Caron Carlson

Parties in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust remedies case square off before a federal District Court judge for the last time this week to present closing arguments in the landmark suit. And as signaled by District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last week, both sides will be prohibited from stretching closing arguments. Last month, Microsoft requested that the […]

One week prior to final arguments in a case that included nine weeks of witness hearings earlier this spring, the judge in the landmark Microsoft Corp. antitrust remedy proceeding denied the companys request to dismiss the case for lack of standing. The nine states and the District of Columbia pursuing the case welcomed the ruling. […]

If you are eager to clear away the tangle of wires connecting PCs, printers and other devices in your offices and replace it with wireless technology, the wait may be longer than you think. According to some in Congress, the delay results partly from federal regulators uncommonly strong deference to the White Houses telecommunications arm […]

They went in as underdogs but have parlayed growing experience and meticulous preparation into early success at this years FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in South Korea and Japan. And theyve never scored a goal. Avaya Inc., the Lucent Technologies Inc. spinoff, built the massive IP-based converged voice and data network that is supporting the […]

Rivals to the RBOCs planned last week to ask the U.S. government to preclude the Regional Bell Operating Companies from cutting off service to hundreds of thousands of customers in light of two contradictory court decisions regarding Bell obligations. The rival companies— often called CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers) or DLECs (DSL Local Exchange Carriers)—prepared […]

At a time when telecom service providers are increasingly frugal, new technologies are on the way that will allow them to offer customers more tailored services. At the Supercomm show in Atlanta this week, for example, IBM will expand its open IT framework, the Service Provider Delivery Environment, to help service providers lower the cost […]

Using a new web crawling system deployed in February, the Business Software Alliance has stepped up its enforcement against Internet-based software piracy at universities, homes and workplaces. The MediaSentry system, the alliances latest and most sophisticated mechanism for detecting online copyright infringements, searches peer-to-peer systems, FTP sites and Web sites for unlicensed copies of software […]

Waiting until the last minute before wireless companies were required to deposit hefty sums of cash to hold their places in the next big spectrum auction, the Federal Communications Commission postponed the auction of the entangled 700MHz frequencies late last Friday for the sixth time. Bowing to the demands of the wireless industry, the FCC […]

After four years of litigation, culminating this spring in nine weeks of testimony from economists, computer scientists, antitrust experts, Microsoft Corp. rivals and Bill Gates himself, it is now up to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to decide what should be done to remedy the Redmond, Wash., software makers anti-competitive behavior. The Washington District Court judge has […]

Wireless service providers interested in amassing more bandwidth are preparing deposits for the Federal Communications Commissions spectrum auction scheduled for June. But potential bidders arent holding their breath, as theres a strong chance the auction, already postponed five times, will be delayed once again. Though the FCC has set a deadline of June 19 for […]