Jim Wagner

Proxim Corp. has bundled its many wireless products together to form a broadband services division catering to service providers, officials announced Wednesday. Kevin Duffy, former Siemens Information and Communications Mobile vice president of home networking, has been tapped as the general manager of the new division. His first job: get the word out about Proxim’s […]

After a change in strategy, the House of Representatives passed “The Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002 Tuesday morning, placing ratification in the hands of the U.S. Senate. Congress has tried to find a home for .kids the past two years to create a place children can visit on the Internet, free from […]

The U.S. Supreme Court handed Verizon Communications an early Christmas present Monday, giving the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) the go-ahead to appeal its reciprocal compensation case against WorldCom with the federal courts. The ruling overturns the views held by the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Fourth U.S. District Court, that issues between […]

Parisian equipment maker Alcatel announced Monday morning the launch of its non-stop routing platform using a breakthrough software schema on its 7670 routing switch platform. Available to existing Alcatel 7670 switch users as a downloadable patch (the necessary card is already incorporated into the hardware), the Alcatel Environment Internet System (ACEIS) gives IP networks guaranteed […]

Metomedia Fiber Network, Inc. , officials filed for voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection Monday, nearly a week after announcing it would not be able to meet a $32 million interest payment on its $650 million senior debt notes. The bankruptcy comes on the same day Nasdaq delisted the company for failing to meet listing requirements […]

Sprint Corp. and the United Kingdom-based Virgin Group are each ponying up $150 million to fund a joint-venture wireless phone company marketing the highly sought under-30 demographic. Virgin Mobile USA will be available nationwide sometime in mid-2002, officials said. The announcement, made Friday, is desirable for Virgin — with its many “old” media holdings in […]

It’s been a bad week to work for a phone company, with BellSouth announcing Friday staff cuts of nearly 5,000 in the coming months. Executives don’t expect to surprise employees with a pink slips, instead opting for a voluntary separation plan to both managers and non-managers. The Communications Workers of America union will oversee the […]

U.S. Cellular , one of the largest digital wireless phone carriers in the world, is giving up on one of its technology standards to bolster another after signing an equipment deal with Nortel Networks Thursday. The deal calls for 3,500 base stations and switches to migrate to the code-division multiple access (CDMA) 2000 1X standard […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided the residences of the DeceptiveDuo, a hacking team that gained a lot of negative attention the past several weeks for their continued breaches into government Web sites and databases, according to a friend of the two hackers. Robert Lyttle (aka Pimpshiz) and the other — who goes by […]

Officials at WorldCom launched its new nationwide Ethernet-based fiber optics backbone to businesses Wednesday, opening the door to an easy “plug-and-play” connection from their existing local area network (LAN) intranet to locations around the world. Using its Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) platform, a standard that breaks down voice and data traffic, WorldCom offers a service […]

A judge in the U.S. District Court of the District of Maryland has called for a preliminary injunction against domain name giant VeriSign Tuesday, putting a halt to a marketing campaign many competitors called domain slamming. “Essentially, VeriSign will need to stop their campaign immediately,” said a spokesperson from BulkRegister.com, the registrar that filed the […]

Executives at SBC Communications announced Tuesday the elimination of 5,000 employees this quarter, cuts necessary because of too-stringent regulations that apply to the telephone companies and not the competition. The announcement brings the total number of cuts at 15,000: in the last two quarters, SBC has laid off 10,000 employees and in March the company […]