Jim Wagner

Verizon Communications Inc. kept pace with market estimates in 2000, with $1.9 billion in revenues and an 11 percent increase in its earnings per share in the fourth quarter. Executives also gave investors a peek at what’s to come in 2001 at a conference Thursday morning. The Baby Bell made huge strides in efforts to […]

Online advertisers, responding to charges leveled by privacy advocates this week, Thursday unveiled its guidelines for collecting personal information from Internet users. The Network Advertising Institute, made up of advertisers like DoubleClick, 24/7 Media, Adforce and Engage, sent the contents of its controversial “opt-out” Web site to regulators at the Federal Trade Commission Thursday afternoon […]

To no one’s surprise, AOL Time Warner gave AOL Time Warner permission to run Internet service over its cable network Wednesday. The deal, announced Wednesday afternoon by AOL Time Warner chief executive officer Gerald Levin, allows its Internet branch, America Online, Inc., to offer its popular services over Time Warner Cable lines. The irony was […]

For the first time as a combined unit, AOL Time Warner, Inc., released its pro forma numbers for 2000, with an 11 percent increase to $36.2 billion in revenues and $8.4 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. In what AOL officials claim is the backbone of its operations, subscriptions, the company announced […]

Privacy advocates are gearing up for 2001, calling attention to what they see as a lapse in the government’s duty to protect user’s data. A press conference Tuesday, led by executives of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Junkbusters Corp, called for Congress and the Federal Trade Commission to produce an industry standard for online […]

Edge router maker Laurel Networks feels it gained instant legitimacy after securing $60 million in second-round investments from name-brand providers Monday. In a market expected to generate $20-$25 billion by 2004, Laurel expects to join the lofty heights of Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks with its next-generation class of routers that combines IP fingering […]

After failing to get a hearing in the 106th Congress, Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) reintroduced his Spyware Control and Privacy Protection Act to the Senate Tuesday. The bill would protect Internet surfers from companies that imbed “cookies” in downloadable software programs, whether through an established software company like Microsoft or amateur “freeware” and “shareware” programs […]

Tellabs, Inc., announced Monday its $181 million stock purchase of cable modem maker Future Networks. Included in the buyout are the 50 employees at Future Networks. The deal integrates Future Networks product line of industry-standard Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) cable modems into Tellabs CABLESPAN platform, which officials hope will be the future […]

Executives at Microsoft Corp., a company famous for its employees pulling all-nighters, are likely going to be doing the same this weekend as they try to figure out what went wrong. The software giant had what any high-tech organization would deem “a bad week,” with repeated Domain Name Server problems that caused system-wide shutdowns throughout […]

With net revenues of $114 million and more than four million active users in 2000, Juno Online Services Inc., is looking forward to the New Year. It’s looking like a good year for Juno, according to officials who predict that net losses will drop to between $10-$25 million at the end of 2001, bringing it […]

Microsoft Corp. sites worldwide are in the middle of a system-wide crash caused by what appears to be a breakdown in its domain name server, and officials aren’t sure when the sites will be restored. Instead of downloading the normal United Kingdom corporate site this morning, visitors to www.microsoft.co.uk were told sites including the microsoft.com, […]

Wednesday morning’s domain name server problems at Microsoft Corp. could be the result of a break in, despite the company’s claim it was an internal data center problem. If so, that would make it the second time in less than a year Microsoft’s network has been compromised. In what could very well be a Denial […]