Jim Wagner

In a departure from its modus operandi, broadband Internet service provider MegaPath Networks announced a deal Thursday to co-brand its digital subscriber line service to small- and medium-sized businesses with Covad Communications Group. It’s a brave move for the broadband provider, which has been chiefly a growth-through-acquisition company that’s expanded its business DSL operations from […]

Don’t expect to see large posters of a stern gentleman pointing at you at your local five and dime anytime soon, but Juno Online Services is looking for a few good men (and women). Juno subscribers will be getting an email within the next several weeks, asking them if they want to volunteer for the […]

France Telecom, the oft-rumored buyers of troubled U.S. carriers, Wednesday struck out on its own with the purchase of dark fiber in eight major U.S. markets through its subsidiary Global One. The deal gives France Telecom dark fiber metro rings owned by Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. The company will add networking equipment — like routers […]

BroadJump Inc., a “virtual truck” software company, announced this week its foray into the fixed wireless industry with an agreement with Sprint Broadband. It’s an agreement that Sprint officials hope will significantly reduce the time it takes for technicians to install its Sprint Broadband Direct fixed wireless Internet service to the home. Virtual truck software […]

According to one network security expert, senior management executives at major financial and e-commerce organizations are chiefly to blame for the many security flaws found in today’s Web sites. Peggy Weigle, chief executive officer of e-commerce security firm Sanctum Inc., said it’s mainly because of management requirements that Web application developers are stuck producing vulnerable […]

Details concerning a server outage that left roughly 100,000 Road Runner customers in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi without e-mail service for a week remain sketchy, but service resumed Monday afternoon, after the faulty servers were replaced Saturday and the new equipment had a chance to catch up will all the backed up e-mails left sitting […]

AOL Time Warner Thursday tapped longtime TV executive Robert Friedman as president of AOLTV, a move company officials hope will jumpstart the fledgling interactive service. In this newly-created position, Friedman reports to Barry Schuler, AOLTV chairman and chief executive officer, and is charged with setting strategic direction and overseeing daily operations. Launched just last fall, […]

Copper Mountain Networks Inc.’s chairman resigned Wednesday as officials announced a shakeup of its upper management and 25 percent workforce reduction. Chairman and Public Network Business Unit General Manager Joseph Markee resigned to pursue other opportunities. Rick Gilbert, president and chief executive officer, will take the helm as chairman. Officials were sketchy on details of […]

Hoping to increase its dial-up Internet presence, the Microsoft Network (MSN) signed a contract with wholesale provider StarNet Inc. Monday. The deal puts MSN in an array of new communities in the U.S., giving it a footprint that includes roughly 1,200 Points of Presence (POPs) in metropolitan markets and in rural and underserved areas. Financial […]

Broadwing, Inc., sold more than 25 percent of its stock in optical component maker Corvis Corp., for $43 million, officials announced at an investors meeting recently. The announcement comes just five months after the national all-fiber optic provider spent $44 million to get a more than eight million shares in Corvis. Officials said the deal […]

Broadband Internet service provider Excite@Home is bulking up its high-speed content fare with an agreement signed with MSNBC.com Monday. Under terms of the agreement, MSNBC.com will provide hourly recaps of current news stories for @Home subscribers using streaming media video clips. It’s the latest move by Excite@Home majority owner AT&T Corp. to offset the multi-media […]

Four years later, Microsoft Corp. is finally integrating its Microsoft Network and WebTV services. WebTV, purchased in 1997 for $425 million, brings the Internet to the television, giving subscribers the ability to send and receive emails, partake in interactive TV offerings and surf a limited range of Web sites. The service is expected to compete […]