Jim Wagner

Hoping to take advantage of the new fiscal year and companies’ replenished budgets, Sprint has rolled out two new Internet-ready PCS phones to complement its product line Monday. The Sprint PCS Phone TP3000 and Touchpoint Phone TP1100 are the first phone models released by the company as part of its $150 million agreement earlier this […]

It’s official: The rumored Exodus Communications, Inc.–Global Crossing, Ltd., merger is the real deal, with Exodus shelling out $6.1 billion in common stock Thursday for Global Crossing subsidiary Global Center, Inc. Maybe. A clause in the agreement stipulates that if Exodus stock reaches $56.40 to $65.55 in the ten days prior to the actual sale, […]

Entry into Japan’s growing e-commerce industry and an increased reliance on its successful Internet connectivity business were key factors in RMI.NET‘s Tuesday acquisition of Berkeley, Calif.-based LanMinds Inc. LanMinds, with $3 million in annualized revenues, is an Internet connectivity and web solutions provider with customers located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado and Japan. […]

Excite@Home Corp. hopes Sony Corp. VAIO customers are looking for high-speed Internet access, signing a distribution agreement Monday with the PC maker to run an @Home Internet demonstration on its desktop. The demo, which features video footage and audio clips, is designed to bring new Sony’s PC customers to the Excite@Home cable Internet Web site […]

Despite, or maybe because of, flagging numbers in its projected third-quarter results, Sprint Corp. launched fixed wireless Internet service for consumers and businesses in Colorado Springs, Colo., Thursday. It’s the third U.S. market recipient of the Sprint Broadband Direct program, which gives customers average download speeds of 1Mbps and upload speeds of 256Kbps. The two […]

Digex Inc. is riding high on its recent popularity, scoring a web hosting deal Wednesday with international distributor Cargill Inc. Cargill, with more than 85,000 employees in 60 countries, needed a guaranteed secure network for its business-to-business services. It was a requirement Digex has marketed itself to provide. Its certification in the Statements on Accounting […]

KPNQwest has positioned itself as the first competitor to offer residential asynchronous digital subscriber line service in Italy, signing a provisioning agreement with national carrier Telecom Italia Wednesday. The agreement comes after a long delay by Telecom Italia, which will fully unbundle the local loop in Milan and Turin by January, 2001. Tests using KPNQwest’s […]

Spinway Inc., has brought another retail giant into the free Internet fold Monday, announcing a three-way co-marketing program with Costco Wholesale Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. It’s a continuation of Spinway’s strategy to acquire subscribers through partnerships with recognized bricks-and-mortar companies. The Internet service provider made a similar deal with K Mart Corp. and Yahoo!, launching […]

The European Commission plans to strike down the merger hopes of America Online Inc., and Time Warner, Inc., sources close to the talks said Monday. The EC, as reported by the online version of the European Wall Street Journal, is circulating a preliminary proposal to block the merger, but isn’t going to rule out a […]

It’s better late than never as America Online, Inc., announced Wednesday the launch of its Netscape Netbusiness service for the small-business community. But the world’s number one Internet service provider figures its name and a little help from friends will spread the gospel of AOL branded e-business through its Netscape Communicator web browser. It’s a […]

Ford Motor Co. is offering employees $25-a-month digital subscriber line service as an expanded option to its Model E employee program, it was announced Wednesday. Asynchronous DSL (ADSL) service, for employees who pay an upfront fee of $75 per quarter, is now available for the 178,000 employees currently taking advantage of the car company’s $5-a-month […]

Cisco Systems Inc., is throwing its hat in the digital subscriber line ring with a product it claims cuts the provisioning process from weeks to days. The company plans to release the Cisco Order-To-Service solution for use in the fourth quarter 2000, with pricing dependent on the specific provider’s network. The software was conceived from […]