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📅 - Ebone to Manage Travel Site for Virgin Holidays - Ebone, a division of Global TeleSystems, Inc., announced that it will host, manage and maintain Virgin Holidays' online travel site (virginholidays.com). While Virgin Holidays, UK's largest tour operator, already produces a comprehensive, 24-hour online service for booking flights; checking hotel, check-in, and travel information, Ebone (ebone.com) plans to improve the site via their broadband network. "Since many customers now use the web to book holidays with us, it has become core to our business. Were customers to stop using the site because it was out of action or slow, that would seriously impact our business," said Nigel Smith, administration and systems director for
📅 - Fortune Brands Chooses Broadwing's Advanced IP Services - Integrated communications company Broadwing Inc. (broadwing.com) announced an agreement to provide IP VPN Services to Fortune Brands, the consumer products company behind brands including Moen, Titleist, Jim Beam, Master Lock, and Swingline. Broadwing will provide Fortune Brands with a managed suite of secure services and products including private Internet connectivity, email access, nationwide reachability, and remote access for traveling employees and subsidiaries. Broadwing's services will also allow Fortune Brands to securely transmit proprietary information between locations via Broadwing's hierarchical IP backbone. "We were looking for a managed WAN solution
📅 - IBM Offers New Technologies for Developers, Service Providers - IBM has announced tools that allow developers and service providers to easily create, host and monitor Web services. The Web Services Hosting Technology, the Web Services Gateway, and the Web Services Toolkit 3.0 are available for free, trial download on alphaWorks, (alphaworks.ibm.com), the destination for IBM emerging technology. IBM's Web Services Hosting Technology is a set of management tools that support revenue-generating Web services. Web Services Hosting Technology is designed specifically for software developers and service providers, allowing them to bring Web services to a hosted environment regardless of the actual Web services implementation. It also suppor
📅 - New Edge Networks to Provide Data Services to Ameritech Customers - New Edge Networks (newedgenetworks.com), a data and broadband communications service provider, announced yesterday a multi-year agreement to provide inter-LATA frame relay and ATM data services to SBC Ameritech (ameritech.com) customers. The new complementary carrier agreement minimizes the business and operational issues that arise from having multiple carriers install and maintain a customer's wide area data network, the company said. It enables SBC to act as a single point of contact for ordering data communications services such as frame relay and ATM networking services within SBC's 13-state region, and also nationally and internationally. "Our agreement wi
📅 - EDS to Host SSP Trust Assurance Network - Building on an existing 10-year alliance, EDS (eds.com) and SSP Solutions, Inc. (bizssp.com) announced yesterday SSP has signed an agreement with EDS to host, deploy and manage SSP's Trust Assurance Network (TAN). Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. SSP's TAN is a network of hardware devices enabling Internet security from server to user, providing solutions and services that secure access control and real-time movement of financial transactions and other digital content. "EDS will be the trusted third party that will host and operate SSP's network of servers and verifying agents that authorize, validate and authenticate SSP Embassy devices and applicatio
📅 - Apple and Akamai Deliver Record Business Streaming Event - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (akamai.com) announced yesterday that the Webcast of the Macworld San Francisco keynote delivered by Steve Jobs on Monday set new Internet records for a single, live corporate streaming event. More than 11 terabytes of content were served during the two-hour Webcast, which attracted more than 160,000 unique Web visitors. During the peak of the Webcast, more than 16.5 Gigabits per second of video were streamed at broadband rates to more than 81,000 simultaneous viewers. During the keynote, Jobs unveiled Apple's new iMac, with its groundbreaking flat-panel design. The Webcast at apple.com delivered the equivalent of 8.26 million minutes, or ap