Thor Olavsrud

Human error Saturday temporarily hijacked some of the traffic to the sites Yahoo.com and Microsoft.com (including MSN.com and a host of .NET sites), as well as some smaller sites, and showcased an issue that should have ISP executives waking up in a cold sweat. Bermuda-based hosting company MyDomain.com said it inadvertently published an error-filled DNS […]

Juno Online Services Inc.’s strategy of luring users with a free product and then up-selling them to its premium service appears to be bearing fruit, as the company Monday reported strong growth in billable subscribers during its fourth quarter. Juno said its active subscriber base — users who log onto the service at least once […]

The first major widespread virus of the new millennium may bear a familiar name: Melissa. A variant of the Melissa virus, known as W97M.Melissa.W — though it seems to have picked up the monikers Melissa-X or Melissa 2001 — has been spreading in the form of a Macintosh-formatted Microsoft Office document for about a month. […]

Washington, D.C.-based law firm Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll threw down the gauntlet Tuesday, filing a class action lawsuit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against Verizon Internet Services Inc. and parent company Verizon Communications Inc. The suit, brought by Bruce and Leslie Forrest on behalf of themselves and other Verizon DSL […]

AOL Time Warner subsidiary America Online Inc. Thursday named Jim Bankoff president of its Netscape division. Bankoff, formerly vice president of strategy and operations for the AOL brand, will now take the reins of the browser company, directing business operations and managing the growth of Netscape.com and the Netbusiness initiative. Current Netscape head honcho Jim […]

Wireless Knowledge Inc., jointly held by Microsoft Corp. and QUALCOMM Inc., Wednesday forged a strategic marketing agreement with OmniSky. Under the terms of the deal, Wireless Knowledge will promote OmniSky’s wireless e-mail and Internet service to its enterprise customers while OmniSky markets Wireless Knowledge’s Workstyle Server to its enterprise customers. OmniSky’s customers will then be […]

A worm Wednesday burrowed its way into hundreds — possibly thousands — of servers running the Red Hat 6.2 or 7.0 flavors of Linux, installing root kits and plastering Web servers’ index.html files with the imaginative slogan “RameN Crew–Hackers looooooooooooove noodles.” The so-called Ramen worm’s code, pieced together from tools generally available on cracker sites, […]

Seeking to keep up with big boys AOL Time Warner and EarthLink, Prodigy Communications Corp. Wednesday ramped up its Prodigy Everywhere initiative and turned to wireless application service provider GiantBear Inc. for help in developing and launching “Prodigy Wireless,” a mobile portal for Prodigy Internet members and non-members alike. GiantBear will provide its proprietary technology […]

Looking to offer customers the ability to build cost-effective and easily provisioned serverless offices and virtual data centers across metropolitan distances, optical infrastructure heavyweight Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. (MFN) Wednesday got even tighter with Cisco Systems Inc. MFN inked an agreement to include Cisco’s Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) equipment in its WaveChannel9 Optical Network […]

EarthLink, the second-largest ISP in the U.S., Wednesday cut a deal with Motorola Inc. to offer its mobile e-mail services on Motorola’s Talkabout two-way model T900, a device roughly the size of a large pack of gum. The deal is a follow-through on EarthLink’s “EarthLink Everywhere” initiative — reminiscent of the AOL Anywhere initiative well […]

Vancouver-based Intrinsyc — a developer of technologies and solutions for Internet devices — Tuesday snapped up Linar Ltd., a developer and provider of Java-based enterprise connectivity software, for $2.2 million in cash and stock. Intrinsyc will shell out $1.5 million in cash and 323,000 common stock shares for Linar. An additional $1.5 million will be […]

Juno Online Services Inc. Tuesday teamed with online gaming companies iEntertainment Network, Boxerjam.com and Gamers.com to roll out a new Games Channel on its portal. The Juno Games Channel features games ranging from simulations to game shows and classic parlor games. It also features gaming news and reviews. Juno said it will share in any […]