Colin C. Haley

Where others see low-cost production, Nokia sees opportunity. The mobile phone giant’s venture capital arm, Nokia Venture Partners (NVP), has opened an office in New Delhi, India, to scout for new early-stage investments. “We plan on financing several Indian startups in the software, services, communications and semiconductor sectors,” Gina Bauman, a Nokia Venture Partners spokeswoman […]

Flextronics’ recent mega-contract from Nortel is most often described as an outsourced manufacturing deal. And indeed it is. Flextronics will take over Nortel factories and inventory in Brazil, Canada, France and Northern Ireland and build Nortel’s networking products for the next four years. But a key element of the agreement, and one Flextronics negotiated hard […]

Seeking additional enterprise customers, Time Warner Telecom is extending its metro Ethernet services using Juniper’s M-series routers. The equipment allows the carrier’s business customers with operations in different U.S. cities to function as though they are on the same Ethernet-based local area network. “The M-series enables us to deliver the full suite of VPN services […]

Not everyone in the IT industry is sitting on the edge of their seats for Google’s Nasdaq debut. Several firms are moving ahead with IPOs rather than trying to divine the health of the market from the search darling’s results. Phase Forward , a maker of enterprise software for the pharmaceutical industry, went public this […]

Looking to expand digital home entertainment, America Online and D-Link have introduced an offering using D-Link’s MediaLounge DSM-320 media component and Radio@AOL. “We’ve worked with AOL in the past on some minor deals, but this is the first time we are actually delivering content for them,” Darek Connole, a D-Link spokesman, told internetnews.com. For D-Link, […]

HighBeam Research has moved beyond the realm of search and into that of professor, librarian, scientist, Jeopardy champ and just about anyone else who knows a lot of stuff. Looking to fill the gap between Google and Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam now extracts information from the Columbia Encyclopedia, as well as two dozen other publications like specialized […]

CacheLogic is testing its new traffic-analysis appliance to help ISPs handle rising peer-to-peer traffic on their networks. Through the process, the company uncovered some interesting data about the worldwide P2P traffic. Streamsight 510 inspects packets in real-time and reports back to network operators how much of that traffic is P2P, including data that masquerades as […]

Network equipment giant Cisco Systems has named Charles Giancarlo as CTO. Most recently, Giancarlo served as senior vice president and general manager of product development for Cisco, as well as president of the company’s Linksys unit. He joined the company in December 1994 through the acquisition of Kalpana. As CTO, Giancarlo will be responsible for […]

BOSTON — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs boycotted Macworld here this week over a dispute with the show’s producers IDG World Expo. But that didn’t stop four former engineers from swapping stories about him — flattering or otherwise. David Pogue, a New York Times technology columnist who moderated a morning panel session, did his part to […]

Macworld’s in Boston. Apple isn’t. The computer company is boycotting the trade show because its producer, IDG World Expo, refused to move it to New York. Meanwhile, an IDG World Expo executive told internetnews.com that the company is already booking the new waterfront Boston Convention & Exhibition Center for Macworld in 2005. Warwick Davies, group […]

XO Communications is offering an alternative for competitive carriers wary of negotiating access deals with Baby Bells after last month’s seismic shift in telecom regulatory policy. The facilities-based carrier is providing wholesale local voice, data and Internet service in 36 U.S. markets, including Boston, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The offering is aimed […]

Anticipating the gradual decline of its dial-up modem business, Zoom Technologies is launching a Voice over Internet Protocol initiative. The firm’s first product is a ADSL modem that can be bundled with the firm’s new VoIP phone service. The offering is designed for out-of-the-box use and feature pay-as-you-go service as well as flat rate plans. […]