Margret Johnston

Providing broadband connectivity to everyone in North America could be the best thing ever done, but business and government have to work together to make it happen, John Chambers, president and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc. said Tuesday.

Two days of oral arguments in the U.S. antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. opened Monday with the lead lawyer for the software giant arguing that the company never foreclosed Netscape Communications Corp. from selling its browser in any part of the marketplace.

The research firms International Data Corp. (IDC) and Ovum Ltd. have released data on the adoption of unified messaging (UM), both indicating that UM systems, which provide employees with one "mailbox" for all business-related communications, will become much more broadly adopted in the near future.

The process used the by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to select seven new generic top-level domain (TLD) names came under fire in a House subcommittee hearing on Thursday, as members of U.S. Congress from both parties questioned whether the process was fair.

IBM Corp. last month announced new system management software designed to reduce server downtime by automatically predicting failures in IBM's eServer xSeries servers, which are based on Intel Corp. processors.

Recent layoffs at Amazon.com Inc. and other dot-coms have some people wondering: Would the affected employees have fared better had they been organized under a union contract?

Norwood Systems had kept quiet for several months about its wireless office network technology based on Bluetooth, but for ComNet, the Australia and U.K.-based company decided it was time to move into full-disclosure mode.

Clarence Chandran, chief operating officer of Nortel Networks Corp., proclaimed Wednesday the dawn of the "photonic" decade, saying the connectivity demands of customers and corporate users as well as storage requirements will drive the need for eliminating bottlenecks on the Internet.