NetFlash: Group tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches

Opinion
Nov 3, 20043 mins

* Group tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches * Technologists push Ethernet to new areas * Cisco looks ahead to home networking boom * Q1 Labs tackles intrusion prevention * Internet Explorer keeps losing market share * Today on Layer 8

While the presidential candidates prepare for the inevitable post-election fight, details are starting to emerge on just how electronic voting machines fared. Some are saying that the machines listed the wrong candidate on the verification screen – and in some cases it was very difficult to correct it. But how many people caught the error? Are we seeing a statistically insignificant number of mistakes – or, as one observer put it, “the tip of the iceberg”? Group tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1103grouptalli.html?net

While the presidential candidates prepare for the inevitable post-election fight, details are starting to emerge on just how electronic voting machines fared. Some are saying that the machines listed the wrong candidate on the verification screen – and in some cases it was very difficult to correct it. But how many people caught the error? Are we seeing a statistically insignificant number of mistakes – or, as one observer put it, “the tip of the iceberg”?

Group tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1103grouptalli.html?net

Technologists push Ethernet to new areas

Ethernet isn’t what it used to be; it’s far better. And nowhere was that more evident than at the Next Generations Networks conference this week. Phil Hochmuth reports from Boston on all the latest iterations of the ever-popular technology for the LAN (and beyond).

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/1102ethernet.html?net

For more news, visit our Router/Switch Research Center

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Cisco looks ahead to home networking boom

Cisco is looking to grab a chunk of the customer premises equipment market when converged IP residential services catch on and demand blooms for multifunction home appliances, the company’s home-gear president says.

https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2004/1102homecis.html?net

Q1 Labs tackles intrusion prevention

Q1 Labs this week plans to release the latest version of its flagship software as well as add-on software that the company says enables its security management tool to not only detect security issues but also prevent them.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1102q1labs.html?net

Internet Explorer keeps losing market share

Although Microsoft still dominates the Web browser space, its Internet Explorer continues to lose market share to open-source rival Mozilla.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1103interexplo.html?net

Today on Layer 8, where we’re always campaigning for the popular vote:

High-tech job numbers are out; a roundup of rejected limited edition iPods; forget the Nielsens, technology reveals top TV shows; and mystery political Web site developer reveals himself; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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