Jim Wagner

Verizon Wireless is getting ready for their big 3G push, signing “softswitch” maker CommWorks Wednesday to a multi-year deal to upgrade their 2G wireless network to the next generation of wireless phone technology. Though details were sketchy on the contract, Verizon Wireless had not returned phone calls by press time, the company’s decision to ramp […]

With the dream of a worldwide enterprise audience playing to the tune of AT&T and British Telecom’s Concert in tatters, AT&T announced Wednesday its plans to integrate their existing European network. Concert, an ambitious program launched by the two telephone giants in 1998, fell victim to tepid demand and over-capacity with the end result of […]

Bargain shoppers who want to visit BlueLlight.com, Kmart’s (NYSE:KM) e-commerce portal and Internet service provider (ISP), can do so but for how long? The company that for decades made the “blue light specials” its motto for thrifty shoppers around the U.S. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday and executives promised the reorganization would “aggressively […]

Williams Communications executives spent the past week getting ready to pick up where their competitors left off, starting with last week’s global network services launch and continuing with the launch this week of their real-time billing service for providers. The global fiber-optic bandwidth provider, which competes with some of the biggest names on the Internet […]

The Federal Trade Commission has settled its case Friday afternoon with Eli Lilly & Co., after the Indiana-based drug giant that inadvertently disclosed the personal information of 669 Prozac users to the public. Regulators ordered the owners of the Prozac.com Web site to conduct yearly security checks of their operations and submit yearly reviews to […]

As expected, officials at Sun Microsystems, Inc. , didn’t have good numbers to report to investors at their second quarter 2002 conference call Friday morning, announcing a net loss of $431 million and a slight climb in revenues. Investors and analysts are well aware of Sun’s problems, mainly because the network computing company gave Wall […]

America Online Inc. , is backing away from a promise made to some of its customers last year who use another Internet service provider (ISP) for Internet access but use their site to surf the ‘Web. In October 2001 the number one ISP in the nation promised existing Bring Your Own Access (BYOA) members they […]

Owners of the .info generic top level domain (gTLD) announced Thursday their submission of 741 suspect Sunrise entries to an arbitration organization for review. The registry started a Sunrise registration policy last year when they announced the launch of their gTLD, a move to eliminate cybersquatters from taking advantage of popular domain names and holding […]

Software development firm Inktomi announced Wednesday gains of $1 million in the fourth quarter, up from $39 million to $40 million. Officials warned investors and analysts at a conference call Wednesday afternoon to expect continued minimal gains in revenues in Q2, with revenues in the $39-$41 million range. Continued flat growth can be contributed mainly […]

Fresh out of bankruptcy court, Covad Communications announced Wednesday a one percent gain in digital subscriber line (DSL) gains in the fourth quarter of 2001, an incremental gain to 351,000 total subscribers. The data competitive local exchange carrier (DLEC), however, continues to reduce its dependence on revenues from the Internet service providers (ISP) in its […]

Software developer Novell Inc. announced Monday a series of administrator tools that makes it easier for businesses to get their employees online with a minimum of hassle. Secure Access, a package of utilities running $159 per user until June, gives remote and corporate users a single point of access to their company’s intranet, making multiple […]

Fixed wireless, often called the “third pipe” of broadband Internet services, coverage area doubled in 2001, according to a survey released Monday by the Broadband Wireless Exchange (BWE). The results, gathered from wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) around the country, point to the growing clout of the technology in rural and underserved areas. According to […]