Jim Wagner

Less than 30 days after opening .biz up for business, a class action lawsuit has been filed against its registry owners, NeuLevel, the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers (ICANN) and a bevy of registrars, for running an illegal criminal lottery in the state of California. According to the lawsuit, one of the claimants, David […]

AOL Time Warner reports it has developed the technology to marry its Instant Messaging (IM) service to other IM platforms from competitors like Yahoo! , Excite@Home and AT&T , but don’t hold your breathe waiting for the update in the next version of AIM. As one of the strictures spelled out in the conditional approval […]

Despite opposition from nearly every sector of the American population, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is set to enforce the deadline for its giveaway of the .us domain. What that means to the U.S. taxpayers is this: after providing initial funding for the management of the county code top level domain (ccTLD), the […]

KMart Corp. , is acquiring its free Internet service provider (ISP) arm, Bluelight.com, officials announced Monday afternoon. The decision comes only two months after the parent company ousted the free ISP’s top management and cut 38 members of the staff to merge marketing and buyer functions. The news is no surprise to many analysts who […]

It seems to be a status symbol among the top dial-up Internet service providers (ISPs): the more service plans you have, the more important you are. Using that standard, AT&T WorldNet, soon to be a part of AT&T Consumer when the break-up is finalized, (re)joined the ranks of important providers with the (re)introduction of its […]

Fighting what they say is an increasing level of desperation to keep its customers close to the fold, registrars and Internet service providers (ISPs) responded Friday to VeriSign charges of “domain slamming.” An ever-growing group of ISPs and registrars are lobbying the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to put an end to […]

AT&T Corp. shareholders, in a rare moment of solidarity, voted unanimously Wednesday to turn down a bid by Comcast Corp. to take over AT&T Broadband. At the board meeting, directors also announced their plans to continue with its decision to spin AT&T Consumer, with its own tracking stock, and AT&T Business away from its broadband […]

The founding members of NetZero, Inc. , have called it quits, setting their sights on another entrepreneurial project after seeing their first creation become one of the country’s largest Internet service providers. The free ISP model, in which customers “pay” for Internet access by opting to receive banner advertising on a customized toolbar, took the […]

Level 3 Communications Inc., facilities and fiber optics services are now a link in one telephone company’s plans to connect worldwide operations. The multi-year, multi-million deal, which Level 3 officials declined to elaborate on, is an integral part of efforts by Verizon Global Solutions Inc. (GSI), to expand into the worldwide business broadband market. GSI […]

After a one year waiting game, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that a Henrico County, Va. ordinance is preempted by federal law that requires AT&T to allow independent Internet service providers access to AT&T’s high-speed cable platform. At least, that is, on the same competitive footing as any ISP owned […]

An appeals court decision Wednesday evening struck a blow to open cable Internet access advocates and handed another victory to the nation’s number one cable operator. The fourth district Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., upheld a lower court ruling that stated Henrico County in Virginia doesn’t have the authority to force MediaOne, owned by […]

Analysts at Goldman Sachs & Co. took the axe to many of the high-tech industries biggest names Wednesday, downgrading stock value ratings in the face of continued market conditions and financial difficulties. The investment firm’s analysts were indiscriminate in their concerns over which types of companies were to blame for the bullish tech sector and […]