Patricia Fusco

America Online Inc. Friday named Robert Harris as its executive producer of broadband. Harris will be charged with developing broadband content across all of AOL’s brands. The former president of Universal Television and MCA Television Group brings more than 30 years of television broadcast experience to AOL’s intense efforts to produce broadband content. Bob Pittman, […]

Broadband cable Internet access provider SoftNet Systems Inc. Friday announced that its ISP Channel has launched 14 additional systems nationwide. SoftNet now operates a total of 31 access-over-cable systems in conjunction with its cable affiliate partners. The cable access affiliation now tops 2 million homes passed in the US and Puerto Rico. New access to […]

Fresh from its debut in the Latin American market, Prodigy Communications Corp. announced Thursday that Telmex’s Internet Directo Personal has changed its name to Prodigy Internet de Telmex. The name change marks a significant milestone for the two companies, as well as an important extension of the Prodigy Internet access brand name into one of […]

MindSpring Enterprises Inc. customers in Atlanta will have the opportunity to utilize Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line access to the Internet by this fall. The nationwide Internet service provider Thursday announced its initial plans to rollout MindSpring ADSL service in the Southeast. MindSpring and BellSouth Telecommunications Inc. have entered into an agreement allowing for the ISP […]

Network computer monolith Sun Microsystems Inc. Wednesday unveiled 20 new products to address service providers dynamic business, infrastructure and technological needs. The move signaled Sun’s intent to develop the company’s growth throughout the service provider business market. The Sun programs are designed to accelerate service providers’ ability to deliver value added services in the ever-changing […]

National backbone provider AGIS Monday reached an agreement with RealNetworks to provide additional capacity and enhanced delivery of streaming media broadcasts. Under the terms of the deal, Real’s Real Broadcast Network will deploy its broadcast hubs in AGIS’s network. RBN streaming media broadcasts piped through the AGIS network will deliver RBN Internet broadcast programming directly […]

Remaining completely anonymous on the Internet is no small task. If Zero-Knowledge System’s President Austin Hill has anything to say about it, his Freedom Network will make online privacy a basic universal right. More than 50 Internet service providers and independent server operators have joined forces with Zero-Knowledge to support the Freedom Network, an international […]

Don Janke, president of Internet Ventures Inc. Wednesday warned the Internet industry at that failing to achieve leased access of cable broadband facilities will result in long-term exclusion of broadband access for Internet Service Providers. Speaking at Spring ISPCON 99, Janke urged ISPs to rally around the leased access cause. IVI maintains that cable systems […]

RMI.NET, Inc. this week unleashed a new non-categorized domain name registration service at ISPCON Spring 99. The new registration service lets companies use their trademarked brand to a domain name, without adding .com, .net or .org designations. RMI’s Simplified Domains system uses a word or a phrase and places a period three characters from the […]

Chipmaker Intel Corp. is continuing its transformation into an Internet-based company continued this week at Spring ISPCON ’99. Last fall, Intel completed a series of aggressive investments and acquisitions with Linux entities including Red Hat, VA Research, and Shiva. Intel then constructed their Internet Data Services division, which signed a deal with Excite to develop […]

iBEAM Broadcasting Corp. Tuesday announced a partnership with Bloomberg Interactive Television to transmit Bloomberg reports and live on-demand news. The announcement was made Tuesday at ISPCON Spring 99 End-users that connect through an Internet service provider that has deployed iBEAM MaxCaster services will be able to utilize the webcast from free backbone congestion that currently […]

Netopia Inc. Monday introduced major enhancements to the company’s leased line, dial-up and Digital Subscriber Line routers. Three new leased-line routers have been added to the Netopia R-series line-up. Standard features of the new Serial, DDS, and T1 routers included secure Virtual Private Networking and an integrated 8-port hub. The new leased-line routers can be […]