Monthly Archives: December 2004
Full-Scale RFID Could Take a Decade
As the year 2004 winds down, many product suppliers are looking to launch their first implementations of RFID sometime in 2005. But full-fledged RFID...
BITS Publishes Telecom Guide for Financial Industry
BITS, a nonprofit consortium of 100 of the largest financial institutions in the United States, last month published the BITS Guide to Business-Critical Telecommunications...
New VOIP Exploits Coming Soon
Before long, VOIP systems will be filled with spam, open to hackers and taken down by worms. But security, infrastructure and VOIP vendors say...
The Year in Review: Apple Thrives in Surprising Ways
If you had told someone five years ago that Apple would someday have a rapidly growing business in the server market, a huge share...
Mobile Conferencing Should Not Boggle the Mind
The only thing that could make you look smarter than being able to operate a VCR is being able to set up a mobile...
Founders Face the Future as the Web Turns 10
BOSTON—In a star-studded event that featured Internet luminaries including Bob Metcalfe and Tim Berners-Lee, multitudes converged here Wednesday as the World Wide Web Consortium...
Emergency IE Patch Fixes Critical Bug
Microsoft has issued a patch, out of its normal security patch cycle, for a critical bug in Internet Explorer versions from 6.0 up to...
Overture Settles with GEICO over Search Advertising
Overture Services Inc. has settled a trademark infringement lawsuit brought against it and search-based advertising rival Google Inc.
Overture, of Pasadena, Calif., reached the settlement...
Wi-Fi Alliance Co-Founder: Wireless Networking Ready for Enterprise Adoption
Businesses skittish about jumping on the Wi-Fi bandwagon because of security and reliability concerns should stop worrying.
Thats the word from David Cohen, a co-founder...
Samsung Enters the US Push-to-Talk Market
Samsung Electronics is entering the walkie-talkie market in the United States with a push-to-talk-enabled handset, the Samsung SPH-A760.Currently available through Sprint, the clamshell design...