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Server virtualization -- the separation of functionality from the underlying hardware -- offers a tremendous number of advantages. But, according to a Symantec survey, there is a decided downside to ... More >
WhiteHat Security this week released its fifth survey of Web site vulnerabilities. While the eWeek report on the study suggests the situation is marginally improved, the reality is that the risk is... More >
There always are clever people doing clever things with mobile phones, and one of the most clever is to tap into the Internet to avoid long distance charges. The mobile VoIP sector, which has ... More >
The fact that this survey was conducted by a network-access control (NAC) vendor clearly raises a yellow flag, but doesn't mean the results shouldn't be considered at all. A survey that Mirage Netwo... More >
The issues of Internet capacity, Net neutrality, broadband investment and network management are interconnected. And make no mistake about it: Those interconnections are laced with dollar signs. &nbs... More >
It's likely that the procedure described in this Wired piece , the use of an online application called Phweet and Twitter to make VoIP calls on airplanes, soon will be squelched by the airlines or se... More >
One of the most frightening things about identify theft is that the perpetrator doesn't have to be a computer whiz to pull it off. All he or she has to be is resourceful, reasonably clever and persis... More >
This Computerworld piece does a good job of previewing the unified communications infrastructure that the New York Mets are creating at Citi Field, the stadium they are moving into next season. &nbs... More >
We hope that the results of surveys released by Arrow Electronics and AMI Partners this month hold true for the bulk of medium-size businesses, and that one released last month by McAfee do not. &nbs... More >
It's not surprising that the telecommuting landscape has changed during the past few years, as broadband and mobile devices have become ubiquitous and, more recently, fuel prices have hit the roof. A... More >
The saga of Comcast and, by extension, all big ISPs, against the FCC and/or bandwidth hogs continues. The latest twists, reported by IT Business Edge and elsewhere , are that Comcast will lim... More >
It's good to see that the government is taking the topic of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) security seriously. This SC Magazine piece, which notes that RFIDs are getting more attention as th... More >
The cable industry has long faced the challenge of getting into the mobile phone business. Its lineage, of course, is in carrying video signals over cables. Providing voice was a stretch that took it... More >
The one thing that can be said of the cell phone industry is that it is changing. There is nothing new about that idea. The fact that those changes are well entrenched, fundamental and ongoing is rei... More >
If the claim in this release that Promisec's encyclopedia of internal threats is the first to be released is accurate -- and there is no reason to think it isn't -- it is a surprise. It has become g... More >
There certainly is no shortage of stories about short-sighted and error-prone IT and security staffs whose carelessness leads to loss of valuable data. For instance, court documents say that... More >
An important decision about what to do with spectrum made available by the switch in February of television broadcasting from analog to digital is entering an important phase. The fate of this... More >
At Black Hat 2008 last week in Las Vegas, James Finch, assistant director of the FBI's cybercrime division, told attendees there is a lot of activity among crackers attacking the United States . &nb... More >
Most of the attention is being paid to the iPhone, Android and Symbian, but the LiMo Foundation shouldn't be overlooked -- especially recently, as the group made a good bit of news. At LinuxWo... More >
Security-as-a-service (which is hard to reduce to an acronym since it would be the same as its close cousin, software-as-a-service) is a platform for our times. If done right, this approach --... More >
The conventional wisdom for some time has been that traffic on the Internet is exploding and that not creating more capacity will lead to slowdowns, brownouts and other bad things. While it ... More >
The saga of the DNS vulnerability -- which gave Internet security geeks a tremendously high profile for the past month -- reached a crescendo as Dan Kaminsky, the researcher who found the flaw, gave... More >
Just the name data loss prevention (DLP) almost guaranteed that the category would get attention. It's a great name. After all, what is better than stopping vital information from exiting the enterpr... More >
Any of you planning to head to Beijing to catch some of the Olympics, take special care with your laptop. The decision by Chinese officials to limit Internet access to journalists and attendees is no... More >
Two stories are neatly juxtaposed. One involves Cablevision's evolving plan to provide Wi-Fi service to its footprint, primarily on the Long Island area of New York. The other describes snags in a go... More >
A couple years ago, the question of how airlines were going to provide broadband service to travelers was, well, up in the air. The issue has largely been settled, with Wi-Fi beating out cellular and... More >
One of the most frustrating things about following the world of online security -- especially those who are not totally enmeshed in it on a day-to-day basis -- is the variety of threats. What really ... More >
Lack of enough power to drive feature-rich smartphones, laptops and other devices for a significant time period is the 800 Watt gorilla in the room when it comes to the future of mobility. However, t... More >
As reported at IT Business Edge and elsewhere, Comcast was ordered by the Federal Communications Commission last week to stop discriminating against customers using file sharing programs. Th... More >
When it comes to cloud computing news, when it rains, it pours. Yesterday, we blogged about a cloud project announced by Intel, Yahoo and HP . That wasn't all the news this week: eWEEK reports on ... More >
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