Spam busters go on the offensive

Opinion
Jan 26, 20052 mins

* Spam busters go on the offensive * Chipset to cut chunk out of WLAN costs? * Sun lets Solaris loose * IronPort adds Symantec anti-virus to e-mail appliances * Today on Layer 8

Are we winning the war against spam? From the tone of the recent MIT Spam Conference you would think so. Through a combination of software and legislation – however imperfect and highly criticized – it seems the spam fighters have the edge. Spam busters go on the offensive http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0125spambust.html?net

Are we winning the war against spam? From the tone of the recent MIT Spam Conference you would think so. Through a combination of software and legislation – however imperfect and highly criticized – it seems the spam fighters have the edge.

Spam busters go on the offensive

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0125spambust.html?net

Chipset to cut chunk out of WLAN costs?

Wireless LAN switches may be quickly becoming a commodity. Broadcom this week is introducing chips that could reduce the cost of building switches tenfold – and influence the market even more than Cisco’s recent acquisition of Airespace.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405broadcom.html?net

Sun lets Solaris loose

Sun Tuesday made good on its promise to open source its Solaris operating system, releasing code for a diagnostic piece of the software and promising to have full, “buildable” code available in the next few months.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0126sunsolaris.html?net

IronPort adds Symantec anti-virus to e-mail appliances

IronPort Systems Monday announced plans to sell Symantec’s anti-virus software with its C-Series Email Security appliances.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0125iron.html?net

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