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Vonage had, to say the least, a challenging year . That's why it seems fitting that the company should end 2007 on a high note. It did, announcing on New Year's Eve that it had reached an agreement... More >
This Processor piece starts from the common-sense perspective that small- and medium-size businesses generally don't have the staff to deal with security emergencies. If a problem occurs, a whole de... More >
It's clear 2007 was an active year in the security sector. That's euphemistic for saying a lot of bad things happened. This Dark Reading year-end review posits that there are three types of breaches... More >
It's clear when somebody really has gotten something right. The first few paragraphs of this InfoWorld story make a compelling case that 2008 will be the year that smartphones really take off. &n... More >
Earlier this week, South Korean security vendor AhnLab said that a growing number of hackers are going after credit card numbers and other vital information put online by gamers. This Chosun story... More >
The holidays are here, which means that soon the holidays will be over. At that point, IT and security staffs will be facing a wave of mobile devices given to employees and making their way into the ... More >
The year ahead will be pivotal in the evolution of 4G. While the winners and losers won't be fully determined by this time in 2008, it will become clear whether the technologies will compete or compl... More >
We don't write much about teenagers here, for obvious reasons. However, in five years, today's 17-year-old will be waking up five hours earlier than they do today and heading to an office. For... More >
Virtualization is a broad term that refers to the use of fewer pieces of hardware to run more operating systems and applications. In practical terms, it is the hosting of more than one OS on a single... More >
There is a fun time before the beginning of a baseball, football or basketball season when the pundits and fans make predictions about what will happen based on the rosters of the teams and their pre... More >
Kelly Jackson Higgins posted an interesting and unsettling story at Dark Reading that focuses on back doors which, as the name implies, are programs that provide easy or special access into softwar... More >
We will find out over the next year whether vendors and service providers are serious about voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) and voice over wireless local-area networks (VoWLAN). That could have been... More >
In one of the more anticlimactic assessments of the past few years, analysts say that American households now spend more on cell phones than landline services. The most recent figures availabl... More >
It's a bit chilling to even think that perhaps the single element that most defines us as a nation -- our system of free and fair elections -- is at stake because of electronic security. It is... More >
Even skeptics acknowledge that femtocells are an extremely promising technology. The question isn't whether these small base stations can help wireless coverage. They can. Rather, the issues that mus... More >
Encrypting e-mail ranks high in just about every expert's list of important enterprise security steps. After all, this is a potent way to reduce the dangers from lost laptops, dishonest employees and... More >
Perhaps the major overall growth area in networking is wireless. Companies and consumers are putting more data on the air every day. Wireless safety still is a big issue, of course, but it doesn't se... More >
Convergence networking discussions most often deal with transmission of data between separate locales. Fast networking within a home or office is important as well, however. This week, according to ... More >
A few interesting surveys concerning small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and security were released during the past few weeks. The most interesting element of a survey conducted on behalf... More >
VoIP services operate differently than other applications. These differences make it trickier to host on a data network and require that special steps be taken. Part one of this two-part story at ... More >
Christmas came a bit early this year for manufacturers of backup power sources. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has released rules mandating that mobile providers and local exchange carrie... More >
IT and security managers who hope to keep consumer devices and applications out of the enterprise should wake up to the fact that resistance is futile . They are coming. With that as an unsta... More >
IT and security departments should pay attention to a assessment by security company Finjan that criminals are increasingly targeting Web applications that aren't generally thought of as security ris... More >
Now the fun starts. Debates over the best ways to implement unified communications (UC) and other intensely interactive applications are based on an assumption that is so obvious that it oft... More >
TJX, owners of TJ Maxx, Marshalls and other familiar retailers, is the poster child (at least in the United States) for data breaches. For about 17 months, criminals freely roamed its cyber hallways... More >
The race between the telephone companies and cable operators goes on. That's a good thing, as throughputs rise and prices decline. Cable Digital News offers an upbeat assessment of Alloptic, ... More >
Intrusion prevention systems (IPSs), as the name indicates, work to identify and combat security threats and vulnerabilities. This week, Cisco introduced its highest performing IPS -- the IPS 4270 --... More >
The saying is that you have to spend money to make money. That's undoubtedly true, but understates the enormous risks associated with next-generation wireless networking. The bottom line -- as portra... More >
The number of networks, devices and applications is exploding, and there is a pot of gold -- a very large pot of gold -- awaiting the vendors who do the best job of allowing data and applications to ... More >
Many folks have had the unpleasant experience of forwarding a long e-mail string to a third party, only to realize seconds after hitting the send button that one of the messages early in the exchange... More >
The rollout of new equipment can be confusing. For instance, while a tremendous amount of 802.11n gear is available -- more than 90 products were certified as Draft 2 compliant by The Wi-Fi Alliance... More >
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