Caron Carlson

CHICAGO—Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin, who took the helm of the agency this spring, on Tuesday outlined an agenda that will extend the deregulatory program of his predecessor, Michael Powell. Addressing the telecommunications industry at its annual gathering, the Supercomm conference and expo in Chicago, Martin said his top priority is to create a […]

CHICAGO—A decade after lawmakers envisioned opening up telecommunications so that all service providers could compete in all markets, the vision is beginning to see realization. However, it is primarily video and data applications, rather than voice as originally anticipated, which are spurring the insurgencies. The telephone companies efforts to take video share from the cable […]

Silicon Valley is fast moving into the world of telephony, and it is dragging the contest between open and proprietary code along with it. Next week at Supercomm, the annual telephony conference and expo in Chicago, IT will show a higher profile than ever before. Standards advocates will champion open architecture as a way for […]

Cisco Systems Inc. used the Supercomm trade show in Chicago to announce a new service Monday to prevent distributed-denial-of-service attacks on customer networks. The new Cisco Distributed Denial of Service Protection Solution service uses updates to the companys 7600 Series Routers and Catalyst 6500 Series Switches, along with Arbor Networks Peakflow SP traffic monitoring and […]

As service providers and enterprises continue the migration to IP networking, it is clear that services and applications will evolve rapidly. To give network operators the flexibility to handle applications that may still be unknown, infrastructure manufacturers this week at the Supercomm conference and expo in Chicago will unveil a host of technologies designed for […]

Having established a foothold with voice over IP, telecommunications carriers are looking for new services to offer over their IP infrastructure. But before users jump headlong into IP networking, carriers have to show that VOIP is as accessible, affordable and reliable as traditional voice service. Next week at Supercomm in Chicago, network equipment makers are […]

Spurred by the ongoing flood of sensitive data breaches this spring, nearly a dozen states may have breach notification laws on their books by summer. In turn, makers of security software and companies in several other industries are pressuring Capitol Hill for a federal law pre-empting the states measures. In Congress, more than a half-dozen […]

The U.S. House of Representatives last week overwhelmingly passed two separate anti-spyware bills, but as the measures now move to the Senate, legislators will find most of the hard questions unresolved—a familiar scenario in Congress, where similar House bills withered last year following Senate inaction. The SPY ACT (Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass), authored […]

With the bright line between enterprise network access and end-user Internet access fast fading, vendors are reaching out to service providers and enterprises to address growing concerns about security, reliability and bandwidth use and to encourage improved network management. FarStone Technology Inc., a maker of disaster recovery software in Irvine, Calif., next week will launch […]

IT worker representatives, engineers and independent inventors have joined together to fight passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement, a treaty that the technology industry is lobbying fiercely to see enacted this year. The dispute centers on whether the agreement would more likely increase the export of American products or American jobs. According to […]

Even as they move rapidly toward taking action against malicious software programs in the next few weeks, federal lawmakers recognize that any move they make will likely have a limited effect on the huge problem of spyware. Fearing that a pending anti-spyware bill, the Spyblock Act, could inadvertently hamper legitimate downloadable products, software makers are […]

Until this month, Lezlee Westine answered directly to President Bushs top adviser, Karl Rove, but as of next week, she will answer to CEOs Craig Barrett, of Intel Corp.; John Chambers, of Cisco System Inc.; Stratton Sclavo, of VeriSign Inc.; and 14 other IT luminaries. The newest face of the IT industry here, Westine is […]