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A U.S. District Court judge has dissolved a temporary restraining order granted Monday against SpamCop in mass e-mailer OptInRealBigs lawsuit. The order would have blocked SpamCop from sending complaints about mass mailer OptInRealBig to ISPs other than its own. SpamCop also would have been barred from stripping the complainers e-mail addresses from complaints about OptIn. […]

Symantec Corp. this week unveiled a new firewall and VPN appliance for the Windows and Solaris platforms. Symantec Enterprise Firewall 8.0 combines network security functions including centralized management and reporting, state-sharing integrated High Availability/Load Balancing (HA/LB), IPSec-compliant VPN, and automated content updates that download new URL lists and VPN clients as they become available. The […]

Open source presents a large potential competitive advantage for hardware and software vendors, and vendors of complementary or substitute services. Linux has contributed greatly to the adoption and success of OSS. Companies such as IBM, HP, Red Hat, Oracle, and recently, Novell, have invested in, and legitimized the use of Linux for enterprise applications — […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance is expected to begin certification testing on 802.11e products in September. The standard is expected to be ratified by the IEEE later this year. 802.11e establishes quality of service (QoS) standards and is expected to pave the way for the development of video and voice-over-IP applications for wireless networks. Click here to […]

A new report from the technical research service Unstrung Insider predicts that the many UWB startups are creating a market that potentially could grow larger than Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combined. The report, “Ultrawideband: Spectrum for Free,” predicts that the market could grow to $630 million by 2007. Click here for the full story on Unstrung.

Nokia, a founding member of the WiMax Forum for a global broadband wireless access standard, is not renewing its membership in the group it once enthusiasticallyax and plans instead to concentrate on 3G and Wi-Fi development. It will, however, monitor WiMax development and may rejoin the group if opportunities for infrastructure projects for 802.16e base […]

Microsoft is promising a slew of new features and functionality for its Windows Longhorn client and server releases. However, the Redmond software vendor recently offered more details on other radical changes on tap for Longhorn, in terms of how the operating system will be built and deployed. Company officials have been talking for more than […]

Microsoft has a new Windows Server timetable. It is committing to provide a minor “update” Windows Server release roughly every two years, and a major release every four years. Microsoft officials are on a U.S. media tour this week, explaining the companys latest thinking about how and when to release new versions of its server […]

Nextel Communications President Tim Donahue this week vowed to “reject” any spectrum re-banding plan that includes replacement spectrum at 2.1 GHz. In a letter to FCC Chairman Michael Powell, Donahue said, “My responsibility to Nextels shareholders requires that Nextel obtain comparable value in any retuning transaction: 2.1 GHz does not meet that test. Nextel cannot […]

Veritas Software Corp. this week announced a new solution provider program for small and midsize businesses. “We know these customers know us for data protection,” said Michael Sotnick, vice president of partner sales for Veritas. “They need more than just data protection. So were going off the trust they have in Backup Exec to get […]

Broadcom this week announced new Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) controllers that simultaneously perform storage networking, high-performance clustering, accelerated data networking and remote system management. The company said its NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Controllers offer iSCSI functionality that creates low-cost networked storage capabilities over an existing GbE infrastructure (network cabling, switches, and routers). The controller also includes […]

Oracles about-face on ACT—the high-tech policy group it once spied on and recently joined—highlights the industrys knack of being indifferent to principle on public-policy issues. At least, the industrys indifferent when principle conflicts with the bottom line, according to columnist Dan Gillmor. For the full commentary, go to The Mercury News. (Free registration required.) /zimages/3/28571.gifCheck […]