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  • Sprint extends its wireless reach

    Posted April 19, 2001 - 1:11 pm

    Sprint revealed last week that it has expanded its wireless multichannel multipoint distribution service coverage through agreements with other MMDS license holders.

  • Chinese start-up enters U.S. VPN game

    Posted April 19, 2001 - 12:56 pm

    ServGate Technologies, a VPN start-up with roots in China's elite Tsinghua University, will make its U.S. debut at NetWorld+Interop next month with a firewall/VPN gateway that would rank near the top of the field.

  • NetQoS defies classification

    Posted April 19, 2001 - 9:54 am

    Analysts are famous for trying to put things in buckets -- but in management software and services that tendency can often prove to be more sophistic than salutary. NetQoS is potentially an innocent victim of this unfortunate, oddly clerical tendency among many in the industry.

  • Winstar files for bankruptcy, sues Lucent for $10 billion

    Posted April 18, 2001 - 7:31 pm

    Broadband network and service provider Winstar Communications on Wednesday said it has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 federal bankruptcy protection and also has initiated a $10 billion lawsuit against Lucent Technologies, alleging that Lucent breached its obligations under a strategic partnership with Winstar.

  • HP unveils new server appliances

    Posted April 18, 2001 - 3:19 pm

    Hewlett-Packard beefed up its hardware line Wednesday with the release of 19 new server appliance products designed to handle specialized Internet content management functions.

  • Upstart VPN services staking out new ground

    Posted April 18, 2001 - 1:29 pm

    In the rapidly evolving world of VPNs, some service providers are trying things that defy easy classification yet can be a good match for particular firms.

  • AD administration software updated

    Posted April 18, 2001 - 1:14 pm

    Finally, there's an easier way to administer users, groups, workstations and other data objects in Windows 2000's Active Directory.

  • Startup MaGlobe to sell prepaid international Web access

    Posted April 18, 2001 - 10:15 am

    MIMICKING THE OLD Ma Bell nickname, MaGlobe, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup is aiming to make connecting to the Internet while on the road both easier and less expensive.

  • Windows tech: 10 steps to creating an active directory

    Posted April 18, 2001 - 10:12 am

    Active Directory is easily the most complex aspect of a Windows 2000 migration. Here's a road map for getting started -- and how to avoid pitfalls that could take you back to square one.

  • Readers have more good ideas about exploiting Microsoft's Terminal Services

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 5:18 pm

    A boatload of useful Terminal Service tips

  • FTP flaw makes servers insecure

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 4:25 pm

    Security analysts are warning about a software flaw that they said could allow intruders to gain unauthorized access to remote file transfer protocol (FTP) servers. In an advisory issued last week, Network Associates' PGP Security division said the problem is related to the "globbing" command used in Unix shells.

  • PSINet edges nearer bankruptcy

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 3:45 pm

    The Internet service provider's future continues to look gloomy as the company on Tuesday announced a net loss of $3.2 billion for the fourth quarter 2000.

  • Start-up picks up pace for busy Websites

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 3:36 pm

    SpiderCache speeds page loads for Web pages that include rapidly changing content. The technology is good, users say, but it faces several competitors, including Oracle, which includes some dynamic caching features in its Oracle 9i database.

  • MPLS on the move

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 3:24 pm

    Late last month, two high-profile interoperability tests of equipment and software supporting Multi-protocol Label Switching were completed, one at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory and a second at the Advanced Internet Laboratory at George Mason University.

  • When to expect high-speed wireless LANs

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 2:37 pm

    The timetable for next-generation wireless LAN products based on IEEE 802.11a, 802.11g and HiperLAN2 specs calls for some product availability late this year and volume shipments in 2002. Dual-technology access points that support both the currently implemented 11M bit/sec 802.11b technology and one of the emerging 22M- to 54M bit/sec standards are expected to be available to help you with migration - much in the way that 10/100 wired Ethernet products have bridged that standards gap.

  • Networking standards

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 2:31 pm

    If you are a networking manager in a multinational based in the U.S. that is trying to standardize on networking technologies companywide, you could probably use a little more homogeneity among cross-country standards support and product interoperability. Consider the emerging high-speed wireless LAN arena, for example.

  • Comparison shop for broadband

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 1:54 pm

    How to select your teleworkers' 'Net access without breaking the bank.

  • Mobile Internet Access Exploding

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 11:24 am

    BY NOW YOU'VE undoubtedly heard the news: Portable devices such as phones, pagers and computers with mobile modems will quickly surpass desktop PCs as the Internet access devices of choice. "Mobile Internet Access Devices: Surfing the Net on the Fly," a recent report by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Cahners In-Stat Group, confirms the claim, stating that more than 1 billion Web-ready wireless phones alone will ship every year as of 2004. But In-Stat Senior Mobile Commerce Analyst Ken Hyers says the numbers need to be examined in context.

  • Means of improved IP security close at hand

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 10:34 am

    You can prevent denial-of-service and data-hijacking attacks using new filters and TCP/IP security functions available in most server operating systems.

  • Face-off: Can CRM win and retain loyal, repeat customers?

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 10:28 am

    Customer relationship management solutions purport to analyze what you know about your customers and help you use that knowledge to advance your business. But do the products live up to the promise?

  • Buy by Phone

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 10:24 am

    The New the Hot the Unexpected

  • You've Got Air Mail

    Posted April 17, 2001 - 10:21 am

    The New the Hot the Unexpected

  • Reinstalling NetWare service pack 5

    Posted April 16, 2001 - 3:33 pm

    I'm trying to reinstall service pack 5 back onto a Novell 5.0 server. When I install NICI 1.5.4 and NICIU0, I find that nwconfig will not run. Both products are showing. Should I remove one?

  • Wireless 802.11b cards easy to install

    Posted April 16, 2001 - 3:12 pm

    Checking out George's and Hedy's invention.

  • All seeing, all knowing

    Posted April 16, 2001 - 1:44 pm

    YOU'D THINK IT WOULD BE PRETTY DIFFICULT to lose sight of something as large as an earth excavator. But tracking the whereabouts of the heavy machinery across 14 states had become a cumbersome process for Houston-based Tellepsen Services Co. (TEPSCO). So the construction management services company turned to a Web-based system that now allows the company to quickly and easily locate its equipment and monitor usage -- saving both money and time. n "It's not for the theft issue, but because we're concerned about asset utilization," says Tadd Tellepsen, IT director of the family-owned company. "We've been tracking it manually, but we're planning to become decentralized so that people closest to the equipment can hop on the Internet and input information. We want to make sure [equipment] is not sitting idle and be able to figure out if we can schedule it somewhere else."
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