Network World articles from January 2005

Network World archives from January 2005

Best practice, practice, practice; COBIT is a proven standard that can help with compliance, business accountability and auditing.(comparative analysis of Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology and Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
January 10, 2005... Byline: John Morency Best practice, practice, practice COBIT is a proven standard that can help with compliance, business accountability and auditing. n By John Morency In general, IT executives implement best practices...

net buzz.(information technology services industry forecasts)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Paul McNamara Never mind 2005 With all due respect to my fellow columnists on the preceding pages and at the top of this one, predicting what will happen over the next 12 months is a relatively simple task. After all, the stuff...

DSL: The best (and worst) of times.(digital subscriber line)
January 10, 2005... Byline: chuck yoke In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens famously describes life in 18th century Paris and London as "the best of times . . . the worst of times." Even though the similarities between 18th century Europe and 21st century...

Taming the XML beast.(extensible markup language)
January 10, 2005... Byline: James Kobielus XML is here to stay, having become the standard markup syntax for most new Web services protocols, formats and interfaces, such as Simple Object Access Protocol. The flood of XML on networks will continue to grow,...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 10, 2005... Better billing needed Regarding the story "Carriers jump into auditing" (www.nwfusion.com, DocFinder: 5323): It is almost laughable that carriers are trying to "sell" the customer an accurate invoice. An inaccurate bill is a breach of...

Is PON the cure for last-mile bandwidth bottlenecks? Two industry insiders debate the benefits of passive optical networking vs. Active Ethernet.(computer networks)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Yes, by John Griffin Passive optical networking, specifically Gigabit PON, already is proving to be the cure for last-mile bandwidth bottlenecks. Service providers are in a race to deliver high-speed, triple-play services through...

Is PON the cure for last-mile bandwidth bottlenecks?(evaluation of passive optical network and active ethernet)
January 10, 2005... Byline: No, by Dave Curry Optical technology is the clear cure for last-mile bandwidth bottlenecks, but Active Ethernet, not passive optical networking, will be the technology of choice. Deploying PON today might provide more bandwidth...

Diageo distills IS leaders; The alcoholic beverage company's career development program pushes staff to excel.(human resource management, information systems)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Cara Garretson Diageo distills IS leaders The alcoholic beverage company's career development program pushes staff to excel. n By cara garretson When Jasmin Chanana was offered a permanent position at the end of 2003...

A look into the future; Venture capitalist offers look at '05 hot spots.(information technology services industry forecasts)
January 10, 2005... Byline: HOWARD ANDERSON, Senior Managing Director, YankeeTek Ventures Let's get right to it. Let's see what this year portends: 1. 2005 will be worse than '04 for technology companies, but not bad. What do you mean you didn't notice...

Texas A&M probes traffic for assaults, faults.(Texas A and M University installed QRadar 3.0, a network management software)
January 10, 2005... Byline: JOHN COX Texas A&M University has improved the network management and security for its sprawling wireless and wired campus network with an application that sifts through traffic for abnormalities or irregularities. By...

Aruba is the top dog if you want to add voice traffic to an enterprise wireless LAN.(WLAN switches and access points, Aruba Wireless Networks)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 10, 2005... Byline: David Newman Voice over WLAN Aruba is the top dog if you want to add voice traffic to an enterprise wireless LAN By David Newman, Network World Lab Alliance VoIP should be an easy fit for wireless LANs, but mixing the...

Wireless architectures remain diverse.(Colubris Networks Inc's Colubris CN1250, an access point and Cisco Systems Inc's Wireless LAN Services Module, a network switch)
January 10, 2005... Byline: DAVID NEWMAN Although wireless LAN systems with voice support have been available for nearly two years, this is still an emerging market. As in our previous test of WLAN switches (reference...

QoS enforcement: What happened?(quality of service)
January 10, 2005... Byline: David Newman QoS enforcement: What happened? Three of four vendors in this test failed to protect voice traffic in the presence of data, even using QoS mechanisms specifically intended to do so. Why did these QoS mechanisms...

Newman test how we did it.(testing of wireless LANs and wireless networking equipment)
January 10, 2005... Byline: David Newman Network World invited 18 vendors to participate in this test: Airespace, Aruba, Avaya, Bluesocket, Chantry (purchased by Siemens after our tests concluded), Cisco, Colubris, Enterasys Networks, Extreme Networks,...

Forget about sleeping: It's Patch Tuesday; Microsoft's monthly patch release triggers a race between hackers, vendors and customers.(software patches of Microsoft Corp. and management of nCircle Network Security Inc.)
January 10, 2005... Byline: LINDA LEUNG Forget about sleeping: It's Patch Tuesday Microsoft's monthly patch release triggers arace between hackers, vendors and customers. The engineers at vulnerability testing tool vendor nCircle spend $100 per month...

Another year for moderate spending.(information technology consumer spending forecasts)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Denise Dubie It will be more of the same in 2005, according to market research firms, which forecast IT spending to grow between 6% and 9% over 2004 budgets. That means IT buyers will continue to keep a close watch on their IT...

Carriers increase companies' control over handhelds.(services of Verizon Wireless Inc., Vodafone Group PLC and Nextel Communications Inc.)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Stephen Lawson Some mobile operators already have some offerings in place to deal with the conflict over enterprise-class mobile phones. Verizon Wireless offers software tools that let a company configure its phones to accept...

Users, firms at odds on mobile devices.(usage of wireless telephones)
January 10, 2005... Byline: STEPHEN LAWSON Companies and their employees might find themselves in a tug of war over enterprise-class mobile phones, an emerging set of devices that can run multimedia entertainment, games and business applications. With...

Predictions with the world in mind.(information technology services industry forecasts)
January 10, 2005... T he editors asked us columnists to focus our first column of the new year on our predictions for the future of the corner of IT that we each cover. For me, that would normally entail a bunch of flip and/or sarcastic observations of...

Taking a look at the year ahead.(software industry forecasts and trends)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Dave Kearns W elcome to 2005! Because nothing of major importance tends to happen over the year-end holidays, this first-of-the-year column traditionally is given over to predictions for the year to come. First, let's look...

Enterprise Computing Short Takes.(RLX Technologies Inc. decided to leave hardware business in order to focus more on its software marketing and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to organize its own developer conference)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... n Facing tough competition from IBM, HP and Dell, blade server pioneer RLX Technologies is exiting the hardware business to focus exclusively on marketing its Control Tower management software. The company has announced that it would stop...

apps briefs.(International Business Machines Corp. plans to supply its Solution for Compliance in a Regulated Environment software, merger of PeopleSoft Inc. and Oracle Corp. and Liberty Alliance appointed George Goodman as the new president of its management board)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... IBM is due to begin shipping its recently announced regulatory compliance offerings for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies. The bundle - called Solution for Compliance in a Regulated Environment - combines document and...

FCC set to auction more PCS licenses.(Federal Communications Commission, Personal Communication Services)
January 10, 2005... Byline: DENISE PAPPALARDO Wireless service providers later this month will begin bidding untold millions of dollars on spectrum that the FCC is set to sell in its third Personal Communication Services auction. Although this auction is...

Identified Internet Mail combats fraud.(networking standards)
January 10, 2005... Byline: JIM FENTON The proliferation of spam, e-mail fraud and messages with malicious attachments is a serious problem for businesses and consumers. While various e-mail filtering technologies can reduce the quantity of spam that finds...

NIST mulls new WLAN security guidelines.(National Institute of Standards and Technology, wireless local area network)
January 10, 2005... Byline: ELLEN MESSMER The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency responsible for defining security standards and practices for the government, plans to issue new guidelines pertaining to wireless LANs in the...

What's ahead for Vonage in 2005?(Jeffrey Citron)(Interview)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Toni Kistner Cisco/Linksys touts residential IP telephony as the next big thing. A slew of broadband providers from AT&T to Cablevision jump on board to offer flat-rate phone services with compelling new features. What's it all...

Ask Dr. Internet.(internet connection sharing management)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Steve Blass Steve Blass Our three-PC network workgroup uses Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to connect to the ISP using dial-up. A Windows 2000 PC is loaded with a PCI 56K bit/sec modem. When we select "on-demand dial" so...

E-billing adopters find rewards.(Health Alliance Medical Plans installed BizCast, an electronic commerce software)
January 10, 2005... Byline: ANN BEDNARZ For a company switching from paper to electronic invoicing methods, one obvious savings potential is mailing costs - no more bills to print or postage to purchase. But there are a lot more savings to be gleaned by...

Microsoft scrubs security component for Exchange.(Microsoft Corp. plans to include some of its Exchange Edge Services features into Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2)
January 10, 2005... Byline: JOHN FONTANA Microsoft has shelved a new security component for Exchange Server 2003. Instead, it will add its piece parts to a service pack and the next upgrade of the server. Exchange Edge Services, first introduced in...

Gazing into the crystal ball.(telecommunications industry forecasts and trends)
January 10, 2005... Byline: johna till johnson When it comes to characterizing the telecom market evolution over the past few years, Jerry Garcia and friends said it best: What a long, strange trip it's been. Hold on to your hats, friends, because it's...

short takes.(Vonage Holdings Corp. made partnership agreements with VTech Communications Ltd., UTStarcom Inc. and Viseon Inc., Linksys Group Inc. introduced Linksys Wireless-G Media Link, an ethernet adapter)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... n Vonage Holdings has announced three partnerships that will let it extend its VoIP offerings. Vonage and VTech will develop a 5.8-GHz cordless phone system that plugs into a broadband modem or router, eliminating the need for a stand-alone...

Solving Gearhead's 'hot spots'.(Ergonomic Mobile Computing Stand, Optical Travel Mouse and QL-500 Label Printer)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Keith Shaw W hile Gearhead is off reading his prestigious journal, we have another answer that will cool down your personal "hot spots." The Ergonomic Mobile Computing Stand has the ability to reduce the risk of, as Gearhead...

Extreme switch packs speed, reliability.(Extreme Networks Inc. plans to intoduce Aspen 8800, a network switch)
January 10, 2005... Byline: PHIL HOCHMUTH Extreme Networks this week is expected to launch new switch chassis aimed at letting users link wiring closets directly to the LAN core via 10G Ethernet, while providing low latency and five-nines connectivity for IP...

Net Infrastructure Short Takes.(AEP Systems and Netilla Networks merged to form AEP Networks, forecasts about the number of information security professionals and Skybox Security enhanced Skybox View 2.0, a risk management software)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... n Rivals AEP Systems and Netilla have merged to form AEP Networks in the hope of gaining enough business to survive the shakeout among SSL remote-access vendors. AEP's CEO Pat Donnellan will continue as CEO of the merged company, and Netilla's...

Apple delivers SAN system.(Apple Computer Inc. introduced Xsan, a storage-area network file system and enhanced Apple XServe G5, server)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: DENI CONNOR Apple announced last week that it has shipped a new file system and an upgraded server. The Xsan storage-area network (SAN) file system lets users deploy a shared data environment for their data center or...

Start-up to paint new switch picture.(Matisse Networks plans to introduce a distributed switch)
January 10, 2005... Byline: TIM GREENE Start-up Matisse Networks promises that by year-end it will ship a distributed switch designed to connect the geographically dispersed elements of corporate data centers. The company says that its equipment connects...

Dealing with hot spots.(WiFi Seeker of Chrysalis Development, Laptop Desks)
January 10, 2005... Byline: mark gibbs W elcome to another year of Gearhead! As we start planning a strategy to shed our newly acquired padding we have a couple of neat products that arrived just before Christmas that you might find useful in the coming...

Microsoft releases anti-spyware beta.(alliances and partnerships between Symantec Corp. and VERITAS Software Corp., cases between ten ex-WorldCom directors and New York State Common Retirement Fund)
January 10, 2005... n Microsoft last week tried to sharpen its focus again on security by releasing the first beta of the anti-spyware software it acquired when it bought Giant Software last month. The company also says that next week it will begin shipping tools...

Wireless group studies 'Super 3G' standard.
January 10, 2005... Byline: JIM DUFFY The 3G Partnership Project - a consortium of 200 wireless vendors and operators - has begun a study to determine the feasibility of defining a standard that supports wireless downlink speeds as high as 100M bit/sec. ...

Ten predictions for '05.(computer industry forecasts)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Editorial staff Last week we reviewed our 2004 predictions (we only got about 50% right this time around), and now it's time to turn our gaze on this new year. * As companies use component architectures to build applications,...

McData preps high-end storage switch.
January 10, 2005... Byline: DENI CONNOR McData next week is expected to roll out a long-awaited director-level switch that promises to let customers consolidate storage resources without sacrificing the security and isolation required by application data. ...

UPS veteran takes over as CIO.(Dave Barnes, UPS Airlines, Chief Information Officer)
January 10, 2005... Byline: ANN BEDNARZ Dave Barnes learned a lot about how UPS operates in his ascent from part-time package handler to senior vice president and CIO. He joined the Atlanta company in 1977 as a college student and last week was elevated to...

NT holdouts paying a price.(Microsoft Corp. provided the users with fee-based custom support for New Technology)
January 10, 2005... Byline: JOHN FONTANA Although Microsoft last month offered users what appeared to be an olive branch by extending fee-based custom support for NT through 2006, the service's flat-rate pricing instead reinforces to many a curt message: Get...

A look into the future; Mergers, VoIP, open source, outsourcing to dominate news.(computer industry forecasts, voice over internet protocol)
January 10, 2005... Byline: ANN BEDNARZ AND JENNIFER MEARS What's in store for 2005? Well, industry experts say to expect network industry merger activity - nearly $60 billion worth of which took place in one week last month - to continue unabated, and...

Divine divination.(computer industry forecasts)
January 10, 2005... Byline: mark gibbs Welcome to 2005! As this is the crystal ball issue, I was looking for predictions about the coming year. I was tempted by molybdomancy (divining from the shapes created by dripping molten lead into cold water) but in the...

Consumer show meets net world.(Consumer Electronics Show)
January 10, 2005... Byline: JOHN COX LAS VEGAS - Beyond the high-end home theater speaker systems, paper shredders, advanced sewing machines and electrical adapters, the Consumer Electronics Show 2005 last week was, at least in part, about taking networks to...

Microsoft plays its wild card; Free patch update server and vulnerability assessment scanner slated to ship this year.
January 17, 2005... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft plays its wild card Free patch update server and vulnerability assessment scanner slated to ship this year. By JOHN FONTANA This could be the year Microsoft finally solves its patch management...

Microsoft's WUS delivers on patch promises; Free software lacks features but could do the trick for cost-conscious companies.(Windows Update Services )
January 17, 2005... Byline: Mandy Andress Microsoft's WUS delivers on patch promises Free software lacks features but could do the trick for cost-conscious companies. By MANDY ANDRESS, NETWORK WORLD ALLIANCE We tested the first public beta of...

Patch management start-ups face pressure from all sides; It's all about control of the software agent sitting on the desktop.
January 17, 2005... Byline: MANDY ANDRESS Pure-play vendors such as Shavlik Technologies, BigFix and PatchLink got off to an early lead in the patch management game, but many established security vendors are adding patching to their arsenals. This means more...

patch management how we did it.(Windows Update Services)(Column)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Mandy Andress How We Did It We had an existing SUS installation running on a 2.6 GHz (1G byte RAM) Windows 2003 server. We opted to test a larger enterprise installation process using SQL server instead of the MSDE database...

Automated tools help, but don't cure all patch ills; Successful patch management requires planning, processes, testing, integration of multiple security tools.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Jeff Vance Automated tools help, but don't cure all patch ills Successful patch management requires planning, processes, testing, integration of multiple security tools. By JEFF VANCE Davidson Healthcare in Lexington,...

Patching isn't a panacea.(patch management)
January 17, 2005... Byline: JEFF VANCE Even the best automated patching system is only one facet of an enterprise security strategy. Even if your organization has an effective patch management process in place, it doesn't mean that you're vulnerability-free....

Full speed ahead for Philly's Wi-Fi plan.(Dianah Neff, chief information officer of Philadelphia city)(wireless fidelity)(Interview)
January 17, 2005... Byline: John Cox Philadelphia this year is forging ahead with one of the most visible and politically charged wireless LAN projects in the country, despite recent efforts by telecom lobbyists to stymie it. The city's CIO, Dianah Neff,...

Managed services: The way of the future.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Thomas Nolle With profits on long-haul voice and data declining at double-digit rates, carriers are looking to boost the bottom line via managed services that bundle equipment, support and transmission into one package. As a...

How ISPs can defend their customers.(information management of internet service providers)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Robert Gezelter The ISP and user communities exemplify what can be accomplished when people work together. Many of the worm and virus outbreaks of the past few years were contained and eliminated only by the unsung cooperation of...

Look ahead 2005 - avoid WLAN 'pileups'.(usage of wireless local area networks)
January 17, 2005... Byline: kevin tolly W ith many technologies, we've had to wait through many "years of" - as in "this is the year of VoIP" - before vendors finally delivered on their promises. That hasn't been the case with wireless LANs. The level of...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
January 17, 2005... Byline: readers It's nice to see a story about the problems with spyware/adware ("Test: Enterprise-level anti-spyware software," www.nwfusion.com, DocFinder: 5524). However, the test seems too positive. None of the anti-spyware...

Be careful of counteroffers; A company's gambit to get you to stay might sound like a bountiful blessing, but a recruiter explains why you should think twice before taking the deal.(tips about Information technology executives management)
January 17, 2005... Byline: STEVE HALL "Should I accept it?" The young IT executive posing the question had been recruited aggressively by one of his company's archrivals. He'd quietly gone on a first interview, then a second, then a third. In due time...

Public nannycams.(usage of internet protocol based cameras)
January 17, 2005... Byline: scott bradner O ne of the problems with IP-based cameras is that unknown people can access them to see what the cameras are pointing to. It would seem to be a no-brainer to try to prevent this, but many people who install IP...

short takes.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to put 3-D holographic labels on its processor boxes)(NSI Software enhanced GeoCluster 4.4 database replicator)(ManageSoft enhanced its network management software)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Advanced Micro Devices will begin putting 3-D holographic labels on the packaging of boxed processors so that customers, resellers and distributors can verify the authenticity of the chips, the company said last week. The move came less than a...

'Net Buzz.(Joel Snyder)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Paul McNamara The dreaded false positive The anti-spam vendor was truly positive that we must have gotten something wrong in assessing the rate of false positives generated by its product in the most recent Network World "Spam...

short takes.(International Business Machines Corp. offers a discount on its Lotus Web Conferencing software)(acquisition of iLytix Systems by SAP AG)(Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Companies willing to trade in competing Web conferencing products can get a discount on IBM's Lotus Web Conferencing software. With a trade-in, companies are eligible for 25% off IBM's current suggested retail price for Lotus Web Conferencing....

short takes.(Nokia Corp. introduced a set of gateways)(CheckPOINT introduced Connectra 2.0 software)(Trend Micro Inc. introduced its first round-the-clock support service)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Nokia has introduced a set of IPSec VPN gateways to support handheld devices for businesses that want to secure connections with mobile workers. The IPVPN product family supports certain Nokia handhelds and cellular phones based on the Symbian...

ROADM spurs DWDM scalability.(reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers)(dense wavelength division multiplexing )
January 17, 2005... Byline: BARRY FIELD New applications, government regulations and the migration of traditional business functions to e-business models are driving deployment of dense wavelength division multiplexing networks as a cost-effective, scalable...

Tsunamis prompt interest in 'Net alerts.(Emergency communications systems)
January 17, 2005... Byline: CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN Imagine this scenario: Minutes before the recent Indian Ocean tsunami crashes into Sri Lanka or Thailand, the cell phones of people lying on the beaches there start to ring and a short text message issues a...

Cisco, EMC team on storage.(agreement between Cisco Systems Inc. and EMC Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Byline: DENI CONNOR Cisco and EMC last week announced a deal that will let customers buy EMC's network-attached storage arrays with Cisco's File Engine appliances. Cisco will re-brand the EMC NS500 and NS700 Series NAS subsystems and...

IPS gets bigger role in spyware defense.(Network Associates Inc. plans to enhance IntruShield software)(TippingPoint Technologies Inc. plans to ship intrusion a high-speed intrusion prevention system)
January 17, 2005... Byline: ELLEN MESSMER Users looking to get a handle on the spyware scourge are getting help from traditional intrusion-prevention system vendors that are starting to add features that block spyware, worms and other security threats. ...

McNealy: We'll keep doing software and hardware; Chairman and CEO weighs in on open source and building complete systems.(Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Interview)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Robert McMillan Sun is staying the course on some things, like building hardware and software systems, but making twists in other areas, such as open sourcing Solaris. Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy spoke recently about what's...

ask dr. internet.(tips about kernel installation)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Byline: steve blass Steve Blass We tried to upgrade a Red Hat system to the newest 2.6.x kernel but something went wrong. It booted using the old kernel, but the network broke. The new kernel compiles but will not install. An error...

BMC adds to ID management arsenal.(acquisition of Calendra by BMC Software Inc.)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Denise Dubie and IDG News Service correspondent Paul Roberts BMC Software last week announced it would pump up its management product suite with the acquisition of Calendra and its identity management technology. BMC will...

Aprisma buy fills out Concord line; Concord solidifies net mgmt. suite with fault management technology.(acquisition of Aprisma Management Technologies by Concord Communications Inc.)
January 17, 2005... Byline: DENISE DUBIE Concord Communications is hoping to win over customers who are looking to reduce the number of vendors they have to deal with to manage their enterprise networks, systems and applications. Concord announced last...

Software unmasks those who try to hide identity.(DB2 Identity Resolution, DB2 Relationship Resolution and DB2 Anonymous Resolution of International Business Machines Corp.)
January 17, 2005... Byline: ANN BEDNARZ Conventional wisdom holds that it's not what you know, but who you know that matters. In the world of identity resolution software, that adage is particularly relevant. Identity resolution software finds...

Trapeze upgrade eases WLAN mgmt.(Trapeze Networks Inc. enhanced RingMaster 3.1)
January 17, 2005... Byline: JOHN COX A new version of Trapeze Networks' wireless LAN design and management application lets administrators configure and monitor large wireless networks more easily. In Version 3.1 of RingMaster, Trapeze introduces...

About those predictions made here last year . . .
January 17, 2005... Byline: Johna Till Johnson O ne of the great things about being a columnist is that you get to critique everybody else's performance from a safe vantage point. Except for once a year, when we pundits dust off last year's predictions...

Hacker landed Secret Service info.(crimes against T-Mobile USA Inc.)(reports of F-Secure Corp. about Lasco computer virus)(Google Inc. plans to develop a desktop search engine)
January 17, 2005... n A hacker penetrated mobile phone company T-Mobile USA's network and accessed information on 400 of the company's customers, including sensitive information from the account of a U.S. Secret Service agent, according to statements by T-Mobile...

Cisco poised for a big buyout year.(acquisition forecasts for Cisco Systems Inc.)
January 17, 2005... Byline: PHIL HOCHMUTH Cisco's 12 acquisitions last year were the most for the network giant since the tech bubble heyday and could portend even bigger spending in 2005. Only 13 days into the new year, Cisco acquired its first company...

Staying happy and cool at CES.(2005 Consumer Electronics Show)
January 17, 2005... Byline: keith shaw A canceled flight, big crowds, long cab lines and even lost luggage couldn't deter my enthusiasm at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show, the annual trade show that gets bigger each year. Among the large TVs (Samsung...

Wireless landscape continues to shift; Alltel acquisition of Western Wireless the latest move in an active industry.(Alltel Communications Co. plans to acquire Western Wireless Corp.)
January 17, 2005... Byline: DENISE PAPPALARDO The wireless service provider market continues to morph as new merger plans are revealed. Last week Alltel Communications announced plans to acquire regional wireless service provider Western Wireless for $6...

VMware tunes virtualization for laptop and desktop PCs.(VMware ACE)
January 17, 2005... Byline: JENNIFER MEARS The W.P. Cary School of Business at Arizona State University in Phoenix wants to make sure its MBA students stay connected. IT managers there also want to make sure the school's network stays secure. So for the...

Service Providers Short Takes.(cases between ex-directors of MCI Inc. and New York State Common Retirement Fund)(Conversent Communications L.L.C. merged with Mid-Atlantic CLEC FiberNet)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... n New York State is still taking a handful of former WorldCom executives, financial auditors and bond underwriters to court despite a $54 million settlement. Ten ex-WorldCom directors recently settled with the New York State Common Retirement...

Mobile VoIP set to roam even wider; INFRASTRUCTURE: The mobile enterprise.(usage of voice over internet protocol at San Antonio Community Hospital)
January 17, 2005... Byline: TIM GREENE While mobile VoIP technology is finding a home in hospitals and manufacturing plants where workers need to stay connected as they roam, rollouts still require painstaking work, users say. At San Antonio Community...

Veritas customers wary of merger; Symantec takeover raises support questions.(Symantec Corp. plans to acquire VERITAS Software Corp.)
January 17, 2005... Byline: DENI CONNOR Security vendor Symantec has taken a beating on Wall Street since announcing plans in December to buy storage management company Veritas Software for $13.5 billion. But perhaps an even more skeptical crowd awaits...

Windows cooperating with Linux, honest!(coLinux)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 17, 2005... Byline: mark gibbs W e are delirious with joy, or maybe it is just that we've spent too long staring at the screen. . . . Whatever, we just found the coolest hack that you just have to check out! We're playing with Debian Linux...

Getting the presidential cell of approval; This week's inauguration to put Nextel technology to the test.(management of Nextel Communications Inc.)
January 17, 2005... Byline: CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN Getting the presidential cell of approval This week's inauguration to put Nextel technology to the test. Driving around the nation's capital, it's impossible to miss the extensive preparations underway...