News

Verizon seen looking beyond Genuity

Self-protection

Reliance on financially troubled service providers requires special contract care.

Storage advances to boost throughput

Check Point’s CEO tackles security issues

Nortel revitalizes enterprise strategy

Infrastructure briefs

The Edge news briefs

Company addresses BGP shortcomings

Elematics provisions optical links

Security management gets easier

GuardedNet, Intellitactics, netForensics add event translation, analysis features.

IBM tailors wares for HIPAA readiness

Portfolio of software, hardware, training and services geared for healthcare and insurance companies.

Start-ups push wireless LAN envelope

Mobilian embraces 802.11b and Bluetooth; Vivato airs switch.

Energy firms take lesson in efficiency

IBM touts on-demand computing

Infonet heads into VoIP

Managed service aimed at saving on international calls.

Gigabit to desktop? Not so fast

Plan to give WLAN users more range nearly done

‘Intrusion prevention’ raises hopes, concerns

What users want from Microsoft

To get a sense of what this huge collection of customers would like to see next from Microsoft, we polled a cross section of them. These were their top issues.

News briefs for the week of Nov. 4

Sistina unveils file system for IBM mainframe

Packet Design aims to address BGP shortcomings

EU unlikely to follow U.S. ruling on Microsoft

Linksys vulnerability puts wireless users at risk

WaveSmith names CEO

Bride of Funlove virus getting around

IT project management recognized in government

Microsoft tunes Windows media software

MS/DOJ: Case has tumultuous history, related fallout

FBI: DNS server attacks came from U.S., Korea

Presidential advisor says U.S. should fund, test ‘Net security

Judge reaffirms limited Microsoft punishment

Palmisano outlines IBM’s $10 billion initiative

Lucent may face SEC charges

Server appliances die a quiet death

Will the Tablet PC be a write-off?

Dataquest: PDA shipments slow down

Mac OS among least prone to attack

Microsoft remedy opinion due Friday

Germany likes Linux

Qwest losses continue in third quarter

CDMA to propel wireless Internet market

Open source seeks growth in government market

Borland buying Togethersoft

Vendors look to tame Web site performance

Keynote, Tonic and Quantiva separately announce software and services to help users optimize their Web sites and applications.

Microsoft merging Exchange, TechEd conferences

RouteScience introduces PathControl 3350

T-Mobile in Wi-Fi pact with United, American and Delta

Elematics software provisions optical links

Lucent ships management software for Solaris