Wayne Rash

The White House on May 11 defended a newly revealed domestic intelligence program in which the National Security Agency has been collecting the domestic phone call records from tens of millions of Americans since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In a statement to the press, President George W. Bush said that the […]

Privacy groups responded with outrage to a May 11 news report that the National Security Agency is collecting records of billions of phone calls made in the United States. USA Today reported that the NSA secretly collected phone call records supplied by AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon. “A lot of us are starting to think the […]

LAS VEGAS—Wireless mobility provider Trapeze Networks has teamed with DaVitas Networks, a new provider of mobility software and appliances, to deliver the ability for handset users to roam freely between Wi-Fi and cellular networks without interrupting a call. DaVitas will deliver handset software and an appliance for enterprise networks. Together with the Trapeze Mobility System […]

Siemens Communications Enterprise, the communications subsidiary of Siemens AG, has begun enabling SOA in some of its major telephony applications. More applications will be enabled in 2006. In addition, the company will add Web services interfaces to any applications that wont have service-oriented architecture capabilities, or to applications to which SOA cannot be added. The […]

Novell bought security event management vendor e-Security April 19 in a $72 million cash deal. E-Security, based in Vienna, Va., is best known for its Sentinel 5 Security Event Manager. Executives for both companies say that the acquisition is a natural fit. “Novell has a very well respected identity management product and our architecture and […]

Despite a few potentially dramatic moments—the missed surprise regarding Microsofts Origami project in which the suspense was broken by Intel comes to mind—this years CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, had products that were best described as evolutionary rather than revolutionary: better security, more integrated supply chain solutions, VOIP everywhere. But that doesnt mean that this […]

Fighting against the ravages of nature and the extremes of weather has become part of the job for Jan Rideout, the vice president and sector CIO for Ships Systems at Northrup Grumman, the company that builds the latest, most powerful destroyers for the U.S. Navy. Rideouts IT operation has been based at the companys shipyard […]

Imagine what it must be like to attempt a phone call in the littered wasteland that was once the central Gulf Coast of the United States. Not only are there no phones, there are no phone lines, no central offices, nothing. While there is cell service—T-Mobile was apparently running at full capacity within a day […]

TCS, the Annapolis, Md., provider of E911 services to the wireless industry, is adding another wireless service. According to senior vice president and chief marketing officer Tim Lorello, TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has inked a deal with Skyhook Inc. to use that companys Wi-Fi positioning services. Lorello said Skyhook provides positioning services for 26 major metropolitan […]

The worldwide PBX market dropped dramatically between the end of 2004 and the end of the first quarter of 2005, according to a report by Infonetics Research. The 12 percent drop in sales from one quarter to the next looks pretty shocking, but in reality, PBX sales grew about 2 percent last year, if you […]

LAS VEGAS—The demand for wireless connections shows no signs of abating for enterprise and small-business customers alike. Some of the growth in the industry was evident Wednesday on the floor of the annual Interop infrastructure show here, as vendors demonstrated a wide range of wireless add-ons and services. Still, there was room for advances in […]

LAS VEGAS—While financial analysts on Wednesday downgraded their IT growth forecasts a point or so, spending looked up on the floor of the annual Interop show here. According to Ben Stricker, a spokesperson with show organizer Media Live International Inc. of San Francisco, the company expects about 17,500 attendees this year, up from last years […]