BellSouth ups DSL speed 
BellSouth this week said it plans to launch a 6M-bit/sec downstream broadband service for businesses and homes in the fourth quarter.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/060605-bellsouth.html?fsrc=rss-wanservices
Telefonica
Leading telephone service provider to the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world, Telefonica, discusses how the company is expanding to offer new IP-based services.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/video_audio_archive/player/?storyID=472b38e57ce57fcbd55e56b096844c5c8
Yahoo buys VoIP service company Dialpad
Yahoo has bought VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service provider Dialpad Communications to use its technology in Yahoo's VoIP services, Dailpad said Tuesday.
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/15/H
Mauritius Island to Go Wireless
Mauritius, a remote, mountainous island in the South West Indian Ocean, is slated to get a 100-square-mile broadband wireless network from Navini Networks.
The decision to install the non-line-of-sight, wide-area infrastructure was made by Mauritius telecommunications provider ADB Networks after ADB decided the rugged terrain of the island ruled out DSL or cable broadband.
Complete Article
http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#102
WiMax phone service coming
NextWeb, a Fremont Internet service provider, plans to announce today an Internet phone service that uses a wireless technology known as WiMax.
The phone service will launch in cities across California next month.
Certification of WiMax, a wireless technology backed primarily by Intel, is expected as early as summer.
http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#169
Infocus: Software Firewalls: Made of Straw? Part 2 of 2
Part two looks at Layered Service Provider based Trojans hidden in the protocol stack, providing stealthy communication through an open firewall port.
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1840
Game Store Customer Service
1UP.com sent a gamer to play dumb with store clerks to see which one gave her the best advice and service. The four stores 1UP.com visited were GameStop, Toys R Us, Best Buy, and EB Games. The Results didn't surprise...
http://compsimgames.about.com/b/a/177429.htm
Choosing The Right Childcare for Your Family
Learn about the three most common types of childcare providers and determine which kind works best for your families needs. Each type links to a checklist of provider interview questions and discussion topics, with the special needs of Single Parents...
http://singleparents.about.com/b/a/179135.htm
Thirty best practices for integrating Web services
Excerpt from the book Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services.
http://www.PerfectXML.com/bestpractices.asp
Best rebrands as Sage, launches hosted CRM service
Five years after it bought midmarket business applications vendor Best Software, U.K. software maker The Sage Group is finally bringing Best in line with its corporate branding and changing Best's name to Sage Software -- just as the newly renamed vendor revamps its portfolio to compete more aggressively.
http://www.networkworld.com/net.worker/news/2005/052405-sage.html
