- Cisco Pact Set To Spur Content Delivery
Networks
- Nortel Shows Off Fiber-Optic
Breakthrough
- Wireless Industry: Cell
Phones Are Safe
- Cracks in Inktomi's
Content Bridge
- U.S. government agencies
get poor grades for security
- AmEx
Introduces Service for Safe Online Buying
- Expert
Advice for Bouncing Back
- Luck and
the last mile
- Back to School, Back
Online
- Going Up in Flames
- Futurists
Look at `Fiberless Optical' Network
- P2P
Companies Thrive or Die?
- E-Tailers
Avoiding Advanced Web Technologies
- Compuware
turns on Service
- 3COM Spin-Off goes
after Metro Giga Bit Ethernet Market
- Veritel
Wins ICCM Customer Support Award
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Auto insurer rolls out wireless Web access for policyholders
- Out
on a Limb with M-Commerce
- Free Net
Calls ... For a Price
- Net Transforming
Real Estate Biz
Cisco Pact
Set To Spur Content Delivery Networks
Cisco Systems Inc. has formed an
alliance that will have more than one survivor and payoffs that make a million
bucks look like chump change. Nortel Shows Off Fiber-Optic
Breakthrough
The world's No. 1 supplier of optical transmission gear,
show off technology that allows carriers to isolate the individual, hair-thin
strands of fiber that are inside fiber-optic networks, opening new avenues for
high-speed data services Wireless Industry: Cell
Phones Are Safe
Despite reports linking cell phone use and brain cancer,
the federal government and the wireless industry insist that until scientific
research shows otherwise, cell phone use is not a health hazard.
Syndicating Online Before There Was an Internet
Web syndication is
just now starting to grow into a significant industry, and online content producers
are slowly starting to earn decent revenues from licensing their content to a
clientele of Internet sites and online publishers eager to get low-cost content.
Cracks in Inktomi's Content
Bridge
The content-distribution group, led by Inktomi and AOL, tries to
catch industry leader Akamai if it doesn't unravel first. U.S. government agencies
get poor grades for security
In a report card released today, federal
agencies received mostly poor and failing grades on their ability to protect their
computers from hackers. Federal CIOs challenged the validity of the results and
cited a need for more funding and oversight. AmEx Introduces Service
for Safe Online Buying
American Express Co., New York, unveiled the first
in a series of privacy products last week that the company claims will allow consumers
to browse and buy anonymously online.
Expert Advice for Bouncing Back
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in startups? Look no further! Read the latest expert advice here.
Luck and the last mile
High-speed, always-on Internet access is what
consumers want. But getting broadband down the last mile to homes and businesses
is fraught with difficulty. Back to School, Back
Online
When it comes to the internet, teachers are still being led by
their students. But more and more, web-savvy instructors are taking advantage
of a rapidly increasing amount of online educational resources. Going Up in Flames
From the dark side of internet-age customer service: a self-confessed corporate
hatchet man discusses how he's made a career out of e-mail flaming Futurists Look at `Fiberless
Optical' Network
TeraBeam systems can send signals more than a mile through
the air, using a proprietary combination of laser and telescopic technology. P2P Companies Thrive
or Die?
Will companies specializing in peer-to-peer e-commerce find a
path to profitability, or will they and their investors stagger down a path to
privation?
E-Tailers Avoiding Advanced Web Technologies
Less than 20 percent of
online retailers use Web technologies such as Java, Flash, or chat functions to
enhance the shopping experience
Compuware turns on Service
Compuware is set to unveil its application
services strategy, with the introduction of a package of testing and performance-monitoring
services called Point Forward. 3COM Spin-Off goes after
Metro Giga Bit Ethernet Market
3Com has spun off a company called Atrica
to sell Gigabit Ethernet products to carriers for metropolitan area networks.
Veritel Wins ICCM Customer Support Award
The award went to Veritel's
VoiceCall, which uses a caller's voice, rather than calling cards, passwords or
personal identification numbers (PINs), to enable companies to automatically verify
a user's identity before allowing access to telephony-based applications...
Auto insurer rolls out wireless Web access for policyholders
The Progressive
Corp., the country's fourth-largest automobile insurer, is starting to open its
Web site to customers who want to use wireless devices to get price quotes and
report claims and to process other transactions. Out on a Limb with M-Commerce
"Consumers don't think they want the wireless Web yet, but they will."
So said Forrester analyst Patrick Callinan, explaining his firm's recent conclusion
that there is "latent demand" for Internet-enabled mobile phones in the United
States...
Free Net Calls ... For a Price
Free Internet phone calls are on the
horizon, but telecom industry experts warn that next-generation broadband service
charges will mean they still won't be cost-free. Net Transforming Real
Estate Biz
The number of unique visitors to online real estate sites
this summer increased by 75 percent over the same period last year Back
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