Monthly Archives: July 2004
Accruent: Contract Worker
When Accruent CEO Mark Friedman was a commercial real-estate broker in the early 1990s, he regularly saw clients get cheated by landlords because someone...
Groove Updates Product Name, Pricing
Groove Networks next week will release Version 3 of its flagship peer-to-peer collaboration suite, changing the name and increasing the price to allow for...
Caller ID Hackable in VOIP Systems
The softswitches that route VOIP calls get caller ID info off the PSTN (public switched telephone network), but they dont play by the PSTNs...
Apple Airport Express 802.11g Access Point
If youre parked in a hotel room with a wired broadband connection, a new Wi-Fi solution can come to the wireless rescue. The Apple...
Tiny Hard Drives Coming to Cell Phones
As manufacturers cram many more features into cell phones, theres one glaring problem: storage capacity. So hard drive makers are looking to spin up...
Tomorrows Internet: Far More Fences
Robert Frosts famous line "good fences make good neighbors" continues to gain supporters. In a 21st-century spin on Frosts axiom, executives at Silicon Valley...
Wi-Fi Becomes a Commodity
Its official—Wi-Fi has reached commodity status.On Tuesday, Conexant Systems Inc. preannounced lower earnings for the current quarter, based on an influx of low-cost Wi-Fi...
nLayers Optimization Aims to Cut Risk, Costs
An innovative application optimization startup launched itself and its first product this week with a mission to bring both cost and risk reduction to...
IE Exploit Attacks Another Piece of ActiveX
Using Internet Explorer hasnt gotten any safer in the past few days as a Dutch security hacker, Jelmer Kuperus, pointed out yet another unblocked...
Microsofts Three Biggest Threats
Just as there are theories about how the Earth will eventually meet its end, so there are theories about what will happen to Microsoft...