Wayne Rash

A decision by a local California judge poses grave threats to First Amendment protections for journalists, said a group of major media organizations in response to the latest actions in Apple Computer Inc.s suit involving some bloggers who let a few of Apples product plans out of the bag. The decision, made by Judge James […]

Dr. Shashi Phoha, director of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, said she thinks that the growth of VOIP technology brings with it some significant risks that users need to be prepared to address. “The vulnerabilities are severe,” she said, pointing to a list that included ways to spoof […]

WASHINGTON—The current FCC-created dichotomy between the Baby Bells and other communications companies simply doesnt make sense, a diverse panel of communications executives told a conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Monday. The split, with one set of rules and restrictions for the phone companies and another set entirely for VOIP (voice […]

When Brand X, a California ISP, gets its day in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, there will be a lot more at stake than whether the company can get access to cable lines. In fact, depending on the details of the court decision, the case could determine the way in which the Federal Communications Commission […]

When the Texas Attorney General announced Wednesday that the state was suing Vonage for failure to provide 911 service to a couple who were shot during a robbery, shock waves went through the industry. There are lots of reasons why the lack of service shouldnt have happened. More important, there are lots of places to […]

With clear mandates for data sharing and tracking of complex requirements, it would make sense for Teradata, with its legendary data warehousing capabilities, to be everywhere in the federal government. But that assumption is wrong. In fact, except for a few installations in the Air Force, Navy and the U.S. Postal Service, the company is […]

In a 3–2 decision shortly before the departure of former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell, the FCC voted to approve a petition from BellSouth Corp. to suspend public utility commission regulations that required the company to provide unbundled DSL service to customers. Unbundled or “naked” DSL is a data-only service without the voice line […]

Picture the world of voice traffic on the Internet as a dark and forbidding place, rife with mobsters, con artists and shadowy sellers of dubious products. Now picture getting hundreds of calls from these people every day. Imagine your worst day ever of telemarketing, back before the Do Not Call list, and then magnify it […]

Citadel Security Software Inc. plans to move to a dramatically different pricing model with the next release of its Hercules software in May, CEO Steve Solomon told eWEEK.com in an exclusive interview. According to Solomon, the pay-as-you-go pricing model will make vulnerability remediation more affordable, especially to smaller companies. Solomon, who likened the program to […]

TriCipher will announce a new type of strong authentication Tuesday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco that it says will make authentication much easier to use and manage. TriCipher Inc., which was spun off from Japanese technology company Nippon Systems Development Inc. (site in Japanese) in Kansai, Japan, says its authentication technology uses a […]

If Carly Fiorina is to be remembered for anything at Hewlett-Packard, now that she has resigned effective immediately from her post as chairwoman and CEO, it is for some fundamental changes she brought to the company. The most obvious was the acquisition of Compaq Computer in May 2002. It was one of the biggest acquisitions […]

When the VOIP Security Alliance announced its existence on Monday, the group said that it was focusing on the kinds of threats we already see on the Internet. Things such as spam aimed at VOIP systems, denial-of-service attacks, perhaps exploits aimed at telephony equipment or at routers that move calls from place to place. Its […]