Brian Prince

A developer of wireless LAN performance and analysis test systems is introducing a product designed to test network equipment operating under the 802.11n standard being discussed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. VeriWaves 802.11n WaveBlade, slated to be released in the second quarter of 2007, can test an entire enterprise network installation—not only […]

A 45-year-old California man convicted Jan. 12 of operating a sophisticated phishing scheme designed to steal personal and credit card information faces 101 years in prison. Jeffrey Brett Goodin of Azusa became the first defendant convicted by a jury under the provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, announced prosecutors in the U.S. Attorneys Office […]

Tizor Systems has agreed to allow its intelligent data auditing and protection product, Mantra, to be used by database administration company Ntirety in a new managed security service package. The new product, dubbed Remote DAS (Data Auditing Service), will provide Ntirety customers with compliance assurance, data monitoring and information theft detection by monitoring, auditing and […]

A white paper from McAfee Avert Labs on global identity theft trends uncovered a dramatic increase in online and computer-based identity theft through the use of keyloggers. According to the report, the number of keyloggers—malicious software code that tracks typing activity to capture passwords and other private information—increased by 250 percent between January 2004 and […]

A top provider of Web hosting services for small and midsize businesses has launched a new managed services plan. With new leaders at the helm and a corporate merger under its belt, Dallas-based ThePlanet.com Internet Services is moving in a new direction for 2007. “Weve got some grand and glorious plans,” said CEO Doug Erwin. […]

The theft of three desktop computers from the Advancement Services office at the University of Idaho in November may have put personal data of university alumni, donors, employees and students at risk. An internal investigation by the university revealed that six months prior to the theft, the stolen hard drives contained datasets with names, addresses […]

Sage Software has unveiled new software aimed at cutting costs and increasing efficiency for small and midsize businesses. Sage TimeSheet – MAS 90 Edition, now available through certified Sage business partners, will integrate Sage TimeSheet into Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 2000. Among its other functions, the software will eliminate duplicate data entry by […]

Officials at eSnips.com are hoping users united by common interests will lure both new members and eCommerce activity to their Web site. eSnips is a social media sharing site where members can share any digital content they want, including photos, video, text and links. eSnips is trying to separate itself from the field by allowing […]

Sage Software and Palo Alto Software are working together to provide business tools to help small enterprises manage their operations. Palo Alto Software announced the partnership Jan. 9. Under the alliance, businesses purchasing Palo Altos Business Plan Pro 2007 or Marketing Plan Pro 2007 can receive a discount on Peachtree by Sage Pro Accounting 2007 […]

A group aimed at giving small and midsize businesses a greater voice in the market is looking to a new Web-based portal to grow its ranks in 2007. The Mobilize SMB Private Services Network, or MSPSN, which currently has 179 members, is hoping the portal will give current and potential members a better idea of […]

For all the growth in computer usage in the past two decades, research by Harris Interactive shows 46 percent of all adults never make backup copies of crucial data on external devices—even as 43 percent said they had lost important computer files due to viruses or malfunctions. With that in mind, hard disc drive manufacturer […]

Fans of mobile computing have new products from Toshiba America Information Systems and Samsung Electronics America to choose from in 2007. Toshiba unveiled its new Qosmio audio-video notebook computer at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The notebook includes an integrated HD DVD-R optical drive and can burn up to 30GB of data onto […]