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Internet managed security firm Riptech, Inc., has released volume II of its Internet Security Threat Report, showing that Internet attacks grew at an annualized rate of 64 percent in the period in the first six months of this year and provides what the Alexandria, Va.-based company calls the “first insight into U.S. designated terrorist states’ […]

Calling for the “marketplace to pick winners and losers, not a regulatory agency,” the BroadNet Alliance, a new coalition of approximately 300 national, regional and local ISPs, filed its replay comments today to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) proposed deregulation rules that BroadNet members say threaten the financial future of ISPs. The reply is in […]

XtremeSpectrum of Vienna, Va., Monday became the first company to deliver a commercial ultra-wideband (UWB) solution that will comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) new rules for unlicensed usage. Achieving 100 megabits per second (Mbps) data rates and consuming less than 200 milliwatts (mW) of power, the company’s new solution, called Trinity, becomes the […]

EchoStar Communications Corp. , the satellite television and Internet provider, has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle its legal dispute with bankrupt high-speed Internet satellite company StarBand Communications Inc. The Colorado-based EchoStar, which owns a 30 percent stake in StarBand, also agreed to surrender its voting power in the McLean, Va.-based company. A week before […]

Congress has cancelled today’s government auction of spectrum by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). With deft legislative maneuvers, a bill indefinitely delaying the sale of 758 wireless licenses moved through both the House of Representatives and the Senate in one day and reached the White House for President George W. Bush’s signature. Originally scheduled for […]

A new coalition of approximately 300 national, regional and local ISPs says it plans to oppose broadband deregulation proposals currently before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Claiming nothing less than the “future of competitive broadband markets” is at stake, the BroadNet Alliance, led by WorldCom , EarthLink and a dozen state ISPs, contends that competition, […]

PSINet, Inc., once one of the highest rollers in the Washington high tech arena, will soon be no longer under a plan approved by a bankruptcy court Monday to dissolve what remains of the Internet backbone. The plan calls for PSINet to sell its remaining assets, to move out its Ashburn corporate offices by the […]

Broadband provider XO Communications, Inc., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, ending months of speculation and sometimes contentious dealings with billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who, along with two other investors, holds $1 billion in XO debt. The filing is limited to the parent corporation, XO Communications, Inc., and no operating subsidiaries of XO are […]

Calling for an “aggressive expansion of broadband,” President George W. Bush told IT CEOs last week at the White House’s 21st Century High Tech Forum to look to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for his administration’s broadband policy. In his comments to dozens of industry heads, the president predicted, “A lot of action is going […]

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved on Thursday morning the first step in the process of commercializing the upper millimeter-wave spectrum, a move designed to open the airwaves to multi-gigabit-per-second Internet speeds. The proceeding, which could take up to a year to complete, is designed to examine the commercial development and growth of […]

Scient, Inc. has signed a multi-year co-marketing agreement with America Online, Inc., to deliver services targeting business and financial services clients. As part of its new efforts to expand beyond its huge but slowing consumer customer base, AOL will partner with Scient to co-market, sell and deliver Scient’s business solutions. Terms of the deal were […]

One day after a Congressional subcommittee criticized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and several other federal agencies for their ultra wideband (UWB) technology policies, the FCC is forming a task force to identify and evaluate changes in spectrum policy that may benefit the public. According to FCC Chairman Michael Powell, the new Spectrum Policy Task […]