Monthly Archives: March 2001
The Wizard Moved Out
Meet Drew Major—for the second time.Most Novell watchers call Major the "Father of NetWare"—the operating system that gave rise to PC networks in the...
Victims of Dirty Pool?
Believe it or not, despite the publics hunger for broadband, DSL CLECs continue to fail at a horrifying pace. Never has a technology so...
We Want Your Cycles
Free ISP Juno Online Services wants its users to contribute their idle clock cycles to a distributed "supercomputer," which the struggling service would rent...
Building Broadband Sputters
Companies wiring buildings for broadband access are starting to sing the blues.Building local exchange carriers (BLECs) are struggling with a sluggish economy, lower-than-expected demand...
Up & Down
We last reported on our experiences with satellite Internet service from Tachyon back in November. Since then, our results have been a mixed.On the...
Online Advertising: Bigger Is Better
With web banner ads increasingly dismissed as ineffective, the Internet Advertising Bureau has decided to take action.Its solution: Make the ads bigger.The IAB, a...
Wired Channel
Two years ago, top executives at welding equipment maker Miller Electric Manufacturing Co. thought they had a red-hot idea: Sell the companys secondary brand...
Handheld Power
The nearly ubiquitous personal digital assistant has begun to take its place among wireless phones and notebook computers in the arsenal of mobile business...
3G Tower of Babel
Waiting for a new wireless phone that lets you fire off pithy text messages to your pals or transact serious business with a few...
Priming the Data Pump
We arent there yet.The wireless data industry has been muttering this mantra for the past year. And though disappointing, its an improvement over its...