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Onepage inc., a pro- vider of applications for aggregating Web content and data, has announced a content building application for enterprise portal software. OnePage Content Aggregator for Corporate Portals accelerates the content development process for companies that build external or internal portals. With this complementary tool, developed from data acquisition and retrieval algorithms, employees, suppliers […]

The father of the Playstation is training his baby for a fight on the Internet. Ken Kutaragi, who runs Sonys games division, has nurtured his creation into a multibillion-dollar empire: Sony has sold an estimated 75 million PlayStation systems worldwide since 1994. Kutaragi, an engineer by training who conducted research and development in Sonys digital […]

After years of hype, AT&T and WorldCom have launched voice-over-Internet Protocol services, hoping new premium packages and savings will prompt business customers to try the new technology. AT&T launched its voice-over-IP (VoIP) service last week on the same day WorldCom said it has a similar product coming soon. The announcements marked the first instance of […]

The development of a new data transfer technology designed to eliminate potential bottlenecks at ever-expanding data centers will take a major step forward this week when startup Mellanox Technologies Inc. ships its InfiniBridge silicon components. The Santa Clara, Calif., companys switches and adapters are the first commercially available silicon products for use with InfiniBand, a […]

The blame game that goes on when a business Digital Subscriber Line is down sounds a little like a playground squabble. “The service provider did it!” “No, the carrier did it!” “No, it was the telephone companys fault!” “I want my mommy!” The whole situation can be downright immature, but then again, some would say, […]

Joseph Nacchio, Chief Executive of Denvers Qwest Communications International, could have ended up just another anonymous “Bell head” in the benign management culture of Ma Bell, AT&T. But Nacchio — who can be brash and abrasive when it suits him — couldnt help but rock the boat. He had ideas for the future of telecommunications, […]

Desperate dot-coms, take heart. Theres still plenty of hope youll get funded, as long as presumably smart investors are pumping another $13 million into justballs.com. Nobody has more balls—base-, basket-, billiard, boccie balls—you name it. They even have official sepak takraw balls; heck, they have the rules for this 500-year-old Southeast Asian game. They have […]

It would be a stretch to argue that the vigor of the New Economy is correlative to the quality of the attentions paid to it by the commander in chief. But it would be naïve to say the president is irrelevant. From privacy to the Microsoft trial, Internet taxation to international trade — in fact, […]

Pure ASPs are a dying breed. Struggling with revenue growth, tanking stocks and an uphill battle to make hosted applications a corporate mainstay, many ASPs continue to shift their initial focus to stay alive. While dozens of those ASPs already have fallen, under the icy glare of Wall Street, a number of others have cut […]

In the increasingly vital intersection of technology and public policy, Rick White, the new chief executive of the Silicon Valley-based lobbying organization TechNet, will play an important role. White, a Republican, represented suburban Seattle in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1998. His presence gives TechNet the cachet it needs to matter on Capitol […]