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Wireless LANs: No Need for Speed? Vendors are shifting wireless LAN speeds into overdrive, but many customers dont need the record performance. By the end of this year, 54-Mbps wireless LAN adapter cards will hit the streets. At least one company, Proxim, is developing 108-Mbps gear. Still, the current 11-Mbps wireless standard is more than […]

Full Speed One of the fathers of the Internet isnt buying reports of a slowdown. Traffic on the Internet quadrupled during the past year, and demand from corporations for around-the-clock access will force carriers to start spending heavily on upgrades next year, said Caspian Networks Chairman Lawrence Roberts, who created ARPANet. He based his findings […]

The idea of mobile virtual network operators or resellers is hot, especially amid the swirl of rumors that Virgin Mobile is this close to signing a deal with a U.S. operator to begin marketing a wireless service here. But a less-often-told turn to the story is the potential that wireless data adds to the reseller […]

If bookmakers gave odds on what would be the next big thing in the technology market, one of the big favorites would have to be customer relationship management (CRM). Reasons: By one estimation, the market reached $6.4 billion last year and is growing at a 50 percent-plus compounded annual rate even in the current economic […]

Intel Corp. will announce the release of a 2GHz Pentium 4 processor to kick off its Developers Forum next week in San Jose, Calif. The chip maker is also expected to promote several upcoming processors, such as its second-generation Itanium chip, code-named McKinley, and a mobile processor, code-named Banias, scheduled for release in 2003. The […]

Intel Corp. is warning computer makers to steer clear of a new chip set that could enable the manufacturers to build less expensive Pentium 4-based PCs by enabling them to use a less costly high-speed memory technology. Intel contends that the products manufacturer, Via Technologies Inc., has not secured the necessary licensing for its Apollo […]

Plans to deploy virtual private networks using a new technology have sparked recent controversy, with the debate illustrating the need for technology managers to tune in to different ways carriers propose using Multiprotocol Label Switching. MPLS is an advanced way of managing Internet traffic by letting carriers merge different types of data traffic over one […]

TyComs timing couldnt be worse – or better. The submarine network supplier – turned operator – last week cut ribbons on its $4.4 billion global undersea network, vowing that a year from now it will be the largest such network in the world, connecting 30 cities over 56,000 mostly nautical miles. By then, it will […]

Online smut still sells, but not nearly as well — or as easily — as it used to. In early 1997, Interactive Week published an in-depth exposé on the industry and found a vibrant marketplace booming with traffic, profits and big plans. More than four Internet years later, the market has shifted radically from what […]

PC builders need freedom to maneuver during the coming winter holiday season. We urge Microsoft not to burden OEMs with a massive, generic Windows XP configuration that could easily intimidate prospective PC buyers by imposing too many ties to unproven Web services. If Microsoft overplays its hand, the result could easily be disappointing PC sales […]

Wall Street is jumping into trading bandwidth as the latest commodity to be bought and sold on open markets. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. and Cantor Fitzgerald both recently entered the bandwidth trading business, and The Goldman Sachs Group may join the fray. So far, the trading of bandwidth — and the promotion of […]

Media titans are finally embracing the Internet as a delivery medium to the masses. Five major movie studios — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Vivendi Universal and Warner Bros. — last week announced a joint venture to stream new and old movies to broadband users on a video-on-demand basis. In a separate announcement, […]