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C. Michael Armstrongs dream of selling local phone service through a national cable partnership has quietly died, leaving the AT&T chairman with a patchwork of cable telephone franchises and a bleak future competing with the regional Bells. While officials at AT&T Broadband remain bullish on their budding cable telephone service, the business now appears lost […]

The optical industry is pondering whether recent stumbles by giants Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks signal a permanent tilt in favor of younger vendors that make optical equipment for newer-generation carriers. Or are the younger players just waiting their turn to be toppled by the tight capital markets and the slowdown in spending by carriers […]

Dave House, the man who coined the term “Intel Inside,” is jumping back into the game after a 15-month car-racing-and-helicopter-skiing sabbatical. San Jose-based start-up Allegro Networks recently named House, 56, its chairman and chief executive as it brings to market its first product: a wholesale router to help backbone carriers add profitable services. House spent […]

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wants to take a second look at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. “I have been troubled by the possible practical problems that may arise from this (Napster) decision,” Hatch wrote in an open letter to the President. Hatch might also want to look at Adobes “You may not read this book […]

A humble cotter pin launched a space-based communications revolution at oil- and gas-drilling contractor Helmerich & Payne (H&P). What the heck is a cotter pin? The answer to that question set the stage for this story. A cotter pins help bind together sections of pipe in what are called drill-string assemblies. A worker on one […]

Sporting Troubles Quokka Sports last week announced plans to cut 217 employees, or 59 percent of its work force. The company, which ran NBCs official Web site during the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, attributed the reorganization to a slumping online advertising market. As part of the revamping, a new division will sell technology services […]

Application service providers didnt feel a lot of love last week. No flowers. No chocolate. In fact, one research firm released a forecast predicting that 60 percent of existing ASPs will be history by next year. The study by AMR Research may be unsettling, but one way service providers could stay alive is through specialization, […]

More than a billion served More than 1 billion people will be accessing the Internet by 2005, according to a recently released report from eTForecasts, a research company in Buffalo Grove, Ill. The precise figure predicted, 1.17 billion online users, is almost triple the number of people—414 million—who were plugged in at the end of […]

Six months ago, officials at Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. decided to crack the shell of an amorphous nut called corporate culture. Employees were plunked in front of a Web-based survey and grilled on why they liked working for the financial services giant. When the survey results were in, 2,900 IT staffers were sat down […]

Fiscal and executive personnel problems taking place at a small ASP provider that most enterprise users have never heard of are sending ripples through the hosted applications industry. In fact, the company is but a microcosm of the troubled application service provider space in general. In little more than a month, cMeRun Corp., spawn of […]