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Wireless LAN Holes

The integrity of wireless LANs is under attack with the revelation of several holes in the WLAN security protocol. As a result, IT managers...

Just Grab It Out of Thin Air

Security experts got a scare recently after a hole was found in an encryption code, allowing hackers to easily snatch transmissions passing through wireless...

Vertigo Tool Aimed at Palm Os Developers

Although debate rages on, longstanding problems with the development of hosted applications for Palm OS-based handhelds could be solved by an Extensible Markup Language...

Auction Aggravation

To bid or not to bid. The recently postponed 700-megahertz wireless spectrum auction has confused wireless operators. They are unsure about the possible uses...

Fast Breaks Newsfront: February 12, 2001

Direct to SkiesRupert Murdochs plan to add U.S. satellite beamer DirecTV to his Sky Global empire is taking a slightly different path than some...

Cover Your Palm

To those of you who may have been unconvinced by recent warnings about the security risks of PDAs, the situation is even worse than...

Geekspeak: February 12, 2001

Do you think music just wants to be free? Or maybe youd just like to record and save your favorite streaming-media programs? Either way,...

Log on to Save

Pacific Gas and Electric, one of Californias embattled public utility providers, is trying to make nice with its customers. But the method of accessing...

Big Leaps, Not Baby Steps

Im suspicious of incremental strategies. they remind me of the visionary man-ape in "2001: A Space Odyssey," whose plan for reaching the moon began...

Dot-com Deaths Are Not Over

It has become a daily ritual in Silicon Valley to listen for news of the power crisis. Those of us who live here are...