XO Communications, Inc. announced that it has secured a three-year agreement
to provide voice and data services to the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars.
Under terms of the agreement, XO will deploy communications solutions for the
Rangers at Ameriquest Field in Arlington, for the Stars at their Frisco
headquarters and at three Dr Pepper StarCenters located across the Metroplex.
As a result, the combined entities will consolidate from four service
providers to one.
“First and foremost, we were looking for a partner that could address
our near-term and future communications requirements,” said Casey
Shilts, executive vice president, Hicks Holdings, a Dallas-based private
investment firm, which owns sports assets. “We were most impressed with
the quality of XO’s service offerings, which will deliver improved
functionality and performance over our cu... (more)
Equinix, Inc., a provider of network-neutral data centres and Internet
exchange services, announced that Swiftroute, a managed hosting services
provider in Singapore, will move their server infrastructure to Equinix's
Singapore Internet Business Exchange (IBX) centre.
By locating within Equinix's Singapore IBX, Swiftroute will benefit from the
aggregation of networks operating in the centre, as well as the
industry-leading security, environmental and physical infrastructure of the
IBX. Within this central Internet hub, it will be able to offer its customers
direct access to a lar... (more)
Internet America, Inc., a Dallas-based provider of Internet access services,
yesterday announced that Jennifer S. LeBlanc, CPA has been named Chief
Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of the company.
LeBlanc previously held audit management positions with PKF of Texas and
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. Prior to that, she was Director of Finance for a
unit of National Data Corporation.
Billy Ladin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Internet America, said,
"We are very excited to have an experienced financial manager such as
Jennifer joining our team. Over the past few... (more)
Terremark Worldwide Inc., an operator of integrated Tier-1 Internet exchanges
and provider of managed IT infrastructure solutions for government and
private sectors, announced that IDG Netherlands, a technology media, research
and event company, has signed a multi-year contract with Dedigate,
Terremark's managed hosting subsidiary.
Uptime is important for IDG Netherlands and even if one of its sites is
offline, this leads to immediate reactions by its visitors, said Mr. Raimon
Gort from IDG Netherlands. A partner like Dedigate that manages the
infrastructure behind its websites a... (more)
Spoono, a design portal, has introduced reseller hosting capabilities to its
line of web hosting offerings. The feature-rich, yet very affordable,
reseller plan provides customers with everything necessary to function as an
independent web host, according to the company.
The reseller plan includes 5 Gigabytes of disk space and 200 Gigabytes of
data transfer for a monthly price of $29.95. The plan gives users access to a
WebHost Manager account in which they may define their own web hosting plan
sizes and create hosting accounts for up to 150 websites in their allotted
space. Rese... (more)
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