Jim Wagner

Cisco Systems Inc. , best known for its copper-based and fiber-optic routing equipment, is making its presence felt in the wireless world with expanded wireless local area network (WLAN) services and security, officials said Monday. The wireless enhancements, launched from the floor of Comdex in Las Vegas, is a sign of Cisco’s further commitment to […]

The highly controversial global top level domain (gTLD) .biz opened up for business on the public stage Wednesday, the second new TLD approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this year. And like its predecessor, .info, the new TLD has met with a series of technical hitches that’s tarnished the reputation […]

K Mart , long the domain of bargain-seeking shoppers, is getting a face-lift on the Internet with the opening of its Hewlett-Packard online store Thursday. Bluelight.com, formerly one of the nation’s top free Internet service providers and online ecommerce arm for the retail giant, has lately been brought home under K Mart’s financial umbrella and […]

Regulators at the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-1 to eliminate the spectrum allocation cap in a meeting Thursday morning. Striking the spectrum allocation cap, which puts a limit of 45MHz on every wireless digital telephone carrier in U.S. markets, opens the door to consolidation and acquisitions among the many wireless phone companies in the U.S., […]

The Microsoft Network, never one to shy from pricing wars as part of its late entry into a new product market, announced Tuesday its two-way pager product for teenagers and on-the-go users. The pager comes courtesy of Motorola’s T900 series of two-way messengers and runs $159 (with a mail-in rebate of $100) for the product […]

Sprint is taking on a $1.1 billion gamble with its announcement Monday to let Nortel Networks upgrade their local telephone network to provide asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) packet switching technology, opening up the door to high-quality, data-reliant Internet services. It’s an apparent shift in strategy, as Sprint gives up on one telecommunications initiative in favor […]

Less than six years after passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, digital subscriber line (DSL) coverage nationwide is floundering while cable lives up to deployment expectations, according to numbers in a Yankee Group report released Thursday. The report, “Residential Broadband: Provisioning Cable Modem Service,” predicts 75 percent of all homes in the U.S. will […]

New wireless technology from Sierra Wireless is getting additional funding from Lucent Technologies , a move that helps both companies as they prepare to deploy a truly broadband code-division multiple access (CDMA)-based Internet solution. The new Sierrra/Lucent line of mobile Internet, using the CDMA2000 1x-Evolution-Data Only (EV-DO) standard signed off by the International Telecommunications Union […]

The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded administration of the United States registry to NeuStar, officials announced Tuesday. Jeffrey Ganek, NeuStar chief executive officer, said that current .us domain owners need not worry about their domain names, which will be grandfathered into system free of charge for the extent of the […]

The debate over online child information privacy and surfing habits is likely to generate a little heat over the next few weeks as the Federal Trade Commission decides whether to extend parental notice requirements for Web site operators. It’s an issue that has both sides up in arms: Web-operated businesses catering to children under 13 […]

Continuing with its goal to capture the small- to medium-enterprise (SME) Web hosting market, Interland, Inc., officials announced its plan to buy up some of competitor Interliant, Inc’s customers Monday. The move suits both revenue-challenged companies as executives on both sides of the bargain look for ways to streamline their operations to core competencies and […]

Despite what critics call overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the committee formed to determine how the Internet should be run finds that less, not more, individual representation is needed at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Furthermore, at-large study committee (ALSC) members finds that only domain name owners should represent the interests […]