Stories about: MCI

Merit Network, the pioneering Michigan research network that played a key role in the development of the Internet, this week will celebrate its 40th anniversary. President Emeritus Eric Aupperle, a 32-year Merit veteran who served as director and president during the organization's heyday in the mid-1980s and 1990s as the operator of the National Science Foundation's NSFnet, spent some time reminiscing and looking ahead with Jim Duffy.

I've just seen the most remarkable documentary called "The Corporation", which is based on a book by Joel Bakan called The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.

Google has boosted its executive team by hiring Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf as its chief Internet evangelist, the California company announced.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is finally giving networking technology a little respect. On Tuesday, the 58-year-old organization for computing professionals announced plans to award Internet pioneers Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn its prestigious A.M. Turing Award.

iiNet on Tuesday announced it has bought OzEmail's consumer Internet business from MCI in a deal valued at $110 million. This will see it become the nation's third largest ISP behind Telstra and Optus.

A committee in the European Parliament has agreed on substantial changes to a proposed law against counterfeiting and piracy of goods including computer software, music and movies.

Last October's hacker attack on the global root servers that run the core addressing system of the Internet knocked out seven of the 13 servers for a time, but caused nary a problem for most Internet users.

In an effort to whittle down the number of IT platforms it needs to support, The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. is looking to consolidate systems and networks through a series of moves that will include shifting some applications from Unix servers to Linux boxes.

The Southern Cross Cable Network expects to double capacity on its now completed network by 2002. The company confirmed that it will adopt dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) technology to increase capacity on the network.