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Clients often have a clear idea of what they want for a Web site, although such notions are subject to change as work proceeds. Sometimes, for example, the designer who maps out a graphical idea of what the client wants comes up with a different look. The programmer responsible for the sites code may vary […]

Layoff stories lead the news on a regular basis. Hiring has slowed. But dont think that information technology workers are heading for the bread line. “If you have skills, you can still get a job,” says Brett Walker, vice president of marketing at FlipDog.com, one of the Webs largest commercial career sites, which was just […]

A phone book, no matter how ingeniously designed, isnt any good if nobody uses it. Microsoft is quite aware of this predicament, which faces the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration project. UDDI is a 9-month-old business-to-business Internet directory the company developed with IBM and other partners. Its backers promise that UDDI will become a sophisticated […]

More Dish EchoStar Communications says it is moving within striking distance of No. 1 satellite television provider DirecTV, adding 1 million new customers in a seven-month period. EchoStar now has 6 million subscribers, compared with 9.8 million for DirecTV. Broadband Bust Troubled networking vendor 3Com last week said it will discontinue its line of consumer […]

The battle to offer internet access in the sky is heating up, and the result may be a confusing jumble of standards for airline passengers. Last week, Boeing announced it is forming a joint venture company with partners American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines. Boeing will manage and be majority owner of the […]

Return of the Gray Hairs Instead of stocking the refrigerators with microbrews, Net companies might want to stock up on vitamins. Thats because the gray hairs are coming in to take control of the eccentric start-ups that reigned rebellious during the Internet boom. Veteran business leaders in their 40s, 50s, 60s and even 70s are […]

The battle is over and the global system for mobile communication has won the wireless standards war. In a coup for Europe, where GSM was bred, the industry has spoken, and it has clearly chosen GSM as the worldwide de facto standard. It turns out that Verizon Wireless, a stalwart Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) […]

A group of powerful wireless companies plans to standardize the look of millions of mobile phones in an effort to spur the creation of Internet applications. The GSM Association last week unveiled its Mobile Services Initiative, supported by many of the major operators in Europe and AT&T Wireless, along with all the biggest handset manufacturers. […]

A companys virtual private network may be as ineffective as the Maginot Line if its telecommuters remain unprotected. Networking vendors have rushed to fill the breach with a host of firewalls that sell for between $100 and $200. These devices will protect remote computers, allow multiple users to share a single Internet Protocol address and […]

Before the proliferation of the internet, most network administrators grabbed a block of addresses for TCP/IP networks out of the air, maybe assigning an entire class C to each division, even if the department had only 10 PCs. Then the Internet explosion changed everything—or at least it should have. The Internet Engineering Task Force got […]

Internet companies bent on making the best of their financial results are increasingly trumpeting pro forma profitability, rather than the net income or losses that regulators say provide a better picture of a companys performance. Internet companies think that pro forma results — which are operating results excluding one-time charges for items such as layoffs […]

Tried renting space in a carrier hotel in Manhattan, Chicago or Los Angeles lately? Riverstone Networks hopes so, and hopes you came away with a case of sticker shock. Riverstones big play is squeezing more gigabit-speed power into less space with its routers than any of its metro Ethernet competitors. The Santa Clara, Calif., start-up […]