Jim Wagner

Windows XP, the highly anticipated and over-hyped new operating system (OS) by Microsoft Corp. released Wednesday, is already off to a bad start with one member of the cable Internet industry. Road Runner, the second-largest cable Internet service provider (ISP) in the nation with more than 1.4 million subscribers, does not support the controversial new […]

AT&T , hoping to put some distance between itself and its potential acquisition, announced Wednesday the removal of four of its six directors from Excite@Home’s executive board, including AT&T chief C. Michael Armstrong. Joining Armstrong at the exit door are Frank Ianna, Charles H. Noski and Daniel E. Somers. Mufit Cinali and John Petrillo will […]

Faster than the .com global top level domain (gTLD) ever did, .info has accumulated its first 500,000 customers in 90 days, officials announced Tuesday. The claim by Afilias, an organization of 18 registrars from around the world who successfully bid to manage the gTLD earlier this year, is a trifle overblown, since many people didn’t […]

After four years in the business, Ma Bell’s former wireless arm has decided to hang up the spurs on its failing fixed wireless service, a move that strands 47,000 of its customers, displaces its entire fixed wireless division staff and costs the company more than $1 billion. Mike DiGioia, AT&T Wireless spokesperson, said the transition […]

Couch potatoes throughout the world have another reason to celebrate as Sony readies itself for the launch of a combined personal digital assistant (PDA)/universal remote controller. TV viewers will no longer be forced to put down their PDA to change the channel during a time out in a football game. With a beefed up infrared […]

The latest, but surely not last, round in the continuing war between rival Internet service providers (ISPs) AOL Time Warner and the Microsoft Network is focusing on the increasing popularity of video-on-demand (VoD) and delivering it over a high-speed platform. It’s all part of both ISPs strategy to marry content with broadband AOL on its […]

AOL Time Warner filed an application with the Federal Trade Commission Friday to accept PSINet spin off Inter.net as an unaffiliated Internet service provider (ISP). In order to meet FTC conditions set at the time of the merger of AOL and Time Warner, the media giant must launch an unaffiliated ISP on its Time Warner […]

Reduced monthly operating costs and increased customer acquisition helped Covad Communications weather the third quarter of 2001 and just might get them out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy trouble. Covad, one of the two largest independent national digital subscriber line (DSL) providers in the U.S. (with Rhythms NetConnections), announced Friday it had reduced its monthly capital […]

Global IP provider Equant, a subsidiary of France Telecom, announced Wednesday the award of its second major Asian virtual private network (VPN) contract in a month. Terms were unavailable from officials at press time, a contract that brings secure IP communications to all of China Netcom Corp. As part of the agreement, CNC will exclusively […]

The Microsoft Network is officially in the nationwide digital subscriber line (DSL) business (again) with a high-speed Internet offering initially covering roughly 60 percent of DSL-capable homes in the U.S., officials announced Monday. It’s MSN’s initial move to compete against AOL Time Warner’s vast cable Internet empire for the hearts and minds of dial up […]

AOL Time Warner laid out its broadband trump card this week, launching cable Internet services in four cities throughout the U.S. But, to keep government regulators off its back, the company needs to sign two more unaffiliated Internet service providers (ISPs) in the next 90 days. AOL Time Warner officials aren’t talking about which independent […]

Tyco International Ltd. Executive Chairman L. Dennis Kozlowski’s hopes for an independent undersea cable company were officially put to rest Thursday after his announcement to buy back the 11 percent of publicly-owned TyCom stock. The buyback proposal, valued at $784 million, is less than half the value of TyCom stock at its initial pubic offering […]