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A Glass Half Full

Money doesnt grow on glass anymore, so 2001 will be a year in which fiber-optic carriers that have already acquired rights of way, and...

Cleaning Up Spam

Except for the senders, no one likes spam. Indeed a recent Gartner Group study found that a third of ISP customers want their service...

Small Servers for Small Biz

Suppose you only need to handle mail for a few dozen to a few hundred users? There are products out there made just for...

Charge!

Two of the nations three major long-distance carriers, AT&T and Sprint, have boosted the rate they charge consumers to recover their share of government...

Bells Tolling

This is the year Telecom turns down, then turns around.Its the year that the matricidal mega-Bells begin sucking the life out of consumer long-distance,...

Fast Facts Infrastructure: January 8, 2001

Dwindling NumbersTroubled fast Internet service provider Covad Communications has turned loose another 400 workers, dropping its payroll to about 2,300. The cuts follow the...

20,000 Cables Under the Sea

Theres gold under them there oceans. the submarine optical market is expected to grow 40 percent per year — to $37 billion by 2004...

Livin Large

The Linux operating system will be better able to support enterprise-level systems when an upgraded kernel is released by lead developer Linus Torvalds, perhaps...

Catching the Bug Before It Kills

Web sites and a broad sweep of electronic databases are being targeted by the military for a vast surveillance project aimed at detecting incidents...

Getting Ready for a Power Play

Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio is afraid of the dark. Specifically, Nacchio doesnt want any of Qwests data centers to go dark as a result...