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802.11n is here -- sort of. It's the "sort of" that should make enterprises tread carefully. Planners should be familiar with the story by now: The release of a true standard, with the seal of... More >
The common wisdom is that botnets take advantage of PCs belonging to unsuspecting consumers and under-protected small businesses. Enterprises are though to be more highly protected and therefore less... More >
Interesting questions are raised by Verizon's third-quarter results. Though this reporter at The Street termed the results solid , he suggested that FiOS TV came up short. A breakdown of the final... More >
This commentary at CNET by Sentrigo Executive Vice President Dan Sarel on the importance of database security tracks well with a couple of recent items: my Q&A with another company executive... More >
It's nice when the U.S. leads the world in something. Not in this case, however, as the country has more than lapped the field in Sophos' latest listing of top spam producers. According to this Tec... More >
It certainly was a big week for Navini Networks and, by extension, mobile WiMax. On Thursday, the WiMax antenna specialists -- along with Beceem, Fujitsu and Runcom -- launched the Smart Antenna RF ... More >
Most security folks spend their time worrying about viruses and other malware that may be finding its way into business networks. This CSOonline.com blog suggests that closer attention should be pa... More >
Verizon took a significant step this week with the introduction of a service option providing residential FiOS subscribers with the same capacity in the upstream and downstream directions. The maxim... More >
Many sites and publications, including a report by IT Business Edge's Susan Hall , noted that the dynamic duo of Apple and AT&T both reported positive quarterly results this week. This is... More >
This piece, which ran in The New York Times Week in Review section, raises an interesting point that often is overlooked. The Internet is a borderless network that is largely impervious to governmen... More >
As the World Radiocommunication Conference launches in Geneva, WiMax proponents were given reason to cheer; the wireless technology was named by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as a m... More >
There really are two interconnected worlds to consider when looking at a telecommunications service. One is the underlying technology and the other is how the success or failure of that technology is... More >
If a company's convergence applications slow down, chances are bandwidth is not the problem. Much of the discussion of connectivity and convergence almost reflexively uses the total amount of ... More >
This is a is clever marketing gimmick: Halloween is the scary holiday, and nothing scares IT departments and those charged with security at smaller firms more than viruses, spyware, and other forms o... More >
A rarely discussed concept that looms in the background of many common security approaches is defense in depth. It is a concept that merits attention, since it pops up in so many different areas. Per... More >
If we went for hyperbole, it would be entirely justifiable to write that the future of modern corporate communications will be "fought on the great battlefield of unified communications." An entirely... More >
It's clear that a big part of the telephone industry's master plan is to modernize the franchising process so that it can roll out its fiber infrastructure without trudging from town to town, like th... More >
It's that time of year. The nights are getting chilly, the kids are back in school and it's National Cyber Security Month again. Okay, so the last item on the list sort of slips under the radar. Such... More >
The data leakage sector is hot, which means companies that specialize in it are rich acquisition targets for the big, multi-purpose security firms that tend to swoop in and to fill out their portfoli... More >
The impact of convergence technology and converged applications is nowhere more apparent than in the teleconferencing sector. In some cases new technology improves existing applications. In teleconfe... More >
It's always this way: Consumers see something they like, begin using it and, after a lag time, the technology gains acceptance at the enterprise level. That's not surprising, of course, since consume... More >
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has released an interesting study with some good news. The industry group surveyed 1,070 organizations and found that last year they spent 20 ... More >
Gary Forsee's resignation as the chairman, president and CEO of Sprint Nextel could have ramifications on at least a couple of levels: It almost certainly signals a change in how aggressively the ca... More >
Telecommunication is undergoing an historic sea change. Even though that change is driven by the consumer side of the industry, it is so basic and fundamental that its impact will transform the busin... More >
While the telecommunications industry has its collective eyes set on the FCC's 700 MHz band spectrum auction in January, AT&T may have outsmarted the pack by agreeing to pay Aloha Partners LP $2.... More >
This story at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute Web site offers no definitive information on precisely how the Internet census the group recently completed will... More >
This long InformationWeek feature takes a systematic look at enterprise mobile e-mail packages. The piece points out the dichotomy between the growing use of mobile e-mail among consumers and th... More >
This Dark Reading piece restates the generally accepted wisdom that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are becoming less numerous -- but at the same time are growing far more nuanced a... More >
It's common sense that moving from single- to two-factor security will cut down on all levels of online theft. In some cases, however, such solutions have proven to not be user-friendly. For instance... More >
Earlier this week, we posted a blog that focused on a hearing in the House of Representatives that explored rules and regulations on special access, which is the way in which circuits are leased by... More >
There are far too many numbers in this TechNewsWorld story, which reports results of a survey on Web 2.0 threats conducted by Forrester Research for Secure Computing. The survey, released in conjun... More >
Perhaps the ultimate key to reducing Internet vulnerability is building adequate security into software code as it is being created. This is far more efficient and simply makes more sense than scramb... More >
The takeover of Congress by the Democrats last November has led the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet to revisit the topic of special access. The level to which the government... More >
A consistent subtext for the cable industry during the past 20 years is that it is well positioned to be a major provider of small and medium-sized business (SMB) services. It's not all talk, either.... More >
There is a danger among reporters, bloggers and other commentators to stop covering something as thoroughly as they did before simply because there is nothing terribly new to say. This is a mistake. ... More >
Mashups are best illustrated via simple example. Suppose a salesperson has to visit five sites. A mashup could combine information from map sites suggesting the best itinerary and directions and find... More >
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