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Zeroknowledge has announced it will shut its anonymous browsing and e-mail service Freedom Network on Oct. 22. Company officials said the move was not related in any way to the recent spate of terrorist activity. The service is designed for netizens who are hyper-privacy conscious and offers users the ability to move invisibly through the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The federal governments chief online privacy cop announced on Thursday, Oct. 4, that he believes legislation buttressing consumer privacy is not necessary. “The challenges for new legislation are daunting,” Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy Muris said during a speech in Cleveland, Ohio. “It is too soon to conclude that we can fashion […]

Movie and music industry associations on Wednesday, Oct. 3, filed a new round of copyright infringement lawsuits against three peer-to-peer file sharing companies, including MusicCity Networks, which operates the popular Morpheus service. “We cannot sit idly by while these services continue to operate illegally, especially at a time when new legitimate services are being launched,” […]

WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives today is expected to sign-off on an amended version of a sweeping anti-terrorism proposal crafted by the U.S. Department of Justice, but the bill faces stiffer opposition in the Senate. The Bush administration is pushing Congress hard to pass the package, which would relax surveillance laws to make it […]

Revenue is falling faster than maple leaves at Nortel Networks, as Frank Dunn prepares to succeed John Roth as CEO of an equipment company that will be 50,000 people fewer and $3.8 billion shorter than it was at the beginning of the year. Dunn, 47, named Tuesday to succeed Roth, earned $1.5 million in salary […]

Four versions of Linux have outstripped UnixWare in D.H. Brown Associates comparative analysis of operating systems, the first time Linux has surpassed any version of Unix. “The gap between Linux and Unix systems has certainly closed at a rapid pace,” said Tony Iams, senior analyst and author of the study, 2001 Linux Function Review. At […]

A minor battle brewing in the DLT cartridge business may affect future licensing deals and the price of the tapes themselves. The digital linear tapes, built on technology developed by the defunct Digital Equipment Corp. and acquired by Quantum Corp. in late 1994, are sold by Quantum and by licensees Fuji Photo Film USA Inc. […]

The two leading PC chip makers this week offered a power boost to buyers who make up whats considered the “price conscious” market. Intel Corp. cranked up the performance of its Celeron product line with its release Wednesday of a 1.2GHz chip. Celeron processors are designed for use in low-cost PCs, typically viewed as those […]

For the first time in its 22-year history, Comdex, the tech orgy to end all tech orgies, will almost certainly be smaller than the previous year as a lackluster economy and the events of Sept. 11 tether people closer to home. Jason Chudnofsky, president and CEO of Key3media Events, is forecasting about a 30 percent […]

Cisco Systems on Tuesday put the finishing touches on its portfolio of 10-gigabit-per-second networking gear, a move CEO John Chambers said should boost the companys service provider income to 60 percent from 25 over the next five years. Cisco needs the traction. Industry analysts at RHK last month reported that Cisco continues to lead in […]