Alcatel SA, the French manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, announced yesterday it is buying US-based software vendor Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc in a stock swap transaction valued at $US1.5 billion.
In an attempt to give its business more of a networking and e-commerce focus, Cabletron Systems yesterday announced the creation of a new division within the company called GlobalNetwork Technology Services.
A full 75 percent of all e-business projects will fail due to poor planning and unrealistic expectations of new technology, according to a study released yesterday by research firm Gartner Group.
A full 75 per cent of all e-business projects will fail due to poor planning and unrealistic expectations of new technology, according to a recent study.
Wireless communications received a boost yesterday with the announcement of a global local area network (LAN) standard based on radio-wave technology called HiperLAN2, and the high-profile consortium, the HiperLAN2 Global Forum (H2GF), established to promote it.
E-commerce could cost the British government a pretty penny - up to £10 billion ($25 billion) this year alone in lost tax revenue, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the Institute of Directors (IOD).
Looking to expand its holdings in the online marketplace, ISP PSINet Inc. is buying Transaction Network Services Inc. (TNI) for US$720 million, it was announced today.
Looking to expand its holdings in the online marketplace, ISP PSINet is buying Transaction Network Services Inc (TNI) for $US720 million, it was announced yesterday.
Yahoo Inc. is moving forward with its plans to expand wireless access to its Internet portal site -- a strategy dubbed Yahoo! Everywhere -- with the addition of the Yahoo! Mobile Web site, the Internet media company announced today.
The move by Yahoo coincides with a trend by other Internet media companies, including Microsoft to establish access to Internet portal site through mobile phones.