Caron Carlson

With a staff of 32 nurses and clerical workers who need to communicate among four offices and with doctors on the road throughout the day, Advanced Surgery in Rockville, Md., was accustomed to paying high local telephone charges plus additional fees for transmitting medical data locally. Looking for faster data speeds, but not prepared to […]

Toward close of business Thursday, WorldCom Inc. issued a public statement confirming the problems on its IP network, which plagued the companys Internet customers across the country. The company announced that service had been restored. About 20 percent of WorldComs customers were shut out of the network intermittently today, the company said. Some lost connectivity, […]

The General Services Administration today unveiled a flurry of Internet security related announcements, including an updated list of the top 20 vulnerabilities as compiled by the FBI and the SANS Institute. The list includes 10 programs in Unix systems, including Apache Web Server, Secure Shell and File Transfer Protocol; and 10 programs in Windows systems, […]

Microsoft Corp. traditionally has steered clear of telecommunications regulators and legislators, but the software giant is raising its profile in Washington in a bid to spur rapid deployment of more affordable high-speed networks. The Redmond, Wash., company views faster, cheaper pipes, particularly emerging wireless broadband networks, as a conduit for selling more software applications and […]

AT&T Corp. appointed Betsy Bernard president-elect today, giving her particular responsibility for the companys business divisions, which hold the most promise for revenue growth. Bernard will become president of AT&T once it completes the spin-off of its broadband unit. The N.Y.-based company is in the process of an extensive reorganization, centered around the spin-off of […]

Most of the recommendations spelled out in the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, recently released for comment, reflect best practices already in place at most large enterprises. But to induce the countrys growing number of small and midsize businesses to adopt similar security precautions, the strategy will need more detailed, voluntary guidelines, industry sources say. […]

Rivals of local telephone companies plan to go to the White House next month to make an appeal for staying the course on telecommunications regulation, according to industry sources. They plan to say that despite the legions of casualties in the telecom arena in the past 18 months, competition is starting to take hold and, […]

Rivals to the local telephone companies plan to go to the White House next month to make an appeal for staying the course on telecommunication regulation, according to industry sources. Despite the legions of casualties in the telecommunications arena in the past 18 months, competition is starting to take hold and in some cases even […]

Protecting consumer privacy online was teed up as a top action item for this Congress, but the initiative was thwarted by the more imminent matter of homeland security and by some thorny partisan disputes. Now, proponents of the measure are preparing to re-introduce it early next year and spur quick action before too many state […]

In its national strategy to secure cyberspace draft released last week, the Presidents Critical Infrastructure Protection Board named nanotechnology as having the potential to reshape cyberspace and its security. Meanwhile last week, a group of senators introduced legislation to increase federal research and development funding for the science of tiny particles. Nanotechnology is widely considered […]