Jim Wagner

Belatedly convinced he’s not just another hacker, Battle Creek, Mich., officials are withdrawing an injunction and dropping charges against ORBZ blacklist owner Ian Gulliver, city officials announced Thursday evening. The news comes roughly 30 hours after he shut down the controversial service to avoid handing documents over to the Michigan district court, sparking widespread outrage […]

To filter or not to filter, that is the question now that one of the Internet’s more popular blacklists, ORBZ, is out of commission. One of three projects created in the wake of one of the first blacklists, ORBS (a blacklist broken up after a court case in New Zealand), the ORBZ demise has reopened […]

There are two significant results to Microsoft Corp’s announcement on Wednesday that it has signed up Citigroup to .Net and its Passport technology … results that signal both a compromise and the potential of huge gains for the software behemoth that wants to be “King of Web Services.” As part of the deal, customers on […]

Federal and state authorities are cracking down on child pornography across the Internet, from news groups to Web sites, but will efforts to police the World Wide Web ever bear fruit? Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged 89 pedophiles for producing and distributing images across the Internet. Those charged were not overt criminals […]

Faced with mounting pressure to compete against national wireless digital phone carriers and still remain profitable, one regional competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) is calling it quits. CenturyTel executives announced Tuesday the sale of their wireless equipment and spectrum licenses to ALLTEL Corp. for $1.3 billion. The CLEC — with 800,000 customers signed up to […]

Working on behalf of one of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) directors, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the organization Monday for access to corporate records. According to the lawsuit, ICANN management has allegedly been involved in a series of delaying tactics to hinder Karl Auerbach — one […]

With $3.3 billion in debts, Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. is giving every indication it will seek bankruptcy protection with its decision Monday to forgo a $30 million payment to a creditor. The company has only $37.3 million cash on hand to fund operations. Verizon Communications officials were told Friday they would not be receiving an […]

The directors at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have led a relatively charmed life to date, imposing their vision of the Internet to the international community with minimal interference from their bosses, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) and Congress. Nowhere is that more evident than Thursday’s proclamation at its thrice-yearly […]

CHICAGO — Kyle Ackerman is making a reality out of what many other established broadband providers say is impossible: bringing high-speed Internet to rural and under-served towns throughout Minnesota. He joins a growing number of providers who have one goal in mind: connecting people to the Internet using a wireless link, free from dependence on […]

CHICAGO — A legal representative of the Wireless Communications Association (WCA) says it’s likely the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will sign off on a petition by a satellite radio company that severely hinders providers using the unlicensed 2.4GHz wireless frequency. Robert Primosch, a partner at Wilkinson, Barker & Knauer, LLP, told a gathering of providers […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is looking for comment on Verizon Communication’s desire to get “credit” for its $150 million investment in bankrupt digital subscriber line (DSL) provider NorthPoint Communications. The Baby Bell filed a request with the regulatory body last week in an attempt to recoup the monetary loss in its investment with regulatory […]

Compuware Corp. executives are red in the face over Big Blue’s efforts to swipe software source code and shut them out of the software development market. A lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Michigan Tuesday, charging IBM with “misappropriating and using Compuware intellectual property in IBM mainframe products,” the complaint read. […]