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During the past several weeks, it has been difficult to ignore the dark cloud of endless corporate scandals hanging over American business.

Less than three years after entering the Web hosting market, Intel Corp. bid the space goodbye last month.

Brian Tolly: Add bandwidth or simply optimize? You make the call nAs I walked the aisles at the recent NetWorld+Interop 2002 Las Vegas, I observed that the show floor definitely was not as busy as years gone by and that vendors took a much more tame approach to peddling their wares.

With unwanted e-mail messages continuing to flood corporate messaging systems, vendors are stepping up efforts to thwart spam from a variety of fronts.

Intel Corp. last week announced plans to scrap its 3-year-old Web hosting business, in a continuing a series of consolidation moves by technology vendors that tried to compete in that market.

Intel Corp. this month announced plans to scrap its three-year-old Web hosting business.

While the development of Web services continues to peak the interest of IT departments worldwide, management higher-ups are still not convinced of the business benefits of the technology.

Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett delivered a sobering message to SuperComm 2002 attendees on Tuesday: The information technology industry is in a period of turbulence and consolidation that will last another year.