Patricia Fusco

Deep in the heart of Texas SBC Communications Inc. Wednesday made a major move toward eliminating distance barriers for the delivery of digital subscriber line services. Current 17,500 feet DSL distance limitations has slowed deployment of high-speed access over the technology that revs up copper connections. SBC’s $6 billion Project Pronto initiative is based on […]

Over the past eight weeks Sprint Corp. hustled to file a series of applications with the Federal Communications Commission that would expand its two-way fixed wireless broadband services to another 45 U.S. markets. Sprint tested its multi-channel multi-point distribution service, or MMDS, in two Arizona markets earlier this year. While Tucson reviewed its two-way fixed […]

Live help provider Expertcity.com got the call from Excite@Home Tuesday to serve up technical support for users at its Excite.com portal. The two online firms deepened their long-term alliance, which requires that Expertcity.com’s community of independent crackerjacks provide Web-based support for Excite@Home’s narrowband portal services. Lenny Alugas, Excite@Home vice president of customer care, said the […]

Drawing on a century of experience managing communication networks, AT&T Corp. Tuesday introduced a data storage solution that delivers beyond the industry’s five-nine up-time standard. AT&T said its developed a way to meet the demands of operating in the Internet economy to provide businesses with near-100 percent availability of their mission-critical global applications. The company […]

Nippon Communications Corp. Tuesday extended the expiration date of its $5.5 billion bid to acquire Verio Inc. until the end of the month. The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. subsidiary’s offer had been scheduled to expire at midnight on Monday. The Japanese communications carrier was forced to extend its takeover bid for a fourth time, […]

EarthLink Inc. Monday proclaimed it attained a 100,000-broadband-customer milestone, effectively doubling its high-speed subscriber base since April. The nation’s top independent Internet service provider utilized a series of promotional campaigns to add 50,000 new broadband users to its core services in less than four months. EarthLink also expanded its broadband footprint from 30 cities to […]

Broadband service provider eSAT Inc. recently narrowed its operational focus in order to make its backbone in the sky a working reality. The satellite service divested its interest in the e-commerce firm i-xposure Inc. while completing the acquisition of PacificNet Inc. and its subsidiary InterWireless Inc. PacificNet is a managed access provider of traditional Internet […]

Dot-com companies that need to hedge their bets on deploying successful e-commerce Web sites may want to take a moment to review a new player in the market. Since its inception early in May, Hostcentric Inc. has managed to transform the privately-held Web hosting firm into one of the top application management and e-commerce solutions […]

SilverBack Technologies Inc. this week secured $18.5 million in second round funding lead by a handful of strategic investors and venture capital firms. Funding was led by Spectrum Equity Investors with key participation from Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners. Other strategic investors included Citrix Systems Inc. and PSINet Ventures. SilverBack completed its first […]

Application service providers are finding that thriving in the marketplace is a lot like the dramas being played out on the popular television show “Survivor.” Alliances are essential if one player is to outlive another, but be careful with whom you partner because the pact could take you out of the game. According to IDC, […]

Lycos Inc. Thursday entered into an agreement with wireless application service provider Mobilee Inc. to develop its forthcoming voice-powered portal. Lycos intends to launch the Web entranceway before the end of the year. The new voice portal is designed to provide telephone users with free access to the Lycos network of Web sites by simply […]

IBM Corp. and Portal Software Inc. this week formed a formidable twosome tasked to tackle two tiresome issues impacting application service provider standards. In order to accelerate growth of the ASP industry the two firms plan to lend software developers a hand in developing IP billing and user management service benchmarks. IBM and Portal Software […]