Michael Martin

Graphics houses, printers and publishers throughout North America may soon be able to avoid costly courier charges by moving large files over an extranet designed especially for graphic arts applications.

Gateway Telecom Canada Inc. of North Bay, Ont. plans to build a multi-service, carrier-class network that would provide wholesale voice and data services to carriers in Canada and the U.S.

The proposed merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Groupe Vid

Alcatel is targeting the voice/data convergence space with a PBX system that the vendor says allows firms to migrate from separate voice and data networks to one network for both traffic types at their own pace.

A recently released survey conducted by Deloitte & Touche and the Angus Reid Group asserts that Canadian e-shoppers are patriotic consumers. The survey, which was completed by 824 Web users, found 70 per cent of Canadian on-line purchasers prefer to purchase from Canadian sites and 52 per cent actually made their last purchase from such a site.

Most enterprises with HP 9000 servers will no longer need to shut down their machines to add...

Lucent Technologies Inc. has filled a high-end void in its Cajun switch family with the introduction of the Cajun P880 Routing Switch.

The new millennium is upon us (according to some) and the society which existed before the big event is still standing. Despite the fears of bunker-bound extremists, aliens did not invade and subjugate the planet, no apocalypse took place and almost all computer and telephony systems made it through the Year 2000 rollover intact.