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• WiFi Upstarts Fight for Advantage over Large Competitors.

  - 2004-02-09

  By Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 9--Don LeBeau's sales vision propelled Cisco Systems from a mid-tier player to the leading provider of Internet equipment a decade ago. Now he's trying to repeat the performance as...

  Tags: Aruba Networks, Cisco Systems Inc., Dartmouth College, network, NETWORKING, SALES, San Jose Mercury News, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Recording Industry's Suit Against 12-Year-Old Girl Could Hurt Cause.

  - 2003-09-15

  By Sam Diaz, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 15--The music industry could have been seen as a victim -- a generations-old industry being robbed blind by thieves depriving hard-working artists of their livelihoods. But the...

  Tags: INTERNET, music, network, P2P, RIAA, San Jose Mercury News

• San Jose, Calif., Area to See Few Changes from Relaxed Media Ownership Rules.

  - 2003-06-08

  By Charlie McCollum, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 8--If you listen to the critics of last week's federal decision to relax rules on media ownership, you would think Western civilization is about to end. ...

  Tags: cable, FCC, media, network, radio, San Jose Mercury News, TVs

• San Francisco Non-Profit Television Network Opens Window to Mideast.

  - 2003-03-15

  By Dana Hull, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 15--One television monitor shows CNN with its "Showdown Iraq" logo. On another, an anchor on Lebanon's Al-Manar TV, a privately owned station controlled by the fundamentalist movement Hezbollah,...

  Tags: Al-Jazeera, Arab, footage, Iraq, monitor, Mosaic, network, NETWORKING, San Jose Mercury News, satellite, TVs, window

• Bells Win Victory on Broadband.

  - 2003-02-21

  San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 21--The Federal Communications Commission refused Thursday to free the local phone companies from requirements to share their lines but eased up on regulation of new networks for high-speed Internet access -- a...

  Tags: broadband, Covad Communications Group Inc., FCC, Government, network, NETWORKING, San Jose Mercury News, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony

• Movie, Film Groups Sue File-Swapping Services, Alleging Online Piracy.

  - 2001-10-04

  By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 4--The movie and film industries unleashed a fresh legal salvo Tuesday against a trio of online file-swapping sites they charge serve as a global pirates' bazaar, where millions...

  Tags: file-swapping, Grokster Ltd., INTERNET, Kazaa, movie, music, Napster Inc., network, P2P, Piracy, RIAA, San Jose Mercury News

• San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Business Question and Answer Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-04-24

  Apr. 24--POPULATION BOOM ONLINE SEEN IN CHINA: More than 70 percent of China's Internet traffic runs through the networks built by AsiaInfo Holdings Inc., a U.S.-based network solutions company with operating headquarters in Bejing and an office in S Apr. 24--POPULATION BOOM ONLINE SEEN IN CHINA:...

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• Plan To Outsource University Network Falls Apart

  - 1998-06-30

  Plans by a consortium of major vendors to run the telecommunications and computer networks of the California State University as a commercial operation have fallen apart, according to the San Jose Mercury News. The plans, spanning 22 campuses, included Microsoft Corp, Hughes Space and Communications Co, Fujitsu Ltd and GTE...

  Tags: California State University, GTE Corp., Microsoft Corp., network, NETWORKING, outsource, San Jose Mercury News, Telephony

• Lotus to Unveil New Software Package.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)

  - 1997-11-03

  Nov. 3--Lotus Development Corp., with backing from heavyweight partners, today will unveil a streamlined software "suite" that some analysts said could boost the Java programming language and the network computer movement. Nov. 3--Lotus Development Corp., with backing from heavyweight partners,...

  Tags: IBM Corp., network, network computer, San Jose Mercury News

• Redwood City, Calif.-Based At Home Network System Susceptible to Glitch.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)

  - 1997-10-30

  Oct. 30--Dozens -- perhaps even hundreds -- of users of the atHome Network system, which provides high-speed Internet access, have unwittingly configured their computers in a way that permits files on their computer to be examined, copied, corru Oct. 30--Dozens -- perhaps even...

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