Monthly Archives: January 2001
Charge!
Two of the nations three major long-distance carriers, AT&T and Sprint, have boosted the rate they charge consumers to recover their share of government...
Bells Tolling
This is the year Telecom turns down, then turns around.Its the year that the matricidal mega-Bells begin sucking the life out of consumer long-distance,...
Fast Facts Infrastructure: January 8, 2001
Dwindling NumbersTroubled fast Internet service provider Covad Communications has turned loose another 400 workers, dropping its payroll to about 2,300. The cuts follow the...
20,000 Cables Under the Sea
Theres gold under them there oceans. the submarine optical market is expected to grow 40 percent per year — to $37 billion by 2004...
Livin Large
The Linux operating system will be better able to support enterprise-level systems when an upgraded kernel is released by lead developer Linus Torvalds, perhaps...
Catching the Bug Before It Kills
Web sites and a broad sweep of electronic databases are being targeted by the military for a vast surveillance project aimed at detecting incidents...
Getting Ready for a Power Play
Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio is afraid of the dark. Specifically, Nacchio doesnt want any of Qwests data centers to go dark as a result...
Labs-Eye View
Oracle has figured out what the IT industry loves and hates in the computer industry. It hates debugging desktop operating systems and not having...
New Deals Open Portals to Content
Portal vendors are working overtime to make deals with content and infrastructure suppliers to help shore up their offerings. Northern Light Technology Inc. and...
Data You Can Take to the Bank
Sometimes, bad data can happen to good companies. As application service providers work to bring business intelligence to a wider market, many retailers and...