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Once a month or so, volunteers from San Franciscos CryptoRights Foundation travel to Guatemala. There, they teach human rights workers how to secure their computers against hackers, crackers and other species of online vandals. Their students are bright, eager and motivated. How well they learn their lessons will determine if some of the countrys worst […]

CEO, MSNBC.com Age: 44 Degree: Bachelor of science degree and masters in international studies from the University of Washington; studied Chinese at the University of Hong Kong Biggest news story of 2001: “So far it has to be the [Timothy] McVeigh execution. It was our fifth-biggest [traffic] day ever.” Stress reliever: Karate (He has a […]

Heres a pain everybody can feel: the long, torturous wait for a broadband hookup. Issanni Communications Inc. wants to provide a cure. The Eatontown, N.J., company is rolling out a high-capacity SMS (subscriber management system) that enables large service providers to deploy cable, wireless and digital subscriber line services faster and more efficiently than before. […]

Oblix Inc. is putting new features into its NetPoint access management platform. The Cupertino, Calif., company this week will announce that NetPoint 5.0 is built on a Web services architecture and is fully XML (Extensible Markup Language)-enabled, giving users the ability to integrate third-party applications and home-grown software. Oblix is touting Version 5.0 as the […]

In April, Bill Conner became Entrusts president and CEO — and hes grabbed the wheel at a shaky time. Despite being a market leader in public key infrastructure (PKI) technology and other security technologies, Entrust had a disappointing first quarter and laid off nearly a third of its work force. Conner, who as Nortel Networks […]

Pure-play internet grocer Webvan Group might be history, but traditional grocery store chains continue to expand their online grocery efforts. Traditional chains have a leg up on Webvan, which spent millions of dollars to create its own network of national distribution centers. The Foster City, Calif., company shut its Web site and fired about 2,000 […]

The year was 1995. Consumers were on the cusp of becoming e-commerce slap-happy. Officials at FirstData Corp.—the king of credit card transactions—had two choices: figure out an e-business strategy fast or watch FirstDatas key industry slip through their fingers. The answer was to quickly develop an e-business strategy by partnering with key e-commerce sites. But […]

Media mogul John Malone need not bid for his former company — AT&T Broadband — to emerge a winner in the hottest cable auction of the new century. Whether Comcast or some other operator succeeds in wresting cable out of AT&Ts hands, Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, will retain a degree of control over content […]

From San Antonio to San Francisco, ISPs that buy high-speed Internet connections from SBC Communications are hopping mad. The Texas- and California-based ISPs, which have been skirmishing with the phone giant for years, are angry about SBCs plans to offer services such as video-on-demand to DSL subscribers on its network — even to subscribers who […]

Another year, another broadband fixed wireless conference. This years Wireless Communications Association annual get-together, held in Boston at the end of June, was a lot like years past, except that this time we had numerous bankruptcies hanging over our heads in addition to the usual complaints about the lack of good gear. Over two days […]