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As if mindful of an energy crunch in Silicon Valley, a group of former Compaq Computer executives have gotten together to form RLX Technologies, which intends to produce low-power-consumption servers. The company plans to deliver servers with eight times the processing power per cubic foot at one-quarter of the power consumption. RLX was launched Jan. […]

The inauguration of President George W. Bush and the likely confirmation of John Ashcroft as attorney general have antipornography forces rejoicing and adult-site operators nervous. The last eight years have been very good to the cyberporn industry. The Clinton administration took no action against online smut sites despite ample state and federal obscenity laws. “The […]

Voice as smooth as silk, stock quotes as steady as a heartbeat, firewalls as secure as a mothers love — its a lot to ask of a network built on threads of glass as thin as human hair. But its where the Internet is going — to a simpler, optical architecture that marries technologies, layers […]

Done Deal AT&T will swap $2.9 billion in stock for stakes in Excite@Home controlled by competitors Comcast and Cox Communications. The deal, expected for months, boosts AT&Ts stake in the high-speed Internet access company to 38 percent from 23 percent. More to the point, observers say, the move gives the telecom giant control of 79 […]

Will gigabit ethernet continue to proliferate in the enterprise and beyond? Marshall Eisenberg, director of product marketing for Foundry Networks, answers that question with a question: “How much do you like waiting?” he asks. “As long as people hate to wait, these network technologies will continue to be accepted into the marketplace.” The fact that […]

The nations capital, considered by many builders of metropolitan fiber-optic networks to be one of the most unpredictable municipalities to work with, is on the verge of finding out whether its sewers are lined with gold. CityNet Telecommunications, a company pioneering the use of Swiss-made robots to string fiber in sewer pipes in the U.S., […]

NorthPoint Communications, mortally wounded in the Digital Subscriber Line dustup, became the first major player to crawl under the protective umbrella of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Blaming Verizon Communications for placing NorthPoint in a precarious financial position last fall when it pulled out of their merger, NorthPoint Chief Executive Liz Fetter last week said the bankruptcy […]

Qwest Communications Internationals decision to buy back $1 billion of its stock from minority shareholder BellSouth may have been a goodwill gesture between amicable telecommunications giants. But it also gives new impetus to speculation that the two companies still have an interest in merging. Joseph Nacchio,chief executive of Qwest, said he was happy to “help” […]

In 1955, Betty Coxs newborn baby died. In 2000, the Internet helped bring her child back from the grave. Its an eerie but ultimately joyous turn of events that wouldnt have been possible before the Net made the world a smaller place, where good luck and a Good Samaritan intersected to profoundly change the lives […]

After a wave of building exchanges to bring buyers online, some companies want to do more for sellers. “Today the B2B [business-to-business] equation is unbalanced towards buyers,” said Russ Henry, senior vice president of marketing at Trigo, one of several “sell-side” companies starting up. Trigo, which offers to hook up suppliers with Net markets, officially […]

Drkoop.com, the troubled online health site, is still in critical condition. Its health has not improved since it received a $20 million injection of equity financing in August while laying off 42 workers, 22 of whom were full-time staffers. The company, which has seen its stock value drop down to the 40-cents-per-share range, also has […]

Intel is springing into optical networking with chips that can correct transmission errors on the fly and quadruple the reach of fiber across a metro area. The worlds biggest chipmaker has been quietly building capacity to enter the optical realm with eight acquisitions in 18 months, including last weeks announcement that it will pay $748 […]