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Several small internet service providers have been shocked to see some of their most unlikely users turn into spammers. But it turns out the users are unwitting tools of a new virus that experts say is the first case theyve seen of hackers finding a way to commercially exploit their skills. The scheme — seemingly […]

Communists brandishing cold hard yuan might just lift North Americas largest telecom equipment vendors out of their deep malaise. Its the year of the bull market in China, where 1 billion people await telephones and 1.2 billion await the Internet. In the eight weeks since the U.S. spy plane crisis, North American telecom vendors have […]

Try Again SBC Communications Pacific Bell unit has refiled its application to offer long-distance service in the California market. Competitors said alternative carriers have managed to capture only 6 percent of the voice market in California, indicating that Pacific Bell has not opened its market to competitors as required under federal law. “It is still […]

Providing an economical migration path to back-end, server-based computing and centralized administration, Linux Terminal Server Project 2.08 is a stable open-source offering that converts virtually all major distributions of Linux into an X Window terminal server for thin clients. In eWeek Labs tests, LTSP 2.08 was straightforward to set up and manage and could be […]

Today, services and content are usually offered for free on the wireless Web in the U.S., mostly because the suppliers and the operators havent set up the mechanisms to charge users. But thats about to change. Different models are popping up by which content and services providers can charge wireless Web users. One thing is […]

Web content creators and site operators, upset over a controversial feature in Microsofts upcoming Windows XP operating system, won a temporary reprieve last week when Microsoft said it would pull the Smart Tag feature — at least for this year. The feature would enable the company to insert its own links into Web content viewed […]

In my last column, i asked readers to send me the ethical dilemmas with which they have to grapple in their roles as corporate IT managers: be it a gap between corporate policy and practice or ticklish situations regarding data privacy, software piracy or security. This week, were looking at a dilemma that affects IT […]

Web analytics are poised to become one of the hottest career trends of the next five to 10 years. Heres the lowdown on what its all about: >What Web analytics are metrics used to measure the effectiveness of an e-business in terms of operations, customer experience and return on investment; Web data analysts help enterprises […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM have entered into separate partnerships that will make it easier for small enterprises to handle their storage needs. Sun and Veritas Software Corp. will sell NAS (network-attached storage) products through channel partners common to both companies. The NAS products will combine Suns StorEdge T3 array and other hardware with Veritas […]

Recently, Marilyn Cade, the director of e-commerce and Internet policy for AT&T, mentioned to me that, with this summers introduction of new top-level domains, ICANNs UDRP will soon be the name of the game for all enterprises registering .biz or .info Web sites. What does that mean for e-business managers? When registering these new Web […]