Jim Wagner

Customer requests prompted No. 3 Internet service provider Juno Online Services, Inc., to redesign its home page and enhance content offerings Monday. Revenue-sharing agreements with Amazon.com, Inc. , and Weather.com are just the latest, not the last, to be announced by Juno in the upcoming weeks. Tomorrow, Juno is announcing its agreement with CNet.com to […]

Tellium Inc., finished securing key fiber-optic patent rights with the completion of its acquisition of rival Astarte Fiber Networks Monday. Announced earlier this year, the acquisition expands Tellium’s intellectual property in all-optical switching equipment, namely its flagship product, the Aurora Full-Spectrum switch. The switch is designed to exploit the bit-rate independent carrying potential of all-optical […]

AT&T Broadband is ramping up its cable Internet marketing efforts, announcing this week an agreement to provide its @Home and Road Runner service through Best Buy Inc., outlets. The rollout marks AT&T’s increased efforts at a piece of the lucrative high-speed Internet access pie, where the company faces stiff competition from Baby Bells and competitive […]

Juno Online Services, Inc., in a new strategy to capture more consumer attention, launched its co-marketing campaign Thursday with video game and entertainment software retailer Babbage’s Etc. Babbage’s, a division of e-tailer Barnes & Noble, Inc. , has more than 950 stores located in 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. It […]

More concerned with music than open Internet access, the European Commission on Wednesday conditionally approved America Online, Inc.’s $135 billion merger with Time Warner, Inc. AOL’s acquisition of Time Warner concerned EC officials, who saw the merger as a possible detriment to music distribution and paid-for-content Internet access. As a salve to commissioners, AOL agreed […]

According to an age-old adage: “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Register.com is giving its corporate customers a couple ounces worth with a web-based application launched Tuesday tailor-made to reserve, activate and manage the domain name process. It’s first customer, Proctor & Gamble, is just a few keystrokes from protecting its […]

Bad news from the investment community hasn’t stopped Northpoint Communications Inc., from continued expansion of its digital subscriber line deployment and marketing efforts. In a research report released Monday from investment firm Stephens Inc., telecommunications analyst Charles Pluckhahn increased his estimate of Northpoint’s share loss from $3.29 to $3.47. “We have shortened our assumptions for […]

What’s in a domain name? A lot, if you’re a free Internet service provider that doesn’t have ownership of the freeinternet.com name. Details are sketchy and even a hint at a price tag produces a figurative zipping of the lips when it comes to NetZero Inc.’s non-binding letter of intent with FreeI Networks Inc., Friday. […]

Co-branding Internet service provider extraordinaire Spinway Inc., is on the move again Monday, this time offering its free service on all Hewlett-Packard Co. Pavilion home PCs. The co-branding deal, called FreeTicket ISP Service, puts an icon on all Pavilion PCs and directs interested customers to a special home page featuring Spinway, Yahoo! Inc. and Hewlett-Packard […]

It’s like a scene out of The Graduate. Media giant Time Warner Inc., left EMI Music Group standing at the altar Thursday to allay the European Commission’s concerns over the proposed merger deal with America Online, Inc. The commission is looking at the maneuvers by Time Warner with great interest, but hold the two merger […]

Another competitive local exchange carrier has bit the dust, as Comdisco, Inc. , announced Tuesday its intentions to pull the rug out from its subsidiary Prism Communications, Inc. The move comes only months after Comdisco acquired the competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) to provide low-cost communications services for its corporate customers, as well as cash […]

Covad beat market trends and analyst projections on Wall Street with its 200,000 digital subscriber line subscribers, it was announced Tuesday. That puts Covad 30 percent above projections, due mainly to a combination of operations savvy and low expectations by Wall Street and market analysts of the popularity of DSL, according to Robert E. Knowling, […]