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Lots of Francs France Telecom made the largest corporate bond offering to date, issuing $16.4 billion in debt last week. The deal drew more than $30 billion in investor interest, the company said. France Telecom expects to pay off debts and fund new wireless services. Intel Cuts Jobs The demand for PCs has dropped off […]

Nineteen years ago, Harry Newton was a telephone consultant with an eye on the growing telecom landscape and a bright idea for helping ordinary people navigate the complex world of tele-speak. The native Aussie started compiling telecommunications terms from company glossaries and service manuals and called the result The Teleconnect Telecom Dictionary. The name has […]

Caldera Systems Inc.s new Linux management package, Caldera Volution, is a good first step toward centralized administration of Linux systems, but eWeek Labs found it to be an immature product that anyone but the Linux faithful may have trouble mastering. However, for sites that manage numerous Linux systems, the software distribution features in this first […]

Telecommuters in the northeast got a peek at the future last week — and it wasnt pretty. Millions of families kept home by the hype, if not the reality, of the March megastorm found phone and Internet connections clogged in the New York metropolis. Verizon Communications, which provides local and long-distance phone service in the […]

In the middle of last year, Linus Torvalds decided new features for the Linux kernel needed more of his attention, so he handed off a major maintenance responsibility to a longtime contributor, Ted Tso. Tso was a trusted lieutenant who had established the first North American download site for Linux, while working as a network […]

Living the dream of many high-technology entrepreneurs, Philip Berber hit the big time and became a multimillionaire overnight when he sold his Austin, Texas, company, CyBerCorp. What makes Berber different is the path he has chosen to take with those fortunes. Instead of simply retiring in style and enjoying the good life that many only […]

Exodus Communications has signed a storage agreement with services provider WorldStor, and with that deal it has driven the last nail in the coffin of its own storage services strategy. Storage is the hot, new managed service that has providers of every stripe giddy over a potential new revenue stream. But storage and Web hosting […]

The man responsible for bringing the data center craze to Latin America is Scott Puritz. Co-founder of Diveo, a company that pioneered last-mile broadband south of the Rio Grande, Puritz felt the time was right to utilize the data center opportunity in the region, since no one was building U.S.-style data centers in some of […]

Like the Nasdaq stock market, the dot-com landscape has been a wild and unpredictable ride during the past two years. One day, business-to-consumer sites are as hot as Poo-Chi, the robotic dog. The next day, business-to-business sites are all the rage, like Razor scooters. The fads online change about as quickly as those offline. The […]

Youre not likely to have seen them on the cover of a national magazine, but theyre out there, taking advantage of the relative quiet to make our networks — and the world those networks connect — better than they were. Among these unsung heroes is the high-tech leader in Austin, Texas, who organized fellow entrepreneurs […]

Greasing Palms It wasnt just the stock market slide that convinced me dot-coms were on shaky ground last year. The big tip-off was the noticeable drop in the amount of graft sent my way by companies, big and small. Just when I thought the promotional T-shirts, toys, food and other tchotchkes were being shunned in […]

Think internet and you might envision San Jose, northern Virginia, the outskirts of Denver — just about any booming suburbia marked by horizons of office parks and dense sprinklings of Starbucks. Montana? Visions of broadband are probably not dancing through your head, but that hasnt mattered to U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns, a Republican who has […]