Cyrus Afzali

Author David Yoffie Tuesday said Netscape’s arrogance will soon catch up with the company, leaving Microsoft to control the Web browser market just as it dominates the PC operating system sector. Yoffie co-authored the book Competing on Internet Time: Lessons From Netscape and Its Battle With Microsoft. In an interview Tuesday with InternetNews Radio reporter […]

Cable & Wireless USA plans an aggressive marketing campaign to lure subscribers to its Internet access service, the company announced Monday. Cable & Wireless jumped into the consumer Internet access game in September with its $1.75 billion purchase of MCI Communications Corp.’s Internet access unit. WorldCom decided to sell the unit to help passify regulatory […]

Broadcom Corp. Monday introduced a new chip that it says will improve the video quality on set-top boxes and other television appliances. Targeted at next-generation set-top units, the company’s new graphics accelerator has 3-D capabilities and supports studio-quality text, graphics and video on ordinary television displays. The new chip is Broadcom’s first entry in the […]

Microsoft Corp. is capturing a growing share of the Web server market and is widening its lead over competing products from Netscape Communications Corp., according to a study just released by market researcher SiteMetrics Corp. The company’s survey of 53,000 Web operators in the United States found Apache, Netscape and Microsoft — the top three […]

US WEST !NTERPRISE Networking and Changepoint Corp. have joined to develop a new product allowing businesses to easily set up feature-rich intranet sites. involv Intranet Team Edition is designed to allow businesses to create intranet sites that allow teams of 50 to 250 to cost-effectively collaborate on projects using the Web. The product is an […]

Microsoft Corp. expanded into the online advertising arena Thursday by purchasing LinkExchange Inc. for a reported $250 million in stock. LinkExchange confirmed the purchase in a letter sent to members Thursday, however the company did not disclose the financial details. “After months of discussions and meetings with Microsoft, we all came to the conclusion that […]

Internet service providers cheered provisions in the recently passed Digital Millennium Copyright Act that limited their liability for copyright infringements made by their customers. This week, they learned the protection wouldn’t be free. Late Tuesday, the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress published interim regulations that became effective immediately establishing rules for dealing with […]

Israel’s Orckit Communications Ltd. is teaming with Lucent Technologies Inc. to market Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line products throughout the Middle East, Europe and Africa. The partnership announced Wednesday calls for Lucent to market Orckit’s FastInternet ADSL system, along with its own access and data networking equipment to businesses and consumers in the region seeking high-speed […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday introduced its newest network management product designed to help system administrators monitor and analyze intranet performance. HP said its OpenView Metrix Site Manager for Windows NT gives small and medium-size businesses the ability to quickly troubleshoot network problems. By providing historical data, the program also helps companies identify and analyze traffic trends […]

Infoseek Corp. is forming an alliance with several German companies to target one of the fastest-growing online markets in Europe. Infoseek is teaming with German telephone operator Deutsche Telekom, media company Axel Springer Verlag and publisher Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrink to launch Infoseek Germany in the second quarter of 1999. The site’s capabilities will mirror […]

Claiming it has technology that can break through today’s current IP switching bottlenecks, Santa Clara, CA-based T.Sqware is introducing a line of “edge” processors that borrow from super-computing designs. According to company representatives, T.Sqware’s chips will make it possible to build switching equipment that can keep up with the speed of the fastest wire connections, […]

Netscape Communications Corp. Monday announced it will use Intraware Inc.’s SubscribNet service to distribute software updates to its corporate customers. As part of the service, Intraware will maintain information about a corporation’s products, platforms and preferences and use that data to determine when an update is available. If a client decides they want the update, […]