Caron Carlson

Building on its acquisition of Digex Corp. a year and a half ago, MCI is upgrading more than a dozen of its data centers around the country to offer organizations a new level of managed services and security. Until now, MCI Inc.s data centers provided either standard or premium services. This week, 17 of the […]

With concern about online fraud and identity theft growing, the insurance, banking, retail and other industry sectors—not to mention law enforcement—are looking for more sophisticated tools to verify identity. Today, Seisint Inc. is rolling out a custom-tailored version of its information management database service for law enforcement, with versions targeted to other users in the […]

In an effort to further accelerate the implementation of IP-based networking, Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM today announced that they are working together on products and services that will make it easier for businesses to adopt converged, voice, video and data offerings. Businesses will have available to them a broader and more integrated suite of […]

To give network managers more control over who gets how much bandwidth in an organization, Internap Network Services Corp. this week updated its traffic routing products to include application-based policy options. Version 3.3 of Internaps Flow Control Platform software allows network managers to tailor traffic performance based on traffic type. For example, VOIP (voice over […]

Nortel Networks fired its president and CEO, Frank Dunn, last week, along with its chief financial officer, Douglas Beatty, and Controller Michael Gillogly. The terminations follow mounting disclosures of accounting troubles at the telecommunications equipment maker. Nortel tapped William Owens, who has been a director of the company since February 2002, as the new president […]

Needed: One IT professional with excellent technology skills, a willingness to travel 75 percent of the week and top security clearance from the U.S. government. Unfortunately, few people in the U.S. work force fit that profile, as IT consultancy Orizon Inc. discovered when it tried to staff its first project for the FBI in early […]

Cisco Systems Inc. and L.M. Ericsson have agreed to integrate equipment and service offerings to spur telecommunications carriers to offer a wider range of data, voice and video services over IP. Under a strategic alliance announced today, the companies together will provide IP-based services and consulting to telecom carriers. The move comes as equipment manufacturers […]

Nortel Networks Corp. fired its president and CEO, Frank Dunn, today as well as its chief financial officer and controller. The termination of the top executives comes in the wake of mounting accounting trouble disclosures at the Toronto telecommunications equipment manufacturer. Nortel named William Owens, who has been a director of the company since February […]

Like spam, spyware is unlikely to disappear as a result of laws or regulations, but it is inciting enough popular ire to spur politicians to act anyway. The latest perceived threat to Internet users privacy, spyware is following the same trajectory in Washington that spam followed before Congress last year passed a law aimed at […]

The U.S. Senate is slated to vote this week whether or not to renew a ban that keeps state and local governments from taxing Internet access. But Internet services, particularly VOIP, are likely to get snared in the debate as a potential tax target not to be covered by the ban. The Internet access tax […]

WASHINGTON—Like spam, spyware is unlikely to be abolished by new laws or regulations. Also like spam, the intrusive software is attracting enough popular ire to spur politicians to act anyway. The latest perceived threat to Internet users privacy, spyware is following the same trajectory in Washington that spam followed before Congress passed a law attempting […]

The U.S. government does not need to mandate IT security audit reporting because corporate America will adopt best practices voluntarily, industry lobbyists promised. But they said Congress could encourage the process by providing incentives, such as limited liability for security breaches, tax breaks for buying qualified products and an antitrust exemption for group boycotts of […]