Cyrus Afzali

Cable and wireless companies stand to grab the lion’s share of the high-speed Internet market, according to a new study from Datacomm Research Co. In its study, “Bandwidth Bonanza: High-Speed Internet Access Technologies, Markets and Vendors,” Datacomm president Ira Brodsky goes so far as to predict “traditional telcos, long regarded as harmful monopolies, will slowly […]

Regional telephone operator US WEST plans to invest more than $3 billion in capital improvements to make high-speed wireless Internet service a reality for both business and residential customers in 1999. As part of a broad plan to accelerate the rollout of its wireless service, US WEST plans to speed deployment of fiber and other […]

One day after winning preliminary approval for its purchase of cable operator Tele-Communications Inc., AT&T Corp. is reportedly in discussions with Time Warner Inc. about a possible Internet alliance. According to published reports, the two companies will align in a joint venture that would allow AT&T to use Time Warner’s cable systems to provide Internet […]

AT&T Corp. and Tele-Communications Inc. told Portland, Ore., officials this week they don’t plan to abide by a city ordinance requiring them to open TCI’s cable system to other Internet providers. AT&T, which is in the process of finalizing its $48 billion purchase of TCI, said it will comply with all provisions of an ordinance […]

Excite Inc. and specialty retailer Genesis Direct Wednesday signed an agreement that will bring 20 Genesis brands to Excite and WebCrawler. Genesis’ brands include proteam.com, which will be the first to debut on Excite in the first quarter of 1999, offering a variety of sports fan merchandise from all major pro sports leagues. In addition […]

In the volatile world of Internet stocks, one of the fastest-rising sectors of late are the auction sites. Investors, excited by the prospect of future earnings, have prompted an incredible run-up of the leading contenders since the fall. Many analysts have positive outlooks for the stocks, particularly eBay since it collects fees from people who […]

A leading computer security group is warning individuals who use computer running certain variants of the UNIX operating system that they could be susceptible to a TCP/IP hack. The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center, or CERT, warned earlier this week that certain versions of the Free BSD and Berkeley Software Design version of UNIX […]

The next update to Internet Explorer for the Macintosh is scheduled to be released early next month at the MacWorld trade show in San Francisco. According to published reports, public spats between Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will not affect product releases. Microsoft has also scheduled several enhancements for IE 4.5 that will be […]

Web site provider and Internet communications company Netopia Inc. Friday acquired Serus LLC, makers of Java-based Web development tools, in a cash and stock deal. Netopia paid Serus $3 million in cash and gave the firm 409,556 shares of its common stock. Netopia also may pay up to $1 million more for Serus if certain, […]

A group of Internet companies are promoting a new protocol they say will help Internet software more efficiently use caching to save bandwidth and minimize network strain. Web caching software company Inktomi Corp. is being joined by Microsoft Corp., Real Networks Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. The Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol has already been integrated […]

A number of leading networking and Internet companies are banding together to support a new standard that would ensure the compatibility of Internet telephony products. ITXC Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., and VocalTec Communications were joined Thursday by networking companies Ascend Communications and Cisco Systems, IP telephony supplier Clarent, Dialogic, Natural MicroSystems and Siemens. Dubbed iNOW!, […]

Sprint Thursday announced plans for a broad scale DSL rollout and plans to completely bypass Baby Bells. Sprint said it will begin building Digital Subscriber Line links to its next-generation Integrated On-Demand Network in 35 cities, which were not specified. Announced in June, ION is a new network based on open architecture standards, allowing it […]