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    Standards must penetrate telecom industry

    Posted February 27, 2004 - 1:19 am

    The telecom industry has long been run on software that is home brewed by individual service providers - software that is often poorly written, according to one tech expert. He believes that an industry move towards standards-based development will help both service providers and customers.

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    Dell gunning for IBM, HP customers

    Posted February 25, 2004 - 6:41 pm

    Sure, Dell may claim not to buy into the utility computing concept, but their OpenManage product competes head-on with with utility computing offerings from IBM and HP.

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    DMTF forms utility computing group

    Posted February 25, 2004 - 3:22 pm

    The newly-formed Utility Computing Working Group of the Distributed Management Task Force aims to further the development of unified utility computing standards by working in cooperation with other industry groups.

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    'Stop, thief!' say phone manufacturers

    Posted February 24, 2004 - 2:51 pm

    Hot on the heels of an initiative by network operators to discourage mobile phone theft, six phone manufacturers publicly pledged their support Tuesday for an industry plan to prevent the reprogramming of stolen phones.

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    RSA: WLAN security enhanced

    Posted February 23, 2004 - 12:16 pm

    Aruba Wireless Networks Inc. announced at the RSA security show in San Francisco a deal with Zone Labs Inc. to quarantine any virus-infected devices before allowing access, a deal with Funk software to put industry-standard 802.1x on the Aruba product, and two-factor authentication with RSA's SecurID product.

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    What it means to be an adaptive organization

    Posted February 23, 2004 - 10:07 am

    "For organizations to remain financially aligned and viable, enterprises must evolve to become adaptive organizations, aligning ICT capabilities, costs, and goals with those of the business. Enterprises that are unable to adapt their ICT resources to shifting business conditions and cannot drive business adaptability through better management of their ICT assets, expenses, and overall risk will be devalued and disrespected," says Karen Rubenstrunk, executive vice-president and director, executive & industry services for Meta Group.

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    Kazaa owner has its day in court against music industry

    Posted February 20, 2004 - 11:25 am

    Sharman Networks Ltd., the owner and distributor of the Kazaa peer-to-peer network, argued its case on Friday in the Federal Court of Australia against charges brought by Music Industry Piracy Investigations, a subsidiary of the Australian Recording Industry Association.

  • VeriSign to deploy Internet hub in China

    Posted February 19, 2004 - 4:56 pm

    VeriSign Inc. is planning to deploy a domain name service (DNS) Internet constellation site in Beijing by the end of 2004, promising to offer Chinese Internet users faster response times and improved reliability.

  • Cisco offers low-cost video for 'Net phones

    Posted February 18, 2004 - 10:25 am

    In a move aimed at encouraging greater take-up of Internet telephony, Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled Wednesday a new system enabling real-time videoconferences on Internet phones for less than US$200 per user.

  • Cisco powers up Ethernet ports with standard

    Posted February 18, 2004 - 8:57 am

    Cisco Systems Inc. is embracing a global standard for powering network-connected devices over Ethernet, allowing its customers to take advantage of a potential flood of third-party products such as sensors and wireless access points that don't require a conventional wall socket.

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    Symbol offers office Wi-Fi in a box

    Posted February 17, 2004 - 11:32 am

    Symbol is making a play to wirelessly connect small offices with its latest product. The company's new WS2000 includes all the components needed for a small business wireless LAN in a single package.

  • ISPs call for investigation into Telstra pricing

    Posted February 17, 2004 - 10:44 am

    ISPs (Internet service providers) are calling for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to investigate Telstra Corp. Ltd.'s latest cut-price ADSL broadband product offering, pointing out the $29.95 retail price tag is in fact higher than the cost of porting a customer on the telco's wholesale network.

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    Why wireless will doom piracy and end DRM

    Posted February 16, 2004 - 4:06 am

    Tech watchers worried that DRM will end the Internet as we know it needn't worry, according to technologist Jim Griffin. In this interview, he explains that coming ubiquitous 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity will create new content and payment models that w ill make current problems over copyright and rights management obsolete.

  • FCC takes first step toward VOIP policy

    Posted February 13, 2004 - 11:40 am

    The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took the first step Thursday toward laying down rules governing voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) service by approving a proceeding that will solicit comments on how the emerging competitor to traditional voice services should be regulated.

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    Analyst: Voice over WLAN picking up steam

    Posted February 11, 2004 - 7:20 pm

    Wi-Fi and VoIP technologies are both gaining traction in the enterprise. Thus, according to one analyst, it should come as no surprise if voice-over-WLAN products start entering the market - and gaining acceptance - in the next year or two.

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    HP sets up India call center

    Posted February 11, 2004 - 12:13 pm

    Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has set up a contact center in Bangalore that will offer post-sales support to U.S. customers of its consumer products, according to an executive of the Palo Alto, California-based company. The center will also serve as a research and development facility for developing and testing new support processes and technologies.

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    Grid computing puts licensing in limbo

    Posted February 11, 2004 - 11:03 am

    No doubt about it: grid computing is going to cause licensing havoc. Even Larry Ellison has been heard to say that the "entire model needs to be rethought."

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    Grid computing in the enterprise

    Posted February 11, 2004 - 10:32 am

    For the past 40 years, technology advances have been moving us incrementally closer to enterprise grid computing. Now the problem now isn't so much technology as perception.

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    Sun to boost partitioning in Solaris 10

    Posted February 10, 2004 - 11:11 am

    Sun Microsystems Inc. outlined planned improvements for version 10 of its Solaris operating system on Tuesday, part of its quarterly update of new hardware and software products.

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    We were right over utility computing, claims Veritas

    Posted February 9, 2004 - 10:21 am

    Veritas sees vindication of its approach to utility computing in a new report from U.K. analysts Dynamic Markets, which concludes that "a growing number of organizations are deploying service level agreements between their IT departments and lines of business."

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    Vonage CEO: VOIP will grow if regulation permits

    Posted February 8, 2004 - 9:10 pm

    Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) services are poised to take off in the U.S., if regulators can keep their hands off this alternative to traditional telephone service, said the chief executive of a major VOIP provider.

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    OSDL delivers guidelines on Linux for data centers

    Posted February 6, 2004 - 10:10 am

    In a move to accelerate the development and adoption of Linux in data centers, a global consortium of IT companies known as Open Source Development Labs Inc. (OSDL) has issued a set of technical guidelines for the use of the open source operating system in running mission-critical enterprise applications on server platforms.

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    Cisco beats Q2 earnings estimates

    Posted February 4, 2004 - 10:31 am

    Heralding improvement in the global economy, Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday reported US$1.3 billion net income or $0.18 earnings per share for the second quarter of its 2004 fiscal year, compared to $991 million or $0.14 per share in the same quarter of 2003.

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    Alberta grid project gets boost

    Posted February 3, 2004 - 5:22 pm

    The University of Alberta and researchers in Western Canada will be able to expand their grid computing efforts thanks to a recent agreement that will see computer firm Silicon Graphics Inc. and the Government of Alberta pump over C$500,000 (US$373,944) in cash and equipment into the school's grid projects.

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    Wireless security ethics: What to do with an insecure access point

    Posted February 2, 2004 - 11:15 am

    If you use a computer with a WLAN card, chances are you've accidentally connected to someone else's access point that has been inadvertently left insecure. What are your ethical obligations if you find yourself in this situation? This Weblog post contains one security pro's musings on the subject.

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