Caron Carlson

After receiving an onslaught of negative public reaction to its proposed settlement with Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Department of Justice is recommending changes to the deal, which is set to go before a judge next Wednesday. The latest changes to the Revised Proposed Final Judgment in the protracted antitrust case were filed with the court […]

Do you want the Department of Motor Vehicles to be able to read the private e-mail that runs over your network? If a bill approved by the crime panel of the House Judiciary Committee becomes law, any government entity–not just law enforcement agencies–will be able to receive e-mail and other electronic communications without a court […]

Eighty to 100 ms may not sound like a lot of time, but when you shave that much off the time it takes each customer to do business on your Web site, it adds up. FreeMarkets Inc., a sponsor of business-to-business online auctions, is cutting its customers transaction time by 80 to 100 ms by […]

Cisco Systems Inc. this month beefed up its line of firewall products to improve network security and VPN performance. Two firewall upgrades, the Pix 506E and Pix 515E, provide improved performance over the Pix 506 and Pix 515 firewall platforms. The enhanced products are slated to provide performance increases of up to two and a […]

Despite several years of valiant marketing efforts to create a successful buzz around the notion of voice and data convergence, Internet Protocol networking has not taken off as well as the pioneer vendors had hoped. Many have found that before enterprises embark on a mass migration to IP, the gear must become more flexible, more […]

Apart from a hefty increase in federal IT security spending in the coming year, the single most important tool the Bush administration wants to create to promote a safer Internet is a Freedom of Information Act exemption for enterprises willing to share cyber- security data with the government. However, if such a carve-out to the […]

As routers become an increasingly popular target of attack for sophisticated hackers, several public and private Internet security organizations have joined together to offer a fix. The SANS (System Administration, Networking and Security) Institute, working with UUNet, Cable &Wireless plc, the National Security Agency and the Center for Internet Security developed a Router Audit Tool […]

Think back to your college dining hall and recall the 300-pound football player who paid the same board you paid but consumed three times the food. When it comes to bandwidth consumption, college campuses—and enterprises everywhere—can allocate resources much more fairly. At Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, Pa., students use the Internet to research term papers, […]

The technology group at Colliers International Property Consultants Inc.s Seattle office buys its PCs, notebook computers and edge servers from Dell Computer Corp. So, when Dell leapt into the telecommunications networking arena with a set of managed and unmanaged switches last fall, it made sense for Colliers to test the computer makers networking gear. “Dell […]

Eighty to 100 milliseconds may not sound like a lot of time, but when you shave that much off each time it takes a customer to do business on your Web site, it adds up. FreeMarkets Inc., a sponsor of business-to-business online auctions, is cutting its customers transaction time by 80 to 100 milliseconds by […]

Apart from appropriating a weighty increase in federal IT security spending in the coming year, the single most important step lawmakers can take to make the Internet safer is carve out a Freedom of Information Act exemption for enterprises that share information with the government, the White House cybersecurity chief said today. Richard Clarke, special […]

Because information technology is a cornerstone of the homeland defense initiative, the Bush administration seeks $52 billion for it in fiscal year 2003—a 15 percent increase over the previous budget. As a result, after a decade of leaving IT innovation primarily to the commercial sector, the federal government is reasserting its role as a driver […]