Thor Olavsrud

After reporting the first quarterly loss in its history and seeing its stock price dip six percent Wednesday, Cisco Systems returned Thursday with upbeat news that it has expanded its technology and marketing relationships with Internet and media giant AOL Time Warner. AOL Time Warner, the world’s largest ISP more than three times over (and […]

AOL Time Warner has been jazzing up it’s now classic “You’ve Got Mail” greeting by playing on a few of those ‘synergies’ between America Online and Time Warner that the two companies spoke about so eagerly during merger talks. Beginning on April 30, the company began lining up Time Warner affiliated celebrities to say the […]

Though numerous Visual Basic Script (VBS) bugs in the past year (and earlier) have time and again showcased the dangers of not filtering VBS e-mail attachments, many companies appear not to have gotten the message — as illustrated by the rapid proliferation of a new worm dubbed Homepage or VBS.VBSWG2. The worm arrives with the […]

IBM Corp. is gearing up for its Spring Analyst Meeting Thursday, a meeting expected to be full of good news on the technology and business fronts and which could mark the end of an era for the venerable Big Blue. “We expect IBM’s Spring Analyst Meeting being held this Thursday in New York to be […]

QUALCOMM Inc. Tuesday boasted that it has discovered the long-sought ‘killer app’ for wireless: it’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) applications platform. “The wireless industry has long searched for the ‘killer app,’” said Peggy Johnson, senior vice president of QUALCOMM and general manager of QUALCOMM Internet Services. “We believe that having the freedom to […]

Boeing Co., pushing strongly to become the first widely-available airborne broadband ISP through its Connexion by Boeing service, Monday moved to expand the content available on the service through a deal with ScreamingMedia Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, ScreamingMedia will aggregate licensed content — including worldwide, national and local news, sports and features […]

Though the wireless sector has felt the pinch in past months as the overall economy has slowed, Goldman Sachs & Co. Friday, initiating coverage of wireless, was impressed enough by three of the top six players to add them to its Recommended List. The investment research firm came out behind consumer-side heavy-weight Sprint PCS, rapidly […]

McLeodUSA Inc. Thursday revealed that it has sold two of its PCS licenses and has secured agreements to sell its remaining licenses to four buyers for more than $100 million. The company plans to reinvest the proceeds in its core operations. The company had been working to roll out a wireless network and a fiber […]

NetZero Inc. Thursday boasted that it has signed more than 116,000 billable subscribers since it launched its premium NetZero Platinum service in March. Those numbers, however, also reflect free ISP subscribers who make use of the company’s NetZero Professional option. The free NetZero service was altered in January to allow 40 hours access per month, […]

Michael Lee has been making changes — big changes — since he took the helm of struggling Washington, D.C.-based CAIS Internet Inc. Lee stepped in as president and chief executive officer of CAIS on March 17 after serving as chief business development officer at TelePacific Communications, a Los Angeles-based next generation integrated communications provider of […]

eBay Inc. Thursday moved to tighten its policy on hate and violence related listings to include Nazi memorabilia. The auction site’s existing policy — adopted last year after was pressured by public sentiment to stop the trade in Nazi goods — bans listings that “promote or glorify hatred, violence or racial intolerance, or items that […]

While many companies are streamlining their Web strategies in the face of the current economic downturn, Eastman Kodak Co. is ramping up. The company said Wednesday that between 2001 and 2005 it will bolster its digital products and services strategy with internal and external investments and acquisitions funded by at least $6 billion in free […]