writes: Yet another local casualty of the telecom downturn, Adelphia Business Solutions filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today: Adelphia Business Solutions Files Chapter 11 ABS owns significant fiber facilities in the greater Cville region and was one of the first competetive dialtone providers.
Can we get a show of hands? Who’s still in business?
Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on four six and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #
Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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Boxer Learning, CornerStone (bought out), Nexet, Tovaris (barely), Macrosoft (barely). That’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
Hopefully, whoever buys *them* out will fix all that static on Channel 62. (No, that’s not the nudie channel.)
Ntelos, drw design, category4 design, bnsi… There are still a good deal of technology companies alive and well. Hopefully the economy will keep on track and things will turn up a little.
blue ridge internetworks, musictoday, rlc.
Actually, Tovaris just died this week. The dot-com bubble has just about finished bursting. Welcome back to the real world of profit-based business plans.
With all due respect to the ISPs, web design houses, LAN administrators, and glorified graphic design folks in town, the number of actual, honest-to-God *technology* companies (application development, software, network mgt services, distributed computing, infosec, etc.) is small and rapidly getting smaller.
Avaki (nee Applied Metacomputing) is still around.
Incidentally, welcome to the economy. Come on in… the waters fine.
Not true. They’re still very much alive and will be for the foreseeable future. They have a new CEO out of Boston.
Tovaris is smaller than they used to be, but still pursuing the email security and next-generation PKI businesses.
And, for the record, they never had a dot-com business model. They have always pursued profitability first and foremost.
Maybe you got fired from there? Or laid off from another dot-com bomb?