Colin C. Haley

Cisco is boosting efforts to woo small and medium businesses (SMB) customers, believing they will start spending on technology before enterprises, CEO John Chambers said during a briefing with reporters and analysts yesterday. “Technology levels playing field,” said Chambers, explaining why customers in the market are investing faster than their larger counterparts. The San Jose, […]

BOSTON — Experts here at the first Weblog business strategy agree that online journals present opportunities for companies, comparing them to the early days of the PC, the Web and e-mail. “There’s lots of hype around (Weblogs) and that’s OK,” said Michael Gartenberg, a vice president at Jupiter Research said in opening ClickZ Weblog Business […]

Akamai burst on the national IT scene in 1999 with an eye-popping IPO and technology that addressed a growing problem — slow download times. But when the new economy convulsed two years later, the Cambridge, Mass., firm, like many of its contemporaries, was over-extended. Since then, Chairman and CEO George Conrades has walked the fine […]

Motorola has formed a new business unit to sell “connected home” networking gear — most notably wireless cable modem gatesways and digital set-top boxes — to consumers. Other offerings include home networking components, phones and mutli-fuction devices such as its all-in-one, cable-ready home theatre system. “Our ‘connected home’ strategy means we’re building devices and applications […]

The federal government’s new business-like approach to IT offers “unlimited opportunity” for companies of all sizes, Norman Lorentz, the federal government’s chief technology officer told Silicon Valley leaders during a forum sponsored by the technology trade association AeA. “We need (the private sector) to provide solutions that solve business problems,” said Lorentz, whose day job […]

Spanish telecom Telefonica is offering $2.04 billion cash for the 62 percent of Terra Lycos it does not already own, saying the Internet unit will perform better in-house than as an independent company. The deal, which must be accepted by at least 75 percent of Terra Lycos shareholders, would allow Telefonica to more tightly integrate […]

Several prominent execs say without a concerted effort by business, political and educational leaders, Massachusetts won’t have enough engineers to fill jobs in the future. The words of caution come in response to a new study from the Engineering in Massachusetts Collaborative (EiMC), a statewide public-private partnership led by Krishna Vedula, Dean of the College […]

Verizon (Quote, Company Info) this morning activated 150 Wi-Fi (define) hotspots (define) in New York, part of a plan to bring wireless Internet access to its subscribers throughout the Big Apple and differentiate itself from cable broadband rivals. In all, the telecom plans to have 1,000 access spots in the city by year’s end. Users […]

Following Verizon’s lead, broadband provider SBC will build a wireless Internet network to offer its DSL subscribers the sought-after service. “We’re pursuing plans in the public hotspot arena, we know it’s a very, very important market for us,” SBC spokesman Michael Coe said. “Our broadband users want to replicate the experience they have at home […]

Telecom infrastructure giant Alcatel will pay about $150 million for router maker TiMetra, another indication that the industry might be poised to emerge from a two-year slump. With the pickup, Alcatel is gaining a line of IP/MPLS products that allow carriers to provision services — such as virtual private networks and virtual private LANs — […]

Sycamore , is focused on its own optical networking equipment business but will consider acquisitions as valuations continue to dip, CEO Dan Smith said. “It’s an area of consideration for us,” Smith said told anlaysts in the company’s quarterly conference call. “The economics have to be looked at as well as the actual maturity of […]

SBC Communications may spend between $300 million and $500 million to expand its broadband coverage area, executives said at its annual investor conference. Currently about two-thirds of the San Antonio, Texas, company’s 57 million local lines can accommodate digital subscriber line broadband. SBC wants to up that total to three-quarters. SBC spokesman Selim Bingol wouldn’t […]