Patricia Fusco

National Internet service provider Juno Online Services Inc. Tuesday reported record revenues of $24 million for the first quarter of this year. Although the company raised $81.1 million in net proceeds through a secondary equity offering completed in February and reported 147 percent growth over last year’s figures, the firm’s net loss in the first […]

America Online Inc. and Level 3 Communications Inc. Tuesday inked a new, multi-million dollar, long-term network service agreement as an extension of their original October 1999 deal. The new agreement extends America Online’s (AOL) use of Level 3’s (LVLT) managed modem and network connection services. Don Gips, Level 3 group vice president of global marketing […]

Atlanta-based EarthLink Inc. Monday announced it more than doubled its broadband customer base since the beginning of the year. EarthLink (ELNK) contends attaining its 50,000-broadband customer milestone substantiates its place among the top tier of high-speed Internet services providers. Mike Lunsford, EarthLink executive vice president of broadband services, said the access provider may have hit […]

The Federal Trade Commission surfed the Web Friday in search of commercial Web sites that collect personal information from children under 13 years old without the consent of their parents. The Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a new law that could impose a $10,000 per-violation fine on marketers who do not comply with the […]

BellSouth this week introduced its new Internet supply management center for small businesses, dubbed PurchaseWise. The Web site is stocked with a complete line of office supplies, as well as access to a suite of online supply management tools, including reporting and analysis capabilities designed to manage their businesses’ purchasing. John Shivanandan, BellSouth (BLS) e-business […]

Mobile Internet service provider Metricom Inc. is one step closer to providing 128.8 kbps speeds over its Ricochet microcell radios. Metricom (MCOM) Thursday announced its new Plano, Texas, network operations center is open for business. Bill Walker, Metricom vice president of network operations, said the new facility would provide the redundancy it needed to continue […]

EarthLink Inc. announced Wednesday it is on track to grow to 4.5 million subscribers by the end of the year. If EarthLink (ELNK) attains its year-end goal it will produce about $1 billion in revenue and secure its rank as the second largest ISP in the U.S. Garry Betty, EarthLink chief executive officer, said the […]

SBC Communications Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. Wednesday formed a strategic marketing and sales alliance to accelerate delivery of open-standard broadband services. Through the multi-billion-dollar agreement, SBC (SBC) tags Cisco (CSCO) as its preferred provider of data networking equipment. SBC’s network currently connects 60 million access lines to 36 million customers nationwide. As a part […]

Outsourced messaging services provider Mail.com, Inc. Tuesday acquired a collaboration suite from IntraACTIVE, Inc. Dubbed InTandem, the IntraActive integrated suite of collaborative applications include group scheduling, document sharing, project management, contact management and group discussion, all of which can be accessed through a Web-based interface. By owning IntraACTIVE’s InTandem flagship product, Mail.com (MAIL) is one […]

Cable Internet provider Excite@Home Tuesday announced results from its ongoing subscriber studies indicating that its users spend more time online each week. The February study revealed 40 percent of all @Home (ATHM) subscribers spend more than 20 hours online each week and that 15 percent of those subscribers are online for more than 40 hours […]

GraphOn Corp. Monday teamed up with GoldMine Software Corp. in a licensing agreement to use its Bridges software as a web-enabler of GoldMine’s family of products. The agreement allows GoldMine to use Bridges software to take its HEAT software and customer relationship management applications online. The first web-enabled application scheduled for release is GoldMine’s service […]

Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday unveiled its global broadband strategy to help service providers take digital subscriber line services to market. The Cisco (CSCO) strategy, dubbed GlobalDSL, is designed to allow access providers to increase revenues by expanding their markets into broadband services. The program attempts to eradicate barriers to DSL deployment by simplifying IP and […]