Patricia Fusco

Cablevision Systems Corp. tossed a legal grenade into AT&T Corp.’s attempts to take control of Excite@Home Corp. cable operations. Cablevision filed the lawsuit earlier this week in the Delaware State Court alleging breach of contract against Excite@Home , AT&T , Cox Communications Inc., and Comcast Corp. AT&T Cable announced its plans to rearrange relations with […]

Online brokerage firms are rushing to hitch their client retention programs to the free dial-up bandwagon. Akin to the Ameritrade Inc. free dial-up program introduced Tuesday, discount brokerage firm Quick & Reilly Inc. announced Wednesday that it would also offer free basic Internet services to its clients in the U.S. and Canada. Once again, 1stUp.com […]

Much to the delight of day traders in the U.S., online investors can tap into free Internet services at Ameritrade Inc. Ameritrade teamed up Tuesday with free access facilitator 1stUp.com Corp. to offers its members free dial-up access to the Internet. Through its relationship with 1stUp.com, Ameritrade is able to offer its over 1 million […]

America Online Inc. Monday took to the airwaves with the launch its interactive television services for the masses, dubbed AOLTV. AOLTV viewers can watch television using their existing broadcast signals and choose from a variety of popular AOL features including e-mail, instant messaging, chat and a built-in programming guide. The service is connected through a […]

Bell Atlantic Corp. will complete its $65 billion merger with GTE Corp. by the end of June after the merged company transfers all of GTE’s Internet business into a separate public company, newly dubbed Genuity. The Federal Communications Commission late Friday conditionally approved applications to transfer control of licenses and lines from GTE to Bell […]

Broadband service provider Excite@Home early Saturday unveiled its updated search program for Web users worldwide. Dubbed Excite Precision Search, Excite@Home said the offering is redesigned to deliver improved search relevance and simplified navigation through the Web. Excite Precision Search was revamped to focus its search functions on relevance algorithms. The program also provides real-time search […]

Coming to a set-to box next week — AOLTV, the latest shimmering facet of America Online Inc.’s strategy to provide its 23 million members with access to its services from anywhere, over any device. AOLTV made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. At the annual Las Vegas event, America Online boldly launched […]

In an aggressive move to expand its digital subscriber line services beyond major metropolitan service areas, Covad Communications Inc. Friday reached a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held BlueStar Communications Inc. Nashville-based BlueStar Communications provides broadband and Internet services to small and medium-sized businesses throughout the Southeastern U.S. The all-stock transaction is valued at $202 million. […]

Two industry giants are about to allow fun-seekers to take the Web with them during this year’s summer vacation season.

The U.S. House of Representatives late Wednesday passed the e-signature bill by a 426 to 4 vote in favor of the measure. The bill known in short as E-SIGN [S.761] is a part of Capitol Hill’s eContract 2000 and is scheduled to go to the U.S. Senate for further consideration. The bill is at the […]

Watching television programs could become the most widely used interactive source of entertainment in the world. If regulators approve of the America Online, Inc. and Time Warner, Inc. merger, Internet users could someday customize CNN content with the single-click of a button on a set-top box. Global interactive service provider America Online and TiVo Inc. […]

Networking colossus Cisco Systems Inc. and mobile data technology expert Xircom Inc. Wednesday teamed up to cooperate in the development of wire-free network adapters. Based on the IEEE 802.11b Wireless Ethernet standard, the two companies agreed to amplify efforts to provide mobile data solutions for Wide Area, Personal Area, and Local Area Networks. The collaboration […]