Colin C. Haley

Network equipment maker 3Com will outsource all its manufacturing and lay off 1,000 workers to cut costs. Over the next six months, production will be shifted to Jabil Circuit and Flextronics , which will also handle distribution from its regional hubs. In addition, 3Com will established a design center in Taiwan. It will be running […]

It was an aggravating summer for e-mail users who watched helplessly as their in-boxes clogged with unwanted messages. Besides wasting time purging offers to help misunderstood potentates, enhance certain body parts and refinance homes, some users unwittingly opened messages carrying stow-away viruses that siphoned computing power and replicated themselves through address books. The deluge also […]

Comcast forsees moving to an all-digital network to edge telecom and satellite rivals in an increasingly cuthroat market, the cable giant’s president said this morning. That would give the company enough bandwidth for super-fast Internet, hundreds of TV channels and advanced video services, including video-on-demand, personal video recording and high-definition. “I don’t think we’ll run […]

Internet protocol services provider Internap is buying network route control equipment maker netVmg. The deal between the Atlanta and Fremont, Calif., companies should close later this month. Financial terms were not disclosed, however equity, not cash, was used to buy privately held netVmg. The acquisition of a firm whose gear sits in customers’ data centers […]

The outage that barred AOL subscribers from Microsoft Web sites this week hasn’t reoccurred, but the tech titans remain unable or unwilling to pinpoint the cause. That has to be less than reassuring news for millions of shared customers — those who use AOL’s network to get online to Microsoft’s MSN content portal and Hotmail […]

Subrah Iyar’s work on one of the industry’s first handheld computers at Apple Computer years ago taught him important lessons about timing a market for a new product release. Apple eventually abandoned its early PDA push for lack of demand. Now, as head of Web conferencing specialist WebEx , the 45-year-old is putting the sum […]

BOSTON — Mary McDowell, who recently managed Hewlett Packard’s server division, remains with the company, ending speculation she was headed to Dell , a high-ranking HP executive said. “There was a rumor about a month ago about some changes that included Mary McDowell,” HP CFO Bob Wayman said at SG Cowen’s Technology Conference. “She remains […]

BOSTON — Hewlett-Packard must improve call center operations to catch Dell in the consumer desktop market, the company’s CFO said. “We’re not moving enough through the direct channel,” Bob Wayman said at the SG Cowen Fall Technology Conference this morning. He conceded that Dell call center representatives do a better job cross-selling and up-selling their […]

BOSTON — Cisco’s CEO said the company’s momentum appears to be carrying over from last quarter. “August was a little above our expectations,” John Chambers said this morning at the SG Cowen Technology Conference. “It’s too early to tell if it is sustainable.” The cautious optimism — about the networking giant’s prospects and the broader […]

Dell has introduced new software to simplify management of its PowerConnect switches, a signal of the Round Rock, Texas, company’s growing commitment to a market it entered only two years ago. OpenManage Network Manager can be downloaded by customers for free via the Internet or CD-ROM and is compatible with previous as well as future […]

Draper Fisher Jurvetson is looking north for tomorrow’s IT players. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm is partnering with Primaxis Technology Ventures to raise a $100 million fund targeting Canadian startups. “The fund will focus on companies in the areas of physical engineering, IT, communications, advanced materials, and semiconductors,” DFJ partner Clay Pew told internetnews.com. […]

A surge in orders from the federal government helped enterprise search software maker Convera improve its finances during the second quarter. The Vienna, Va., company tallied revenues of $7.6 million, up 51 percent over the same period last year. Net loss was $5.1 million, or 18 cents per share, compared to a net loss of […]