Security: Thumb sucking, slurping, snarfing…Excuse me? May. 11, 2007 Remember when thumb sucking was considered an innocent activity, except that if you did it as a young child you might need braces as a teen? Today you'd need a lot more than a mouthful of metal to protect from thumb ...
This ISP flatfoot enjoys giving spammers the boot Sep. 13, 2004 The most trying part of Louis Rush's job is confronting scofflaws, some of whom are hardened criminals, to inform them they've been caught.
More ISPs catering to online gamers Dec. 19, 2005 The latest crop of online games-dubbed MMORPGs, for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games - are pushing top-tier carriers to meet even higher requirements for bandwidth and speedy response times. The carriers ...
When homegrown enterprise software goes commercial Dec. 05, 2005 The commercialization of technology that got its start in an enterprise IT setting, such as X4ML, is not unprecedented. There's a constant flow of intellectual property from government agencies and universities to the ...
Cisco router in orbit puts more wide into WAN Oct. 31, 2005 If you are a router company with as much as 80% market share and a $3.2 billion R&D budget to play with, why not bolt a router to a rocket and shoot it into orbit?
IT start-up veteran gives e-commerce a shot with fashion Web site Oct. 17, 2005 Samir Arora launched a pair of technology companies in the 1990s, Rae Technology and NetObjects, which he claims helped make the Web what it is today. Last month Arora launched his latest company, but this endeavor isn' ...
Google hacking: What started as a joke builds into a movement Sep. 05, 2005 Johnny Long says he has never met a Google employee. And yet he is at the center of a community of security experts and search engine enthusiasts that might be developing some of the most interesting uses of Google ...
What summer break? Net projects kept higher-ed IT pros cramming Aug. 29, 2005 Summer vacation has a special meaning for network professionals at U.S. colleges and universities. It means redoubling efforts to get big projects finished before students and faculty return in the fall.
Police 'futurists' walk fine line between goals and liberties. Aug. 22, 2005 A forward-thinking group of law enforcement elite, academic types and technology executives called The Society of Police Futurists International grapple with balancing security and civil liberties
GDC looks to rebound from years of trouble Aug. 15, 2005 Remember General DataComm? .. Maybe not. Founded in 1969, GDC was big back in the days of modems, multiplexers and ATM, but then hit hard times and had to sell off three of its four divisions to survive bankruptcy. Now ...
Entrepreneurs float scheme to skirt limits on H-1B visas Jun. 27, 2005 Former supertanker captain David Cook and his partner Roger Green wave off critics who say their plan to put 600 software engineers on a ship just off the coast of Los Angeles is another anti-American move to steal jobs ...
As the techie crow flies May. 30, 2005 DayJet, the brainchild of Citrix co-founder Ed Iacobucci, is a tech company at heart, but its focus is on simplifying air travel for business executives in areas under-served by major airlines.
There's battle tested .. and then there's the Israeli military May. 23, 2005 Israel is known worldwide as a breeding ground for entrepreneurs. With 69 Israeli companies listed on Nasdaq, it's second only to Canada in the number of foreign countries on the exchange.
A robot in your future? May. 16, 2005 Today, we've got iPods, X-boxes, PDAs, GPS, DVDs, DSL, Wi-Fi, smart phones, hot spots, laptops and TiVo. But where are all the robots? Shouldn't we all have robots mowing our lawns, cleaning our houses and catering to ...
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