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Since Christmas, network equipment companies have announced layoffs affecting 27,000 people, but the optical sector is still expanding quickly. Network firms are slashing jobs in unprofitable sectors — unprofitable because the products are past their prime or because others built them better or got them to the market faster. At the same time, at least […]

Suffering from scope creep brought on by consultants dragging their heels on projects? You may have only yourself to blame, since how you set up the original contracts fee structure could well be causing your pain. The most frequently used fee structure calls for agreeing on a rate of pay—for example, per hour or per […]

Citrix Systems Inc., at once the champion and primary dependent of the still-unproven hosted applications concept, is advancing with major changes to its flagship product and a number of manufacturing deals with third-party hardware makers. With the moves, and still convinced that the enterprise will eventually warm to thin-client computing and hosted apps, Citrix is […]

When STR Enterprises Inc. decided, about a year ago, to put its pet supply business online, it didnt go fishing for some hotshot e-commerce executive to run the show. Instead, the company of 100-plus employees, in Panama City, Fla., gave the task of building its Web presence to one of its brick-and-mortar pet store managers, […]

Microsoft is getting sucked headfirst into the fast-spinning world of peer-to-peer computing whether it wants to or not: XDegrees, a small P2P start-up, has developed a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook that turns it into a peer-based Internet file sharing application. XDegrees this week will demonstrate XOutlook, a tiny piece of code that lets users of […]

More Greetings American Greetings online unit, AmericanGreetings.com, struck a deal to acquire rival Egreetings Network for $30.2 million. AmericanGreetings will pay 85 cents per share for Egreetings outstanding shares, a 35 percent premium over the price of the shares the day the deal was announced. The companies said the two sites will have about 20 […]

To millions of users around the globe, creation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers two and a half years ago signaled — for better or worse — a bold experiment in governing for the Internet age. Its creator, Clinton adviser Ira Magaziner, proudly touted the private, international nonprofit group as one that […]

International experts are set to ratify the first standard technology for offering business-class broadband services over Digital Subscriber Lines later this month. Once approved, the deployment of such services will be simpler, cheaper and more efficient than todays methods. Symmetric High Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Line, or G.SHDSL, is the latest flavor of DSL, and […]

Security experts got a scare recently after a hole was found in an encryption code, allowing hackers to easily snatch transmissions passing through wireless networks. The vulnerabilities were discovered in the 802.11b wired equivalent privacy (WEP) protocol, which lets notebooks or devices connect wirelessly to local area networks. A team of computer scientists at the […]

To bid or not to bid. The recently postponed 700-megahertz wireless spectrum auction has confused wireless operators. They are unsure about the possible uses of the airwaves in this range, and broadcasters are using the spectrum for television channels. A number of wireless operators have been hoping the auction might help solve the riddle of […]