Bob Liu

By now, it’s well documented how content delivery networks (CDNs) like the ones operated by Akamai Technologies and Cable & Wireless’ Digital Island can help improve the reliability and performance of content-heavy Web sites. But that optimal performance has only been accomplished on a proprietary network infrastructure of servers on the so-called “edge” of the […]

Standard Media International will shut down the Industry Standard magazine, according to people familiar with the matter, but a source says the publication’s Web site will continue operations. The high-tech publication — which at the height of the dot-com craze hosted weekly happy hours on the rooftop of its San Francisco Bay area office building […]

Webvan Group Inc., which is in the process of liquidating its assets under bankruptcy protection, disclosed on Monday that it doesn’t expect to have enough cash to distribute any money to its shareholders. After announcing its intentions to file for Chapter 11 on July 9, the Foster City, Calif.-based company began selling off assets last […]

BuildNet Inc., announced Wednesday afternoon that it, along with six of its subsidiaries, has filed a petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The Durham, N.C.-based provider of business-to-business e-commerce solution for the residential construction industry made its filing in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. […]

With companies such as Envara and Embedded Wireless Devices recently grabbing headlines by outlining the developmental roadmap for the 802.11, the future of WLAN has seemingly been reassured. IT managers and consumers will no longer need to concern themselves with the question of how to upgrade their wireless LANs or PANs (personal area networks) once […]

While the Federal Bureau of Investigation and network security advocates are busy mobilizing IT managers around the country for the upcoming outbreak of the Code Red Worm, one resourceful Web site operator from the Utrecht in the Netherlands stands to make a hefty bounty. Michel de Rooij, 30, last week registered the www.coderedworm.com URL and […]

A few weeks ago, when EMC’s President and Chief Executive Officer Joe Tucci first stated that IT spending was on the decline, company officials stressed that he was referring, of course, to his own business. Those sentiments were reiterated Wednesday morning when the data storage giant confirmed that profits are plummeting because he believes “IT […]

For a second straight time, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has held off on determining the technological standard to extract data and deliver it wirelessly through the unlicensed airwaves of the 2.4 GHz spectrum at rates of 20+ megabits per second (Mbps), prolonging the rollout of all chipsets for next-generation 802.11g wireless […]

For a second straight time, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has held off on determining the technological standard to extract data and deliver it wirelessly through the unlicensed airwaves of the 2.4 GHz spectrum at rates of 20+ megabits per second (Mbps), prolonging the rollout of all chipsets for next-generation 802.11g wireless […]

Comcast Corp. on Sunday disclosed that it wants to merge with AT&T Broadband in a $44.5 billion deal that the cable company said would create the nation’s largest broadband communications provider with approximately 22 million subscribers in eight of the nation’s 10 largest markets. The announcement came on the eve of the completion of AT&T’s […]

For most of the first half of the year, technology pundits from Aberdeen to TechRepublic have repeatedly tried to discredit the alarmists that feared IT spending will stop. But the bleak overviews of business conditions proliferated on Friday by one technology giant after another suggested that overall IT spending just might decline for the first […]

Seattle-based RealNetworks, Inc. on Thursday announced support for the Symbian mobile platform — the open operating system used in handheld devices manufactured by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Psion, and Panasonic. As part of the alliance, London-based Symbian and RealNetworks will work together to bring multimedia to mobile solutions developed on the Symbian operating system. RealNetworks […]