Jayson Matthews

The bandwidth is bulging in the U.S., and 56K modem use has exploded to become the most used access mechanism in the home market. According to Milpitas-based audience measurement service, Nielsen//NetRatings, nearly 12 million home Web users accessed the Internet with a high-speed connection in December 2000 (including DSL, ISDN and cable modem), compared to […]

Researchers at Lucent Technologies‘ (NYSE: LU) Bell Labs say they have created the first all-silicon chips to receive radio signals from mobile handsets. The development from the company’s R&D arm could potentially slash the cost of creating a radio receiver for wireless networks, as well as shrink the size of traditional gallium arsenide-based radios. Ironically, […]

Sun Microsystems unveiled its much-hyped Web services strategy Monday evening, culminating in a host of new and updated applications that integrate into what the company calls the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE), and vaulting the Palo Alto-based hardware and software giant into the arena with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and, perhaps most vehemently, Microsoft. Coming […]

BOT 2001 banged its way into San Francisco yesterday, promising a bounty of bot-based babble on everything from SearchBots to ChatterBots and KnowledgeBots. Part of the conference, which was hosted by internet.com, centered around wireless bots, an area many pundits believe represents the make-or-break technology behind a working wireless Web. Dr. Michael Pazzani, CEO of […]

Atlanta-based eTour wants to help you surf without having to search. But the “personal tour guide of the Web,” which also has offices in San Francisco, got a little too personal for 37 of its employees today as it laid off 25% of its staff in an effort to cut costs. “Our service does not […]

LookSmart evinced the pains of an ad-dependant revenue model Thursday with a disclosed drop in 4Q 2000, cutting revenue for the quarter to approximately $30 million, down nearly $6 million from prior projections, and posting a per-share loss $0.02 to $0.03 wider than earlier First Call estimates of $0.12. As a result, LookSmart plans to […]

Internet portal AltaVista has formally withdrawn its intended initial public offering, an unsurprising move given its own struggles and the market’s withering recent treatment of technology firms, including its parent, Internet holding company CMGI of Andover, Mass., The Palo Alto., Calif., portal originally hinted at going public in 1996, when then parent company Digital Equipment […]

i-drive isn’t the only company offering free personal storage space on the Net. It isn’t even the most generous with its offering. But thanks to a bevy of key partnerships, including deals with 35 universities nationwide and popular online music plays like MP3.com, it may very well be the largest. The San Francisco-based company announced […]

Looking to capitalize on the often-prohibitive cost of custom Web programming, Sunnyvale-based Instantis announced a new hosted software service today that purports to take on everything sitting behind an eCommerce engine’s ‘Submit’ button. The new “SiteWand” service, which users can customize directly at Instantis’ site, acts as a third party data collection tool that can […]

It’s not all downturns and doldrums in the tech world these days. San Jose-based BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS), an eBusiness-centric infrastructure software developer, announced today that it is will become a member of the Nasdaq-100 Index, effective at the beginning of trading Monday, December 18, 2000. Shares of BEA will also be included in the […]

The ASPs are coming! The ASPs are coming! And no less a packaged software stalwart than Microsoft is cheering them on. “The concept of having a ubiquity of services available to a company, much like cable and electrical services are today, will absolutely happen,” says Richard Belluzzo, group VP of Microsoft’s consumer group. “There’s debate […]

In the land of the pun and the home of the buzzword, San Jose-based Datalink.net today announced the approval from its Board of Directors to become Semotus Solutions. CEO Anthony Lapine says the wireless infrastructure developer made the change (its second since its founding in 1993 as DataLink Systems) to represent the company’s broadening strategy. […]