Caron Carlson

With the proliferation of networking devices at the office, corporate cubicle denizen are looking for ever more connectivity, costing enterprises hefty sums in wiring and occasionally hefty networking headaches when the denizen try to establish new creative connections on their own. This week 3Com Corp. is launching what it calls a new product category – […]

Video distribution technology that allows traders on the New York Stock Exchange floor to watch televised news programming was first developed for the U.S. Navy. Now, as the Department of Defense accelerates efforts to improve IT for 21st century warfare, the DOD is looking at ways traders use IT to improve battlefield applications. The pattern […]

Todays security consciousness plus the current economic climate often equals networks with an increasing number of safety devices but no additional personnel to administer them. To close the gap, NetScreen Technologies Inc. at the end of the month will roll out two management applications to simplify the configuration of its firewall and virtual private network […]

Microsoft Corp. may have settled its lengthy antitrust case with the Department of Justice, but the refusal of nine states and the District of Columbia to agree to the terms will keep the case open for the foreseeable future. Further complicating matters is that the judge who presided over the DOJ-Microsoft settlement—and will continue to […]

Cisco Systems Inc. last week launched 12 IP telephony products, touting their capacity to improve an enterprises return on investment. The software and hardware upgrades use a converged voice, video and data network to lower the cost of network ownership and maintenance. In general, Cisco champions IP telephony as a way to reduce equipment costs […]

If traditional revenue sources arent yielding hoped-for results in the slowing economy, some enterprises may be surprised to find profit opportunities in existing patents. Managing intellectual property effectively can increase related revenue by 50 percent over three years, according to a recent study by Gartner Inc. One way to eke revenues out of intellectual capital […]

WASHINGTON–The judge in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case pushed back a key deadline late last week to give state attorneys general more time to mull a settlement agreement announced between the software maker and the Department of Justice Friday morning. The delay came one day after proposed terms of the deal were leaked to the […]

The judge in the Microsoft Corp. anti-trust case today pushed back a key deadline to give state attorneys general more time to mull a tentative agreement between the software maker and the Department of Justice. The delay came one day after proposed settlement terms were leaked to the press, sparking criticism of the deal, especially […]

In the long-established pattern of military-initiated technologies inching their way into enterprise applications, the Pentagons current effort to improve real-time mission-critical communications at the battlefront has the potential to spur major advances in video streaming and make videoconferencing a more widely accepted business service. Todays warfare planning and preparation — particularly for hostile terrains like […]

Illustrating the inextricable ties between the technology and telecommunications industries, Eric Benhamou, chairman of the board at 3Com Corp. and Palm Inc., urged policy-makers last week to stimulate broadband network deployment as a means of bolstering the tech sector. The best way to stimulate broadband deployment, Benhamou said, is to give incumbent telephone companies greater […]

Although members of Congress talked fervently since January about the need to extend the federal ban on discriminatory and access taxes on the Internet before it expired Oct. 21, the expiration has come and gone without action. While no state or local government rushed to tax online access last week, industry insiders disagree on the […]

In a single action last week, Congress made Americas electronic communications a lot less private and likely more expensive. Lawmakers enacted a host of new wiretapping provisions requested by the Department of Justice as part of broader legislation to combat terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Despite efforts by the U.S. House […]