- Wed May 9 2001 France Telecom to invest in IM developer
Webb Interactive Services, owner of instant messaging company Jabber.com, says it has secured $7 million in funding from France Telecom Technologies (FTT) in exchange for a 23 percent stake. In addition, an FTT representative will join Jabber.com's board. FTT, a subsidiary of France Telecom, has licensed Jabber.com's technology for six months. Jabber.com CEO Rob Baigley said in a statement that investment is part of a move toward "providing real-time communication solutions across a broad range of applications, services and devices."
Posted by Lisa M. Bowman
- Fri Nov 21 1997 Short Take: France Telecom picks Open Market
Open Market is slated to announce
today that France
Telecom will license Open Market?s Transact software to offer hosting
and back-office services for secure electronic commerce on the Internet.
Open Market said it counts five of the top ten telcos as customers for its
software.
Posted by Tim Clark
- Thu Oct 22 2009 France adopts three-strikes law for piracy
Soon, those in France accused of illegal file sharing multiple times could lose Internet access for up to a year, if they don't heed warnings.
Posted by Greg Sandoval
- Thu Jul 22 2004 Deal boosts Liberty Alliance
France Telecom's new single-sign-on system will be the biggest yet to use the alliance's identity management spec.
Posted by Robert Lemos
- Sun Aug 16 2009 Telecoms are missing their cloud opportunity
If you talk to your favorite telecommunications company, you find them concentrating on how they will compete in cloud infrastructure, platform and software services.
Posted by James Urquhart
- Mon Jul 8 2002 Telecom firm leaks student data to Web
A company that provides intra-campus telephone services to small colleges has inadvertently left database files containing names, addresses and social security numbers on the Internet.
Posted by Robert Lemos
- Sun Jul 29 2001 Tour de France training--on the Net
American cyclist Lance Armstrong, winner of a third consecutive Tour de France, uses the Web to help improve the chances of victory.
Posted by Sharael Feist
- Tue Sep 26 2006 Telecoms feel the pretexting heat
As Congress calls telecom CEOs on the carpet, CNET News.com takes a look at how well the phone companies protect your privacy.
Posted by Declan McCullagh
- Sat Jan 11 2003 A help line for European telecoms
After an ambitious expansion effort in the last decade--and a big pill to pay for acquiring 3G licenses--Europe's telecom operators are at a crossroads. Researchers at McKinsey say the incumbents are understandably retrenching to lower costs, but warn against the risk of behaving too conservatively.
Posted by null The McKinsey Quarterly
- Wed Oct 3 2001 Weathering the telecom storm
Reed Hundt, former chairman of the FCC, explains why the future still looks good for the telecommunications industry. What does he know that nobody else knows?
Posted by null The McKinsey Quarterly
