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Nortel Networks Corp. last week made a push into the online content and personalization business, targeting service providers with five products based on technology stemming from its acquisitions of Alteon WebSystems Inc. and Shasta Networks Inc. The products are the first from the Brampton, Ontario, companys Personal Internet campaign, also announced last week. By adding […]

Two new companies set to launch this week will roll out products that speed the delivery of dynamic content Upstart FineGround Networks Inc.s Condenser software, deployed between the content server and the firewall, eliminates redundant traffic by transmitting only the incremental changes that occur between site visits. The solution will complement existing caching products. The […]

A worldwide shortage of small power plants will make it difficult for companies in California and elsewhere to reduce their reliance on the strained public power grid. San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales recently announced his city will streamline its permitting process so that small on-site power plants “can be built quickly” and reduce the citys […]

You cant really blame Ortez Gude for feeling kind of smug these days. The vice president of technology for Beers Construction Co., in Atlanta, spent years watching promising job candidates choose startups, stock options and huge incentive packages while all he had to offer was the stability of a large construction company. Today, though, candidates […]

Change or Die Adapting on the fly is a key to growth for some ASPs. Take digiMine, a provider of data warehousing and mining services that has moved up-market from its planned customer base since launching last September. “We thought the mid-tier companies were not dealing with the data they generate, but we found that […]

The stampede first to build data centers and then to provide so-called “managed services” will continue in earnest this year, as large players like AT&T, Level 3 Communications, Qwest Communications International and Sprint crowd into the business model formerly known as Web hosting, and now called anything from application hosting to e-business provisioning. “There is […]

Daley, Baker to Play Nice Theres nothing like a little bit of money to convince people to put their differences aside. Take the case of William M. Daley, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and chairman of the Gore-Lieberman campaign, and James A. Baker III, the man who led President Bushs recount challenge in Florida. Just […]

History was made last Thursday, when KPMG Consulting (NASDAQ: KCIN) became the first of the Big Five professional-services firms to undertake an initial public offering. Indeed, KPMG is the first pure consulting giant to take the public plunge. KPMGs $2.1 billion IPO is the biggest U.S.-based issue since the AT&T Wireless $10.6 billion offering last […]

Great chefs are rarely satisfied when they eat in someone elses restaurant. The same can be said for great programmers: Why buy an application when you can design one better yourself? Thats the line of thinking at NetSolve Inc., which has offered network-management services since 1995, and currently has more than 1,200 small to midsize […]

Since Christmas, network equipment companies have announced layoffs affecting 27,000 people, but the optical sector is still expanding quickly. Network firms are slashing jobs in unprofitable sectors — unprofitable because the products are past their prime or because others built them better or got them to the market faster. At the same time, at least […]

Suffering from scope creep brought on by consultants dragging their heels on projects? You may have only yourself to blame, since how you set up the original contracts fee structure could well be causing your pain. The most frequently used fee structure calls for agreeing on a rate of pay—for example, per hour or per […]

When STR Enterprises Inc. decided, about a year ago, to put its pet supply business online, it didnt go fishing for some hotshot e-commerce executive to run the show. Instead, the company of 100-plus employees, in Panama City, Fla., gave the task of building its Web presence to one of its brick-and-mortar pet store managers, […]