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Allstream (formerly AT&T Canada) of Toronto said this week that the city of Cumberland, Ontario will be the home of a new high-speed wireless Internet access and voice network, specifically targeting businesses, especially telecommuters and small offices. The network — part of a Multipoint Communications System (MCS) they’re building — is a joint venture with […]

By Ron Miller America Online and Covad Communications have struck a partnership in order to offer AOL customers a package that includes stripped down DSL access. Under the terms of the deal, Covad will be the preferred DSL provider for AOL and AOL will market the service under the name “AOL for Broadband Powered by […]

By Alexander Wolfe and Clint Boulton Microsoft said it will delay the next versions of its SQL Server database software and Visual Studio development .NET environment until the first half of 2005, several months beyond the earlier frame of 2004. Spokespeople for Microsoft said the delivery delay is to “ensure that [the products] meet the […]

The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web sites, nearly 90 percent are “orphans” to which no other sites link. Security Space’s Web server survey counts only those servers […]

By Ron Miller A California ISP filed suit Friday in the first action under the recently enacted federal Can Spam Act, naming BobVila.com as the defendant. San Francisco attorney John Fallat filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of Foster City-based Internet Service Provider Hypertouch. It alleges […]

By Ron Miller Electronic voting problems were scarce and anecdotal in Super Tuesday’s coast-to-coast primaries involving 10 states, according to officials contacted by internetnews.com. But just because the glitches were fewer than in prior computerized voting efforts was not enough to mollify critics who say security concerns cloud the immediate future of e-voting. With electronic […]

By Ron Miller Cinergy Broadband today said it is teaming with Current Communications to offer broadband over power line (BPL) service in the Cincinnati as the first step in an aggressive rollout. Initially, the companies will offer the service in southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky. They hope to sign 55,000 customers by year’s end. The […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Cargill Inc., an international conglomerate with 98,000 employees in 61 countries, announced Tuesday it will standardize its hardware on Dell technology. Dell will provide Cargill with servers, desktops, notebooks and services totaling some 30,000 units. Financial terms of the 3-year deal were not disclosed. “The fact that Cargill, a diverse global […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its March 2004 survey from 48,038,131 sites. This is about 1 million more sites than responded in January. Although it represents yet another peak in the number of responses received, the four top-four players, Apache, […]

By: Sean Michael Kerner Are you documenting your life on the Internet? Chances are good that you are if you own a digital camera or know how to blog. According to a study issued Sunday by the non-profit Pew Internet & American Life Project, more than 53 million Americans have used the Internet to publish […]

By Joshua Greenbaum As of this writing, Oracle’s attempted takeover of PeopleSoft seems to be foundering on the shores of antitrust law. Both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Union are weighing the possibility that legal or regulatory challenges to Oracle’s bid could be mounted shortly, putting up what many consider an unbeatable […]

By Sean Michael Kerner A second survey in as many days showed that Linux-based servers grew at an explosive rate during the fourth quarter, even in the context of a strong overall server market. IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker showed a 63.1 percent year-over-year growth for Linux servers, generating $960 million for the industry in […]