Chris Gonsalves

Im a fan of Stardog, personally. Maybe you like CelticGrove or BlueCityJazz. Doesnt matter. In a few weeks, listening to music on Internet radio will be dead as a mackerel. Shame really. The Internet radio business has been growing at something like 100 percent annually and is thriving in genres underrepresented on FM stations, such […]

Notes from on the ground at the RSA Conference in San Jose. It was a little jarring to discover that a show about security had become a show of security. At the outset, getting to the scant few booths here required running a gauntlet of law enforcement from just about every California agency as well […]

Following days of rumors, Sapient Corp. this morning laid off more than 500 employees and bid goodbye to its chief financial officer. The moves come less than a month after the Cambridge, Mass., Web integrator reported dismal annual revenues that dropped 34 percent from the previous year and resulted in a $53.5 million loss. The […]

Skittish at the prospect of being held liable for security breaches, software vendors are examining ways to get ahead of problems with solutions ranging from restrictive user agreements to forced security patches. The movement is in response to a growing sense that lawsuits will be the next tool used to counter expensive security problems such […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–PC makers could begin shipping hardware based on the latest Trusted Computing specification as early as this spring, according to one founding member of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. Clain Anderson, program director for client security at IBM, said his company could begin shipping TCPA 1.1-compliant hardware in April. IBM is one of […]

Distributed denial of service specialist Reactive Network Solutions Inc. later today will release a new version of its flagship FloodGuard product with a new graphics interface and a beefed-up ability to handle high-speed traffic. The improvements bolster the vendors anti-DDoS tool, which is made up of hardware detectors and a software management system that sits […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Compaq Computer Corp. is readying a number of security enhancements for its iPaq device including an embedded feature to lock down wireless e-mail. The technology, dubbed Multiprime, uses an extension to the algorithm from RSA Security Inc. built into the handheld device that allows for secure messaging with little computing overhead, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–White House cyber-security czar Richard Clarke paints a stark picture of the nations IT vulnerabilities, saying both public and private networks are unprepared for attacks. Clarke portrayed the IT industry as complacent and in danger of falling into the same trap that aviation officials were lured into that led to the Sept. 11 […]

The “m” is for mobile. After weeks of cryptic television ads and less-than-informative billboards, AT&T Wireless this weekend is planning to come clean with “mlife,” a rebranding and repackaging of the carriers voice and data services. The mystery to mlife, which is due to be solved fully on Super Bowl Sunday according to postings on […]

Two years ago on this very day, I spent part of my morning explaining to an enthusiastic Enron Corp. representative that there is a big difference between saying that you are in the broadband business and really being in it. Enron Broadband Services Inc. had already sent me the customary T-shirt and CD holder along […]

In another apparent attempt to challenge its cross-country rival, AOL Time Warner Inc. is reportedly negotiating to acquire Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. The move could give AOL significant alternatives to software made by Microsoft Corp. and is seen as the latest salvo in the battle between the competitors who have clashed over technologies such […]

Any hope of an 11th hour deal between battered broadband provider Excite At Home Corp. and AT&T Corp. was scuttled late Tuesday when Excite officials said the carrier had dropped its $300 million bid for the Internet access business. With sales talks off and no other suitor in sight, Excite said it had reached a […]