Network World articles from August 2007

Network World archives from August 2007

Hosted software manages environmental compliance; New version adds tools for contingency planning, complex calculations and search.(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin A software-as-a-service tool that manages environmental, health and safety compliance and is used by DuPont, Chevron and Johnson & Johnson has been upgraded with new features making it easier to plan for...

Symantec boosts storage management tool, targets virtualization; VMware, IBM, Hitachi virtualization environments supported.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor Symantec Wednesday plans to introduce a version of its storage resource management software that boasts advanced virtualization and replication features, and works across larger storage and computer networks. ...

802.11n wireless LANs intrigue yet confuse IT execs, survey shows; Wireless LANs to replace wired connections for client access.
August 1, 2007... Byline: John Cox A survey of 195 senior IT professionals found that nearly half, 44%, already have decided to implement high-throughput 802.11n wireless LANs. Even more remarkably, nearly one-third of respondents said 11n will replace...

Software tools for publishing slides, video and links.(Microsoft Producer)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Byline: Steve Blass I need to put a Web presentation together that combines a slide presentation with a video of the presenter, and some additional Web links for publishing on our Web server. What software tools can help me put this...

Zero-day exploits: Consider the OS.
August 1, 2007... Attackers wielding zero-day exploits are one of the most significant threats facing enterprise networks today. While plenty of vendors promote zero-day protection mechanisms, if they don't address the entire operating system, they leave the...

Compliance policies outdated and ignored at large financial institutions; Study says one out of five employees never read company policy.(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin Compliance policies at large financial institutions are outdated and often ignored by employees, a new survey has found. The survey of 550 financial services professionals in London and New York found that 14% are...

Make the cost of pilfering your asset higher than its value, plus other identity management news; * Red Hat's FreeIPA; EU looks to personalization services for mobile users.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Dave Kearns I learned from Trusted Network Technology's PR guy George Robertson that, "With data costing companies $140 per lost record (Ponemon Institute) and selling well on the black market, business' data could actually be...

Directory Experts Conference attendees rate their Active Directory priorities; * Comparing DEC attendee surveys from the past three years.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Dave Kearns I'm not shy about telling people that the NetPro Directory Experts Conference (DEC) is THE place to be for anyone involved with Microsoft's Active Directory and its related technologies, including CardSpace,...

Cisco clarifies software opportunity; * No plans to 'break IOS into segments,' Chambers says.(John Chambers)(Interview)
August 1, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers last week clarified the company's strategy to grow into more of a software company. Instead of deconstructing its traditional IOS operating software and...

Orange Business to develop remote access services with iPass; * Orange teams with iPass to expand mobility offerings.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan Orange Business Services is expanding its enterprise mobility offerings through a new partnership with iPass, a leading provider of software and services for managing and securing remote access to networks...

Big Blue turning its data centers green; IBM says it will save $250 million by moving 4,000 servers onto 30 mainframes.
August 1, 2007... Byline: John Fontana IBM Wednesday said it will consolidate nearly 4,000 PC servers onto mainframes running Linux in a move that will cut $250 million from the cost of operating its six major data centers. IBM says the move will...

Communication breakdown: Rethinking wireless LAN packet loss.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Kevin Tolly We all know that there are trade-offs when using wireless communications. We would never tolerate the quality of our cell phones on land lines and we know that our wired Ethernet connections have better raw...

Net neutrality? Google, go first!
August 1, 2007... Byline: Johna Till Johnson You've got to admit that when it comes to public relations, Google totally rocks. The company's goofy name has become the generic term for "search the Web" -- a branding coup your average Madison Avenue...

IBM's ISS announces virtual e-mail security appliance; VMware-based appliance blocks inbound and outbound threats.(Internet Security Systems)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) on Wednesday announced a virtual e-mail security appliance that runs alongside other applications on a single piece of hardware, instead of requiring a dedicated device. ...

Wireless LAN best practices; Aberdeen Group survey of wireless LAN deployments outlines best practices.
August 1, 2007... Byline: John Cox A study of corporate wireless LAN deployments reveals that the most successful ones are based on a set of practices that can dramatically improve employee flexibility and collaboration. The survey compares...

NetQos helps Cisco with performance; *.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie Every now and then even the biggest companies in the business need a little help. This time around Cisco looked to network performance management vendor NetQoS to pump up its Wide Area Application Services ...

Overcoming user resistance; * TrialPay aims to overcome user resistance.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs A lot of people have a problem with paying for software or services - it seems that intangible goods are just hard for many people to feel comfortable opening up their wallet for. Worse still is when the software or...

CommuniGate uses Flash technology for unified communications; * CommuniGate Pronto features Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex 2.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Larry Hettick Last month, CommuniGate Systems announced a unified communications interface for its Pronto platform that is based on Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex 2 technology. The interface can be as a PC portal or a...

Clearswift unifies policy management with upgraded e-mail security appliance; New release also offers backup, virtual options.(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson Clearswift this week announced an upgrade to its e-mail appliance that features unified policy management for organizations looking to secure both their e-mail and Web communications. MimeSweeper E-mail...

BCI adds exam element to its certification scheme; Cisco rewrites CCDP exam; * Certification news from BCI, Cisco.(Business Continuity Institute )
August 1, 2007... Byline: Linda Leung Today, we have separate certification news from BCI and Cisco. BCI is introducing an exam element to its certification scheme and Cisco updates its CCDP exam. The Business Continuity Institute is planning to...

BlackBerry finally combines cellular, Wi-Fi?and adds UMA; * Which mobile WAN will support RIM FMC device?(Unlicensed Mobile Access )(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Byline: Joanie Wexler Once upon a time, Research In Motion put a cellular phone connection in its renowned BlackBerry messaging handheld device. Then it put in a Wi-Fi connection - but took the cellular connection out. Now, for...

Massachusetts adopts Open XML; Open document format approved for use alongside ODF.(Open Document Format)
August 1, 2007... Byline: John Fontana The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Wednesday added Open XML to its list of approved open documents formats. The decision was included in Massachusetts's ratification of its Enterprise Technical Reference Model...

Jeff Doyle chat transcript.(Discussion)
August 1, 2007... Moderator-JulieHello and welcome to today's Network World Chat. Our guest is Jeff Doyle. Jeff is the well-known author of the CCIE bible, Routing TCP/IP, Volumes I (read an excerpt) and II. He also writes the popular IP Routing blog for...

Dell acquires IT services company ASAP; $340 million deal marks Dell's third acquisition of a services organization in the past year.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor Dell today acquired ASAP -- a company that manages software licenses, purchases, renewals and compliance -- to bolster its software business. The $340 million deal marks Dell's third acquisition of a services...

CA accuses Rocket Software of stealing source code; CA asks judge for $200 million in damages.
August 2, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin CA has accused Rocket Software of stealing source code and other intellectual property to build database administration tools that closely resemble CA's, and is asking a federal judge for more than $200 million in...

The Magic of IPv4.(Column)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Chuck Yoke Early in my network career I had to explain to my boss why we needed head-end routers in the data center. Coming from an application background, he didn't understand data connectivity and thought the packets somehow...

Elton John blasts the Internet; Elton John wants to shut down the Internet, says it hurts music.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor Rocket Man Elton John is wading into waters he doesn't admit to knowing much about -- the Internet. As reported in the London tabloid, The Sun, Sir Elton suggests that the Internet is destroying music. "The Internet...

Patches from Mozilla, Apple and Drupal; * Podcast: Should security companies pay for vulnerability research?* Bad Bunny* Botnets identified and blocked with new hosted service, and other interesting reading.
August 2, 2007... Byline: Jason Meserve Today's bug patches and security alerts: Mozilla rushes out second Firefox patch this month Mozilla has patched a pair of nasty flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started...

Nortel shops while its management turns over; Company confirms acquisition plan as executive brain drain takes hold.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Nortel has begun discussions with potential takeover targets, according to a Reuters report citing an interview with CEO Mike Zafirovski. Nortel is looking to acquire companies to expand its reach in key markets,...

A surefire way to get funding for green IT projects; Green may be fashionable, but it's also a hard sell - unless you know this magic method to calculate ROI.
August 2, 2007... This article was contributed by a reader. If you have an opinion or technology experience you would like to share, contact Online Community Editor Julie Bort at bort@nww.com. Energy conservation is one of the most overlooked ways a...

Questions swirl around virtual-machine rootkit detection; At Black Hat, researcher presents new findings on rootkits, Vista security.(Black Hat Conference)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer LAS VEGAS--Can rootkit malware that hides by mimicking a software-based virtual machine ever be detected? That was the topic of debate as security researchers presented their latest findings to packed audiences at...

Symantec outlines its storage-as-a-service goals; * Symantec serves up storage-as-a-service.
August 2, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor Symantec, like other vendors such as EMC, has recently started talking about delivering storage-as-a-service. Last week we talked to Kris Hagerman, Symantec's group president of data center management about the...

The all-in-one approach to NAC; * Network World testers evaluate 13 NAC products.(network access control)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene Network World has tested 13 NAC products that consist of a single devices that check endpoints, authenticate users and enforce the policies. The tests reveal differences among the products in several different...

VMware releases VMmark to measure applications performance in virtualized environments; * Does VMware hit the mark?
August 2, 2007... Byline: Jennifer Mears We've talked a lot about virtualization in this newsletter. There is no denying that those organizations not yet plotting their virtualization strategy likely will be left at a disadvantage. I wrote a newsletter...

Disk data remanence: Part 1; * The problem of data remanence.
August 2, 2007... Byline: M. E. Kabay This is the first of two articles looking at disk-drive sanitization. Discarded disk drives with fully readable information have repeatedly been found for sale by computer resellers, at auctions, at used-equipment...

Why being able to search is critical; * 93% of all information today is created in an electronic format.
August 2, 2007... Byline: Michael Osterman Businesses receive, generate and store enormous amounts of information. According to an analysis from the University of California at Berkeley several years ago, 93% of all information today is created in an...

WirelessPhiladelphia? Most of the time.(Product/service evaluation)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Keith Shaw I spent a couple of days last week in Philadelphia -- not because I had a hankering for cheese steak (although it helped that I could get some while I was down there), but rather to try and see whether the new...

Choosing a managed services provider; * Don't just go for the low-hanging fruit, says Forrester Research analyst Robert Whiteley.
August 2, 2007... Byline: Ann Bednarz When evaluating managed WAN services, it's important to consider more than just the core WAN optimization technologies such as QoS and traffic management, caching, protocol optimization and compression, according to...

Hackers target small businesses; * 'Puddle' phishing and more.
August 2, 2007... Byline: James E. Gaskin Feeling paranoid? Think people are out to get you? If not, you're just not paying attention. Small businesses have gained the attention of large companies who lust after their buying power. And unfortunately,...

Researchers flag VoIP exploits at Black Hat; Focus on systems using H.323 and IAX protocols.
August 2, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer Security consultancy iSec Partners yesterday detailed half a dozen ways to compromise VoIP-based phone systems based on the H.323 and Inter Asterisk eXchange protocols. After detailing the ways they uncovered...

E-mail etiquette question: Thanks or no thanks?
August 2, 2007... Byline: Paul McNamara This is a minor matter, obviously, so if you're busy I'd suggest you move on. Here's the setup, which happens to almost all of us, almost every day: A colleague or business associate has answered your routine...

Cisco, NetQoS move a step closer to integrated network optimization, management; * Cisco, NetQoS work to integrate NetQoS software with Cisco WAAS.
August 2, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler Last time, we pointed out that network organizations have the opportunity to both show business value and do good things for the careers of network professionals by demonstrating how they ensure that...

A look at 2D bar-coding.
August 2, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs Have you noticed over the last few weeks in the dead-tree version of Network World there has been a section that displays a curious pattern of dots and invites you to direct your cell phone's Web browser to...

EBay's computing guru gives behind-the-scenes peek; Shares eBay's views on the next-generation data center, virtualization.(Paul Strong)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Beth Schultz Today on eBay, you just might find that absolute perfect mantelpiece you've been looking for, at a great price. It's there, nestled among some 100 million other items, placed for sale by one of the online...

Microsoft seeks Black Hat tips on virtualization security.
August 2, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft Wednesday for the first time laid out the underpinnings of the security capabilities it has built into its forthcoming Windows Server Virtualization technology, in hopes that researchers will help vet the...

Time Warner Telecom passes Ethernet milestone; * Cable company Time Warner Telecom provides 10,000 Ethernet service ports.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Jeff Caruso Time Warner Telecom this week said it has installed more than 10,000 Ethernet service ports to enterprise customers. The connections are being delivered over the company's national backbone and metro fiber-optic...

Q&A: Meet the Borat of hackers; Hackistan's president has identity theft on the brain at Black Hat security event.(Conference news)(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer LAS VEGAS -- Ever hear of the nation of Hackistan? I hadn't until I met the president of Hackistan, who happened to be manning a booth at the Black Hat conference here Wednesday. He showed me on a map how...

Security expert takes aim at leaky C software programs; Goal is keeping data private across browsers, e-mail programs written in C.(Venkatakrishnan)(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Byline: Network World Staff A University of Illinois at Chicago researcher is working on a tool to help C programmers build applications that are much less likely to reveal personal data. He recently received a $250,000 National...

Massachusetts remains lightning rod on open documents.
August 2, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Massachusetts has been a lightning rod and a leader in the movement for governments to embrace open document formats and neither of those roles change with Wednesday's announcement that it will adopt Open XML. ...

The case of the great hot-site swap; Colleges create a bicoastal disaster-recovery plan by hosting each others hot sites.(Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine)
August 3, 2007... Byline: John Cox A Maine college and a California university are reaching across the continent to share hardware and software in a joint disaster-recovery effort that could be a model not just for other schools but also for other...

Intel IT takes layered approach to security; Balance your needs, spread your spending and measure the results, advises internal Intel security expert.
August 3, 2007... In an era when more and more intruders are coming after corporate data for profit, not just for fun, a layered approach to security is more important than ever. The approach must be built on sound policies that are effectively communicated...

Black Hat: Networked systems are putty in the hands of a good hacker; VoIP security holes, virtualization root kits, botnets, hot topics at conference.(Black Hat Conference )(Conference news)
August 3, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer LAS VEGAS -- If Las Vegas is a place to expose all, then that notion worked for the security experts who spent two days here at the Black Hat Conference laying bare the security weaknesses of everything from...

IBM returning to Mars with Power Architecture processors; NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander launches tomorrow.
August 3, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin The IBM processors that power your Xbox 360, the car you drive to work and some of the world's fastest supercomputers will launch into space tomorrow on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. The $420 million spacecraft...

IBM buyout targets data governance; Acquired Princeton Softech makes products that archive, test, classify and maintain data privacy.(Brief article)
August 3, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin, Deni Connor IBM Friday announced that it has acquired Princeton Softech, a maker of data archiving, classification and discovery products, to bolster its own data management offerings. Financial terms weren't...

How to make a joint IT project work; University CIOs share their advice based on joint disaster-recovery project.(Interview)
August 3, 2007... Byline: John Cox IT staff at Bowdoin College, in Maine, and Loyola Marymount University, in California, are building a joint disaster-recovery facility, each institution hosting a disaster-recovery hotsite for the other. The CIOs...

Cisco founder brings optics to the router guys; Len Bosack pitches optics for the enterprise at 10 cents per Mbps.
August 3, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Len Bosack is at it again. The man who co-founded Cisco Systems this week unveiled another product that he believes could transform the way companies do business, much the way Cisco routers did. See also: Has...

Cheese steak, Liberty Bell, Wi-Fi; EarthLink's marketing campaign targets residents, businesses, tourists.
August 6, 2007... EarthLink is investing an estimated $13.5 million to build out Philadelphia's Wi-Fi network. The company is also paying revenue-sharing fees to the nonprofit agency Wireless Philadelphia to support the city's efforts to provide low-cost...

That's how EarthLink rolls; Wireless mesh deployment moves at rapid pace, despite architectural and topographical challenges.
August 6, 2007... Once Philadelphia gave EarthLink permission to move ahead with the citywide rollout, the ISP wasted no time. EarthLink had leased and built out towers so it could deploy nodes quickly once the proof of concept was approved. Crews were...

Blocking troublesome traffic from Second Life.(Column)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Ron Nutter My company wants to explore some opportunities in Second Life. A preliminary study of network traffic indicates that there may be incoming UDP packets that are not associated with a prior outgoing request. Can you...

Philadelphia pushes for low-cost Wi-Fi for its poorest residents; City sees Web access as important educational and economic tool.
August 6, 2007... Of Philadelphia's 1.5 million residents, 23% live below the national poverty threshold. Over the years the city has tried numerous initiatives and programs that support improvements in education, employment, health and other life...

Philly goes wild for Wi-Fi; EarthLink races to deploy megamunicipal mesh network in Philadelphia.(Philadelphia )
August 6, 2007... Philadelphia is well on its way to becoming one of the world's biggest Wi-Fi hot spots In May, after a 15-square-mile test zone passed muster, the city gave EarthLink the green light to cover the entire 135-square-mile city with a...

Has Cisco founder Bosack again unveiled the Next Big Thing?(Len Bosack )(Interview)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Twenty-three years ago, the husband and wife team of Stanford University computer support staffers Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner founded the most powerful and valuable company in networking: Cisco Systems. This week,...

IPhone patent lawsuit filed by doctor convicted of fraud; On his way to prison, surgeon claims Apple stole his touchscreen technology.(Peter Boesen)(Brief article)
August 7, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin A doctor who is headed to prison for defrauding government health insurance programs claims he patented the touchscreen keyboard used by the iPhone and is suing Apple in federal court. Peter Boesen, a surgeon...

The end of the data center (newsletter); * Farewell.(Editorial)
August 7, 2007... Byline: John Burke This is the last edition of this newsletter, and I wanted to revisit the major themes that have dominated it for the last couple of years. Although we ranged far and wide, to be sure, we wove our growing tapestry...

Portable storage devices gain data-encryption controls; Everything from Apple iPods to USB drives could benefit from Credant's latest.(Credant External Media Shield)
August 7, 2007... Byline: John Cox Credant Technologies this week is releasing updated software that can selectively encrypt data on portable storage media, from USB drives to Apple iPods. External Media Shield (EMS) is an application that works...

Disk data remanence: Part 2; * Inside the Digital Shredder.(Ensconce Digital Shredder)(Product/service evaluation)(Column)
August 7, 2007... Byline: M. E. Kabay In my most recent column, I briefly reviewed the seriousness of the data remanence problem on discarded disk drives. Today I want to wrap up with a pointer to an interesting product about which I have recently...

Nevis adds cloaking feature; * New Nevis feature makes it impossible for devices/users to access resources they're not authorized to reach.(Brief article)
August 7, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene Nevis Networks has a new feature to block devices from sending or receiving packets from other devices they are barred from by NAC policy. Called cloaking, the new feature makes it impossible for devices and...

F5 delivers symmetric Web acceleration; * Software lets customers deploy F5 technology in a symmetric, box-to-box setup.
August 7, 2007... Byline: Ann Bednarz It's not always necessary or feasible to deploy acceleration devices at every corporate site. But for those instances where it makes sense to have devices at both ends of key connections, F5 Networks now offers...

Storage companies report positive financial news; * Good news from storage companies' finances.
August 7, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor In the financial news of storage companies last week several news items made the list. IBM acquired database archiving and classification vendor Princeton Softech. Isilon, which went public in 2006, lost money, but...

Sun back in black; * The facts behind Sun's earnings report.
August 7, 2007... Byline: Jennifer Mears Last month, I talked about Sun's efforts to reinvent itself and turn things around. It seems like the company is indeed regaining its momentum. Sun reported its earnings last week and things were pretty rosy....

Wanna serve SMBs? * First, rethink your assumptions on what SMBs really need at the branch.
August 7, 2007... Byline: Robin Gareiss Last week, I made the case for SMBs to consider using third-party services--those from carriers, vendors, systems integrators, outsourcers, and regional value-added resellers--to help them with various...

Hosted e-mail and uptime; *For hosted messaging service providers to be successful, they will have to offer extremely high levels of uptime.(Brief article)
August 7, 2007... Byline: Michael Osterman We have just published a major new study on hosted and managed messaging, focusing on full messaging services, security, archiving and other areas. One of the issues that we wanted to explore is the likelihood...

Two router revolutions? * Network World spotlights two new router technologies.(Brief article)
August 7, 2007... Byline: Jeff Caruso I don't want to fall into the journalistic trap of "two events equal a trend," but it is interesting to see two small, router-related companies in the same week trying to shake up an industry that doesn't get shaken...

IT workers may be on the move; * Research shows 38% of IT workers are likely to look for a new job in the next year.(Brief article)
August 7, 2007... Byline: Amy Schurr Be prepared to potentially lose some of your IT staff to other opportunities. New research from recruitment firm Spherion shows 38% of IT workers are likely to look for a new job in the next year. This is up 4% from...

What's the MPLS Total Customer Experience? * Defining and measuring TCE.(multiprotocol label switching)
August 7, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler With the rollout of MPLS services well under way, Kubernan is in the midst of defining the Total Customer Experience (TCE) for MPLS customers. The TCE is a method that will be used to quantify the...

Follow-ups and Linux Mint; Identifying CDs, virtual CD drives also get the Gearhead treatment.
August 7, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs We'll start with a followup on last week's Gearhead on 2D bar-coding. Going by what was on the Nextcode Connexto Web site here and here, it rather looked like Firefox and OS X weren't supported. The company's CEO,...

Proofpoint jumps into security services fray; Messaging security product now available as service.
August 7, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson Joining the trend of providing security technology as a service, Proofpoint on Tuesday announced a hosted version of its messaging-security offering. Company officials say Proofpoint on Demand offers...

FCC ignores the lesson of Wi-Fi; Google proposal on wireless spectrum gets short shrift.(Federal Communications Commission )
August 7, 2007... Byline: Scott Bradner As just about everybody predicted, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission recently decided that only giant telephone companies are smart enough to manage wireless spectrum. The FCC included a minuscule favor...

Cisco beats Q4 earnings expectations.
August 7, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Cisco surpassed analyst expectations again when it posted fourth-quarter earnings of $2.3 billion on sales of $9.4 billion. The results exceeded analyst estimates of $9.29 billion in revenue and earnings of $2.24...

IBM merges server and software to create data-virtualization offering; Information Server Blade due for release in October.(Brief article)
August 7, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin IBM is merging its server blade and data-integration software technologies to create a data-virtualization offering that is supposed to consolidate and move massive amounts of data and make it easier for users to...

Fujitsu links biometrics with Novell's eDirectory.(Brief article)
August 7, 2007... Byline: John Fontana SAN FRANCISCO - Fujitsu Microelectronics of America and 123ID Tuesday introduced a fingerprint reader and a biometric logon kit that integrates with Novell's eDirectory and is designed to tighten user-access...

Fibre Channel getting faster; 8Gbps Fibre Channel products debut.
August 8, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor With Emulex and QLogic last week airing plans for 8Gbps Fibre Channel products, storage-area networks are about to get faster. But customers we interviewed don't sound too desperate for a speed boost over the 2G and...

EC tames wayward roaming charges; * Better budgeting on deck for European cell users.(European Commission)(Brief article)
August 8, 2007... Byline: Joanie Wexler Roaming users in Europe are now getting some relief from formerly incalculable and often shocking end-of-the-month cell phone bills. The new Eurotariff roaming regulation sets ceilings on fees charged for...

Getting Vista up to speed.(Brief article)
August 8, 2007... Byline: Steve Blass I have a new Windows system and Vista is OK, but it seems slower than my old XP system when I try to move things around the network. Is there something I need to set up or do to get my new Vista system up to speed?...