Bob Liu

NEW YORK — This year will be just as difficult as 2001 for venture capitalists because of the uncertainty of valuations in the public market and accountability to their own backers, a panel of investors explained on Tuesday. Speaking at the 2002 SIIA Information Industry Summit in NYC, panel moderator Ed Paisley described the session […]

Despite their late entries into the chipset market for wireless local area networking (WLAN), two chip companies were hoping to make a big splash on Tuesday with the claims they have each independently developed the industry’s first all-CMOS solution for chipsets based on the IEEE 802.11b standard (a.k.a. Wi-Fi). Marvell on Tuesday announced the 88W8200 […]

Apache, the freely available Web server software, has become as ubiquitous as the Windows operating system. Whether you ask auditing services like Security Space or poll reporting sites like Netcraft, you still get the same answer: more than half of all Web sites use Apache to serve up Web pages. And this has been true […]

drkoop.com, Inc., which since August 2001 has tried to divorced itself from any association of its dot-com heritage by doing business as Dr. Koop LifeCare, disclosed late Sunday that it has met the same fate as many of its start-up brethren. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company, which was named for the former Surgeon General of […]

Anyone with a good idea risks tipping their hand to the competition if they talk too loudly. The folks at San Mateo, Calif.-based RouteScience know that. Since the launch of its innovative PathControl product in August, RouteScience, once of the first companies to announce its entry into the business of “intelligent routing,” has been met […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Standard Board last week formally approved IEEE Standard 802.16 (“Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems”) laying the groundwork for what could turn into widespread deployment of 10 to 66 GHz wireless metropolitan area networks (MANs) as an economical method of high-speed “last-mile” connection to public networks. […]

Symbol Technologies Inc. said Monday that it has formed an alliance with IBM Corp. to design, implement and provide comprehensive mobile computing systems using wireless local area networking (LAN), wireless wide area networking (WAN) and wireless personal area networking (PAN). In a press statement, Symbol said its alliance with IBM will concentrate its marketing efforts […]

With the long distance business still retrenching from the fixed wireless space, Sprint on Tuesday announced that its wireless business anticipates good results for 2002 with revenue projections showing an increase of more than 30 percent to approximately $13 billion and positive cash flow in a range of $3.0 to $3.1 billion. “Our 3G rollout […]

Amazon.com on Monday announced it has acquired the assets of Egghead.com and is redirecting traffic to a transitional Web site until the ailing e-tailer relaunches. The Seattle-based e-commerce pioneer acquired the Egghead.com assets on Monday, Nov. 26, through the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. The assets included the Egghead.com URL, intellectual […]

Linksys, a leading networking equipment vendors for small businesses and home users, is taking steps to help handheld computer users tap into the growing number of so-called “public hotspots” — wireless local area networks based on the IEEE 802.11b standard. On Monday, the Irvine, Calif.-based company announced the immediate availability of the Instant Wireless Network […]

The ability to serve the homes, enterprise and the mass market settings is what makes Wi-Fi more compelling than any other radio technology such as HomeRF, Bluetooth or fixed access services, a top Agere Systems official said. In fact, for just that reason, Wi-Fi has supplanted next-generation cellular systems and made the race for 3G […]

With Enron teetering on the brink of filing the largest bankruptcy case in the nation’s history, analysts such as Goldman Sachs’ Laura Conigliaro are taking a long, hard look at what repercussions the corporate failure would have. And at least for the area of her expertise (enterprise hardware), the impact will be minimal. Apart from […]