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Cingular Snaps Up AT&T
Cingular Wireless LLC last week announced plans to buy AT&T Wireless Services Inc., following years of rumors and an 11th-hour bidding battle with Vodafone Group PLC. Cingular, a joint venture between San Antonio-based SBC Communications Inc. and Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., will pay some $41 billion in an all-cash deal that is expected to close by…
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NetQoS Enters SLA Territory
NetQoS Inc., a network performance management provider, has shifted gears to enter the SLA management realm with the latest release of SuperAgent, its tool for measuring response time. SuperAgent Version 5 adds new service-level-agreement compliance monitoring and reporting, allowing network technicians and executives to quickly view the status of TCP-based applications performance. SuperAgent 5 provides…
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Spam Fight Gains Steam
A grass-roots movement to improve the SMTP protocol that governs e-mail traffic is gaining acceptance, and its lead developer hopes to get fast-track approval by the Internet Engineering Task Force to make the emerging framework a standard. The developing framework, known as SPF (Sender Policy Framework), would prevent the spoofing of e-mail addresses and hijacking…
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Decliners Rule for Third Consecutive Week
For the first time since we launched our stock index in October 2003, shares in solutions providers have declined over three consecutive weeks. For the week ended Feb. 20, our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index slid 2.38 percent to 1,137.62. Decliners outpaced winners by a wide 3-to-1 margin. Overall, solution provider shares performed worse…
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Tools Treat Storage as a Utility
Veritas Software Corp., Softek and Sun Microsystems Inc. are each aiming to help customers turn data centers into operational storage utilities through several new storage utilization features and products. The result, according to the companies, should be better management of resources, improved performance and lower costs. Veritas this week will announce the availability of Veritas…
