James Evans

Some of the industry's top networking and mobile telecommunication companies are throwing their weight behind the creation of Tahoe Networks Inc., a new company focused on developing a bridge between wireless networks and existing data networks and the Internet.

A Brazilian band of hackers known as Prime Suspectz defaced four Microsoft Corp. Web sites last week, according to Attrition.org, a Web site that documents hacks.

The network is becoming a more crucial element to corporations and service providers, and ways to protect, manage, store data on, and overall improve a network will be on display May 6-11 at the 15th annual Networld+Interop conference and expo in Las Vegas.

AT&T Corp. will raise its cable modem service rates by as much as 20 per cent or US$6 a month starting June 1, the company said Tuesday.

Lucent Technologies Inc. is enhancing its Flexent OneBTS base station to provide wireless telecommunication operators with expanded network coverage and capacity for UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) and cdma2000 (code division multiple access 2000) networks, the company said Wednesday.

Intel Corp. has agreed to acquire three companies with capabilities and technologies for producing opto-electronic components used in fiber optic networking equipment, the company said Tuesday.

In an effort to better serve its customers' networking needs and put the company on sounder financial footing, 3Com Corp. on Monday said it would restructure its commercial business into two independent units.

While one in two business owners saw a bright future for e-commerce in July 2000, that optimism has noticeably declined as the IT industry and other economic sectors try to weather the current economic slowdown.