Stories about: Nextel Communications

Once focused on cost cutting, today's human resources systems are all about gauging, growing and managing the corporate talent pool.

From the corporate boardroom to the enterprise data center, the 50 men and women on this list exercise power within the network industry to one degree or another. Some have the clout to sway the world's technology decisions, while others command attention within vertical industries, particular market segments or simply -- though not inconsequentially -- within their own organizational domains. We have ranked each of our 2004 power-brokers based on such stature, as well as on the person's visibility and the ways in which the person functions as a role model. To see how these 50 fit together, we've aligned them by category as well, from the titans to the standards-setters.

Intel will work with Clearwire, a wireless Internet service provider founded by cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, on future networks based on WiMax wireless broadband technology.

The judge overseeing the U.S. government's case to block Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft quizzed both sides during closing arguments Tuesday, emphasizing market definition and customer testimony.

In the never-ending search for a cell phone service with truly reliable, wide coverage and fast and dependable customer support for a bargain price, it seems appropriate to check with people who are paid to roam.

Navini Networks, until recently one of the staunchest critics of the WiMax effort to create standardized wireless broadband, has made a sharp about-face and joined the WiMax Forum.

WiMax may hold out the promise of cheap wireless broadband available anywhere, but it will face an uphill battle against increasingly popular proprietary alternatives before it can become widespread, according to a new study.

Manufacturers and service providers looked at the emerging WiMax wireless technology last week and saw a possible rival to wired broadband services -- at the end of what some see as a long standardization process.

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is officially for sale, according to published reports.

MCI CEO Michael Capellas used this week's Gartner Symposium/ ITxpo to preview what's next for the embattled carrier, assuming it leaps what might be its final hurdle before emerging from bankruptcy protection.

... strategy, saying, "IBM has been using Linus [Torvalds] like a tool and exploiting the open-source community." Those fightin' words come from Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president for Sun's software group. He doesn't think IBM's Linux sales have been kind to CIOs, either. "They've been spreading IP [intellectual property] radiation" to companies that get their Linux from IBM because of Big Blue's contract problems with SCO Group. Sun, he hastened to add, has crossed all its t's and dotted all its i's with SCO just in case the Unix/Linux legal claims have merit.