BellSouth will offer a package of voice, data, and television services in a partnership with TV programming provider PDI-SAT, the former regional Bell operating company (RBOC) announced Wednesday. And, at an investors' conference, BellSouth's CEO said the company will experiment with television transmitted over the Internet.

The combo voice-data-TV package will be

LONDON — Japan is set to remain by far the largest buyer of chip making equipment in 2005 and 2006, roughly a third larger than the next largest region, Taiwan, according to a consensus forecast published by the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International industry organization.

Indeed Japan will be the biggest spender

A WiMAX wireless broadband network covering 8000 square miles of southeastern Alberta will be rolled out in 2006, equipment vendor Nortel and a Canadian governmental body said Wednesday.

The network will cover a large area in rural southeastern Alberta, according to the Alberta Special Areas Board (SAB) and Nortel. SAB and Nortel

SEMI and ATDF on Wednesday (Dec. 7) said that they will collaborate in extending advanced wafer processing and testing capabilities to semiconductor industry suppliers.

ATDF will offer preferential services to SEMI members. In return, SEMI will help communicate ATDF's capabilities throughout the global supplier community.

The Semiconductor Equipment and Materials

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday said it is introducing technology to speed the performance of software programs running over long-distance corporate networks, as the communications equipment leader seeks out a stake in how the next generation of software is managed.
 
The announcement marks Cisco's entry into what it expects to

India - The number of Internet users in India will shoot to 100 million in two years from the current 38.5 million, an industry study said.
 
The number of Internet users has soared 54 percent from 25 million users in 2004-2005.

The catalyst for this growth was the rise

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that the US software giant plans to nearly double its workforce in India and invest 1.7 billion dollars in the next four years.
 
"We depend on India for manpower that is why we are scaling up operations here," Gates said at a business forum in

Britain's Inmarsat Plc has launched a long-awaited service to provide voice and high speed Internet access anywhere in the world, as the satellite operator looks to tap new sources of revenues.
 
Inmarsat, which operates a constellation of satellites that enable phone, fax, video and Internet access from anywhere in the

Avidian Technologies today announced an upgrade of Prophet, a Microsoft Outlook-based sales software package that focuses on the sales management needs of small and midsized businesses (SMBs).
 
"Most small businesses use Outlook, and don't want to have to learn an entire new software package in order to implement sales management

Senvid introduced MioNet, virtual workplace software that allows small business users to remotely access, share, and back up data and applications to local and remote computers.
 
By delivering a single integrated view of a user's entire digital content--a view that is the same regardless of where the data is located