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Venture capitalists are tossing money at contenders building products that send voice over broadband technologies, even as regional Bells hold their noses — and their wallets — in reaction to technology thats as tasty to them as cannibalism. Last week, Santera Systems announced that it has raised $110 million from venture companies that like its […]

Microsoft got a new judge for the next phase of its antitrust trial the same day it handed off the final version of its disputed new Windows XP operating system to PC manufacturers. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was selected Aug. 24 by lottery to consider remedies against Microsoft and whether the company illegally tied […]

Will Work for Money One of my favorite flicks is Sullivans Travels, a 1941 Preston Sturges classic. In it, Joel McCrea plays a slapstick movie director named Sullivan who decides to leave Tinsel Town and journey out into the Depression Era countryside to research the real world. Needless to say, Sullivan finds it an eye-opening […]

IBM is piling up the partners — more than five dozen of them already this year — in its effort to increase profits from its booming services business. Big Blue has signed alliances with 61 software companies this year, a sharp increase over the 50 alliances it inked in all of 2000. The company expects […]

Internet Security Systems is commonly mentioned as one of the premier managed security services providers (MSSPs). It is one of the most profitable security companies in the industry, and has developed some of the best-known security software on the market. President and CEO Tom Noonan recently spoke with Senior Writer Brian Ploskina. Is it possible […]

If there is anyone that should know about denial-of-service attacks, it would be Network Associates Inc.. The security technology company was hit by one in late January, bringing parts of its site to a screeching halt. Whether its out of irony or vindication, NAIs antivirus unit McAfee.com has launched a preliminary assault on DoS attacks […]

Shortcomings seen in WLAN security Next time your enterprise is hacked, one place to look for security holes should be your WLAN. According to Gartner Inc., in Stamford, Conn., 30 percent of enterprises by the end of next year will suffer serious security exposures from deploying wireless LANs without implementing proper security. While more than […]

Rapid consolidation in the managed security business can have costly results for corporations that entrust the safety of their most valuable information to companies in danger of disappearing tomorrow. “The economics suggest that only a few major players will survive,” said a recent report by investment bank Pacific Crest, which estimates there are more than […]

First Citizens Bank, a regional bank based in Raleigh, N.C., got hit by the Code Red worm. Thats not something you would have read in any news report. First Citizens didnt tell anyone about it, and it didnt have to, because the network operations team there had installed the latest in security technology: an intrusion […]

Even though Im a big fan of competition, Im anxious for consolidation to happen among developers of wireless-enabling products for the enterprise. Im not entirely sure why more of them havent gone out of business or combined, especially given how many exist and how difficult it is to win investment dollars today. Neither the market […]