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Broadband wireless gear makers are setting their sights on different markets now that one fixed broadband wireless segment in the U.S. is quickly disappearing. Last week Teligent — the competitive access provider that uses fixed wireless technology — filed for bankruptcy, not long after its peers Winstar Communications and Advanced Radio Telecom did the same. […]

In a sweeping move to get wireless technology off the bench and onto the field, IBM Corp. is calling on its solutions provider partners to take the plunge, as the company pushes forward with a wireless strategy tied to an aggressive training and certification program. About 18 months ago, wireless e-commerce was the hot button […]

Synchronous optical networking isnt dead, and for the next few years it will be the best way to deliver voice, video and data to the home and office, say a half dozen feisty start-ups touting “the perfect box for the job.” The vendors that boost pure Internet Protocol Ethernet solutions will be the darlings of […]

Gigabit Ethernet is the latest buzz to rumble through the networked economy, but the new technology is a bit elitist, addressing the bandwidth needs of only the tiny fraction of urban businesses that are already wired to expensive fiber-optic networks. Even a decade from now, about 60 percent of the mostly suburban enterprise customers in […]

This time, Bluetooth backers are determined not to turn the hype machine up full blast. As a result, even some of its biggest supporters are damning the personal wireless networking technology with faint praise. Among the new batch of Bluetooth products expected this summer: 3Com plans to ship its first Bluetooth product on June 1 […]

Buying Spree Computer services firm Electronic Data Systems made its third large acquisition in as many months last week, agreeing to buy Structural Dynamics Research for $950 million in cash. The purchase gives EDS software that allows manufacturers to collaborate on a variety of projects, from drafting plans for car engines to designing airplane wings. […]

Avoiding the Repo Man In the wake of tech industry layoffs and the stock market slump, the inventory of high-priced houses on the real estate market in Silicon Valley and the number of luxury foreign cars being repossessed out of Cisco Systems, Yahoo!s and other tech companies parking lots is on the rise, to put […]

Networks are moving closer to a world in which the equipment that moves wavelengths can talk to the boxes that route packets, switch circuits and create services — even if it all comes from different vendors. At SuperComm next month in Atlanta, 25 members of the Optical Internetworking Forum will demonstrate that their products can […]

Its an all-too-common fashion faux pas: Lured by the latest trend, some of us sometimes give in to the temptation to buy and wear items that dont quite fit our image or our age. Earrings on 50-year-old men. Hip-hugging pants on certain middle-aged women. Its not pretty. Not long ago, marketing officials at apparel retailer […]

While working at Burger King, 17-year-old Ryan Patterson met a mute customer who had to spell out her order in American Sign Language and wait for her adult companion to translate it. The inefficiency of it all struck the Grand Junction, Colo., science whiz as “awful,” so he cooked up a computerized glove that translates […]

Recently, I received an unidentified e-mail simply headed “Career and Investment Opportunity.” For the “partnership opportunity” (wink, wink) with this unnamed venture-capital firm, all I had to do was reply and, of course, drop $9,750 as my required initial investment (nudge, nudge). Sounded tempting, but my checking account was a bit below the $9,000 mark […]

No matter how the stock market behaves, or whether the economy rebounds with all guns blazing, were going to be at a loss to know anything with certainty until the year 2003. The reason is that economics is best viewed through a rearview mirror, preferably from a fast-moving vehicle. Market behavior, as well as the […]