Monthly Archives: September 2001
Rural Telecom Tax Incentives Still in the Works
Despite the high volume of the battle between lawmakers and lobbyists about the degree to which the regional Bell companies should be regulated, theres...
Tech Leaders Join Bell Battle
The battle over broadband is about to begin in earnest. With a virtual stalemate on Capitol Hill, a group of high-tech CEOs will converge...
Audrey
3Coms Audrey never even made it to wallflower status — she left before the ball was over. Audrey was an adorable but badly handicapped...
Operator No. 9: September 3, 2001
Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!Like the shattered remains of Ozymandias empire, the remnants of Internet companies past still litter our civilization....
The Software Side of Sears
In its day, the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog represented one of the most advanced retailing tools ever conceived. Through the phonebook-size publication, residents...
Net Rolls Em
A new alliance of telecom carriers, movie studios and manufacturers plans to use video-on-demand to cut a broadband swath to the front door of...
Big Brother at the Wheel?
I wrote a few weeks ago about the guy in Connecticut who was fined by a car rental place that had tracked his speeds...
Networking for Small Biz
Agere Systems, based in Allentown, Pa., last week announced four wireless networking kits for small businesses, all of which include installation wizard software that...
Tightening WLAN Security: AiroPeek
The holes in 802.11bs built-in security will drive any LAN administrator worth his or her salt to alternative methods of tightening wireless transmissions. But...
Tightening WLAN Security
The enthusiasm for 802.11b wireless networking has been tempered by reports of vulnerabilities in the protocols WEP algorithm. A number of new products attempt...