Jim Wagner

The U.S. District Court in Atlanta struck down a motion filed by BellSouth Corp. last week over charges of telemarketing abuses by one of its competitors. Access Integrated Networks, a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) based in Macon, Ga., was accused of unethical sales practices in trying to get new phone customers in its coverage […]

After nearly a half-year testing its service with the City of Denver, Ricochet has bounced back into the consumer world, officials announced Thursday evening. Ricochet — a popular but under-funded wireless broadband Internet service provider (ISP) — was shut down last August after the service’s owner, Metricom, Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, fired […]

A report released yesterday by the Dell’Oro Group show sales of high-end routers and switches, the equipment used to manage and move data traffic on national and international networks, has taken a plunge in recent months. It proves what everyone in the telecommunications industry already knows but was too afraid to ask — carriers are […]

Network Associates executives put its final bid on the table for McAfee.com shareholders, saying they won’t dilute their stock value any more to accommodate a merger. Network Associates already owns 76 percent of McAfee.com’s outstanding common stock. If McAfee.com board of directors and shareholders sign off on the current bid, they would receive $8 in […]

A remote tool found in a popular Unix and Linux application has a buffer overflow vulnerability, according to a group which publicized the breach Monday. The common desktop environment ToolTalk database server program, common in most Unix systems around the world, can be hacked into and let unauthorized snoops collect personal information, gain root access […]

The bankruptcy court signed off on a bid for Global Crossing’s fiber optic network Friday to an investment team from Asia. The deal, approved by creditors last night signals the end of debate over who would take over the troubled carrier and the start of a major company overhaul plan, to be filed with the […]

Providing high-speed Internet access is a risky proposition if you are not one of the four Baby Bells in the U.S. In fact, the playing field of nationwide independent digital subscriber line (DSL) providers has essentially shrunk down to several survivors. Two of those survivors — Covad Communications and DSL.Net — are announcing their second […]

BulkRegister officials announced Wednesday afternoon they had reached a settlement against one of its competitors over charges of domain slamming. VeriSign , the largest registrar in the world and owner of the registries for the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs), was the subject of several lawsuits beginning in May over what competitors called false […]

DSL.Net officials Wednesday said they would take customers off of the hands of rival Aplus.net. The deal marks a unique turnaround in the independent digital subscriber line (DSL) provider industry, one that only a relative few have been able to pull off in the space. A little more than a year ago, DSL.net was just […]

Sears, Roebuck and Co. is investing its workforce with 21st century equipment to take advantage of streaming media technology, courtesy of a deal struck Tuesday with computer manufacturer Dell Computer Corp. . The Sears CRT Replacement Project is part of a company-wide effort to modernize its IT infrastructure at 867 department stores nationwide. Officials plan […]

One day before Global Crossing executives meet with its bankruptcy judge, reports surface of a potential winning bidder — long-time partner Hutchinson Whampoa Ltd. and Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte Ltd. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Asian investment team is almost a lock for majority ownership of the U.S.-based international long-haul Internet provider. The […]

NETGEAR, Inc., is looking to spread a little cheer and bring in new customers courtesy of a deal signed with Listen.com Monday. The home networking manufacturer of both wireline and wireless equipment is giving new customers a 30-day trial version of Rhapsody, the popular online streaming music company. The Listen.com trial begins this fall, “in […]