standard platform for business computing requirements, whether ...
Ebone Offers Broadband Network Provisioning In Just 24 Hours - 📅 - Ebone (ebone.com) announced today a new initiative to deliver IP and optical backbone services to European networks in just 24 hours from the time the order is received.



The pan-European networking company says this is an industry first, shattering the previous standard provisioning times of 15-20 at best. Ebone will roll out its new policy with no increase to costs, and the service includes live on-site testing of every customer connection and includes Ebone's existing ...
Flag Telecom to Provide Network Services in Egypt - 📅 - Flag Telecom (flagtelecom.com), a leading network services provider and independent carrier, today announced that EgyNet (egynet.net), the first privately owned public data network based in Egypt, has purchased managed bandwidth services and Internet connectivity between Cairo and New York on the Flag Telecom network.



This is made possible by the establishment of a Flag Telecom point of presence in Cairo under an agreement with Telecom Egypt (telecomegypt.com.eg)to jointly ...
Sony Picks Intel Online Services to Host ImageStation - 📅 - Web hosting services provider, and wholly owned Intel subsidiary, Intel Online Services Inc. (intelonlineservices.com), announced on Thursday that it has been chosen by entertainment and electronics giant Sony Corporation (sony.com) to provide managed hosting services for the Japanese version of its ImageStation Web site.

Sony Launched ImageStation, an online service designed for the digital imaging community, in Japan in September 2000. According to Sony, customers can use the site to ...