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SCO: Without Fear and Without Research By Eben Moglen Monday 24 November 2003 Theres a traditional definition of a shyster: a lawyer who, when the law is against him, pounds on the facts; when the facts are against him, pounds on the law; and when both the facts and the law are against him, pounds […]

Aura Communication has developed a new short-range wireless communication system that uses magnetic induction. Auras chips can take electronic digital signals and encode them into magnetic waves. The varying magnetic waves are then transmitted over the air to be picked up a matching receiver chip, which decodes the waves back into electronic signals. The technology […]

RealNetworks Inc. has begun offering audio-video content over AT&T Wireless Services Inc.s GSM/GPRS network. RealNetworks will offer mMode customers news from ABC, CBS and National Public Radio, soap-opera recaps and television from ABC, sports from Fox and weather from the Weather Channel. The companys RealOne Player will ship with Nokias 3650 and N-Gage phones. Sprint […]

More than 30 U.S. and European civil liberties groups are calling for a voluntary moratorium on the usage of RFID tags. In a statement, the groups said that some uses of RFID technology are inappropriate in a free society and should be flatly prohibited. The groups include the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy […]

While more than 70 percent of online consumers surveyed were aware of public hotspots, only 6 percent have used the service in a public place, according to a report released by Jupiter Research. The report also said that less than than 1 percent had paid to use Wi-Fi in a public place. Julie Ask, the […]

Broadreach Networks next summer will add VoIP services to its ReadytoSurf hotspot service in the U.K. The company will do a test run with 40,000 customers in the meantime. Users will need to download Broadreachs software to their PDA or laptop to make voice calls over public WLANs. Read the full story at Wi-Fi Planet

Enterprise Dell this week unveiled smart cards and associated software for enterprises that want to more closely control who has access to which laptops, desktops, and workstations. Each package consists of two smart cards — made by Axalto — and OtaniumSuite authentication software provided by 360 Degree Web. The two-factor authentication provided by smart cards […]

WiMax will make up 60 percent of the broadband wireless market by 2008, according Pyramid Research Analyst John Yunker. But he said that fixed wireless operators have not yet embraced the technology and and that operators will be reluctant to adopt the technology until prices come down. Nextel is already acquiring the necessary spectrum for […]

An executive at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. suggested that Intel is misleading the market with its Centrino technology. “Its not a processor,” said Kevin Knox, director of worldwide enterprise business development for AMD, noting that Centrino is Intels bundle of a chipset, mobile processor and wireless technology bundled in a single solution. “The wireless technology […]

Linksys Group next week will announce its first Bluetooth product along with an 802.11g print server and an 802.11g USB adapter. The print server enables users to share up to two printers on a wired or 802.11g network. The device offers both USB 2.0 and parallel ports. Read the full story at Network World

SBC will use bundling as a marketing strategy to mitigate the effects of local number portability, said Randall Stephenson, Senior Executive VP & CFO of SBC Communications. The company will soon launch a unified messaging service featuring common voice mail, email and call forwarding between land lines and wireless phones. SBC is also developing its […]

When Dave Clementz first became president of Chevron Information Technology Company (CITC) in 1997, the job came with strict orders: Make IT pay for itself. Thanks to a woolly and overgrown tangle of multiple platforms, software, servers and networks stretched around the globe, the San Ramon, Calif., oil giants information technology subsidiary was consistently 10 […]