Convergence is the key for companies that want to still be in business in the service provider industry in the future, Roderrick Randall, executive vice president of Global Marketing, Internetworking Systems for Lucent Technologies Inc., said in a speech at the ISP2000 in Amsterdam today.
The future of the Internet is wireless, and Internet service providers (ISPs) will have to offer advanced services to mobile users in order to stay competitive, according to
There is no need for all service providers to make the transition to ASP (application service provider) overnight, even though today's model of the ISP (Internet service provider) will eventually die out. This was the message from a panel discussion here at the ISP2000 conference in Amsterdam today.
That ISPs (Internet service providers) must transform themselves into ASPs (applications services providers) or die has become almost a truism here at the ISP2000 event in Amsterdam.
Global Crossing Ltd. will extend its high-capacity Pan European Crossing (PEC) network into Spain and Scandinavia, connecting eight more cities to its worldwide network, the company announced today.
Two of the largest developers and suppliers of the Unix-like Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) operating system have merged.
Networking software vendor Novell has launched a version of its NDS eDirectory for Microsoft's newly released Windows 2000 operating system, the company announced on Wedneday.
U.S. book publisher Simon and Schuster Inc. yesterday announced that it will release a new story by horror author Stephen King on Monday -- but only online.
Irish online bank First-e Group PLC yesterday announced its intention to merge with its Spanish counterpart, Uno-e Bank SA, to form a new company called Unofirst Group.
British Telecommunications PLC today announced that it will partner with video-on-demand service provider Yes Television in an interactive broadband television services trial in West London beginning next month.
AltaVista Co. today announced that it intends to offer free monthly Internet access, including toll-free calls, to U.K. customers.
U.S.-based Web portal AltaVista Co. has launched regional sites in France and the Netherlands, the company announced yesterday.
Whittman-Hart Inc. and USWeb/CKS Inc. have completed their merger, the companies announced in a statement yesterday.
South American mobile phone users can now use a dual-mode handset to roam between GSM (Global Systems for Mobile Communications) mobile phone networks and TDMA (time division multiple access) ANSI-41 networks, making and receiving calls without the need to use call forwarding services or enter PIN codes.
Despite the attention it has received here at the CeBIT show, even the staunchest supporters of the Linux operating system concede that it is still a niche product for the desktop market.