Gene J. Koprowski

Lawyers and other industry experts are predicting that the public battle over the Philadelphia municipal Wi-Fi network is going to continue even in the aftermath of the citys selection of EarthLink for the $15 million to $18 million installation contract. “Its been an interesting debate over the last year,” said John E. Logan, who is […]

Instead of the usual Internet browser or e-mail targets, hackers may be taking aim first at instant messaging networks. One security research outfit on Wednesday reported the highest monthly total ever of new IM viruses. According to the Q3 Threat Report by San Diego-based Akonix Systems Inc., a messaging security developer, some 25 viruses were […]

Enterprise search solutions are getting more advanced, and are being integrated with SANs (storage area networks) to index unstructured data during routine daily backups, analysts said. Presently, searching through large volumes of e-mail messages is a challenge for many companies trying to cope with the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and accompanying regulations. Such a challenge is seen […]

An appeals court in Arizona this week ruled that a federal law that bans autodialing to call mobile phones also covers unsolicited text messages—even though text-messaging technology did not exist when the legislation was crafted. The case, Rodney L. Joffe v. Acacia Mortgage Corp., was brought before a three-judge appeals court panel. The lower court […]

CHICAGO—Quarkfor the first time Monday publicly demonstrated the newest version of its flagship software, QuarkXPress 7, during a keynote presentation by Jürgen Kurz, the companys senior vice president of product development, at the Seybold Chicago seminar at the McCormick Place convention center. The Denver-based companys publishing software debuted during Kurzs remarks, titled “Transforming the Business […]

A former Army Green Beret, and colleagues at a Web hosting service, are holed up in a commercial building in downtown New Orleans, with weeks of food and water and a diesel-powered electric generator, struggling to keep a segment of the Internet from going offline because of Hurricane Katrina, Ziff Davis Internet has learned. The […]

Is the IT workforce ripe for union membership? Recent splits in several large labor organizations, growing IT pessimism and the increasing strength of offshore outsourcing are fueling new efforts to attract information workers, insiders say. There may be growing support among the workforce for such union representation. A union-backed survey released in late August revealed […]

A security flaw was disclosed today in Adobe Systems Inc.s Version Cue software—the second security flaw in the companys software discerned during the last month. The latest flaw was reported Monday by iDefense Inc., a provider of security intelligence to governments and Fortune 500 organizations, based in Reston, Va., near Washington, D.C. The vulnerability was […]

A guilty plea in federal court in New York City by a Connecticut man who sold Microsoft source code over the Internet is being viewed as an important win in the fight against digital piracy, analysts tell Ziff Davis Internet. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, […]

Microsoft—seeking to help prevent ID theft—is among the growing list of software companies that are developing new tools that caution consumers when “phishing” attacks are under way on the Internet. Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer 7 browser, which is available now only in beta tests, features the new filtering technology. The company is planning to add […]