Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
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The Android cat is almost completely out of the bag. This week, Google displayed the software system -- which NewsFactor says is nearly complete -- at its developers conference in San Francisco. &n... More >
On its face, the spectrum auction plan being floated by FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin seems like a good idea. Martin wants to sell 25 MHz of spectrum in the 2155 to 2180 MHz band but mandate that t... More >
This post by Brian Krebs at The Washington Post says that two companies -- Trusteer and ING -- claim to have come up with a way to ensure the security of mobile banking even if the customer's machin... More >
Penetration testing, in a couple of ways, is the front line of the battle between cracker and security personnel. Put simply, "pen testing" is using hackers -- either on staff or from outside ... More >
For sheer size, the VoIP deployment by the Social Security Administration takes the cyber cake. The SSA is rolling out the platform to 1,600 locations, ranging from large offices to small operations ... More >
The security of medical information, always a topic of concern , is an even hotter issue with the launch of Google Health . The contentious issue is that Google Health, an online repository ... More >
There are things to be concerned about and things to be downright worried about. This story -- which outlines what appears to be woefully lax security at The Tennessee Valley Authority, the largest p... More >
The biggest security problem facing online banking is that people, to paraphrase Mr. Spock, are highly illogical. The most convenient answer is to make them take ownership of their banking activitie... More >
As good as any concept is, it will go nowhere without a lot of buy-in at the vendor, service provider and supply chain levels. Femtocell companies are doing just that: The sector is deeply imm... More >
Question: What do you get when you take two different sectors, sprinkle in a good portion of technological evolution and a pinch of poor economic news? Answer: A completely different industry. ... More >
The race for 4G supremacy has ramped up during the past couple years. At least one executive -- Sachio Semmoto, founder of eAccess Ltd., a Japanese wireless company -- thinks it is over. He says that... More >
The tricky topic of health care information security will get even trickier with the birth of Google Health. The online service, described well in this Telegraph story , is a portal that stores us... More >
A challenge since the dawn of the wireless local-area network (WLAN) era has been to provide adequate coverage. This becomes even more pressing as voice and other interactive applications are added. ... More >
The common wisdom is that the telephone companies are moving from copper to an all- or mostly fiber architecture while cable competitors will go to war with a hybrid fiber-coax mix buttressed by the ... More >
Security is a confusing topic because so many devices and systems seem, to non-experts, to perform similar and highly interrelated tasks. Some simplification is occurring as approaches are combined i... More >
It certainly is understandable if people are overlooking VoIP security. Though the platform has been implicated in security problems through its use by phishers, VoIP isn't the biggest threat faced b... More >
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the latest research released by Leichtman Research Group on cable modems and DSL is that there still are 2.2 million subscribers to be had in the United States. ... More >
IPv6 is the corporate and government version of exercising and eating vegetables: Everyone agrees it's a good thing, but somehow most find a way to put it off. Despite the stark reality that the Inte... More >
Eleven years ago this month, a melancholy milestone was reached when IBM's Deep Blue computer beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov . The eternal struggle of humans against machines as personifie... More >
Rootkits, pieces of code that burrow into systems and avoid detection by security software, still are posing big problems, according to this Dark Reading piece . The story reports on test results re... More >
The troubles of the municipal Wi-Fi movement in general and Earthlink in particular are well documented, here and elsewhere. It is no great surprise that earlier this week the company notified the ... More >
The mobile Internet device (MID) market, at least according to this post at GigaOm , is generating a lot of attention. The post compares MID initiatives from Intel, Qualcomm, Via Technologies and a ... More >
It's interesting to watch the telepresence sector evolve. Telepresence generally refers to the wildly expensive full-immersion remote participation equipment that has found something of a mark... More >
It is clear that cyber criminality is migrating from amateurs to professionals. One graphic -- and somewhat chilling -- reminder was posted last week by a McAfee researcher who found a site that actu... More >
The common-sense justification for mobile device management (MDM) makes it surprising that the category has not expanded faster and a near certainty that it will be hot as mobility grows. Inde... More >
Perhaps the most often cited shortcoming of the cable industry's collective business plan is that it lacks a meaningful wireless component. In big and small ways, the industry confronted that old bug... More >
Broadband over powerline (BPL) always has been intriguing, despite the fact that even its staunchest proponents understand that the data rates it provides don't hold a candle to other broadband condu... More >
The image of data theft for most people is a clever hacker sitting in a dark basement plotting ingenious ways around cyber security. More recently, the popular imagination has switched to organized c... More >
This week, Clearwire and Sprint resurrected their WiMax deal, with assorted other companies of note thrown in for good measure. Initial reaction from some quarters is that the deal is ill-conceived... More >
Virtual Private Networks are mainstays of remote security. Great efforts must be made to enable VPNs to accommodate increasingly demanding real-time IP-based applications. This week, NetMotion... More >
Mobile open access -- which in its purest form is the use any device on any network -- is a far better approach than today's fragmented and proprietary way of doing business. This Light Reading piec... More >
It's almost possible to feel sorry for security professionals. They've spent years putting systems in place to protect businesses. They've hardened the perimeter and made sure data was centralized an... More >
The logic of whitelisting is inescapable: Instead of trying -- often in vain -- to identify and deny entry to the many bad apples out there, why not simply bar the door to everyone except those who h... More >
The impact of video streaming and conferencing will increase during the next few years. The overt impact will be on how businesses communicate internally and with each other, partners, suppliers and ... More >
Many security professionals are concerned that virtualization -- the use of one physical machine to house two or more completely independent operating systems -- is woefully insecure. The issue is th... More >
Convergence service providers -- i.e., cable companies and telcos -- are in for a rough ride as saturated markets, the bad economy and other factors begin to play off each other in what could becom... More >
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