Jim Wagner

Just as Napster readied itself for the court fight of its life, Gnotella 0.9.8 hit the servers Friday morning. Gnotella is a browser that provides the interface for peer-to-peer file transfers on GnutellaNet, and has the potential to make the popular Napster music-swapping software a thing of the past. Using peer-to-peer file sharing, people are […]

Following in the footsteps of other notable high-tech companies, Adaptec, Inc., announced Friday its intent to scale back operations and take a $10 million restructuring charge, blaming an industry-wide investment cool down. Fiber-optics maker Corning, Inc., laid off 825 workers Thursday, two weeks after lowering its revenue growth forecast for 2001. The news came as […]

FreeDSL, the only high-speed free Internet option in the U.S., is about to shut down, according to a statement by its owners Wednesday night. Winfire, Inc., the digital subscriber line provider arm of Steel Holdings, Inc., is trying to sell off up to 100 percent of its holdings and laid off most of its staff […]

AT&T Broadband, hoping to knit together a more cohesive cable network, signed a deal with Charter Communications Inc. Wednesday. Even though the company is the largest cable owner in the U.S., with roughly 16 million customers, AT&T inherited a patchwork quilt of cable networks from acquisitions made in the past couple years, most notably its […]

Microsoft Corp. is getting ready to charge United Kingdom Web users for access to its popular portal, according to reports Monday in U.K. online publications. If implemented, visitors to msn.co.uk would have to pay a yearly $86 (U.S.) subscription fee for access to MSN’s U.K.-specific content offerings including news, sports and classified advertising. In an […]

It seems there’s an element of truth to persistent rumors this week of the demise of broadband Internet service provider ConnectSouth. The Austin, TX-based digital subscriber line provider shut down its Web site Monday morning, to the obvious surprise of many of its customers. In addition to consumer DSL service, ConnectSouth provided end-to-end business services […]

Verizon Communications seems to have its bellatlantic.net Web site back Friday morning after what officials said was an “administrative error” Thursday, but email service for 50,000 Verizon customers is still offline. The error seems to have stemmed from the Baby Bell’s failure to pay for the bellatlantic.net domain name, which a whois search at Network […]

The mood was a somber one at New Edge Networks Thursday after officials cut 55 employees and announced its intentions to power down digital subscriber line service in Georgia and Florida. Citing a tight capital market and its desire to focus energies on the profitable advanced broadband solutions for its business-class of services, New Edge […]

BlueLight.com revised the conditions of its free dial-up Internet service this week, joining the ranks of the other free Internet service providers attaching strings to free Internet access. Similar to the restrictions first announced by the company late last year, BlueLight.com subscribers will get the first 12 hours of access free starting March 1, when […]

Siemens Information and Communications Network Group officials, looking for a digital subscriber line solution, found its answer in Dallas-based Efficient Networks, Inc., and announced Thursday its plans to purchase the company for about $1.5 billion. Under terms of the agreement, which should be finalized by April, 2001, Siemens will buy at least 51 percent of […]

Hoping to focus on its core business plan, providing high-speed Internet access, Excite@Home divested most of its ownership of online advertising company Enliven Wednesday. According to an Enliven spokesperson, there would be no change in the day-to-day operations at the newly re-minted Enliven, Inc., headquartered in Waltham, MA, and no jobs would be affected. The […]

Attendees at this year’s 3GSM World Congress got a sneak peek Tuesday of Openwave Systems, Inc.‘s, graphics-based mobile browser. The Openwave Mobile Browser for the wireless application protocol (WAP) and the universal edition will run on a new wave of products that lets customers use applications and navigate the Internet in much the same way […]