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Apparently the wine industry likes its marketing programs to be aged just like a fine Merlot. Benson Marketing Group, an Internet marketing agency based in Napa, Calif., wine country, is this month and next holding a seminar called “E-mail: The Killer Wine App.” The seminar is designed to help local vintners learn how to “foster […]

Erkki Liikanens name might not be familiar, but his efforts are gaining international attention. Liikanen is the key figure behind the European Unions efforts to modernize its economy and reposition Europe as a leader in the information technology sector. A native of Finland, Liikanen, commissioner of the Enterprise and Information Society directorates, has been the […]

Longtime Verizon Communications District Manager Rick Niblick knew a serious problem when he saw it: Water had permeated an aircore telephone cable that housed 600 copper pairs, serving businesses in a major shopping mall in New Philadelphia, Ohio. Verizon business customers in the mall were wrestling with static on voice lines. Internet connections were being […]

Lots of Francs France Telecom made the largest corporate bond offering to date, issuing $16.4 billion in debt last week. The deal drew more than $30 billion in investor interest, the company said. France Telecom expects to pay off debts and fund new wireless services. Intel Cuts Jobs The demand for PCs has dropped off […]

Nineteen years ago, Harry Newton was a telephone consultant with an eye on the growing telecom landscape and a bright idea for helping ordinary people navigate the complex world of tele-speak. The native Aussie started compiling telecommunications terms from company glossaries and service manuals and called the result The Teleconnect Telecom Dictionary. The name has […]

Telecommuters in the northeast got a peek at the future last week — and it wasnt pretty. Millions of families kept home by the hype, if not the reality, of the March megastorm found phone and Internet connections clogged in the New York metropolis. Verizon Communications, which provides local and long-distance phone service in the […]

In the middle of last year, Linus Torvalds decided new features for the Linux kernel needed more of his attention, so he handed off a major maintenance responsibility to a longtime contributor, Ted Tso. Tso was a trusted lieutenant who had established the first North American download site for Linux, while working as a network […]

Caldera Systems Inc.s new Linux management package, Caldera Volution, is a good first step toward centralized administration of Linux systems, but eWeek Labs found it to be an immature product that anyone but the Linux faithful may have trouble mastering. However, for sites that manage numerous Linux systems, the software distribution features in this first […]

Exodus Communications has signed a storage agreement with services provider WorldStor, and with that deal it has driven the last nail in the coffin of its own storage services strategy. Storage is the hot, new managed service that has providers of every stripe giddy over a potential new revenue stream. But storage and Web hosting […]

The man responsible for bringing the data center craze to Latin America is Scott Puritz. Co-founder of Diveo, a company that pioneered last-mile broadband south of the Rio Grande, Puritz felt the time was right to utilize the data center opportunity in the region, since no one was building U.S.-style data centers in some of […]