Jim Wagner

Last Friday, Champ Mitchell, VeriSign mass markets executive vice president, said the days of competing registrars stealing its customer base was a thing of the past. On Monday morning, the domain name giant was handed a lawsuit for a temporary restraining order and injunction for attempted domain slamming. “For a long time we just laid […]

Yahoo! and Sun Microsystems, Inc. officials announced Monday an alliance to put customized portal applications on Sun ONE portal servers. The deal is good for enterprise manager’s looking to implement a ready-made portal server with individually customized information tools for its users. It’s also another sign Yahoo!’s bosses are looking to capitalize on their name […]

Two weeks ago, the hacker known as the Deceptive Duo broke into the Web server of one of the U.S. Navy’s databases, publishing materials never meant to see the light of day. Last Friday, a Navy server database housing e-mail addresses and phone numbers of top Navy and White house brass was breached using the […]

VeriSign , the world’s largest registry and registrar with control of .com, .net and .org (among others), has a game plan to fix the mess that has become its reputation. Dogged for its billing and support mismanagement, Champ Mitchell, VeriSign executive vice president of mass markets, is overseeing the revamp of his beleaguered division. It’s […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to approve modifications in the rules governing spread spectrum technologies used by fixed wireless (Wi-Fi) operators, amendments which open the door to new systems and improve the transmission of broadband data. It’s expected the rule changes to Part 15, three years in the making, will give wireless Internet […]

For his success in making AOL a household word in such places as China and Argentina, executives promoted the international Internet service provider (ISP) chief to manage the entire AOL Time Warner empire overseas, officials announced Thursday. Michael Lynton, former Harvard Business School graduate, will manage the overseas efforts of one of the largest companies […]

New Edge Networks continues to win support with its investors, this time adding $146 million in equity to relieve most of its debt load and realize it’s goal to run cash-flow positive early next year, officials announced Wednesday. Goldman, Sachs & Co. led the financing, which put $15 million in New Edge coffers and eliminated […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) came to terms with the owners of the new top-level domain (TLD), .pro, officials announced Wednesday. RegistryPro, the new owners, say the new domain extension is unlike anything seen in the domain industry to date. With digital certificates to certify the validity of a site, coupled […]

Now this is super-sizing your experience at McDonalds: for roughly $13 a month, Tokyo regulars at the neighborhood restaurant can connect their laptops to a wireless broadband connection beginning this month, letting them eat and surf at the same time. The deal, brokered by investment company cum broadband provider Softbank and the Japanese division of […]

Programmers, network and database administrators and IT executives of all levels have faced a difficult labor market following the dot-com bust and new scrutiny over capital expenditures and might have better job prospects north of the U.S. border, according to two studies released Monday. But companies that continue to trim IS department budgets (normally hashed […]

Despite the fact digital subscriber line (DSL) service is available in most parts of the U.S., the number of new users continues to drop every year, a fact that’s prompted everyone from the incumbent telephone companies to the Federal Communications Commission to Congress to weigh in with the cause for drop off. The way some […]

Sen. Ernest Hollings, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee chairman, opened his vision for broadband America with the introduction of the “Broadband Telecommunications Act of 2002” Thursday evening. In a departure from broadband bills of the past, the bill would help fund service providers and carriers who find a way to get broadband to rural and underserved […]