Monthly Archives: August 2001
DSL Failures Illustrate Telecom Act Problems
The legacy of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 now includes not only spectacular bankruptcies, but also indications that it has hampered the competition it...
Fast Facts Infrastructure: August 13, 2001
Dynamics DealDefense giant General Dynamics will acquire Motorolas Integrated Information Systems Group for $825 million in cash and debt. The Motorola unit "strengthens our...
WebCollage Fills Interim in Web Services
Web services are coming—at least they are if companies such as IBM, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and every other Web application, server or...
A Preventable Plague
Each day, it seems, we are asked to depend ever more on the Internet for our professional and personal well-being. Yet each week seems...
Shark!
Sharks love to swim in the waters of an economic downturn, and Interpath Communications CEO Joel Schleicher is showing his teeth.Interpath has snapped up...
ASPects: August 13, 2001
IBM Digs InIBM is dipping its toes deeper into the ASP market, announcing a far-ranging partnership with asset management software provider Peregrine Systems. A...
Making Best of Data Center Slowdown
Not long ago, IT administrators looking to outsource servers to a hosting company had only expensive services from a handful of name-brand providers to...
Fast Facts Section B: August 13, 2001
eBay Buys PropertyOnline auction king eBay is staking a real estate claim by acquiring HomesDirect.com. HomesDirect, which came out of Net incubator Idealab, auctions...
Broadband for the Masses Hits the Market
Shrinking worldIs your business park too remote for a DSL? Net to Net Technologies Inc., a Portsmouth, N.H., provider of Ethernet-based IP broadband access...