Patricia Fusco

NetZero Inc. and Juno Online Services Inc. , two of the nation’s leading Internet service providers, Wednesday announced the completion of their merger to form a new public company, United Online Inc. United Online Inc. (UOL) now owns both consumer brands of Internet access providers, much like SBC Communications Inc. owns and operates Prodigy Communications […]

Odds are good that bills addressing privacy concerns, such as the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project [H.RES.159.IH], will get swept away along with the debris from the recent terrorist attacks on innocent U.S. citizens. For now, you can likely forget about e-legislation initiatives including: E-Government Act of 2001: Legislation crafted to take full advantage of […]

Houston-based Managed Service Provider (MSP), Colowatch introduced its multi-network monitoring service this week. Colowatch provides remote services enabling companies to constantly monitor, maintain and report on their network status efficiently. In the Internet business, a Web site’s downtime equals lost profits. Colowatch keeps high-traffic sites up and running at peak efficiency. The technology stays up […]

Washington insiders say that the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 1999, which was first introduced to Congress on July 1, 1999 by Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA), is about to make a repeat appearance on Capitol Hill. Ken Johnson, Congressman Tauzin’s Spokesperson, said this time around the bill would pass the House. “The longer […]

How does Williams Communications top its recent spin-off from energy industry giant Williams? Simple, the wholesale backbone provider steps out in style by offering Internet service providers (ISPs) a T1 feed for $700 a month. By separating its national natural gas pipeline from its OC48 data pipes, Williams Communications needs to put its backbone to […]

BALTIMORE — While Wi-LAN, Inc. waits to complete its acquisition of UC Wireless (formerly Utilicom), there’s plenty of other 2.4GHz spread spectrum communication companies connecting with Internet service providers (ISPs) attending ISPCON in Baltimore this spring. The deal is set to close on April 10, and Wi-LAN is at the tradeshow pitching UC Wireless’ established […]

Rogers @Home, the Canadian importer of Excite@Home’s co-branded high-speed Internet service, provides cable modem access for nearly 300,000 users — many of which were impacted by intermittent problems with their high-speed Internet services during the past month. Chris Weisdorf, Rogers@Home User’s Association president and technical director, said the service has been in a shamble over […]

House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) continues to challenge the governments us of the “Carnivore” cyber snooping system developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There is evidence that the Justice Department is already working on Carnivore 2.0, an expanded version of the original “Omnivore” program. Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center through […]

The e-votes were tallied late Tuesday in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) first election at large. Five new board members will join ICANN’s 19 others tasked with supervising the Internet’s naming and addressing schemes. The organization’s memberships of 76,000 Internet users were invited to participate in the e-mail election. Karl Auerbach, […]

“A signature always reveals a man’s character – and sometimes even his name.” — Evan Esar A digital signature is an electronic, rather than a written scribble that can be used to authenticate the identity of the sender. It can also be used to ensure that the original content of the message or document that […]

IBM Global Services Wednesday kicked off a pay-as-you-go storage program as part of its “IT-on-demand” initiative. At IBM, IT-on-demand refers to the emerging model of outsourced services that companies use to deliver networked utilities from a third party on an as-needed basis. By adding pay-as-you-go hosted storage and storage management to its portfolio of network-delivered […]

BellSouth Corp. Tuesday launched its so-called “e-Platform” initiative targeting application service providers. As part of its “nEtwork Partner Program” to support its new business centers based in Atlanta and Miami, BellSouth’s designed a network that allows clients to dramatically respond to demands for bandwidth and ramp-up their Web distribution capabilities. Donna Lee, BellSouth Customer Markets […]