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If bandwidth is increasingly becoming a commodity, does any company really want to pay for more than it uses? To give service providers and enterprise customers a way to price usage down to the click, HighDeal Inc., of Redwood Shores, Calif., launched a detailed set of pricing and billing software. With HighDeal Software Suite, enterprises […]

The worlds leading supplier of key optical components believes it will be two years before the biggest all-optical switches are widely deployed, but the market remains strong for switching light waves on smaller systems. OMM, which makes subsystems for optical cross-connects, has stopped manufacturing its biggest all-optical switching port because it sees no market for […]

Cisco Grabs VPN Startup Slowdown or no slowdown, Cisco Systems has acquired yet another networking firm. Last month, Cisco bought Allegro Systems, a 39-employee startup that develops virtual private network acceleration technologies, for about $181 million in stock. Allegros system is designed to speed up VPN connections over high-bandwidth networks. Intel Mobilizes Feeling competitive heat […]

Did Microsoft lie? The answer depends on whether you side with the wife or the husband in the age-old domestic dispute about “lies of omission”: Do you believe that failing to reveal crucial details is a technically defensible strategy, or an out-and-out prevarication? The key question, though, is not which side you or I take, […]

Bethlehem Steel wants to go deeper online, but the economy isnt cooperating. “We had big plans, but they are still on the shelf at this point,” says Jeffrey Karsonovich, director of business development and e-business of the nations second largest steel producer. In fact, across the steel industry, plans to capitalize on e-commerce have sputtered, […]

The uneasy song and dance is already familiar. Nearly all of the IT companies I meet with these days start their pitches with earnest explanations of how their products or services save customers money. The phrases “in this tough economy” or “as IT budgets get slashed” usually show up on the first or second PowerPoint […]

The PC turns 20 this Sunday amid declining demand in an industry that seems genetically profitless. Today is not the PCs proudest moment, but for me and countless others, its provided a great living. The cop beat got old around 1980, just before the PC came into its own. Crediting the PC with igniting a […]

You finish your speech. the next thing you know, youre in jail. welcome to America, Dmitry Sklyarov. Although the Russian programmer and encryption expert may be a free man by the time you read this, his incarceration will not have been in vain if it can help us get rid of the Digital Millennium Copyright […]

Yahoo! and giant bank HSBC Holdings think theres money to be made in global Internet-based money transfers. But given the sorry state of online banking, last weeks announcement that the two companies will offer global person-to-person payment and other services seems curious. Even more curious is Yahoo!s assertion that the service will be free. To […]

VPN equipment sells like hotcakes VPN equipment has become so mainstream that its proved immune to the effects of the increasingly sour economy. Thats because, according to International Data Corp., of Framingham, Mass., virtual private networks are low cost, and they provide businesses with flexible ad hoc connectivity. Indeed, IDC forecasts revenue growth from IP […]

Support for Russian Grows The Russian software developer arrested last month by the FBI for allegedly violating the controversial U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act is almost reaching cult status, with support groups cropping up all over the Internet. Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested the day after giving a speech at the Def Con 9 conference in […]

What do the U.S. State Department, the British military and the FBI have in common? Each of these security-centric organizations has recently lost laptops with sensitive information. The cost of losing a laptop can be much greater than the $2,000 or so spent on the hardware. Gartner estimates laptop loss or theft costs a company […]