Articles by Keith Regan

Saying the market for sending voice, video and other communications over the Internet is enormous but largely untapped, IBM and Cisco have announced they will work together to help companies make use of the money-saving option. IBM will market its consulting and integration services and will support a range of Cisco's voice, video and conference h...

Cisco Systems is investigating whether part of the source code that powers its networking hardware has been revealed on the Internet -- a potentially embarrassing development for a company making a huge push into the network security business. Reports swept the Web last weekend that the code had been published on the Russian site SecurityLab. Howe...

Yahoo will unveil an upgrade of its Web-based e-mail service this summer that includes greatly expanded storage capacity for free users and "virtually unlimited" storage for paid customers The upgrade, seen as a direct response to Google's controversial Gmail service, which will offer what is, for all practical purposes, unlimited storage for free,...

Taking its AdSense program in a new direction that could inject a breath of fresh air a traditional Internet-advertising style, Google has said it will begin testing banner ads. The move comes as a surprise because Google's AdSense, which places ads based on the Web page content with which they appear, has relied exclusively on small text advertis...

Powered by a slightly better than expected earnings report and expectations that tech spending will remain strong, Cisco Systems has said it will add 1,000 workers in 2004. The company said the 1,000 jobs will come on top of 200 positions it filled during the first quarter. Although it did not provide a breakdown of onshore versus offshore, Cisco ...

Microsoft has said it will stop making high-speed wireless networking products, phasing out a family of routers and network interface cards less than two years after it entered the booming WiFi market. Jennifer Hakes, a spokesperson with Microsoft's external public relations agency, said the software giant is "scaling back its presence" in the cat...

Gateway has filed suit against rival Hewlett-Packard, broadening a patent dispute that first arose nearly two months ago In the claim, the company alleges HP violated five separate patents held by Gateway and related to computer manufacturing. The patents Gateway claims were violated deal primarily with hardware that enables multimedia functions, s...

Small businesses are the true success stories of the Internet revolution, and further attempts to level broad taxes on Web sales and access would harm the ability of entrepreneurs to compete, according to eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Whitman used a high-profile speech before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to urge lawmakers to steer clear of...

Intel will change its future chip product strategy, moving away from its workhorse and power-hungry Pentium 4 line in favor of the more versatile, mobile-friendly Pentium M design. Several reports said that Intel would announce as early as today that it would not pursue development of some planned additions to the Pentium 4 chip lines, including t...

For all that Google has done to revive interest in technology and IPOs in recent weeks, it also has provided new fodder for a long-running debate: Is going public the ultimate goal for all companies, or are some businesses better served by staying private? Although the company is letting its IPO filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commiss...

Memory-chip designer Rambus has filed a billion-dollar lawsuit, claiming the four largest manufacturers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips conspired to squelch demand for its products The suit names Micron Technology, Hynix Semiconductor, Siemens AG and Infineon Technologies as defendants, saying the four companies worked together to redu...

Microsoft has thrown its considerable clout -- and its 170 million registered e-mail users -- behind a plan that uses preapproved lists of mass marketers in an attempt to curtail the flood of spam. The company said it has signed on with IronPort Systems' so-called Bonded Sender program, which enables marketers to become "white listed" and thereby ...

IBM has unveiled the first in a line of servers powered by its own Power5 microprocessor. The new product family is designed to add customized hardware to the company's server virtualization arsenal. Big Blue said its eServer i5 is aimed at small and mid-size businesses that need their servers to run multiple software applications, even on differe...

Time Warner's long-suffering Internet division, AOL, is showing signs that it can stem the tide of customer defections and may be positioned for a turnaround. AOL, which has gone through several rounds of layoffs, improved its bottom-line results in the first quarter, posting income of US$277 million, up from $194 million in the year-ago period, t...

Google has ended the suspense -- for now -- by filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise as much as US$2.7 billion through an initial public offering of stock. But, like many things the search-engine company has done, the IPO will have its share of twists. Mountain View, California-based Google said it will sell all of its s...

In the first case brought under the CAN-SPAM Act that took effect January 1st, U.S. federal officials have charged four men from suburban Detroit, Michigan, with bombarding consumers with unwanted e-mail messages. Prosecutors alleged the men sent more than a million messages attempting to sell bogus diet products and other items. Federal regulator...

In a bid to boost sagging demand for its devices, palmOne has launched two new products in its popular Zire line of handheld computers: a lower-end model designed to appeal to price-conscious consumers and a higher-end model with multimedia and Bluetooth wireless functions. The Palm Zire 31 is designed to be a step up from the Zire 21, which Palm ...

The chief executive of Yahoo has announced that his company is positioned to compete with main rival Google even if that company pulls off its much-anticipated blockbuster public offering CEO Terry Semel said search is expanding into new areas, opening up enough opportunities for both companies to co-exist in the space....

Pushing into new territory as it seeks to solidify its enterprise customer base, Hewlett-Packard has unveiled its entry into the desktop PC blade space. PC blades use minimal desktop equipment in favor of racked, blade server-style computers. HP is positioning its offering as a more secure, less expensive alternative to traditional networked deskt...

Google has selected two high-profile investment banks to underwrite its initial public offering, fueling rampant speculation that the search-engine leader will file to go public sometime this week The company tapped Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley as lead underwriters for its offering, which is expected to be the largest and most soug...