Wayne Rash

Internet Light and Power says it will become one of the first ISPs to deploy Microsoft Corp.s anticipated Sender ID technology in daily operations. Sender ID will become part of the Toronto-based companys iPermitMail virtual e-mail firewall, which ILAP developed as a means of combating e-mail fraud. According to ILAP President Tristan Goguen, the product […]

Media gateway maker Versatel Networks will announce a new series of applications at VON (the Voice on the Net expo and conference) next week in Boston. The new applications include support for conferencing network edge, which in turn unloads the conferencing task from the PBX. CallPods, as the application is named, is likened to a […]

When members of the media begin filing into Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University in Tempe to report on Wednesday nights presidential debate, theyll find a new broadband wireless service waiting for them. And in fact, this service has been up and running for them for the past couple of days, so they can file […]

Silicon Graphics Inc. announced that it will ship a new Intel Itanium-based Linux workstation that the company says is the most powerful of its kind in the world. The new SGI Prism should ship to customers on November 8, according to Shawn Underwood, director of marketing for SGI, based in Mountain View, Calif. Underwood said […]

A year ago when I was testing 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches at the University of Hawaii, several things became clear. The first was that those switches were really fast. They really can pump data at their rated speeds, and that means sometimes three or four parallel 10-gig channels. Thats a lot of data. At the time […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make spyware illegal—and provide stiff sanctions for anyone found breaking that law. The bipartisan Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act of 2004, passed by a vote of 415-0, is intended to punish spyware without placing undue burdens on legitimate uses of the same […]

When Ed Mercadante saw the news that pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. was recalling its popular arthritis drug Vioxx, he knew he was in for a challenge. Mercadante, the CEO of Familymeds Inc., an 80-store pharmacy chain based in Farmington, Conn., needed to get the word out to his customers in a hurry. In […]

Enterprise software provider Siebel Systems announced this week that it has begun an initiative to provide global business intelligence to its enterprise clients. The initiative, which includes an alliance with Microsoft, is embodied in a software suite called the Siebel Enterprise Analytic Applications. The applications focus on four primary areas: customer analytics, financial analytics, workforce […]

The beauty of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is that its a real standard. Unlike earlier IP telephony standards such as H.323 that were more notable in their exceptions and proprietary extensions, SIP devices are designed to work together. Even better, for the most part they do. For example, Pingtel Corp.s PBXes are designed to work […]

Corey Mandell knew things werent good when he got the ransom letter. Mandell had experienced such things before, and he knew that Authorize.Net, a Bellevue, Wash., credit card processing company, would be in for a tough time. What he didnt realize until later is that it would be much worse than he had anticipated. The […]

Jan Rideout knew it would be tough to get through the next few days. Hurricane Ivan had drawn a bead on her part of the Gulf Coast, and she knew it would not miss. Rideout is CIO of of Northrop Grummans Ship Systems Sector in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Her datacenters 350 Unix, Windows 2000, and Windows […]

Anti-virus and security product maker Panda Software said Thursday that the company is dropping its own anti-spam technology to use an OEM anti-spam solution from Mailshell. The new anti-spam technology would be used in the full range of Pandas products, from enterprise security appliances to desktop consumer anti-virus products. According to Patrick Hinojosa, chief technology […]