EXCITE@HOME FILED FOR bankruptcy protection Friday and announced that AT&T will purchase the broadband Internet access business and services assets of the ISP for $307 million.
Excite@Home serves about 3.2 million broadband subscribers but has been hurt by lagging advertising revenue. The company announced earlier this week that it would lay off close to 25 percent of its staff and make large cutbacks to its portal services.
AT&T previously held a 23 percent stake in the company, and industry analysts expected the telecommunications giant to acquire the remaining shares of Excite@Home.
News source: Infoworld
Excite@Home serves about 3.2 million broadband subscribers but has been hurt by lagging advertising revenue. The company announced earlier this week that it would lay off close to 25 percent of its staff and make large cutbacks to its portal services.
AT&T previously held a 23 percent stake in the company, and industry analysts expected the telecommunications giant to acquire the remaining shares of Excite@Home.
News source: Infoworld
Another point is that corporates need to plan the deployment of any patches to make sure they apply them in the knowledge of the effect they have on other systems.
That said, integration between virus updates and security updates for consumers has its merits. when people are encouraged to update their protection against the Nimda worm, for example, they would also be reminded that it exploits an Outlook vulnerability, for which Microsoft has issued a patch.
Of course for this to work Microsoft patches would always need to work as advertised.
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