Gretchen Hyman

Market research firm In-Stat/MDR published a study this week titled “Ethernet in The First Mile, Like a Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” which forecasts imminent growth in worldwide Ethernet in The First Mile (EFM) development. The reference to “troubled waters,” according to In-Stat/MDR Analyst Sam Lucero is because Last Mile/First Mile issues are traditionally the most […]

Yahoo! announced a reseller agreement Thursday with automotive retail promoter and strategist Reynolds and Reynolds that is expected to bring flurry of automotive retailers to the Yahoo! Autos classified section. The deal marks the second reseller agreement Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo! Autos has signed since its inception four years ago. The agreement draws upon Reynolds and […]

Enterprise networking developer 3Com came out swinging this week with three new additions to its line of wireless local-area network (LAN) solutions geared toward the corporate-level network connectivity market. Santa Clara, Calif.-based 3Com released the second generation of its Network Jack platform, the NJ200, which builds on the same functionality as the NJ100. The Network […]

Within the 13-state reach of SBC Communications, Inc. there is no question that the Yahoo! and SBC co-branding deal that was penned in June 2002 is in full marketing force. A regional Bell company that owns several Internet access companies and 58 million access lines nationwide, SBC network subsidiaries include SBC Southwestern Bell, SBC Ameritech, […]

Mountain View, Calif.-based VeriSign and its telecommunications division went to market Monday with speedSUITE, a billing and customer care system for wireless carriers transitioning to GSM networks. Global System for Mobile Communications, more popularly knows as GSM, is the leading digital cellular system in Europe and Asia, and while North American carriers have tended toward […]

In an effort to start the blood flow again in the PC market and in some respects reinvent the wheel for a new generation of PC users and their multi-media needs, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. announced plans Friday to release a PC crossover product by the end of October in more […]

Blazing a trail into the California wireless market, Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile is picking up partnerships throughout the West Coast region as part of a target strategy for its newly vamped T-Mobile wireless service. Formerly known as VoiceStream, T-Mobile is the mobile telecommunications subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom , which operates the third largest wireless network in […]

With no shortage of prison-related metaphors, Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile, the mobile telecommunications subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom announced plans this week to host a rock concert on the historic prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay. Nicknamed “the Rock” by some of its more notorious inhabitants, which included Al Capone and the infamous “Birdman […]

The economy may be hurting, but e-commerce is booming, according to Los Angeles-based research firm BizRate.com. On the heels of a healthy third quarter for U.S. e-commerce, which according to BizRate.com’s statistics clocked in $10 billion in online retail sales (a 37 percent jump over last year’s numbers), expectations are high for the approaching holiday […]

Even though the role of chief information officers (CIOs) has become integral to the majority of companies in the U.S. and Europe, their jobs aren’t getting any easier, a new study concludes. Infact, ensuring that business objectives and the applications that support them are in alignment is an ongoing hurdle for IT executives, and for […]

Now you see it, now you don’t, seems to be the overall strategic plan for the Chinese government lately concerning Internet censorship. A medium that is both deplored by the Chinese as a threat to its closed-circle, communist ideal, and yet revered for its vast money-making capabilities has been the cause of some very blatant […]

Confirming that India is in fact becoming the next high-tech hub for Silicon Valley heavyweights, Intel Corp. raised the stakes Thursday by announcing plans to pump $130 million into its Bangalore, India-based operations over the next three to five years. Intel first established a Bangalore facility three years ago for the development of software that […]