Colin C. Haley

Details of SBC Communications’ public Wi-Fi strategy are starting to leak. The broadband service provider will install about 2,000 hotspots in hotels, airports and other public venues in its 13-state coverage area by year’s end, the The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported today. Michael Coe, a spokesman for the San Antonio, Texas-based company, […]

Over the next three years, Huntsman will pay AT&T $9 million to standardize and manage its voice and data networks — a move that will allow the chemical manufacturing giant to better integrate takeovers. The deal extends a previous contract between the companies. It also expands the scope, snatching some business away from rival service […]

BOSTON — In his keynote this morning, Nomadix CTO Joel Short asked the question perplexing many 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo attendees: How do we (in the industry) make money on this. “There is a way, it’s cooperation,” Short said. Industry players — hardware and software makers, Internet service providers, wireless carriers, and retailers, such […]

BOSTON — For executives at DigitalNet, a Dulles, Va., systems integrator, there were two reasons to install wireless local area network: to improve the productivity of its workers and to gain experience to perform similar projects for its clients. “We wanted to do it to ourselves first,” Bob Martin, vice president of wireless and digital […]

In a rush to improve productivity, many enterprises have overlooked the need to secure the flow of data over their wireless local area networks, according to new research from Jupitermedia’s research arm. The study, released here today at 802.11 Planet & Expo, finds that only 28 percent of enterprises are using point-to-point virtual private networks. […]

BOSTON — In a rush to improve productivity, many enterprises have overlooked the need to secure the flow of data over their wireless local area networks , according to new research from Jupitermedia’s research arm. The study, released here today at 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo, finds that only 28 percent of enterprises are using […]

BOSTON — Privately held Solectek Corp. is introducing three new Wi-Fi products here at 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo in Boston this week. The first two — the CL550 802.11b client-bridge/router and the Skyway 5000 Series — are aimed at Internet service providers. “The 550 extends the wireless (local area networks) to previously unreachable remote […]

Suddenly, Web hosting is hot again. Following the decision of two large service providers (Level 3, Sprint) to halt service because of cost concerns, several survivors have launched promotions to pick-up stranded customers. The latest is SBC Communications which today said it will give new customers free installation plus one month’s service on most hosting […]

Rather than wait for large ISPs to install public Wi-Fi access points in smaller cities, the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce will unveil its own (housed in the Chamber’s information kiosk) in historic Market Square today. The free hotspot uses a standard phone line, a burstable SDSL connection with speeds from 768Kbps to 2.5Mbps, and […]

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) has dipped into its cash reserves to buy the AltaVista enterprise search business from Overture Services . The value of the deal, the latest in a rapidly consolidating industry, was not disclosed. Overture obtained the enterprise search business as part of the acquisition of the business of AltaVista, in late […]

Portal player Yahoo! has widened the scope of an earlier deal with the United Kingdom’s largest Internet service provider, British Telecommunications. Financial terms were not disclosed. Later this year, the companies will launch “BT Yahoo! Broadband” giving customers high-speed Internet access bundled with browser, personalized homepages, and other services, including streaming news and entertainment. Sunnyvale, […]

Creditors still don’t know how much they’ll get after Genuity’s remaining assets are sold. But shareholders do — zero. “Genuity believes that its stockholders will not receive any proceeds from the liquidation and that its common stock will have no value in connection with the liquidation,” the Woburn, Mass., firm said in a regulatory filing […]