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As the fight among carriers for media and entertainment clientele intensifies, Level 3 Communications has quietly developed a major relationship with Sony, with the two planning to deliver digital movies, music and games to customers. Level 3 and Sony have negotiated contracts calling for the carrier to transport content for various Sony initiatives, including the […]

A year after a consolidation shake-up rocked the Web hosting business, users of the more active providers services are reporting slow but mostly positive change while subscribers of stagnant companies are being forced to prepare contingency plans. Taking a cue from their own end users—who often chose to outsource Web infrastructure so they could concentrate […]

E-businesses storage requirements keep growing faster than a litter of rottweiler puppies. To help I-managers keep a leash on their data, storage virtualization technologies promise to simplify management and enable any application to access any storage system — from anywhere. The concept of storage virtualization has been around for several years, but only recently have […]

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SiteSmiths new managed service pitch is fiber. Now that its $1.36 billion merger with Metromedia Fiber Network has closed, the MSP that used a billboard facing an important, data-center rich Sunnyvale exit on U.S. Highway 101 in Silicon Valley to promise corporate customers it would build sites that “kick ass,” is now a grown up […]

Turbolinux is launching a system mangement product, PowerCockpit, for configuring and deploying the Linux operating system and applications across multiple servers. The move is part of the Brisbane, Calif., companys plan to transition itself from one of the four major distributors of Linux and largest distributor in Asia to a vendor with software management products […]

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to deny Microsofts request to have a lower judges anti-trust ruling thrown out for reasons of bias. In a petition filed Friday, the Department of Justice bashed the Microsoft request for dismissal of Thomas Penfield Jacksons Findings of Fact for “mischaracterizing” the court of appeals […]

ABC.com executives are shunning the s-word – “stickiness,” a now passe Web buzzword circa 1999 – but thats exactly what they hope to produce with the sites relaunch next month. By adding original entertainment content, ABC.com wants to attract a younger, more loyal audience that is more desirable to online advertisers. But the change is […]

In a call to arms, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik said open source developers should counter a growing threat from commercial software makers by getting involved in local school districts and getting free open source code installed on the districts machines. Szulik did not mention Microsoft by name, but he said “a monopoly” is forcing […]

Intel demonstrated the future speed of its Pentium 4 mobile chip on Wednesday, Aug. 29, at the Intel Developers Forum in San Jose. The mobile Pentium 4 will run at 1.5 gigahertz when introduced in the first half of next year, and 2 GHz before the end of the year. The 2-GHz version will run […]

Cogent Communications put together the missing pieces of its connectivity strategy and cast the future of the troubled in-building competitive carrier market this week when it acquired Allied Riser Communications. Allied Riser was the leading in-building access provider in the U.S. By buying it, Cogent follows in the footsteps of gigabit Ethernet provider Yipes Communications, […]