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Level 3 Communications to Buy SAVVIS CDN Division

Level 3 Communications has announced plans to purchase the Content Delivery Network services business of SAVVIS for $135 million in cash, a move meant...

VOIP Use in U.S. Households Is on the Rise

In-Stat, a technology research company, released a report on Dec. 20 that noted an increase in voice-over-IP use in U.S. households. The Scottsdale, Ariz., companys...

Amazon Learns the Old-Fashioned Truth About E-Commerce

Amazon.com the week of Dec. 25 announced sales figures that make the 2006 holiday season its best thus far, including one day (Dec. 11,...

Swelling Installed Base Brings Challenges to Microsoft

As Microsoft heads into 2007, the company faces a number of ongoing threats and challenges, most notably getting its large installed base to upgrade...

Report: Spamming Soared in 2006

A report on spam by e-mail security firm Commtouch Software dubs 2006 the "Year of the Zombies." The study found that "zombies," the name given...

Survey: 40 Percent of Employers to Hire in 2007

Nearly one in 10 employers will hire more than of 500 new employees in 2007, according to a survey released by Chicago-based CareerBuilder.com on...

PC Platforms: Looking Back at 2006 and Ahead to 2007

Consider the desktop personal computer. Form factors have changed, new CPUs have emerged, and more-advanced chip sets have arrived on the scene, but the...

Great Expectations for Januarys Job Market

There will be more job growth in the manufacturing and service sectors in January 2007 than in January 2006, according to the findings of...

eCoupled Technology Frees Users from Cords

At the International Consumer Electronics Show, scheduled to take place in Las Vegas on Jan. 9, Fulton Innovation will introduce a way to charge...

links for 2006-12-27

The Open Source Desktop Myth > Microsoft Won. Get Over It. Forget about winning on the desktop, the author says. Open source developers should look...