Ed Sutherland

Tropos Networks has beefed up its gear by releasing the first in a product family of routers to give growing number of municipalities more choices in citywide wireless access. The Tropos 5320 MetroMesh dual-band Wi-Fi router is equipping wireless mesh networks being built in San Francisco, Philadelphia and New Orleans. The router allows cities to […]

AT&T  and Yahoo  unveiled a new online photo service for users looking for a better way to share digital pictures. Aimed at broadband subscribers, AT&T Yahoo Photos allows images to be tagged and shared from multiple devices, according to the two companies. Users can create Smart Albums, or online “playlists” of photos that detect newly […]

A federal appeals court denied EarthLink’s request to review an FCC ruling exempting Baby Bells from sharing broadband lines with rivals. Writing for the three-panel appeals court, Judge Janice Rogers Brown said EarthLink’s request “misses the mark.” The FCC reasonably concluded the benefits of unbundling were modest,” Brown wrote in the 22-page decision. The court […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate AOL’s disclosure of search data for 650,000 users. In its complaint, the privacy group asked the government to investigate the data breach, force AOL to pay for credit monitoring for users affected and waive fees for subscribers wanting to cancel the online […]

US LEC , provider of telecom services to enterprises along the East Coast, announced it will merge with Paetec, a private VoIP equipment-maker, to form a new company worth $1.3 billion. Paetec and US LEC will become subsidiaries of New Paetec, a holding company generating $1 billion in annual revenue with $40 million in yearly […]

After watching its stock value slide, Andrew’s $2 billion merger with ADC is off. Citing shareholder concern over the all-stock deal, the two companies announced Andrew would pay ADC $10 million and put any talk of merger on hold for now. Soon after the ADC plan was announced in May, valuation of two companies dropped […]

UPDATED: Just days after making a deal with Google to syndicate video content, MTV Networks announced its $200 million acquisition of content company Atom Entertainment. Atom, known for its popular gaming and user-created video sites, expands MTV’s network of online properties. The four Atom Entertainment properties include gaming sites Shockwave.com and AddictingGames.com, along with short […]

Google’s effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project. The agreement could be a leap for the project, temporarily halted due to copyright concerns and later renewed under stricter guidelines. With 100 libraries spread across 10 campuses, the UC pact could be […]

Hackers may have found a backdoor into RIM’s popular BlackBerry e-mail device. Software exploiting how mail is transmitted could siphon confidential information from company computers, warned security firm Secure Computing. The software, BBProxy, first unveiled at the recent Defcon hacker convention by researcher Jesse D’Aguanno, bypasses normal network security, disguised as an innocent attachment. “A […]

Microsoft released 12 patches aimed at resolving multiple security risks discovered in its operating system and popular Office suite. Nine of the 12 security updates were deemed “critical,” affecting various Windows components, as well as two Office applications previously known to be vulnerable. The remaining three patches involved “important” security issues, such as remote code […]

Nokia paid $60 million to acquire digital music distributor Loudeye as part of a plan to deliver what the top cell phone maker called “a comprehensive music experience to Nokia device owners during 2007.” Shareholders of the Seattle, Wash.-based Loudeye will receive $4.50 for each share of the company stock. The deal, expected to close […]

In a bid to ruin ADC’s plan to acquire Andrew , CommScope announced a $1.7 billion all-cash offer for the wireless communications equipment maker. The rival offer builds on growing stockholder unrest over a $2 billion all-stock acquisition agreement between ADC and Andrew board of directors. Since that time, ADC’s stock has fallen, giving rise […]