Colin C. Haley

Former House Speaker “Tip” O’Neil once said, “All politics is local,” meaning that what mattered most to constituents was what happened in their own neighborhoods. A similar philosophy is emerging in the search industry. While search has grown to be an essential marketing tool for companies with nationwide reach, search players are increasingly positioning themselves […]

Lucent Technologies has notched its second contract in less than a year to help rebuild Iraq’s war-torn telecom infrastructure. The work will begin immediately and involves restoring existing phone systems, building new ones and tying the two together. The nationwide project, awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and overseen by the Coalition Provisional […]

Buoyed by newly announced content deals with Microsoft and America Online , Major League Baseball is reportedly considering selling a minority stake of its online arm in a public offering. The move could raise several hundred million dollars for the league, according to The New York Times, and has implications for the broader Internet content […]

Microsoft is poised to announce a multi-year contract to offer live video broadcasts of Major League Baseball (MLB) games to PC users, as it tries to upgrade MSN subscribers to its MSN Premium broadband package. Financial terms won’t be released. Beginning Opening Day (April 5th), MSN will offer all games — about 250 per week […]

Cisco Systems has introduced new products and capabilities for its popular Catalyst switch line, many of which dovetail with its self-defending network strategy. “Gone are the days when you can put a firewall at the edge of the network and keep the bad things out,” Steve Shalita, Cisco’s senior manager of product marketing, said. “The […]

Time Warner on Friday dismissed a report that it was in talks to sell the America Online unit to Microsoft . “There is just no truth to it,” Time Warner spokeswoman Tricia Primrose said in response to a report in The New York Post. The paper, citing unnamed sources, also said lawyers for New York-based […]

Broadband provider Comcast is taking a tough new approach to targeting “spam zombies” — those virus-infected, unwitting spam-sending computers among its broadband base. The ISP is telling customers to get virus-scanning and firewall software loaded or risk losing their high-speed connection until the problem of virus infections on their computer is fixed. In recent weeks, […]

Three years after a ballyhooed cross-media marriage, Time Warner is considering divorcing America Online, according to The New York Post. The publishing giant has asked its bankers at Goldman Sachs to examine options for the Internet business, including a sale, spin-off or restructuring, the paper said, citing anonymous sources. Mia Carbonell, Time Warner’s director of […]

While the sale of EDS’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software unit is an obvious boon for the Plano, Texas, company, experts say it also bodes well for the PLM industry. EDS on Sunday agreed to sell UGS PLM Solutions to three buyout firms for $2.05 billion, the largest private equity investment ever made in a […]

America Online is taking a second crack at offering free online bill payment to its members by teaming with financial software vendor Yodlee. AOL Bill Pay is part of a larger push by the Dulles, Va., ISP to supply useful “life-management” tools to customers as a way to dissuade them from defecting to lower-cost rivals. […]

Content delivery specialist Mirror Image Internet will expand its network through a new contract with data center operator Equinix , the companies announced today. Terms were not disclosed. Mirror Image will tap into Equinix facilities in Silicon Valley, New York and Washington, D.C., to provide customers with increased capacity and network connectivity. The data centers […]

In a major bid to shed non-core assets and focus on its bread-and-butter IT outsourcing business, Electronic Data Systems has sold its UGS PLM Solutions unit to a group of three private equity firms for $2.05 billion. The firms, Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners and Warburg Pincus, will own equal shares in the provider of […]