Thor Olavsrud

Penton Media Inc., producer of Internet World, the Internet industry’s largest trade show, said Tuesday that it has decided to push back Internet World Fall 2001 until Dec. 10, because early October “is just too soon.” The show was originally scheduled to run from Oct. 1 through 5. But the New York City-based show is […]

Troubled cable broadband provider Excite@Home sold its stake in its Australian venture, Excite@Home Australia, to venture partner Cable & Wireless Optus late Monday. @Home said the deal allows it to focus on its core competency — providing broadband technologies and services. The company said it will continue to provide those technologies, as well as brand […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and private sector security experts Tuesday warned of a sophisticated new virus dubbed Nimda, which spreads both as a worm exploiting the same vulnerabilities used by the recent Code Red and sadmind/IIS worms, and as an e-mail virus. Experts said the worm could proliferate as widely as Code Red. The […]

The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) — intended to make the Web accessible to the disabled — took a large step forward on Sept. 13, when the standards body advanced its User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 document to the “Candidate Recommendation” phase. UAAG 1.0 describes how to design Web browsers, […]

Multex Inc , which specializes in providing investment information and technology solutions to the financial services industry, reported Monday that all of its employees were safely evacuated from three facilities near the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. However, due to restricted access to its offices, and loss of electric power, Internet connectivity and telephone […]

Tuesday was supposed to be G. Mark Hardy’s first day as a senior manager with Ernst & Young in New York City. He had just come from Washington, D.C., where he had been managing director of information security services company Guardent Inc. But instead of settling into his new office that morning, Hardy, an officer […]

Still seeking to stave off bankruptcy, White Plains, N.Y.-based Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. Thursday finagled an extension of its commitment letter to put together $235 million in vendor financing by Sept. 12. Metromedia agreed to put together the financing as a condition of a Sept. 7 deal in which it signed a secured note purchase […]

Bankrupt high-speed ISP Rhythms NetConnections Inc., which had requested Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permission to close the doors of its Rhythms Links telecommunications service today, was denied that permission by regulators Monday and told it cannot close the service until Sept. 24. “While the commission is sensitive to Rhythms Links’ financial difficulties, we cannot overemphasize […]

The NetWorld+Interop 2001 Atlanta trade show will be kicking off its exhibition Tuesday, but a host of companies were lining up Monday to tout their latest switches, processors and servers. Internet Machines Corp. was first out of the gate with its IMpower product family, a series of network processing and switching solutions for designers of […]

Fujitsu Automation Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. are trying to push forward research and development of robotic technologies with Monday’s release of a new miniature humanoid robot running on RT-Linux. The robot, HOAP-1 (Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform) — together with simulation software built on RT-Linux — can be used for developing motion control algorithms […]

Some of the biggest firms in the technology sector have been increasingly staking their futures on Web services, a model which seeks to go beyond the traditional client-server operating system to define a workable distributed computing framework for the Internet. One of the firms with the most to gain (or lose) from this future is […]

In what it called “steps in an effort to obtain prompt, effective and certain relief for consumers,” the U.S. Department of Justice Thursday announced it will no longer seek a break-up of Microsoft Corp. — as originally ordered by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia — and […]