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• VeriSign To Boost Security For B2B E-Commerce

  Verisign Inc. hopes to enable faster and more secure deployment of e-commerce transactions with its B2B Trust services package introduced this week.

  Written by Brian Fonseca • 20 April 00 12:01

• Earnings Lift the Dow, but Nasdaq Slides

  Divergence was the name of the market game today, as the Dow climbed confidently on strong earnings news and the Nasdaq slid downward under pressure from a technology stock sell-off. The Nasdaq gained 62.48, or 1.7 percent, to 3,643.93. The Dow gained 169.09, or 1.6 percent, to 10,844.05. The split brought a largely calm end to a shortened trading week; markets will be closed tomorrow in observance of Good Friday.

  Written by Anjali Arora • 20 April 00 12:01

• Network World 200 Market Cap Passes $5 Trillion

  If you need any more proof that the world has woken up to the fundamental importance of networking, consider this staggering fact: The stock value of the Network World 200 - the 200 largest U.S.-based public network companies D has passed $5 trillion.

  Written by John Dix • 20 April 00 12:01

• CacheFlow Takes Aim at E-Commerce

  Looking to give users an easier way to distribute Web content, cache device maker CacheFlow Inc. last week debuted its CacheOS/s operating system, aimed at e-commerce applications.

  Written by April Jacobs • 20 April 00 12:01

• Nortel to Acquire Software Maker

  Nortel Networks announced Wednesday that it will acquire Architel Systems, a developer of software that lets service providers provide Internet and other IP services, for US$395 million in stock.

  Written by Jim Duffy • 20 April 00 12:01

• Mafiaboy Attacks Could Have Been Stopped

  The Canadian teen-ager known as Mafiaboy, who was arrested this week in connection with an attack against the CNN Web site in February, is an amateur who simply copied tactics used by far more sophisticated attackers who may never be caught, security analysts say.

  Written by Ann Harrison • 20 April 00 12:01

• U.S. Claims Nations Impede Competition

  International telecommunications prices may be falling, but the U.S. government is not satisfied that all its trading partners are doing all they can to spur voice and data competition.

  Written by David Rohde • 20 April 00 12:01

• Lotus, Not Microsoft, on ASP Telstra's NZ Menu

  New Zealand customers wanting to use Telstra Corp.'s application service provider (ASP) can access Lotus Development Corp. applications but not Microsoft Corp. software.

  Written by Andrea Malcolm • 20 April 00 12:01

• Congressmen Talk Trade, Taxes

  A day after Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to address a technology trade show, a group of Republican congressmen sat down with representatives of several high technology companies at Comdex to discuss a range of legislative topics that are either now before Congress or will be soon.

  Written by Margret Johnston • 20 April 00 12:01

• IPOs out, venture capital in

  Dotcoms are more likely to tread the venture capital path following this week's stock market falls which saw some internet companies lose more than half their market value.

  Written by Luisa Bustos • 20 April 00 12:01

• SAP America CEO Resigns

  Kevin McKay has resigned his post as CEO of SAP America, and SAP veteran Wolfgang Kemna from SAP AG in Germany will serve as his replacement, a spokesperson for SAP said.

  Written by Eugene Grygo • 20 April 00 12:01

• Network Cracks Mobile Encryption System

  After four months of number-crunching, a large, distributed network of computers worldwide has cracked an encryption method that will likely secure the next generation of wireless phones and other devices. The unprecedented effort revealed the strength of the encryption system but also highlighted some potential weaknesses.

  Written by Ann Harrison • 20 April 00 12:01

• Datatec Buys LAN Systems in $30M Deal

  South African IT giant Datatec has acquired networking distributor LAN Systems for over A$30 million (US$17.7 million) in a move that instantly catapults the company onto the global stage.

  Written by Mark Jones • 20 April 00 12:01

• E-Commerce Driving GMAC Streamlining Effort

  General Motors Acceptance Corp. (GMAC), the financial services arm of the world's largest automaker, is in the midst of some major housecleaning.

  Written by Lee Copeland • 20 April 00 12:01

• The Business of Broadband

  Bob Knowling, CEO of upstart competitive local exchange carrier Covad Communications Co., likes to envision his phone company competitors as ugly old giants sleeping lazily on their front porches. And he's running like mad to give Covad some distance in the broadband Internet access race before those slumbering foes awake.

  Written by Beth Schultz • 20 April 00 12:01

• Corel Diversifies its Linux Portfolio

  Corel broadened its portfolio of Linux-based products this week by buying a 10 percent stake in Simply.com, maker of customized videoconferencing solutions.

  Written by Ed Scannell • 19 April 00 13:01

• IBM tops Q1 earnings estimates

  IBM yesterday beat Wall Street expectations for the first quarter of fiscal 2000, posting diluted earnings of 83 US cents per share, compared with earnings per share of 78 cents in the same quarter last year.

  Written by Jack McCarthy • 19 April 00 13:01

• Microsoft to Boost Windows, Unix Integration

  Bowing to the requirements of users who run systems with multiple operating environments, Microsoft is at work merging its Interix product line into the next version of its Windows Services for Unix (SFU).

  Written by John Ribeiro • 19 April 00 13:01

• Analysis: SAN popularity rising, but users' doubts linger

  Vendors are shouting from the rooftops that this is the year of the SAN. But users are barely whispering their support for storage-area networks (SAN).

  Written by Kathleen Ohlson • 19 April 00 13:01

• Exec exodus hits Lotus

  Lotus Development Corp. confirmed yesterday that several top executives plan to leave the groupware software maker in the coming weeks.

  Written by Lee Copeland • 19 April 00 13:01