Monthly Archives: July 2001
.Nets Open to Change
A leading open source developer, Miguel de Icaza, said he will launch an open source project to create a platform-neutral version of the upcoming...
Frequency Faux Pas
The Federal Communications Commission was twice smacked hard in the face: first when an appeals court overturned the panels decision to take back and...
Fast Breaks Newsfront: July 9, 2001
London TimeBandwidth trading company Arbinet-thexchange expanded its spot market for telephone minutes last week when it turned up a switch in London, letting members...
GE Seeks to Profit From App Services
General Electric is testing the waters of the application service provider market by charging companies using its marketplace subsidiary — GE Global eXchange Services...
#4 FutureLink
Blame it on the application service provider market. FutureLink has a nice, profitable business as a reseller and integrator of Citrix Systems software for...
Fast Facts Matrix: July 9, 2001
HotJobs Joins Monster.comTMP Worldwide, owner of job-listing site Monster.com, plans to buy competitor HotJobs for about $460 million in stock. The two sites combined...
Lambdas Bulk Up Lit Fiber
Long-haul and metro network operators are beginning to wring value from already-lit fiber by selling individual wavelengths of light to bandwidth-hungry businesses not rich...
Content Bridge Creaks Under Weight of Dot-Com Busts
Content Bridge, the first operating content peering exchange, has a problem: Its only two resellers are going under, and customers and partners are hesitant...
Introduction to SANs: Technology, Benefits, and Applications
For most business users the demand for storage is being stimulated by companies and users coming to the realization that the one thing on...
BP Drills Web
An oil giant is showing other businesses how to use the Internet to bolster the supply of technical experts.The problem: BP — the worlds...