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IT analyst company Gartner Asia-Pacific is warning of consolidation in the IT services market with companies such as EDS, Unisys and Fujitsu as possible takeover targets.

Cynicism aside, the push to establish handheld technology as the new platform for enterprise computing will affect a dramatic shift in the way organisations view their IT infrastructures. Evidence of handheld technology's emergence is growing.

The perpetual enemy of the electronic world -- time -- killed the merger between Sprint Corp. and WorldCom Inc. The companies looked at the delay the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit would cause and balked, officially calling off the deal last week

In a U.S. based agreement that has worldwide implications, Liberty Media Corp. -- the cable television unit of AT&T Corp.-- has agreed to acquire a 72 percent voting stake in broadband communications provider UnitedGlobalCom Inc., the companies announced on Monday.

In aournd 90 days we will see what the appeals court thinks of Judge Jackson's ruling that Microsoft should be broken into two companies.

In 90 days we will see what the appeals court thinks of Judge Jackson's ruling that Microsoft Corp. should be broken into two companies.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave a conditional approval today for AT&T Corp.'s proposed multibillion dollar merger with cable television and Internet access provider MediaOne Group Inc.

If you believe the hype, every company but your own is on the Internet buying and selling at one of those business-to-business trading exchanges for industries such as health care, paper and steel. But the reality is that most of these Net market-maker sites have almost no transaction volume.

Claiming eight consecutive quarters of year-on-year revenue growth, AT&T Corp. said its pro-forma revenue for 1999 was US$64.141 billion, up 6.2 percent from 1998. Citing strong wireless and business services growth, the company also capped off the year with a fourth quarter that beat analysts' expectations.

WITH THE PASSING of the Year 2000 crisis, Internet service providers will be returning to business as usual. Although networking is dominated by Cisco, there are a number of companies that plan to challenge the industry giant as ISPs move to the next generation of network hardware. One of those companies is Unisphere Solutions, which was formed when Siemens acquired Argon, Castle, and Red Stone in 1999. In an interview with InfoWorld Editor in Chief Michael Vizard, Marty Clague, president and CEO of Unisphere Solutions and Michael Welts, vice president of marketing, talked about how changes to the core networking infrastructure are about to broaden the number of services available from ISPs.

Digital Subscriber Line and cable Internet access are here to stay, but don't expect to be able to choose your Internet provider. We explain just who owns what in the new world order.