Monthly Archives: July 2001
AT&T Broadband Shapes Up Before Shipping Out
AT&T Broadband is preparing to leave the Ma Bell mother ship carrying billions of dollars less debt after unloading nearly 3 million customers in...
Chinese Telecom Buys $1.3 Billion in U.S. Gear
The $1.3 billion in equipment deals announced last week between China Unicom and four U.S.-based providers of wireless technology are watershed events in opening...
Now and Then, Technology Works
I burn a lot of space in this column carping about things that dont work — everything from bad technology to wrong-headed business plans...
Running From Behind
Novell has been looking for its second wind for several years.The companys biggest line of business is still NetWare, but it is one that...
Fast 50
Internet companies roared into 2000 sure they were going to conquer the world. For much of the 12 months that followed, it looked like...
Taking the Metro
While the communications industry sits largely becalmed in economic doldrums, theres a welcome breeze blowing in one quadrant.The metropolitan area network, that maze of...
Fast Facts Infrastructure: July 9, 2001
No BluffNextWave Telecom swears it isnt bluffing about aggressively building out a wireless network and last week announced a deal with Lucent Technologies to...
Operator No. 9: July 9, 2001
Fireworks FizzleWhen will the economic downturn in high-tech end? Thats what participants in a recent business-to-business commerce conference in San Francisco were asked. Attendees...
#3 WebEx Communications
Good ideas are recession-proof. Few firms prove that notion better than WebEx Communications, led by Chairman and CEO Subrah S. Iyar. The company grew...
Fast 50: 36 Through 50
36. Baltimore TechnologiesCryptographic software, hardwareLast year was good to Baltimore Technologies, which grew revenue by 219 percent. The company closed a deal with Commerce...