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Customers of HSBC, Bank of America and Washington Mutual may want to think twice about banking online. Quickly. The three banks are identified in a study by a UC Berkeley's Boalt School of Law resea... More >
The telephone industry is facing a very interesting quandary. On one hand, all-fiber builds offer elegant solutions and robust triple- and quadruple-play possibilities. Verizon clearly is opti... More >
A couple of things happened during the past week that, on the surface, have little in common. They speak to a bigger truth, however: IT managers and their bosses prepare for the unexpected -- and rea... More >
The business model for the cell phone business in the United States always has been that devices were subsidized by the wireless carrier, who in return got a long-term commitment -- and monthly fan m... More >
Web applications, cloud computing, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and similar activities in which the Internet is the platform are a growing trend. It's not hard to understand why: This approach increa... More >
Virtualization is a boon for data centers and other scenarios in which concentrated computer resources are necessary. Significant questions about the security of the technology persist, howeve... More >
The future is now. Almost, at least. This interesting InformationWeek piece looks at what the smartphone of the future will look like. The most important insight is that the growth of cell phones w... More >
One of the attractions and downright charms of the Internet is its universality. It is just as easy to find a bakery in Charlotte as in Cairo -- from a Starbucks in Caracas. For the most part, viruse... More >
Despite repeated embarrassing and potentially damaging incidents, the federal government is still bedeviled by security shortfalls and, it seems, turf wars over how to improve the situation. T... More >
Most people like the idea of open source software. For many, the problem is the execution. Everything about open source seems to be written by geeks for geeks. The usual marketing sheen of tra... More >
It's easier to talk about anti-virus, intrusion detection systems, network access control and other pieces of hardware and software than about the real problem: people. The reason the human element i... More >
All municipal Wi-Fi systems are not in as bad a shape as the one in Tempe, Ariz. However, it clearly is a difficult time for this industry segment. The problem, it seems, is that municipal Wi-... More >
John Cox at does a good job of two things in this Network World piece. The immediate task at hand is to provide an update of how fixed mobile convergence (FMC) is working in the field. In the proc... More >
There are two scary things about drive-by downloads. One is that the victim has to do nothing except visit the infected site to be at risk. The other is that many of the sites carrying the malware ha... More >
This Reuters piece, posted on News.com , though a bit incomplete, raises an important issue. The writer says the emergence of Google's Android and Apple's iPhone could greatly exacerbate mobile-p... More >
There is not too much new information in this Economist story on femtocells , other than to signal that it was the big news at The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The piece does a good job of su... More >
The good news, from vendors and end-users' view point, is that carriers realize the importance of wireless broadband. This Telephony Online report on Qwest's quarterly results says that CEO Edward ... More >
Data loss prevention (DLP) is complex because it doesn't describe a specific technology, but an overall framework into which different elements fit. InfoWorld describes three covered areas : data at... More >
Verizon and the cable industry are going after each other in intense fashion on the technology, marketing and legal fronts. The latest salvo was launched Monday. Comcast, Time Warner Cable an... More >
The ever-increasing number of passwords and user names to remember is at best cumbersome and at worst a major security risk. It also is bad for merchants. In 2006, seven companies founded OpenID, a s... More >
The Mobile World Congress held this week in Barcelona is the first of what undoubtedly will be many coming-out parties for Android. The Google-led open source software project is aimed at the creati... More >
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking will continue to be the most controversial protocol for a couple of reasons: It is a bandwidth glutton and presents significant security challenges. This week, ac... More >
There was a great television commercial decades ago for Barney's, a fancy New York men's store. A bunch of kids, each of whom obviously represents a famous man as a child (Bogart, Stengel, Armstrong,... More >
OK, we get the idea. There are a lot of botnets. The first named one that got a lot of attention -- like the first named hurricane of the season -- was Storm. Then there was Celebrity and N... More >
This VoIP News story does a good job of extolling the virtues of the hosted VoIP model for small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs). The heart of the piece, however, is a list and brief synopsis of ... More >
Sometimes, the simplest steps can make all the difference. For instance, eWEEK discusses a rudimentary step -- using a least-privilege approach to user accounts -- that makes a big difference in ... More >
We've gotten through Super Sunday and Super Tuesday -- with Super In-Between Monday thrown in. But the FCC 700 MHz auction is ongoing, and there are interesting developments to report on that front. ... More >
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking isn't very sexy. It is, however, one of the main ways in which a company can save money by using VoIP. Often, VoIP connections are mixed affairs, in... More >
In a bit of cognitive dissonance, it seems that laziness is as much a mobile security problem as ever. It doesn't seem like this should be so, but it is. In a perverse way, security forces and corpor... More >
It is fair to say that the rollout of 802.11n is a drama, but a painfully slow one. Think "The English Patient." This successor to 802.11 is out in draft form, but the official standard isn't expect... More >
Bungee jumping and smoking are bad ideas. So is using live customer data when developing and testing applications. This is, however, precisely what many companies do, at least according to a recent ... More >
There seems to be a key fact missing from IDC's assessment of the growth of the cell phone market . The firm says that year-over-year growth slowed between 2007 and 2006 compared to the previous yea... More >
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