Stories by Carolyn Duffy Marsan

VC Funding in Net Ventures Keeps Climbing

The venture capital community remains bullish on the Internet economy, pumping a record US$15 billion into business services, network software and telecommunications start-ups in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP/Network World Venture Capital Survey.

New Tools Tame Napster Traffic

New traffic-shaping devices promise to prevent Napster and similar bandwidth hogs from overwhelming campus and corporate networks, an advancement early adopters say will loosen bans on these increasingly popular Internet applications.

Cisco, Microsoft Give IPv6 Shot in the Arm

Two heavyweight holdouts - Cisco and Microsoft - last week threw their support behind IPv6, giving the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's primary communications protocol a much-needed boost.

NTT unveils first commercial IPv6 service

NTT, the Japanese telecommunications giant, yesterday announced the first commercial Internet service supporting IPv6, a comprehensive and controversial upgrade to the 30-year-old communications protocol that underpins the Net.

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