PCCW gains on rival as business channel debuts

PCCW gains on rival as business channel debuts

PCCW launches its self-produced 24-hour business news channel today, bridging the gap with leading player i-Cable Communications and bringing the Hong Kong pay-television market into a new competitive landscape.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 20 2006


Lawsuit alleges Google improperly banishes sites

Google's mysterious methods for ranking websites has come under attack in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, March 20 2006

USA.NET Launches Encrypted E-mail Service

Hosted messaging service provider USA.NET, Denver, said it is now offering its subscribers the ability to encrypt and digitally sign all outgoing messages by simply clicking a button in their existing e-mail application.

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-read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 17 2006


Zantaz Integrates Mailbox Management And Hosted Storage

Zantaz Inc., the Pleasanton, Calif. provider of hosted information retention and discovery management systems, has integrated its mailbox management and compliance archiving systems in a single offering called First Archive On Demand.

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-read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 16 2006


Chambers Says Video Will Drive Collaboration

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said the networking giant in the coming year will focus on improving collaboration by weaving video into enterprise voice, e-mail and instant-messaging applications, part of the company’s push toward unified communications.

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-read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 15 2006

Google product to help retailers
Google has developed a new service enabling retailers to promote their products to a wider audience. The search firm said it would adapt its existing Google Base database into a platform on which retailers could list store details and other information.

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-read full story from BBC News, March 16 2006

Microsoft sues to end bootlegging on eBay

In a continued effort to crack down on distributors of illegal software, Microsoft this week filed suit against eight users of eBay's auction site for allegedly selling counterfeit copies of the company's software online.

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-read full story from Infoworld.com, March 16 2006


Microsoft ALM server online next week
Microsoft formally announced on Thursday at the SD West 2006 conference that Friday, March 17, is the release-to-manufacturing date for its long-awaited collaboration server for ALM, officially known as Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server.
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-read full story from Infoworld.com, March 16 2006