Jim Wagner

Officials at pay-for-performance search engine Overture announced Tuesday the Microsoft Network is continuing to use its service for Web searches through 2003. The popular search engine company has been busy the past couple months signing its crop of portal affiliates to extensions in response to the consumer popularity of Google, a relative fledgling to the […]

Nortel Networks Monday announced the resignation of its chief financial officer after finding he had made numerous inside trades to affect the cash value of his employee stock and fixed income funds, officials announced to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Terry Hungle was forcefully resigned after executives found he had made several transfers during […]

An XML standards body from the U.S. has been invited to join four international groups to help shape the business platforms of tomorrow, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) officials announced Monday. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and […]

Pushing its OPTera Metro 4000 router to the next level, Nortel Networks rolled out the Packet Edge 100 Ethernet switch card to international carriers Monday. The switch card capitalizes on a relatively widespread industry standard for data transmissions, the synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH). The standard was created by the older network’s inability to separate circuits […]

The .Net train just keeps building up a head of steam on its course to dominate the way businesses and consumers will run their applications in the future. Web services are a next-generation platform, using XML, that allow companies to integrate systems through the Internet, tying together human resources programs for example running on Unix […]

Verizon Wireless official announced Thursday its deal with digital wireless phone maker QUALCOMM to use the BREW development platform to give its users access to a variety of games, entertainment and applications. BREW, an acronym for binary runtime environment for wireless, is a programming language based on C/C++ technology that lets developers run “thin” applications […]

United Online , the merger of two popular Internet service providers (ISPs) best known for their free access service, beat low expectations from Wall Street, announcing significant second quarter 2002 reductions in losses. The ISPs pro forma earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) losses were reduced from $13.1 million in the first quarter […]

Comcast Corp. outlined its fourth quarter 2001 revenues Wednesday, announcing revenues of $2.8 billion and a net loss of $321 million, mainly attributable to the cable company’s efforts to migrate its @Home customers The No. 3 cable network in the U.S., behind AT&T Broadband and AOL Time Warner , spent much of the quarter (and […]

Finnish wireless phone maker Nokia is extending its reach to devices that don’t involve a PC with the development of next-generation products using Flash and Visual Basic, officials announced Wednesday. The introduction this week of Flash technology in its cable TV set-top boxes and a Visual Basic platform for one of its digital wireless telephones […]

Rational Software is marrying design to development with its launch Tuesday of XDE Professional v2002, an integrated development environment (IDE) tool for both .Net and J2EE programmers. The two services, launched separately but at the same price tag of $2,995 per licensee ($4,195 for the Plus version), signals Rational’s expectations for the future of Web […]

Nortel Networks and Motorola, Inc. are teaming up to provide a low-cost alternative to expensive cable telephony roll outs, officials announced Monday. Cable companies like AT&T Broadband , Cox Communications , Comcast and AOL Time Warner have had cable telephony services on their plate for a couple years now, but only on a limited basis. […]

Like the proverbial Dutch boy with his finger in the dike to prevent the flood, the guardians of Internet security are vastly unprepared to meet the challenges of defaced Web sites, network intrusions and email viruses, according to one of the country’s most notorious hackers. The best the security industry has been able to do, […]