Thor Olavsrud

Marc Andreessen, the man who co-founded Netscape and then brought it to its history-making IPO, is seeking to bring another company public. His latest baby, Loudcloud Inc., a provider of Internet infrastructure services, filed plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday for an IPO of up to $150 million of common stock. Goldman, Sachs […]

Microsoft Corp. had a pleasant surprise Tuesday morning when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the federal government’s antitrust case against the company. The case will now go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which agreed to take up the case on June 13 but waited for the […]

Fujitsu PC Corp. Monday became the second computer manufacturer to jump on the Transmeta Corp. Crusoe processor bandwagon. Fujitsu will use the battery life-extending Crusoe processor in two notebook computers — the FM Biblo Loox S and the FM Biblo Loox T — due out in early November. The FM Biblo Loox S is a […]

International media giant Bertelsmann AG, following through with last week’s declaration that its future lies with content e-commerce and not the ISP business, linked arms Monday with San Francisco-based iSyndicate to create a European content syndication service. The joint venture, “iSyndicate Europe,” will help European Web sites, corporate Intranets and digital devices enhance their content […]

Tellium Inc., the young turk in the optical switch-making space, filed for a $250 million IPO Friday on the heels of a multi-million dollar, multi-year strategic agreement with Qwest Communications International Inc. and the successful July IPO of rival Corvis Corp. Tellium filed the registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday. The company […]

CyberGuard Corp. Thursday unveiled its latest firewall appliance, STARLord, targeted at large data centers with high-bandwidth requirements. The STARLord release is the second phase in CyberGuard’s three-pronged strategy. The first was the release of KightSTAR, the company’s first premium appliance firewall. The third phase will be the fall release of FireSTAR, a firewall appliance geared […]

Is the age of film going the way of cave paintings and Beta Max? Maybe not yet, but even the venerable Eastman Kodak Company is focusing more and more on digital technologies to keep its position as king of the picture mountain. “We have all heard the pundits predict that the Internet will be the […]

Fiber optics provider ADC Telecommunications Inc. Wednesday, seeking a boost in its efforts to create next-generation IP systems, acquired Westborough, Mass.-based Broadband Access Systems in an all-stock deal valued at about $2.25 billion. The actual number of common stock shares to be issued will be based on an average of the common stock’s closing price […]

Network services provider Genuity Inc. is seeking to carve out a whole new niche for itself in the network services industry and a $20 million marketing and advertising campaign will ensure that everybody knows it. The company Tuesday launched Black Rocket, the industry’s first Network Services Platform (NSP), which bundles all key Internet infrastructure services […]

Dell Computer Corp. Tuesday launched PowerApp.BIG-IP, its latest PowerApp appliance server for managing and routing Internet traffic. PowerApp.BIG-IP is pre-configured with F5 Networks’ BIG-IP Controller software, an award-winning software that can intelligently load balance and manage Internet content and traffic. Dell’s new appliance server routes incoming traffic to servers that can best respond to the […]

Aiming to dramatically cut the lead time for software development in the PDA-Internet appliance arena, DevelopOnline, a company incubated and spun off by Intel Corp., is turning to the model that made Linux a household word. On Oct. 2nd, the company will launch DevelopOnline.com, a site intended to serve as a collaborative, online development center […]

The escalating rivalry between Akamai Technologies Inc. and Digital Island Inc. got a little murkier Monday as Digital Island claimed ownership of a patent for technologies Akamai uses to deliver content over the Internet. The move was in response to a suit filed by Akamai and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) last week, alleging […]