Stories about: Nynex

When David Lindahl added a new position to his unit, he didn't hire a programmer, a business analyst or a network administrator. He hired an anthropologist.

So, what's an enterprise-enriched guy like Bill Krause doing running a carrier-focused "superrouter" company like Caspian Networks Inc.? Attempting to meld the genius of an Internet pioneer with highly energized people developing a product that Krause says may "change the rules of the game."

Project portfolio management organises a series of projects into a single portfolio consisting of reports that capture project objectives, costs, timelines, accomplishments, resources, risks and other critical factors. Executives can then regularly review entire portfolios, spread resources appropriately and adjust projects to produce the highest departmental returns.

Dave Burmaster, my college roommate, is from near Buffalo, N.Y. He makes the Erie Canal up there sound like DSL. Dave Burstein, on the other hand, writes a newsletter about DSL. He makes DSL sound like the Erie Canal.

Verizon Corp. (formerly Bell Atlantic Corp.) has been ordered by New York regulators to cut business and residential rates by US$50 million starting Sept. 1, accelerating an earlier state Public Service Commission rate-reduction plan. Originally, the cut was to be $25 million, but because Verizon sold its share in telecom software and research company Bellcore, another $22.7 million in net proceeds is being passed along to customers, as well as $2.3 million in other revenue.

Could a merger between AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications Ltd., two of the world's biggest telecommunications companies, be imminent?

The perpetual enemy of the electronic world -- time -- killed the merger between Sprint Corp. and WorldCom Inc. The companies looked at the delay the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit would cause and balked, officially calling off the deal last week

WorldCom Inc. CEO Bernie Ebbers pretty much admitted his company's deal with Sprint Corp. is dead.

Telcordia Communications Inc. has announced it will sell software designed to conserve phone numbers.

THE FUTURE OF PHONE? Voice-over-DSL offers cost savings--and considerable risk By Daniel Sweeney

The Social Life of Information By John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid Harvard Business School Press, Boston March 2000, $25.95.