Jim Wagner

Creditors for @Home agreed to keep their service running another three months for five cable companies hoping to migrate their customers at a measured pace. That’s good news for the roughly two million cable Internet subscribers who would have been stranded without service while their cable companies scrambled to get Internet services up and running […]

In a nod to the increased need for security and contingency services, AT&T announced Tuesday a line up of programs designed to alleviate corporate concern over far-flung Internet operations. AT&T executives consider security to be one of their top priorities, as big businesses grasp the fact that security breaches can result in huge financial losses […]

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in Excite@Home’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding has decided to postpone approving a bid by five cable companies to keep the cable service running another three months. Judge Thomas Carlson is giving bondholders until Tuesday to look over particulars of the $355 million agreement they find confusing. The judge is […]

Bowing to worldwide pressure and the need to clean out its registry closet, the owner of the .info registry Thursday announced the implementation of a revamped Sunrise registration process. Afilias, awarded the .info domain extension by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) earlier this year, has had a tough time gaining legitimacy […]

With a speedier-than-anticipated closure that saves them $9 million, WorldCom officials announced Wednesday afternoon they had finished taking over assets of failed Rhythms NetConnections. Rhythms, once the third largest independent digital subscriber line (DSL) provider in the U.S., confirmed reports in September of a WorldCom buyout, saving many (but not all) customers from having to […]

With only 100,000 customers left to migrate to their network on Wednesday, AT&T Broadband officials are confident they can meet their self-imposed Friday deadline in the wake of @Home’s shutdown of part of its cable Internet service. In three days, Ma Bell’s cable arm has fielded 967,000 telephone calls and 327,000 emails from @Home customers […]

The events surrounding Excite@Home’s breakdown this week bear an eerily similar resemblance to the breakdown of NorthPoint Communications last year. And this time, the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. government won’t be able to do anything about it, a growing concern for the more than six million cable customers in the U.S. today. Confusion […]

Executives at AT&T Broadband , citing “significant” breaches to its service contract, announced Tuesday the withdrawal of its $307 million bid for failing Excite@Home. Ma Bell also announced 500,000 of its customers are now back online, with the rest coming back onboard by the end of the week. @Home shut down 800,000 AT&T customers Saturday […]

Scrambling AT&T Broadband technicians have resumed high-speed cable Internet access for 330,000 of the 800,000 customers stranded over the weekend by bankrupt Internet service provider (ISP) @Home’s decision to shut down part of its network. A majority of AT&T @Home customers throughout the country should be back online, according to AT&T Broadband officials, by the […]

A Judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California Friday sided with bondholders of

Federal judges for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California Wednesday approved the $10 million purchase bid for certain assets of Redwood, Calif.-based Excite@Home to Bellevue, Wash.-based InfoSpace. Inc. , as part of the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. The win is a minor victory for Excite@Home creditors and bondholders, who it […]

Cox Communications officials Wednesday said they are adding a bevy of routers to its cable network in a move to become self-reliant. The company will deploy “hundreds” of Riverstone Networks Inc. routers throughout its 28 cable systems over the next several months in order to provide services currently handled by its cable Internet service provider […]