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A start-up is challenging the technology industrys giants with a system that can link potentially any kind of digital device — from digital cameras to thermostats — to the Internet. Embrace Networks has developed eXtensible Markup Language-based technology that lets device makers and service providers Net-enable just about anything with a digital heartbeat. But unlike […]

Founded in late 1998, health-care technology solutions provider LogOnHealth Corp. aimed to make wireless transmission of prescriptions to pharmacies the system of choice for physicians. Less than two years later, it rolled out its Prescription Center 1.0 application, built on wireless technology and the SQL Anywhere Studio database from iAnywhere Solutions Corp., a wholly owned […]

Start-up Digital Fountain today will introduce its first products: servers enabling efficient distribution of rich content, such as multimedia, over the Internet. In addition to selling its servers directly, the company said it has struck deals with Cisco Systems, the Nomura Research Institute of Japan and Sony, each of which will offer products incorporating Digital […]

Stable, flexible and relatively fast, wireless networking has matured to the state where administrators can look ahead to the next big wireless LAN thing. The number of wireless LAN vendors is growing, and the technology keeps getting better, smaller and less expensive. Organizations are benefiting from increased interoperability among the access points that connect to […]

Cable & Wireless Plc.s ASP division is bucking the trend of the slumping hosted industry and counting on new Web-based access and promises of wireless and legacy application integration to maintain its edge. But while the London-based division, called a-Services and formed last September with funding and technical help from Compaq Computer Corp. and Microsoft […]

License to Print Money The pairing of wireless high-speed Internet provider Metricom with Ricohs RDC-i700 industrial-strength digital camera, on the face of it, looks like just another rocking high-tech partnership. But the deal, announced last week, might be just what the independent auditors ordered. Metricoms auditors said in its annual report that they arent sure […]

Airwaves likened to beachfront property by those who want to use them for future wireless applications probably wont be auctioned off as scheduled this year. The Bush administrations budget plan proposes pushing back the deadline for the 700-megahertz spectrum auction from September until 2004. The plan also recommends the “incentive” of charging all analog television […]

Reginald Farley would like you to think of Barbados as more than just a paradise. If he and other government officials have their way, the island nation may become a new India or Ireland — countries U.S. technology companies have looked to when moving operations overseas. Barbados is trying to show U.S. technology companies and […]

In President George W. Bushs 2002 budget, information technology will find a few pats on the head, as well as some swift kicks in the pants. If the budget is approved unchanged, the federal government will spend $45 billion on IT in the next fiscal year, including $20 million for an interagency e-government fund and […]

Few upstart carriers have succeeded in delivering data over turbocharged copper wires. But telecom giant Verizon Communications is already preparing to take DSL one step farther by delivering video to apartment and condo complexes. While Verizon and other regional Bells have toyed with video over DSL in the past eight years, none has made a […]

Once upon a solutions providers business model, it was customary for the CEO to shoulder the companys burden. From running the business, to evangelizing the vision, to shutting off the lights at night, the CEO was doing it all, and enjoying the responsibility. Over the past couple of years, however, the top job has undergone […]

Telephone companies and equipment makers may be gloomy, but bandwidth traders are whistling while they work. Trading outfits including Enron said volumes are increasing, and they are more bullish than ever about the future of bandwidth trading. Such trading ranges from buying and selling switched voice minutes to swapping raw capacity on a fiber-optic backbone, […]