Sean Gallagher

Sprint Nextel has called off its partnership with wireless Internet provider Clearwire, casting into doubt the future of Sprint’s planned national WiMAX service rollout. “We were going to work together [with Clearwire]to build a joint network, but there were business complexities we couldn’t resolve,” Sprint spokesman James Fisher said. He did not elaborate. Fisher did […]

Despite announcing “another record quarter,” Cisco Systems endured a dramatic drop in its stock price Thursday as investors reacted to news of declining sales to U.S. enterprise companies in what CEO John Chambers called “challenging economic times.” Cisco shares plunged $3.12 a share, or 10 percent, to close at $29.55 in Thursday trading. Although Cisco […]

Vonage said Thursday that it had reached “an agreement in principle” with AT&T to settle the patent-infringement lawsuit filed by the telecommunications company. According to Vonage, the terms of the deal under discussion include a payment by Vonage of $39 million over five years in exchange for AT&T dropping its suit. Vonage would also drop […]

Facebook’s new social advertising program and, in particular, the inclusion of users’ interactions with sites outside of Facebook through its Project Beacon, is the latest shot fired in the battle to reach even more discrete groups of consumers with Web advertising targeted to their particular interests. The trend, called behavioral targeting or “hypertargeting,” leverages the […]

RESTON, Va. — At a gathering of over 300 software developers here Tuesday, Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich framed the software development world as being centered around one key conflict — that between the Eclipse consortium and Microsoft. “One could say that the battle has shaped up as the Eclipse ecosystem versus the Visual […]

RESTON, Va. — While Web 2.0 applications might be all the rage for developers and increasingly important in the enterprise, security experts warn they represent a serious threat — a fact that won’t change until businesses start demanding greater protections. That was the theme at the New New Internet conference here yesterday, where a panel […]

UPDATED: A Senate panel has approved legislation banning states’ efforts to prevent local governments from providing community broadband access. The Community Broadband Act of 2007 would pave the way for cities to install free Wi-Fi networks without being forced to contract through existing commercial providers. A similar measure is moving forward in the House, and […]

Meebo and Pownce, two collaborative social networking plays, published their APIs this week, opening the doors to applications by outside developers—and hopefully to more users and revenue. Meebo and Pownce follow Facebook, which unveiled its API last week. MySpace and Skype both have announced upcoming API releases as well this fall, as they look for […]

UPDATED: BEA Systems’ stock opened this morning at $16.70, dropping from its position of over $18 a share last week, as Oracle’s bid to buy the company at $17 per share expired yesterday. BEA issued a statement on Friday restating its rejection of Oracle’s offer. “As we have stated repeatedly, your $17.00 per share proposal […]

As legislators inch closer to passing an extension to state and local Internet access tax ban, a recent vote by the U.S. House of Representatives last week may have inadvertently left the door open for taxation on e-mail and other services. John Luckey, a lawyer from the government’s Congressional Research Service (CRS), warned earlier this […]

With less than a week before a ban lapses on Internet taxation, the U.S. Senate last night approved a seven-year extension. The moratorium, originally passed in 1998 and due to expire Nov. 1, bans state and local governments from levying taxes on Internet services. “The Senate recognized the window of time to prevent imminent tax […]

UPDATED: As they used to ask in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire – Is that your final answer? In Oracle’s case, apparently yes. The software giant said in a letter sent to BEA Systems board of directors Thursday that it would not increase its unsolicited acquisition offer of $17 per share and will withdraw […]