Jim Wagner

A sharp drop off in IT spending has hurt software and portal application developer BroadVision Inc. , forcing the company to cut 300 jobs and restructure, officials said Wednesday evening after the bell. Reporting first quarter 2002 results to Wall Street, Dr. Pehong Chen, BroadVision president and chief executive officer, said the business revamp is […]

The Federal Trade Commission put the clamps on a deceptive spam campaign Wednesday that promised a chance to win a Playstation 2 console but in reality led to a porn site. Lo/Ad Communications Corp. Co-Founder Nicholas Loader was the principal defendant named in the porn fraud complaint, a serious blow to a company that provides […]

Two former competitors in the corporate-level software/services industry are getting together to deliver an infrastructure resource management (IRM) solution to customers. IBM and Peregrine Systems signed an all-encompassing strategic alliance to jointly market their services Wednesday, officials announced. The two have been working partners since last August, when IBM’s global solutions division started using some […]

Covad Communications, in the middle of a nationwide T-1 expansion campaign for businesses, announced Tuesday revamped service level agreement (SLA) guarantees. The SLAs are an extension of Covad’s existing guarantees, which covered only its own network, and may be a relatively risky move for a company looking to garner more business-class customers. While the guarantees […]

While a bandwidth-hungry world clamors for more broadband access, America Online proves dial up is still king in the Internet world with a contact expansion for more lines Monday. Adding to a substantial contract with Level 3 Communications , one of several wholesale dial-up POP providers it deals with, AOL increased its co-location presence around […]

The U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command was defaced Monday morning, with presumably legitimate screenshots of database files from a major airline and bank. Using a common gateway interface (CGI) hack, a defacing team calling themselves the Deceptive Duo posted the information on the U.S. Navy site to “ensure that the public is aware […]

It’s not hard for broadband users to think back to the very first moment they downloaded a Web page after ditching dial-up access. In many ways, it is reminiscent of a first sexual encounter: first, the anticipation, then exhilaration, and lastly immediate gratification. Depending on whom you talk to, digital subscriber line (DSL), cable, satellite […]

Continuing its quest to maximize spectrum in the U.S. and keep all parties happy, the Federal Communications Commission issued a Report & Order on satellite-based broadband licensing Thursday evening. New standards for satellite services using the shared Ku-band frequencies (10.7-14.5 GHz) were created, calling for satellite operators to share frequency when sending signals. When orbiting […]

America Online was the biggest success story of 2001 with its purchase of Time Warner, Inc., becoming an Internet service provider (ISP) with Wall Street clout. But did the move stifle its own broadband migration? That AOL Time Warner is the largest ISP in the world isn’t in doubt, with more than 35 million Internet […]

Bell Mobility is breaking out of the 3G digital wireless phone carrier business with a wireless local area network (WLAN) card that lets customers get on the Internet using a laptop or personal digital assistant (PDA), officials announced Thursday. The Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 expands on the traditional wireless phone service, letting Bell Mobility customers […]

Covad Communications continues to diversify its business model, renting out T-1 POPs to DSL.net, Inc. , officials announced Wednesday. The contract, which officials on both sides declined to elaborate on, lets DSL.net sell T-1 business-class lines to a greatly expanded customer base, thanks to Covad’s nearly 600 POPs nationwide. It’s been a busy week for […]

SBC Communications and EchoStar Communications are teaming in May up with a satellite TV/broadband Internet combo to deliver a service only cable networks can provide today. Officials announced Wednesday the beginning of a marketing alliance beginning in May when SBC sales teams start offering EchoStar’s service to its customers as a stand-alone product. Later this […]