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News from internetnews.com IDC: Microsoft's Yahoo Deal Could be a Big Hit If Microsoft plays its cards right, a combination with Yahoo could create a successful competitor to Google, a major research firm says. Ballmer Fills in 'Software-Plus-Services' Plan CEO Steve Ballmer talks up the company's approach to services and how they integrate with its software products. Report: Enterprise Search Will Top $1 Billion by 2010 Consolidation will slow growth, but Gartner says the enterprise search market is close to $1 billion already. Ballmer: Software Vision Will Continue Whether Microsoft wins or loses its bid to buy Yahoo, the company is on an inexorable path to fulfill its software-plus-services vision. Web 2.0 Goes to Work Whizzy new enterprise apps sneak in via early adopters. How is IT coping? MySpace Set to Launch Developer Platform With a newly minted COO, the world's largest social network is taking its developer site live with hopes of widgets soon rolling in. Can't We All Just Communicate? At DEMO, new products and services use the Web to advance communications. Can QlikTech Reveal Digg's Secrets? "Dugg Analyzer" analyzes traffic and posting patterns on the popularity Web site. IBM's Web 2.0 Platform Mashes Up Business, Social With a host of Web 2.0 announcements at Lotusphere, IBM moves forward with its social enterprise offerings. Internet Explorer 8 Tries New Compatibility Solution Seeking to address a longstanding problem for Web surfers and designers alike, Microsoft will improve IE8's ability to display Web content. More >

Rohan Jayasekera, Director of Tucows E-Mail Service Alex Goldman
[May 12, 2008] With a new and evangelistic director of e-mail, Tucows is focusing on perfecting the basics of e-mail.

Procera Reloaded Alex Goldman
[May 12, 2008] The company fires most of its staff, hires new people, and introduces what it claims is the most accurate Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) available today.

Ikano Communications Opens Google and Microsoft Channels Alex Goldman
[May 8, 2008] The infrastructure provider to ISPs is adding an impressive array of services, something we've been advising ISPs to do for years.

ADTRAN Adds Benefits for Mid Tier Channel Partners Alex Goldman
[April 29, 2008] ADTRAN has a three tier partner program, and the middle tier just got better.

Sandoval County Claims Broadband Bamboozle Jim Thompson
[March 13, 2008] This New Mexico project promised to bring extreme broadband to places that don't even have phone services, but several years in, the project has resulted in lawsuits, allegations of corruption and a loss of more than one million dollars. Is Sandoval Broadband a case of good intentions gone wrong or is it the poster child for a flawed model and an industry in trouble?

Windows Server 2008 for Webhosts Alex Goldman
[November 14, 2007] Microsoft says the latest iteration of Windows Server 2008 has been designed with feedback from webhosts, and has extensive channel support.

Doing a Lot Alex Goldman
[November 13, 2007] Multifunction appliances have aided this WISP in unexpected ways, and also solved the problems they were bought to solve.

Everyone.net Embraces Web Services Alex Goldman
[November 7, 2007] There's a slick new Web 2.0 AJAX-based GUI, and also new services that the better back end makes possible.

ISPCON Keynote: Dave Schaeffer, Founder and CEO of Cogent Communications Alex Goldman
[October 19, 2007] This was the rabble rousing keynote at ISPCON. Schaeffer wants to shake up the industry, and in the keynote, he discussed the changes he'd like to see.

SOLERA Says CALEA Equipment Can Do More Alex Goldman
[October 18, 2007] The company understands that ISPs find the investment painful and is showing that a packet capture system can do more than CALEA compliance.

A Better Path to the SMB for Asterisk Alex Goldman
[October 17, 2007] This ISPCON announcement shows how an acquisition and a change to an existing product will help ISPs sell Asterisk-based services to small business customers.

Vyatta Announces Gains in Service Provider Market Alex Goldman
[October 16, 2007] Open source routers have enabled service providers to better tailor their services to their customers.

RackSpace Gets Webmail.us Alex Goldman
[October 2, 2007] Webmail.us is eager to do more in the business services space, taking webmail to the next level.

ImageStream and PowerCode Announce Partnership Alex Goldman
[September 24, 2007] The router maker and OSS software developer have begun a beautiful friendship, encouraged by their WISP customer base.

CloudShield Predicts Bright Future With New Investment Alex Goldman
[September 17, 2007] With a carrier class investor, and a flexible product, the company aims for cash flow positive next year.

ISP-Planet's Blog: Access Alex Goldman
[August 3, 2007] Check it out and let us know what you think of it.

SingTel's Bets on Southeast Asia are Paying Off Alex Goldman
[July 31, 2007] The company is growing fast, and says it's here in the U.S. not to win business from the ILECs, but to help carriers provide access to the fastest growing nations in the world.

As SunRocket Dies, VoIP Providers Must Differentiate Themselves Alex Goldman
[July 18, 2007] In the VoIP industry, the FUD is winning as message board threads spiral out of control in the wake of SunRocket's sudden demise.

CALEA Veteran Offers Hosted Service Alex Goldman
[June 11, 2007] Aqsacom has been helping telcos handle CALEA since 1994. Now, through a joint venture, it can help you too.

Roadstar Internet Hosts Armenian Public Service Regulatory Commission Members David Hughes and Marty Dougherty
[June 6, 2007] The wireless ISP has been visited by international delegations since being recognized by former FCC Chairman Michael Powell.

Internet.Com Adds Google Enterprise Search Feature Alan Meckler
[May 31, 2007] I had promised several changes at Internet.Com—our Online Media division. Our site search function is now much faster and accurate as we dropped Autonomy Search and have added Google Enterprise Search. Try it.

Tucows Has Work to Do Alex Goldman
[May 25, 2007] In its ISPCON vendor session, Tucows described the company's product road map, which focuses on a better and faster product development cycle.

Cisco Plans Storage Security Push Paul Shread
[May 16, 2007] With HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley compliance on their minds, customers are buying storage encryption.

Sonic Boom Nathan Halverson
[May 13, 2007] Dane Jasper's small Internet company appears poised to set the pace for the industry as the Santa Rosa-based ISP prepares for its biggest challenge yet from Comcast and AT&T.

How to Sell VoIP to Small Business Customers Alex Goldman
[April 17, 2007] A VoIP provider is announcing that it has developed a marketing program for its channel partners to help them sell VoIP to small business, getting past the "don't waste my damn time" objection.

ImageStream's CALEA Solution Alex Goldman
[April 6, 2007] ISP-Planet Exclusive: ImageStream is putting together a free update for its routers that will enable ISPs and other providers to become CALEA compliant.

Preview: The Freedom To Connect Conference Alex Goldman
[February 26, 2007] A gathering of thinkers and legislators (and even some who are both) will discuss the future that nobody's ready for, the next round of disruptive changes, even as those changes are already beginning.

Working With Digium Alex Goldman
[February 20, 2007] Digium is serving larger customers than ever, and now has a partner program that could provide ISPs large and small with valuable sales leads.

GameRail Could Give Gamers What They Want Jim Thompson
[February 16, 2007] Some latency-sensitive traffic may soon be leaving your network and traveling over Level 3's thanks to this new service.

EarthLink Protection Control Center 2.0 Alex Goldman
[January 29, 2007] Faced with new threats, the largest independent ISP in the U.S. upgrades threat prevention with technology from Sana Security.

The Planet's New Reseller Program Alex Goldman
[January 25, 2007] Having absorbed a big acquisition, the company prepares to grow its shared server products by growing the channel, which means working with you.

AASP Adds Filtering and Archiving Alex Goldman
[January 19, 2007] The ISP cooperative focuses its buying power on helping ISPs solve some basic security issues.

The Technology to Run a Massive Mail Operation Alex Goldman
[January 16, 2007] In a chat with the CTO, we learned about the technology used to manage 30 million mailboxes.

SlipStream Tells the World Alex Goldman
[December 8, 2006] With worldwide growth, and the validation of being acquired, SlipStream is here to stay.

ISPCON Interview: A Conversation with David Murray Alex Goldman
[December 7, 2006] The Propel co-founder says that the company's technology has improved to the point where the Propel can help broadband connections, wired and wireless, but he sees other opportunities too.

Putting Services on the Softswitch Alex Goldman
[November 28, 2006] There's plenty of innovation in today's announcement from Metaswitch: in-building BPL, triple play for college students, symmetric bandwidth, and fiber backhaul. But we think that the business case is in the services, not the hardware.

Jamcracker Evolves According to Service Provider Suggestions Alex Goldman
[November 22, 2006] It was all about SaaS at ISPCON, and one of the few survivors of the ASP boom talked to us about how the company has reinvented itself for a new trend in which service providers play a major role.

NextWeb Grows Inside Covad Alex Goldman
[November 21, 2006] A year ago, we said the acquisition of the massive regional WISP by the national CLEC made sense. Now, we can provide the details, from high level strategy down to what equipment the company prefers.

WSTA Seminar: Future Hot Technologies Alex Goldman
[November 20, 2006] Wall Street's IT trade association held a half day seminar on technology trends. We present the highlights.

Grid Provisioning for Service Providers Alex Goldman
[November 9, 2006] 3Tera is demonstrating what amounts to a new OS or provisioning system that will allow service providers greater flexibility than ever in configuring and delivering applications.

ISPCON: The People Alex Goldman
[November 3, 2006] We can learn from a website, but we go to conferences to meet people. Here are some great people you can meet at ISPCON, and some notes on a few companies as well.

Anti-Phishing Site Launches Jeff Goldman
[October 18, 2006] OpenDNS' new public phishing database is thorough, accurate—and free.

A Merger for Converged Communications Alex Goldman
[October 6, 2006] As Eicon acquires Dialogic, the new company sees massive opportunities in rapidly changing telephony and media technologies.

AG Wants ISPs to Hold Data Longer Roy Mark
[September 20, 2006] Gonzales touts proposal as essential to DoJ's efforts against online child pornography.

Verizon doesn't want to be an ILEC NSP Strategist
[September 14, 2006] Verizon wants relief from its "dominant carrier" responsibilities in six major metro areas.

Digium's VON Announcements Part 1: Asterisk v. 1.4 Alex Goldman
[September 12, 2006] The new version of Asterisk is packed with so many features that we can only highlight the most important of them.

SIPBox Launches Alex Goldman
[September 12, 2006] A new company specializing in open source VoIP implementations announces itself at VON.

Telework Part 4: Jobs for Disabled Veterans Alex Goldman
[September 7, 2006] This is a cause that every ISP is in favor of, and one woman is setting up an organization to do the right thing.

FCC on Verizon's DSL Fee Case Roy Mark
[August 29, 2006] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants some answers from Verizon about a new fee it imposed on its DSL customers.

AOL Raises 'Badware' Flags Nicholas Carlson
[August 29, 2006] All the company wanted was to drastically alter its business model without a hitch. Now StopBadware.org is on AOL's case, too.

EarthLink Offers Disposable E-Mail Accounts Alex Goldman
[August 28, 2006] We've been advocating disposable e-mail for years, and EarthLink's now offering it. But ISPs should take particular note of EarthLink's interaction with its own customers, which sets standards that nobody else in the industry can match.

Sidebar: A Second E-Mail Address for Your G-Mail Account Alex Goldman
[August 28, 2006] In failing to offer disposable e-mail addresses, we feel Google is denying users a vital anti-spam strategy.

BellSouth's Own Tax Break Sydney P. Freeburg and Connie Humburg
[August 27, 2006] Enterprise Florida is a public-private partnership that helps determine where incentive money gets spent to create jobs in the state. Sometimes, board members' companies reap the benefits.

Two Partner to Provide Security to Small Business Alex Goldman
[August 16, 2006] A security provider and a CLEC will announce a partnership tomorrow that will show how two companies can work together to benefit each other and their customers.

Paetec, US LEC Sign $1.3B Merger Ed Sutherland
[August 14, 2006] Paetec and US LEC will become subsidiaries of New Paetec, a holding company generating $1 billion in annual revenue.

DSL Prime: British Telecom Considering 100/100 Mbps Dave Burstein
[August 3, 2006] Telcos that face real competition will deploy, and BT has to worry about new startups fuelled by true line sharing as well as a potential wireless broadband competitor called James Murdoch.

Coming Next: ISP Services That Don't Require Internet Alex Goldman
[August 1, 2006] Delivering (some of) the benefits of broadband to those who don't have it.

US LEC Signs SunRocket Alex Goldman
[July 26, 2006] In addition to a big customer win, the VoIP wholesaler plans to deliver that VoIP feature that the FCC tried to destroy.

EarthLink Adds 23 GHz Radios to Muni Plans Alex Goldman
[July 25, 2006] The urban backbones for EarthLink's municipal wireless products will get 200 Mbps radios.

Clearwire Clears Well Over $1.26 Billion in Funding Eric Griffith
[July 6, 2006] The company won't bother with an IPO when companies like Intel and Motorola have its back with a new $900 million investment.

Wireless Plan to Bring 1 Gbps to Homes in Sandoval County Gerry Blackwell
[June 20, 2006] The guy who brought broadband to Tonga is ready to revolutionize the U.S. market by offering very very fast residential service.

Cogent Offer in New Markets Alex Goldman
[June 19, 2006] Cogent Communications, the low priced backbone its competitors love to loathe, makes a move immediately after raising capital.

Nokia, Siemens Join Consolidation Wave internetnews.com Staff
[June 19, 2006] 'Hidden Takeover' could bully smaller network providers, say analysts.

Verizon Sues to Shut Down Vonage Michael Hickins
[June 19, 2006] Verizon is asking a district court to order VoIP provider Vonage to stop serving its customers.

Satellite Broadband To Drop in Out of WildBlue Ed Sutherland
[June 14, 2006] Exclusive deal follows pick as AT&T test satellite provider.

Court Ok's FCC ISP Wiretap Push Broadbandreports.com
[June 12, 2006] ISPs have until May 14, 2007.

Quadruple Play in Rural Iowa Julie Ask
[May 30, 2006] Each time the phone rings now, my grandmother tells whoever is on the other end that the telephony infrastructure in Colo, IA is better than that in San Francisco.

Lafayette Fiber Case Drags On Broadbandreports.com
[May 30, 2006] Telco's plaintiffs may not exist.

EarthLink Courts Controversy With Muni Franchise Offer to ISPs Alex Goldman
[May 26, 2006] The company told ISPCON attendees that there are so many business opportunities out there, it wants to offer franchises to WISPs in markets it's not pursuing itself.

MIMO Outdoors Eric Griffith
[May 26, 2006] A startup just out of stealth mode has a new solution for dense outdoor wireless deployments.

Verizon: Call Before You Dig Verizon Press Release
[May 24, 2006] In a press release today, Verizon urges landowners to notify it when they modify their property.

Preparing for Disaster: The Katrina Story Alex Goldman
[May 23, 2006] Sigmund Solares and Donny Simonton told ISPCON attendees the story of how they survived Katrina while operating a data center.

ISPCON LaunchPad Mike Cassidy and Tom McCafferty
[May 15, 2006] The people who put together the LaunchPad part of the show talk about what's new at ISPCON.

Planet ISPCON Alex Goldman
[May 12, 2006] Let ISP-Planet be your other ISPCON guide.

Warner Brothers Embraces Bit Torrent... But Also Embraces 180solutions Broadbandreports.com
[May 11, 2006] While Warner Brothers got a lot of attention yesterday for their announcement that they're working with Bit Torrent on a film distribution system, less noticed was that they also struck a deal with notorious adware firm 180Solutions.

NSA Database: 'Every Call Ever Made' Broadbandreports.com
[May 11, 2006] USA Today reports that the National Security Agency is in possession of billions of records of domestic telephone calls.

Verizon Dumping Landlines? Ed Sutherland
[May 10, 2006] Verizon is reportedly in discussions to sell up to 5 million phone lines in seven states.

I'm the Blue Security Spammer Joanna Glasner
[May 5, 2006] Spammers lash out against anti-spam service, compromising "do not intrude" database.

Announcing EarthLink Business Solutions Alex Goldman
[May 1, 2006] For years, EarthLink has been losing webhosting customers, but the recent acquisition of New Edge Networks allows the company to build on an area that has been a corporate weakness for many years.

Dialup Shutdown in Massachusetts Alex Goldman
[April 26, 2006] In the long run, it may mean the return of per-minute dialup pricing. In the short term, non-Verizon dialup customers are cut off in parts of the United States.

Dedicated Dialup for $100 Per Month Alex Goldman
[April 19, 2006] ISPs can learn from this new business service offer from ISP veteran New Edge Networks, part of EarthLink, precisely because no new technology is involved.

Wikipedia 2.0 Alex Goldman
[April 3, 2006] The next web-based encyclopedia will be a more perfect source of information and includes an unusual affiliate deal that will benefit VISP network providers.

Cogent's Latest Price Drop Alex Goldman
[April 3, 2006] While most internet companies are trying to charge more for their services, Cogent takes advantage of price deflation, charging less for burstable bandwidth.

MSN Replies to AOL Price Rise Alex Goldman
[March 31, 2006] Local ISPs tend not to worry about promotions from the big companies because of all the hidden fees and the lengthy contract commitments, but MSN's latest offer has neither.

Dozens of ISPs Subpoenaed Broadband Reports
[March 31, 2006] In DOJ's defense of crippled Child Protection Law.

Earthlink Wants to Serve New Orleans Karl Bode
[March 31, 2006] After BellSouth allegedly pressured city Wi-Fi shutdown.

Net Neutrality Advocates Losing DC Battle Karl Bode
[March 28, 2006] Non-Partisan website Political MoneyLine reports content providers were significantly outspent by their opponents.

BellSouth's Katrina Profiteering Broadband Reports
[March 23, 2006] CIO of muni network says, "If I have to go to jail, I guess I will."

FCC High Commish OK with Net Neutrality…Or Not Kate Kaye
[March 23, 2006] Talk about flip-flopping.

Broadband TV Website From Time Warner Broadband Reports
[March 15, 2006] Site doesn't work well, and nothing can be downloaded, evidently relying on windows media player 10 protection to ensure it is only streamed.

Google, Earthlink Together on San Francisco Wi-Fi Proposal Eric Griffith
[February 22, 2006] Two biggest names in municipal networks these days could end up working together.

Vonage IPO a Go! Joseph Laszlo
[February 9, 2006] I'm excited about the filing because it finally gives the world a look under the hood of Vonage's business strategy.

Mixed Reactions to Fee-Based E-mail Ed Sutherland
[February 6, 2006] Plans will 'change the economics of e-mail' argues one marketer.

AOL, Yahoo to Charge For E-mail Clint Boulton
[February 6, 2006] AOL and Yahoo are set to start charging e-mailers to send messages to targets.

EarthLink's DSL Plus VoIP Offering Alex Goldman
[February 6, 2006] Currently in local trials, EarthLink's DSL plus phone service competes on features as well as price.

180solutions Spyware Practice Far From Perfect Roy Mark
[January 24, 2006] CDT fingers the online advertising firm for causing 'immeasurable' harm to consumers.