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Lucent Technologies announced on Monday that it has signed a major, multiyear contract with France Telecom to provide equipment for a 10-gigabit optical network that the company is building to supply its business customers with additional bandwidth. According to Lucent, which is in the midst of major restructuring that has seen its manufacturing and management […]

Computer manufacturers have begun taking orders for consumer PCs featuring Microsoft Corp.s newest operating system, Windows XP, and plan to get the first systems in customers hands by Sept. 24, about one month before XPs official launch. But while PC makers have been eagerly awaiting the chance to sell XP-based systems in hopes that the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –The FBI is warning network providers to expect a wave of denial-of-service attacks in the wake of last weeks terrorist strikes. In a new advisory, the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) warned of “vigilante hacking activity against organizations associated with the perceived perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.” The NIPC said […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday introduced a 16-way Unix server that brings some of the features found in its high-end Superdome system into the “meat and potatoes” segment of its product line. The new rp8400, priced at $124,000 for a base configuration, becomes the most powerful product in HPs midrange Unix product line, which accounts for more […]

While the slowing economy has provided an unsolicited lesson in IT leadership, theres nothing quite so powerful as operating through the near- death experience of Chapter 11 to sharpen your priorities. Just ask Cole Libby, who was vice president of network management systems at PSINet Inc. when the troubled Ashburn, Va., Internet service provider filed […]

The Day the World Changed in a Flash Most people learned of the World Trade Center attacks from television reports or from news Web sites. I found out without any help from technology: I looked out the window of my subway car. At 9:07 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11 — less than one minute after […]

Although the final toll may not be known for many days, its clear that the interactive world lost dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people to the attack on New Yorks World Trade Center in which as many as 4,763 people were still reported missing late last week. Workers at dozens of technology companies are grieving for […]

On May 14 of this year, everything changed for Brian Bertlin and his 189-person IT staff at Washington Group International Inc. Until that day, the CIO at the 38,000-employee construction company in Boise, Idaho, had been focused on integrating the systems and processes of Morrison Knudsen Corp. and Raytheon Co.s Engineers and Constructors business unit, […]

Like much of the rest of American society, the countrys high-tech industry was not immune to by the violence of last weeks attacks. Executives and employees from numerous companies were killed when hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and the woods of Pennsylvania. Daniel Lewin, […]

Zefer Sinks Internet consultancy Zefer appears to be signing off. The company has shut down its headquarters and has reportedly laid off about 300 remaining employees. Zefer officials would not return calls, but the Boston Globe reported that NEC has offered jobs to about 180 employees and was looking to assume Zefers client list. NEC […]

Co-workers are getting laid off. More work is being done by fewer IT staffers. Stress is mounting. Its one hell of a time to have a baby. But thats exactly what happened when Kim Pendergrass gave birth to her son, Jaden, in June, four years after joining DPR Construction Inc., a commercial contractor based in […]

Since last October, when Cingular Wireless officially launched, the top tier of the cellular industry has been clearly defined. Weve got six nationwide operators, and that number likely wont change — despite the potential removal of the spectrum cap and the subsequent winnowing of the remaining smaller players. The Federal Communications Commission has the spectrum […]