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| Â | Skattabrain: Crossing the Chasm |
 | | In his subsequent book, Inside the Tornado, Moore's use of the "tornado" metaphor correctly suggests that turbulence of unprecedented magnitude has occurred within the global marketplace which the WWW and the Internet have created. | | | Geoffrey's first book, Crossing the Chasm, initially published in 1991, adds compelling new extensions to the classical model of the Technology Adoption Life Cycle. | | | Amazon.com: Books: Crossing the Chasm : Amazon.com: Books: Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore Crossing the Chasm,Geoffrey A. Moore,0060517123,Business and Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,High technology... |
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http://www.skattabrain.com/css-books-plain/0060517123.html
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| Â | The IP Pulse |
| | Global Crossing announced that it is in the process of deploying Sonus Networks' VoIP technologies in its existing IP based optic networks to develop a global VoIP network. | | | Global Crossing is in the process of deploying a global optic network, which will consist of more than 101,000 route miles, serving five continents, 27 countries and more than 200 major metropolitan markets. | | | In addition, it features a buddy list, voice email, call forward capabilities, and free global roaming to allow users to be reached at any location in world via the same InfoAccel telephone number. |
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http://www.iptelephony.org/GIP/pulse/00archives/101200
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| Â | The HooK: NEWS- Book Crossing: Locals set books free |
| | And in recent months, Hornbaker's global library has seeped into Virginia with the release of 301 books 39 which are in Charlottesville, making the city the leading Book Crossing locale in the state. | | | For the webmaster, this kind of feedback is what makes Book Crossing the software executive's most rewarding project. | | | When a registered book is found, the Book Crossing system sends the book's original owner email notification of the discovery, connecting the books prior and current reader. |
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http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2002/07/11/3newsBookCrossingLocalsSet.html
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| Â | Dave Gorman - Links |
| | Book Crossing is, in its own words "a global book club that crosses time and space". | | | I didn't take a look until after the book was published and I'm glad I didn't or I might have had to write a book about how I failed to write a book about how I failed to write a novel because I was distracted by the internet. | | | I first heard about isketch while I was writing a book that explains how I failed to write a novel because I was distracted by the internet. |
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http://www.davegorman.com/links.htm
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| Â | Benefitsblog: NewsWatch: Global Crossing Settlement Reached |
| | Global Crossing Settlement: WOKR-TV 1: "Global Crossing Settlement Helps Some Local Pensions": After a year of negotiations, former officers of Global Crossing have finally settled a class action lawsuit. | | | A $325 million securities class-action settlement for former shareholders and employees of Global Crossing Ltd. helps pave the way for a settlement deal between the telecom company and the Securities and Exchange Commission over alleged accounting fraud. | | | Ralph Ferrara, a lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton in Washington, who represented Global Crossing's directors and officers, said he thought the recovery for the employees of Global Crossing was the largest ever under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. |
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http://www.benefitscounsel.com/archives/000961.html
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| Â | GLOBAL CROSSING LTD - GLBCE Unscheduled Material Events (8-K) EXHIBIT 99.1 |
| | Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. | | | Global Crossing acquired its 49 percent interest in SBSS in 1999, as part of its purchase of Global Marine, and owns the venture in partnership with China Telecom. | | | Global Crossing has also agreed to extend its commercial agreement with Global Marine for the maintenance of Global Crossing's network for an additional five years. |
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http://sec.edgar-online.com/2004/08/19/0001193125-04-143857/section4.asp
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| Â | global.txt |
| | Global Crossing's Crown Jewel The crown jewel of the Global Crossing Network is its interconnecting undersea and terrestrial fiber-optic cables that span the globe. | | | Global Crossing anticipates that these initiatives, combined with the Proposed Investment, will enable it to promptly emerge from the chapter 11 process as a viable, stand-alone business. | | | Global Crossing serves many of the world's largest corporations, providing a full range of managed data and voice products and services. |
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http://bankrupt.com/global.txt
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| Â | Carlos Slim Helu ups Global Crossing stake to 20% |
| | Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu has increased his stake in intercontinental carrier Global Crossing to about 20%, according to documents filed with the Security and Exchange Commission July 30. | | | Carlos Slim Helu ups Global Crossing stake to 20% | | | Latin America’s richest man, Slim Helu publicly stated a desire to increase his stake in Global Crossing to nearly 20% in May. He gained regulatory approval to do so in late July. |
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http://telephonyonline.com/ar/telecom_carlos_slim_helu/
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| Â | HELLO! Tai Tai .com |
| | Hutchison Whampoa is stepping in to help rescue troubled United States undersea cable operator Global Crossing, which said yesterday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. | | | Hutchison Global Crossing is a joint venture between Hutchison Whampoa and Asia Global Crossing, whose US-listed controlling shareholder Global Crossing is on the edge of bankruptcy. | | | Hutchison Whampoa and Singapore Technologies Telemedia (STT) have asked Global Crossing creditors to take a 84.2 per cent haircut on US$7 billion they lent the company. |
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http://www.geocities.com/tycoon_village/hwl_globalcrossings.html
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| Â | GLOBAL CROSSING STARVED BY GLUT |
| | But Global Crossing already consolidates Asia Global Crossing’s results into its own so there won’t be any revenue boost, and the company will have to issue at least 200 million in new shares to buy the remaining 43% stake, resulting in significant stock dilution, Reingold said. | | | According to Michael Ruddy, a research director at Terabit Consulting, Global Crossing based its undersea cable buildout on its experience in 1998, when it sold gobs of bandwidth on its Atlantic Crossing 1 cable because of pent-up demand and a lack of competition. | | | Global Crossing missed third-quarter estimates in part because cash sales of long-term, wholesale capacity to other carriers plummeted by more than 50% to $225 million. |
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http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_global_crossing_starved/index.html
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| Â | Global Crossing and Lucent Technologies reach broad agreement |
| | The Global Crossing network is being built to connect 100 of the top telecommunications cities in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. | | | Global Crossing also has projects underway to construct undersea optical fiber communication systems interconnecting Asia and Latin America to the United States and Europe, as well as a terrestrial network in Japan. | | | Global Crossing has begun construction of the Pan-European Crossing network and has previously announced the acquisition of rights-of-way for that project. |
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http://www.lucent.com/press/0199/990126.nsa.html
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| Â | Panavision Selects Global Crossing for Secure, Mission-Critical Communications Network |
| | Global Crossing's true global reach matched Panavision's requirements for seamless communications across its worldwide enterprise, allowing Panavision to transmit mission-critical business communications and internal applications securely and efficiently. | | | To deploy Panavision's network, Global Crossing provided a local account team with global expertise backed by a global support infrastructure. | | | FLORHAM PARK, N.J., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Crossing today announced that it has fully implemented a new 17-site global network for Panavision, the worldwide market leader in the design, manufacture and rental of camera systems for production of motion pictures, television series and television commercials. |
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/jun/1155419.htm
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| Â | Global Crossing To Pay $1.65 Billion for Racal Telecom |
| | "Racal Telecom's extensive network adds to Global Crossing's existing UK operations and soon to be completed pan-European network, and represents an exceptional opportunity to accelerate our development of the world's first global independent telecommunications company," said Bob Annunziata, CEO of Global Crossing. | | | Global Crossing, which is building a worldwide IP-based fibre optic network, has reached an agreement to acquire Racal Telecom for £1 billion ($1.65 billion) in cash. | | | Global Crossing To Pay $1.65 Billion for Racal Telecom |
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/print.php/6_217191
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| Â | IT AsiaOne - News - No Plan B yet, says ST Telemedia |
| | In one of the clearest statement of ST Telemedia's ambitions, Mr Lee yesterday explained that Global Crossing was vital to achieving its vision of becoming a major player in the global corporate data networking arena. | | | Global Crossing's creditors, who are mostly US-based, are likely to appoint two US citizens to the board, which when combined with the other five, would result in an American-dominated board. | | | ST Telemedia's bid for 61.5 per cent of Global Crossing faced its latest hurdle last month when the US Defence Department raised security concerns over sensitive military data transmitted over Global Crossing's network. |
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http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news003_20030801.html
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| Â | da991274.txt |
| | GT Landing, a Delaware corporation, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atlantic Crossing Ltd. (ACL), a Bermuda company which, through a series of intermediate holding companies, is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Crossing Ltd. (Global Crossing). | | | GT Landing states that because it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Crossing, Ltd., it is affiliated with several overseas start-up companies owned by Global Crossing which are constructing a terrestrial fiber optic network in Europe, Pan European Crossing (PEC). | | | GT Landing also is affiliated with the landing parties for the AC-1 Cable because all of them are indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of Global Crossing. |
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http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/International/Orders/1999/da991274.txt
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| Â | ISP-Planet - News - Asia Global Crossing Activates IP Backbone |
| | The IP backbone can be upgraded as demand requires; the IP services backbone across Asia Global Crossing's Pacific Crossing has been upgraded to 2.5Gbps, which the company claims is the fastest trans-Pacific services backbone in service today. | | | Asia Global Crossing's new IP services backbone is the tunnel within East Asia Crossing that, together with Asia Global Crossing's Pacific Crossing, is said to establish the fastest direct link connecting Hong Kong, Japan and the U.S. to enable a seamless flow of the Global Crossing/Asia Global Crossing IP services product suite. | | | The IP backbone provides carrier, ISP and corporate customers with the fastest platform for IP transit, international private line circuits, IP virtual private networks, and voice over IP offerings. |
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http://www.isp-planet.com/news/2001/global_crossing_pacific.html
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| Â | Global Crossing to Provide International IP-based Network Connecting Telmex Regional Operations |
| | Last year, Global Crossing and Telmex de Mexico signed a commercial agreement for bilateral voice interconnection, which allows Global Crossing to send traffic to Mexico and Telmex to transport long-distance voice traffic to the United States. | | | Connectivity for the Telmex Group will be provided via several new and expanded international private line leases with short and long-term commitments Global Crossing's private line service provides high-reliability, point-to-point, digital connectivity. | | | Telmex has been Global Crossing's primary local access provider for data services in Mexico since 2001. |
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http://www.globalcrossing.com/xml/news/2005/february/14_2.xml
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| Â | Global Crossing Introduces Carrier VoIP Outbound Service in Europe |
| | As the VoIP network is fully integrated with the TDM network, the Carrier VoIP Outbound service benefits from the highly competitive feature set of Global Crossing's entire suite of services and helps to make the migration of customers and suppliers to VoIP seamless. | | | Security is a key feature of Carrier VoIP Outbound service and Global Crossing has deployed session border controllers (SBCs) to provide a secure interconnection point that protects both Global Crossing's and the customer's networks from each other. | | | Advancing its leadership in worldwide VoIP services, Global Crossing's Carrier VoIP Outbound Service provides wholesale IP interconnection, transport and call completion of packet-based voice traffic over Global Crossing's network and is a significant step towards delivering Global Crossing's portfolio of VoIP services in Europe. |
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http://www.globalcrossing.com/xml/news/2005/may/24_2.xml
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| Â | Townhall.com :: Columns :: Crossing out Global Crossing by Brent Bozell |
| | Global Crossing was also inflating its value with bad accounting, and it left employees without severance payments and health benefits, and told employees, "If your 401(k) includes investments in the Global Crossing Stock Fund... | | | He capitulated to Press just minutes after Press joked, "I'm all for politicizing Enron." Despite all the reported private gloating that Global Crossing somehow neutralizes Enron, Republicans are never going to get one second's relief unless someone within the GOP has the guts to stand up and demand fairness. | | | On the day before President Bush gave his State of the Union Address, newspapers reported that Global Crossing, a pioneering firm who tried to lay Internet cables under the seas, was filing for bankruptcy. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20020211.shtml
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| Â | DRUDGE REPORT 2002® |
| | But with shares of GLOBAL CROSSING closing at just 30 cents on Monday, and trading suspended after the Chapter 11 deal was announced, McAuliffe faded from view. | | | ENRON-stung GOPers are discreetly eyeing the collapse of GLOBAL CROSSING [which on Monday became the 4th largest bankruptcy in history] and its Chairman Gary Winnick, a top Democrat donor who helped DNC head Terry McAuliffe turn a $100,000 stock investment -- into $18,000,000! | | | A major fundraising dinner for Senator Tom Daschle was bought and paid for by GLOBAL CROSSING. |
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| Â | CNN.com - Hutch, STT buy Global Crossing stake - August 12, 2002 |
| | Global Crossing, which filed for Chapter 11 protection in January, said it intends to file a reorganization plan in September and expects to emerge from bankruptcy in early 2003. | | | Global Crossing's banks and creditors will receive a 38.5 percent stake in the company, the spokeswoman said. | | | The agreement, which was approved Friday in the bankruptcy court for the Southern District of New York, includes Global Crossing's 58 percent stake in its Pacific Rim affiliate Asia Global Crossing Ltd., Joseph Ryan, an attorney for the creditors committee, said at the hearing. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/BUSINESS/asia/08/12/hk.hutch.biz
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| Â | Global Crossing digs in |
| | Global Crossing is building metropolitan fiber rings in 10 or 12 cities in the U.S., sometimes by leasing conduit from other carriers such as Level 3 Communications, sometimes partnering with carriers such as Telergy in New York. | | | Global Crossing has one of the flashiest histories in the telecommunications industry. | | | Walsh joined Global Crossing's board in June 2000 and was named president and chief operating officer in January. |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1242475,00.asp
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| Â | Global Crossing Extends Converged IP Services Reach to Mainland China with CPCNet |
| | Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. | | | Global Crossing's IP VPN service allows the seven locations to communicate among themselves as well as to the rest of the globe. | | | Global Crossing's high-performance IP VPN solution supports the convergence of voice, video and data over a single connection and around the world, backed by the company's industry-leading SLAs. |
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-17-2005/0004170203&EDATE=
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| Â | IHT: Hutchison withdraws from bid for Crossing |
| | Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., a large Hong Kong conglomerate, said it was backing out of a deal to invest $125 million in the bankrupt U.S. telecommunications company Global Crossing Ltd. | | | Volshteyn said that the inability to participate in the transaction was a setback for Hutchison Whampoa, which could have used Global Crossing's networks to expand its own international telecommunications operations, which are concentrated in Europe and Asia. | | | The withdrawal by Hutchison Whampoa on Wednesday could pave the way for regulatory approval of the transaction, according to Global Crossing. |
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http://www.iht.com/articles/95034.html
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| Â | Global Crossing's agreement with Loral Skynet will expanded service capabilities |
| | Loral Skynet is also leveraging Global Crossing`s IP Transit service to provide customers with Internet connectivity, and is using Global Crossing`s private line service for both resale and its own network infrastructure. | | | Recently, Loral Skynet and Global Crossing combined their respective satellite and terrestrial capabilities to win a 260 site IP network contract to support the British Council, a British charity organization partially funded by the UK Government`s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, illustrating the power of converging transport mediums, all IP-enabled. | | | By leveraging Global Crossing`s Fast-Track services, Loral Skynet can more easily reach locations outside its satellite network, delivering converged IP services to its global customer base. |
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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/printer_1002432.php
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| Â | Global Crossing's Final Crossing |
| | Winnick and Global Crossing management were investigated by the Securities and Exchange Committee, the Justice Department, and Congress regarding the timely sale of millions of dollars worth of stock just before Global Crossing began to sag under the weight of billions of dollars in debt. | | | Over this past year, Global Crossing, (Quote, Chart) weathered a storm of public and legal scrutiny that led to its near collapse, bankruptcy, and eventual court-ordered restructuring. | | | At its peak, Global Crossing had a market value estimated at $50 billion, with reach into 27 countries and more than 200 major cities around the globe. |
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1562621
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| Â | DLD 87-12 - UNDERSEA CABLE WILL LOWER RATES |
| | Global Crossing is the name recently selected by Global Telesystems Ltd., owner of the Atlantic Crossing cable, to better reflect the strong market acceptance of Atlantic Crossing and the request by many customers for more Global Crossing projects in other parts of the world. | | | Global Crossing is capitalized by a group of international investors led by California-based Pacific Capital Group. | | | This system will then be linked to Atlantic Crossing, which spans more than 14,000 kilometers, connecting the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany. |
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http://www.thedigest.com/87/87-12.html
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| Â | PoliticalPosts.com Political News and Editorials |
| | Global Crossing is a communications company that provides data and voice services on its 100,000-mile fiber-optic network linking 27 countries. | | | Instead of being able to lay first claim to cash and physical assets, as might normally be the case with bank lenders, Global Crossing's banks agreed to let their loans be guaranteed by pledges of stock in more than 60 subsidiaries of Global Crossing, according to a person close to the banks. | | | The bankruptcy proceedings of Global Crossing are becoming far more contentious and potentially disruptive for the company's creditors, customers and business partners than previously expected, bankruptcy experts said Sunday. |
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http://www.politicalposts.com/news/index.asp?id=126347
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