http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Internet_ConnectivityFind stories, videos, and photos about Internet Connectivity from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:28:32 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/BUSINESS/03/28/execed.websites/web_tztop.jpghttp://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Internet_Connectivity14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Internet Connectivity from CNN.com.http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/03/28/execed.websites/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/03/28/execed.websites/index.html#cnnSTCTextWhen a small group of university scientists began linking computers on different campus sites at the very end of the 1960s, they had no idea that their work would one day spiral into a globally-accessible network in which the total number of pages is measured in the tens of billions.Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:53:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1838931,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1838931,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsInternational Internet traffic kept growing in the last year, but at a slower rate than before, and carriers more than kept pace by adding more capacity, a research firm said Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1826213,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1826213,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsBritish music fans sharing illegal files online can now expect a polite slap on the wrist in the form of a letter through the post from their Internet Service ProviderThu, 24 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1820183,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1820183,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsOnly 14 percent of dial-up users say they're stuck with the older, slower connection technology because they can't get broadband in their neighborhoodsThu, 03 Jul 2008 19:00:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1817256,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1817256,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsThe Supreme Court intervened Monday in a lawsuit by an Internet service provider accusing AT&T of anti-competitive practicesMon, 23 Jun 2008 19:00:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/27/comcast.bittorrent/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/27/comcast.bittorrent/index.html#cnnSTCTextComcast Corp., an Internet service provider under investigation for hampering online file-sharing by its subscribers, announced Thursday an about-face in its stance and said it will treat all types of Internet traffic equally.Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:02:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1636024,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1636024,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsWhy don't e-mails have the same protection as letters and phone conversations? Finally, a court has ruled that they do Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:05:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/biztech/04/12/thompson/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/biztech/04/12/thompson/index.htmlHeath Thompson is vice president, product development for IBM Internet Security Systems.Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:59:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/03/26/technology/pluggedin_lashinsky_google.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/03/26/technology/pluggedin_lashinsky_google.fortune/index.htmThe best companies know they can't do it all themselves, so they encourage an ecosystem to grow up around them. Think of Wal-Mart's "Vendorville" in Bentonville, Ark., or the hand-picked produce suppliers to McDonald's, or the way Japanese steel companies follow Toyota around the world.Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:57:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/05/8401289/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/05/8401289/index.htmVerizon isn't going to take it anymore. After years of ceding ground in the broadband wars to cable operators Comcast, Cablevision and Time Warner Cable (owned by the parent of Fortune's publisher)... Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:13:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/10/26/news/companies/comcastearnings.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/10/26/news/companies/comcastearnings.fortune/index.htmIf anyone needed a further sign of cable's resurgence, it came today in the numbers issued by Comcast, the nation's largest cable player. And it comes at a crucial moment in the telecommunications business -- just a week before expected government approval of the mega-merger between AT&T and BellSouth, a combination seen as necessary to give the telcos the scale to compete with cable.Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:52:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384862/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384862/index.htmNiklas Zennstrom is a populist Web hero. The 40-year-old Swede has twice co-founded companies that rattled powerful industries by giving away important things to consumers.Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:14:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/07/13/technology/earthlink0713.biz2/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/07/13/technology/earthlink0713.biz2/index.htmIn the busy, ever-changing financial district here, stores come and go in the blink of an eye. But Market Street's newest tenant isn't planning to stay long.Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:32:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/05/19/technology/fastforward_fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/05/19/technology/fastforward_fortune/index.htm"The U.S. is a few years behind the rest of the world," says Tom Patterson.Fri, 19 May 2006 13:46:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/04/20/technology/business2_workingtech0420/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/04/20/technology/business2_workingtech0420/index.htmSAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - The first-quarter earnings that EarthLink announced today illustrate its plight. While the Internet service provider is still profitable, dial-up revenues dropped 18 percent from the same period last year, broadband revenues increased a mere 6 percent, and earnings-per-share dropped nearly 50 percent to 12 cents per share.Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:33:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/11/14/8360672/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/11/14/8360672/index.htmIn late July 2004, Time Warner's America Online unit assembled 25 or so of its top managers for a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The session, held in a narrow conference room in the hotel basement, was blandly billed as a "strategic offsite." But in truth, though no one came right out and said it, the executives were there to plot AOL's last stand. Just before lunch, AOL's vice chairman, Ted Leonsis, and Mike Kelly, president of the media networks group, delivered a sobering assessment: Customers were defecting in droves from AOL dial-up accounts to broadband. Competitors like Yahoo and MSN were only getting stronger. To stay relevant--and to stay in business--AOL would need to build a Yahoo-like Internet portal. And to make that portal attractive to users and advertisers, AOL would have to offer up its rich content for free. Leonsis, a gregarious, sometimes unpredictable sort (the majority owner of the Washington Capitals hockey team, he once shoved a fan who taunted him at a CapMon, 14 Nov 2005 05:01:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/10/17/wireless.wimax/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/10/17/wireless.wimax/index.htmlComputer users in many urban and university areas have come to expect connectivity 24/7. There's a cable modem or DSL at home, a high-speed connection in the office and Wi-Fi for the places in between, from the commute to the coffeehouse.Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:12:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/08/23/technology/personaltech/verizon_yahoo/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/08/23/technology/personaltech/verizon_yahoo/index.htmUnveiling a cheaper, albeit slower, broadband Internet service on Tuesday, telecommunications giant Verizon is hoping that people will hang up the phone and opt for a router.Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:03:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/08/04/technology/dsl_fcc/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/08/04/technology/dsl_fcc/index.htmThe Federal Communications Commission is close to new rules that could limit choices or raise prices for those getting high-speed Internet access over the telephone lines, according to published reports.Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:15:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/06/22/jargon/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/06/22/jargon/index.htmlThe rapid integration of the Internet and World Wide Web into daily life has added an array of new words, acronyms and even alternative forms of language to the human lexicon. Click on the words for definitions of some basic Internet jargon.Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:31:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/06/16/technology/broadband/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/06/16/technology/broadband/index.htmThomas Bleha believes the United States stands to lose big if it keeps slipping behind other countries in the percentage of citizens with high-speed Internet access.Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:17:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/05/01/8259682/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/05/01/8259682/index.htmFor more than a decade, no matter how you've wanted to connect, Sky Dayton has been there with the hookup. The coffee shop owner turned Net entrepreneur started EarthLink and built the Internet ser...Sun, 01 May 2005 04:01:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/16/pakistan.zardari/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/16/pakistan.zardari/index.htmlPakistani security forces have stormed a plane carrying Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and detained him upon his arrival in the country, witnesses told CNN.Sat, 16 Apr 2005 04:08:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/15/pakistan.rallies/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/15/pakistan.rallies/index.htmlAbout 12,000 police were deployed across Lahore on Saturday ahead of the return of opposition leader Asif Ali Zardari, with the government vowing to block any rallies by his party and effectively sealing off the city.Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:13:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/11/ramasastry.file.swapping/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/11/ramasastry.file.swapping/index.htmlSince 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been suing peer-to-peer (P2P) file swappers and downloaders. The RIAA alleges, in its suits, that P2P file swapping and downloading, when it involves pirated files, violates copyright law -- and, at times, also the Digital Music Copyright Act (DMCA).Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:13:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/10/20/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/10/20/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/index.htmWhen SBC Communications reports its third-quarter earnings tomorrow, the results of its new pricing plan for DSL subscribers won't be included.Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:22:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/15/ramasastry.patriot.act/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/15/ramasastry.patriot.act/index.htmlIn late September, a federal district judge in New York, Victor Marrero, ruled that a key component of the USA Patriot Act is unconstitutional. The ruling made headlines, for it is the first to strike down any of the vast new surveillance powers the act authorized.Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:56:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/09/09/news/international/china_internet/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/09/09/news/international/china_internet/index.htmSina.com, China's biggest Internet service provider, got stung by sanctions again Thursday as part of an industry crackdown on porn and "inappropriate content" -- the latest sign of the huge risks of investing in China's Internet sector.Thu, 09 Sep 2004 16:05:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/07/07/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/07/07/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/index.htmSpend some time talking with fans of Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's PlayStation 2, or Nintendo's GameCube, and it won't be long before you hear the word "networked" or "online."Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:31:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/04/27/technology/verizon/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/04/27/technology/verizon/index.htmVerizon Communications Inc. reported lower first-quarter income Tuesday that still edged past Wall Street forecasts.Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:35:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/04/20/internet.threat/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/04/20/internet.threat/index.htmlMajor companies and government agencies are scrambling to ensure they are not vulnerable to an Internet flaw that would allow attacks that could disrupt all communication.Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:20:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/02/23/technology/aol_ads/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/02/23/technology/aol_ads/index.htmAmerica Online is expected to put more marketing focus back on dial-up service and the price of its service, according to a published report.Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:35:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/09/360107/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/09/360107/index.htm"Voice over Internet protocol" uses the Internet to replace ordinary phone service. Virtually any Net connection--cable modem, DSL, dial-up--can be turned into a phone line. Usage is tiny now, but ...Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/10/06/350388/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/10/06/350388/index.htmTed Larson arrives at geek headquarters smack in the middle of the much-awaited season premiere of UPN's latest Star Trek show, Enterprise. The former chief technical officer at an Internet startup...Mon, 06 Oct 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/09/15/349127/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/09/15/349127/index.htmThere's a new vibe at America Online (which, like FORTUNE, is owned by AOL Time Warner). Gone, of course, is the swagger that propelled executives during the years when AOL was the dominant online ...Mon, 15 Sep 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/06/23/344572/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/06/23/344572/index.htmJealousy runs rampant in my broadband heart. Someone has faster Internet access than I do. And this feeling is only getting worse. Mon, 23 Jun 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/06/01/342775/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/06/01/342775/index.htmIt's an ordinary Saturday afternoon: You're in the bedroom sending e-mails from your laptop when your wife, who's in the kitchen, picks up her Pocket PC and swoops into your hard drive to copy the ...Sun, 01 Jun 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/04/01/339827/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/04/01/339827/index.htmSo much for consumer choice. The Federal Communications Commission has turned its back on the public by abandoning rules that require the Baby Bells to accommodate competition in broadband services...Tue, 01 Apr 2003 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/02/01/335963/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/02/01/335963/index.htmWi-Fi is already huge--and it's only going to get bigger. Wireless hotspots are sprouting up in airports, hotels, and cafes, while many new laptops come straight from the factory with Wi-Fi capabil...Sat, 01 Feb 2003 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2002/12/01/333859/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2002/12/01/333859/index.htmBroadband Lite Sun, 01 Dec 2002 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/12/10/314729/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/12/10/314729/index.htmEven for a time of bitter harvests in Silicon Valley, longtime tech executive Eric Benhamou has had a particularly frustrating year. Benhamou is chairman of 3Com, a producer of data-networking gear...Mon, 10 Dec 2001 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/10/29/312402/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/10/29/312402/index.htmIn this downbeat issue of FORTUNE, you can read one story full of depressing stuff about tech stocks. In another piece, on Comcast, you can read some depressing stuff about broadband. Despite all t...Mon, 29 Oct 2001 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/06/25/305409/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/06/25/305409/index.htmDon't spit out your Joe: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2001/06/01/303356/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2001/06/01/303356/index.htmIn the battle to wire homes for high-speed Internet access, DSL was once thought to have the edge over cable. A DSL hookup uses your existing telephone lines and jacks, not cables that have to be t...Fri, 01 Jun 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2001/06/01/304114/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2001/06/01/304114/index.htmFor Brooks McLaren the timing could not have been worse. His post-production film company, Colorlab, was bracing for its spring season, when students from nearby NYU and Columbia University inundat...Fri, 01 Jun 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/05/14/302962/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/05/14/302962/index.htmIn more innocent times, people often left their front doors unlocked. The odds of a burglar trying the front door on any given day were small, especially in rural communities. Mon, 14 May 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2001/05/01/302533/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2001/05/01/302533/index.htmWho doesn't want a high-speed Internet connection? Of course, therein lies the catch-22. Business demand for fast Net access, in particular Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), has been so overwhelming t...Tue, 01 May 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/03/19/299198/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/03/19/299198/index.htmThe hottest entry in the race to build faster, more robust phone networks is--surprise--Ethernet, a 25-year-old computer standard developed for linking PCs in office networks. Don't yawn. A handful...Mon, 19 Mar 2001 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/12/18/293147/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/12/18/293147/index.htmComputer companies have had an epiphany. They now tell us that computers are hard to use. "We still need to do more to make computers easier and more intuitive," Bill Gates, the world's chief prope...Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/12/18/293120/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/12/18/293120/index.htmIn today's troubled telecommunications sector, there are laggards, there are losers, and then there are DSL companies. These stocks, which include Covad, Rhythms NetConnections, and NorthPoint, hav...Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/27/292415/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/27/292415/index.htmAs America Online and Time Warner seek government approval for their merger, the long-running battle over access to the merged company's cable systems has obscured a simple truth: Everyone involved...Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/16/289581/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/16/289581/index.htmHave I told you about my new routine for writing this column? Early Monday morning (and I mean early, as in 5 A.M.), I sit down at my DSL-armed desktop computer in the Digital Manor, fire up Micros...Mon, 16 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289320/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289320/index.htmThere's an old saying at the poker table that if you don't know who the sucker is, it's you. Well, there are more than a few suckers out there betting on broadband, you can be sure. The world is ju...Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289301/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289301/index.htmBroadband. Short for "broad bandwidth," as in a high-speed network able to carry video as well as voice. Bandwidth describes the throughput of a network per unit of time, measured in kilobits, mega...Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289318/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289318/index.htmThree years ago when I worked at AT&T Laboratories, I wrote an essay called "The Rise of the Stupid Network," which analyzed how new technology would reshape the telecommunications industry. In the...Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289322/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289322/index.htmTo get an idea of just how hungry--and how fickle--the market is for broadband stocks, check out Corvis Corp. The optical-networking company, based in Columbia, Md., more than doubled the asking pr...Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289311/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289311/index.htmThe poor slob is sitting cross-legged on the floor of the airport waiting lounge, still sweating from his dash through the triple-digit Texas heat. He's balancing his laptop on one knee, and a phon...Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289305/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289305/index.htmChristine Price remembers the moment when she said, "Enough." It was June and her six-month-old ad agency was racing to crank out a 14-page brochure for a client she needed to please, a major finan...Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289314/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289314/index.htmAs dawn breaks in Las Vegas, an unlikely crew of venture capitalists spills onto the people mover at Bally's Casino, stogies in hand, bleary-eyed from a night at the blackjack tables. Thrown in amo...Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/09/04/286763/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/09/04/286763/index.htmI'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood. --Eric Burden and the Animals Mon, 04 Sep 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/07/24/284676/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/07/24/284676/index.htmA year or so ago, when the term "broadband" first entered the tech vernacular, there were three competing strategies--cable modems, DSL (through existing phone lines), and satellites. That meant th...Mon, 24 Jul 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/06/12/281974/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/06/12/281974/index.htmEdward E. Whitacre Jr., the plain-talking CEO of SBC Communications, is in his headquarters in San Antonio, telling how much he likes the Internet. He volunteers that he has used his home computer ...Mon, 12 Jun 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/03/277067/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/03/277067/index.htmA letter touting Bell Atlantic's new high-speed Internet service arrives at my house in October: "Tired of waiting for files to download? Or for Internet home pages to appear? Wish you didn't have ...Mon, 03 Apr 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2000/04/01/277569/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2000/04/01/277569/index.htmRecently I began to notice a smug look and a new air of privilege and superiority on the faces of some of my clients and friends. They had just obtained high-speed Internet access using the technol...Sat, 01 Apr 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/20/276345/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/20/276345/index.htmIn this era of technological obsession, it's easy to forget that tens of millions of Americans are still not plugged into the Internet. But every so often you get a personal reminder--for example, ...Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/03/01/274029/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/03/01/274029/index.htmQ. I'm looking for a new Internet service provider. Where can I find the best and least expensive service? I have a Mac, and not all ISPs are Mac-friendly. Jane Wittmann-Roll jane@monocfcu.com Wed, 01 Mar 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/01/01/271466/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/01/01/271466/index.htmForget about signing up for a credit card to support your favorite charity. The trendiest affinity item now is your Internet service provider. Everyone from the Republican National Committee to a L...Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/12/06/269940/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/12/06/269940/index.htmIt's sometimes said that a man can be judged by the enemies he has made. The same might be said of a company, especially if those enemies are the competition. The louder they complain, the better t...Mon, 06 Dec 1999 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/12/06/269969/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/12/06/269969/index.htmIf there's anything a baby hates, it's the arrival of a newer, cuter baby. For some, that day never comes; but for the Baby Bells (and let's face it, they're not getting any younger) the time is he...Mon, 06 Dec 1999 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/11/22/269077/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/11/22/269077/index.htmDriving into the old Ascend headquarters in Alameda, Calif., you first notice the flags flying in front of the building: One sports Lucent Technologies' stylish, lipstick-red logo; the other, the C...Mon, 22 Nov 1999 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/11/08/268546/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/11/08/268546/index.htmDustin Grosse is sitting on the edge of his seat in a conference room at the ad agency Young & Rubicam in San Francisco. 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Where it's quicker to look up a telephone num...Sun, 01 Aug 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/07/19/263106/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/07/19/263106/index.htmHas the time come, at long last, for a home network? A few years ago, the idea of a LAN running from the den to the bedroom was just a techie's fantasy. But now even some regular folks have an ince...Mon, 19 Jul 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/07/05/262446/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/07/05/262446/index.htmHIGH-SPEED LOCAL PHONE SERVICE hq: Englewood, Colo. founded: 1997 sales: $528,000 employees: 550 stock: RTHM (Nasdaq) address: www.rhythms.com Mon, 05 Jul 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/05/01/259221/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/05/01/259221/index.htmComputers nowadays come in a dizzying array of sizes, shapes, colors (thanks, iMac) and brands. Prices too: You can buy a machine for much less than $1,000 and get the kind of performance and featu...Sat, 01 May 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/12/258100/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/12/258100/index.htmMy editors thought it would be cool for me to write something about the difference between Intel's and Microsoft's experiences in dealing with antitrust problems. But what's to say? Intel didn't ha...Mon, 12 Apr 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/02/01/254382/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/02/01/254382/index.htmIn your service, Noble Reader, I am constantly in search of the latest technology. 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Mon, 06 Jul 1998 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/07/06/244789/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/07/06/244789/index.htmhq: bedford, mass. founded: 1986 sales: $6 million employees: 91 stock: awre; nasdaq web address: www.aware.com Mon, 06 Jul 1998 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/05/25/242781/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/05/25/242781/index.htmI'm having a little fantasy. It involves turning the Digital Manor into a digital castle. You know the saying "A man's home is his castle"? That's what I'm talking about--a castle you can build a m...Mon, 25 May 1998 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/03/16/239277/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/03/16/239277/index.htmAs the Internet transcends its geeky beginnings, phone companies that would use it to turbocharge their growth have been rethinking their strategies, often widening their circle of acquaintances in...Mon, 16 Mar 1998 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/02/16/237669/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/02/16/237669/index.htmYou would think that with the cable industry's dark recent past--the way its stocks tanked after most of the cable-telco deals flopped, the way the information superhighway evanesced like a mirage-...Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/12/08/234896/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/12/08/234896/index.htmBernie Ebbers' audacious gambit to buy MCI, a company three times the size of his WorldCom, is about more than Jonah trying to swallow the whale. This deal, along with others it has overshadowed, s...Mon, 08 Dec 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/12/01/236841/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/12/01/236841/index.htmThe world of digital technology is famous for its rapid pace of innovation, and the language that describes it changes just as quickly. Because the computer industry is constantly spinning out new ...Mon, 01 Dec 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/12/01/236840/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/12/01/236840/index.htmIf you haven't gone online yet, you might think that you are the very last person in the United States to find your way onto the Internet. Presidential candidate Bob Dole announced his World Wide W...Mon, 01 Dec 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/04/01/224366/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/04/01/224366/index.htmTo work at home successfully, you'll need more than just a PC, a suite of office software and a decent phone. But the essential home office needn't cost you a fortune, either. Here's what the ideal...Tue, 01 Apr 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/04/01/224365/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/04/01/224365/index.htmWhen Joe Kandra, 36, needs a break from work, he takes his dog Kali and heads for the woods. The fragrant eucalyptus trees of Stern Grove Park, Calif. are more than an hour's drive from Cisco Syste...Tue, 01 Apr 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/01/13/220913/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/01/13/220913/index.htmIn early December, when America Online began offering customers unlimited use of its service for $19.95 a month, it seemed as if cheap Internet access had finally become universal. Now just about a...Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/01/13/220877/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/01/13/220877/index.htmCable modems are a fantasy. Unfortunately, an entire industry is enjoying the fantasy. Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/08/05/215458/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/08/05/215458/index.htmYou're lounging on the sofa in the den, remote control in hand. That familiar thwickety-thwack bass riff signals a commercial break in Seinfeld, and another of those unbearable battery ads takes ov...Mon, 05 Aug 1996 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/02/19/207774/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/02/19/207774/index.htmSo here I am, logged on to the Web Museum watching Renoir's The Luncheon of the Boating Party scroll gracefully down my screen. Then it's over to Atlantic Records, where at my kids' urging I downlo...Mon, 19 Feb 1996 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/12/11/208431/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/12/11/208431/index.htmThe Baby Bells have a small identity crisis. They provide local phone service to 78 million U.S. households, and millions of investors have done well with their stock. Yet a dozen years after the A...Mon, 11 Dec 1995 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/03/07/79043/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/03/07/79043/index.htmAMERICA'S hottest industry has staked out a place on the map. New York was Radio City; so many machine-tool makers once lined the banks of the Black River in Springfield, Vermont, that the area was...Mon, 07 Mar 1994 05:01:00 EST