Monthly Archives: September 2001
HPs Jornada 560 Rivals Compaqs iPaq
Hewlett-Packard Co. is back for Round 2 of the Pocket PC wars with its Jornada 560 Series, a combatant built around the processor, display,...
Motorola Solves 30-Year Optical-Silicon Chip Puzzle
Motorolas new way of bonding light-emitting compounds onto a silicon chip may do more to deliver smaller, cheaper and faster semiconductors than anything announced...
Monitoring Tools for Smaller Firms
Small-to-midsize businesses trying to manage their networks and security better will soon have a new tool.Mitel Networks Corp.s Network Server Solutions Group—formerly e-Smith Inc.—has...
Free Space Optics Wins Qwest for Customer
Free Space Optics vaults into the big leagues this week with Qwest Communications Internationals announcement that it will deploy LightPointes rooftop-to-rooftop optical technology in...
Bush Official Serves as Tech Go-To Guy
Assistant secretary of Commerce Bruce Mehlman is in charge of the Office of Technology Policy in the U.S. Department of Commerce, having been confirmed...
Cable Company
The cable industry presented our second tie: Glasgow Electric Plant Board and Insight Communications.Glasgow EPB, run by Superintendent William J. Ray, is a much-lauded...
Linking Office to Network
Filanet Corp. has released the InterJak 200 802.11b Internet Service Appliance, which lets a small office set up a managed, integrated wired and wireless...
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
The lone repeat winner for 2001 is Yipes Communications, provider of Gigabit Ethernet services over optical networks in major metro areas. While other companies...
Blue Skies at Last
Tachyon, another pioneer in high-speed satellite access, already offers downlink/uplink speeds of 164Kbps/ 300Kbps to 256Kbps/2Mbps. Leasing bandwidth on existing space-based infrastructure, Tachyons services...
Cisco Certification Earns Interest
Before Select Inc. came along, Eastern Bank didnt entirely trust some of its potential integration partners. "They seemed to lack product access and expertise,"...