Thor Olavsrud

In an attempt to boost its value to advertisers, Juno Online Services Inc. Monday will unveil a new tracking service geared to helping advertisers understand the impact of their ad campaigns on Juno. The service — dubbed Juno Brandmeter — does not take the traditional route of measuring click-through rates. Rather it gives advertisers the […]

A new virus — a variant of the Love Letter VBScript worm that made its way around the world a little more than a year ago — has turned up on the Net, luring recipients of the e-mail that delivers it to open it with promises of nude photos of Jennifer Lopez. The offer of […]

NEW YORK — Thanks largely to the instant gratification offered by digital cameras, Polaroid Corp. sees a difficult future for film sales — a staple of its business — but that doesn’t mean the inventor of instant photography should be counted out just yet. In fact, it sees an opportunity that would give it greater […]

RealNetworks Inc. stock plummeted 19 percent Tuesday on speculation that a deal being hammered together between AOL Time Warner and Microsoft Corp. will leave it in the dust. Analysts and RealNetworks Chief Executive Officer Rob Glaser have said such an outcome is unlikely. Last Friday, reports surfaced that AOL was in talks with Microsoft in […]

Seeking to rebrand itself as a tier-one ISP, Washington, D.C.-based CAIS Internet Inc. Tuesday said it will ask for shareholder approval to change its name to Ardent Communications and announced that its nationwide network has been fully Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) enabled. The firm also picked up 1,947 former PSINet business DSL subscribers. It has […]

Despite speculation as late as Tuesday morning that French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel and Lucent Technologies would announce a merger by Wednesday, the two firms crushed those rumors Tuesday afternoon. In a release, the two companies confirmed that they had been in discussions concerning a possible merger. However, the firms said “that these discussions have […]

AOL and Microsoft may be in the process of burying the hatchet, and the loser may be RealNetworks, according to a report by BetaNews. AOL Time Warner’s AOL client has long had a home bundled with Microsoft’s Windows OS. But the original agreement ended Jan. 1, 2001, and the two companies failed to reach a […]

Trust services firm VeriSign Inc., owner of Network Solutions Inc., the largest registry/registrar in the world, Thursday threw the switch on its long-running Domain-Policy mailing list. The company announced to the list that it would be closed, and promptly put the decision into effect. The list’s archives were also removed. “We are no different than […]

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Wednesday moved to extend its reach into the product lifecycle management (PLM) software arena and improve its positioning in the supply chain arena through deals to acquire Structural Dynamics Research Corp. and its publicly-held subsidiary, Unigraphics Solutions (UGS). EDS will shell out about $950 million in cash, about $25 a share, […]

Computer manufacturers were hit early and hard by the deteriorating economy, but that may soon turn around and those companies that have positioned themselves correctly during the downturn stand to make big gains when the market is revitalized, according to research by Goldman Sachs & Co. U.S. market leader Dell Computer Corp. stands to come […]

Congress’ investigative arm, the General Accounting Office (GAO), has given the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) a failing grade when it comes to issuing warnings about electronic attacks. The NIPC was formed in 1998 to protect businesses and government from hackers and cyber-terrorists. But a report expected to be released Tuesday […]

Attrition.org, which has long kept track of Web site defacement activity, announced Monday that it will no longer maintain mirrors of defaced sites. Attrition, in the words of its staff members, “is a non-profit hobby site run by a handful of volunteers in their free time.” While it may be a volunteer effort, the result […]