Caron Carlson

AT&T Corp.s business services are growing in key markets, sustaining the companys prospects even as its long-distance voice revenue falls and the telecom sector continues to wait out tight economic times. AT&T today reported third-quarter revenue of $8.6 billion, down 8.1 percent from the third quarter last year. The decrease in revenue results from a […]

Juniper Networks Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. are rallying the industry to develop intercarrier interface standards to make the public data network as secure and reliable as private networks. The idea is to allow enterprises to turn over more of their networking tasks to service providers and to allow vendors to sell more routers and […]

Some of the same software companies that have outsourced jobs overseas in recent years in response to growing competitive pressures are urging policy-makers to do more to protect American jobs and promote U.S.-based innovation and expertise. The tension between short-term corporate fiduciary responsibilities and long-term market goals was demonstrated in the seemingly divergent messages of […]

WASHINGTON—The Bush administration has made e-government one of its top priorities, encouraging citizens, for example, to file taxes and renew licenses online. But some security experts are questioning whether that initiative, which links federal systems to home and office computers, exacerbates the vulnerabilities of the nations cyber-infrastructure. The U.S. House of Representatives recently approved legislation […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Commerce recently set up a federal task force to examine the latest Internet Protocol, Ipv6. The government wants to better understand the impact that the standard could have on Internet security and what the governments role will be in deploying the standard. Ipv6 proponents tout the new protocol, which greatly expands […]

WASHINGTON—Senators concerned about the impact of the USA Patriot Act on civil rights spoke out today in favor of amending the hastily passed law to reinstate limits on government surveillance powers. Proponents of amending the USA Patriot Act hope to see such legislation included in one of the spending bills Congress plans to pass before […]

A federal appeals court ruled last week that cable broadband networks must be opened to rival ISPs to spur the kind of competition envisioned by the countrys telecommunications law. The ruling was widely welcomed by cable broadband users and consumer advocates, who see hope for improved reliability and customer responsiveness through competition. Cable companies have […]

IBM and Cisco Systems Inc. Friday said the companies are working together to develop a common technology for detecting, recording and resolving networking and computing problems. The ever-growing complexity of enterprise data systems, usually built on a wide diversity of technologies, makes problem analysis difficult. Standardization of problem detection across the infrastructure is slated to […]

WASHINGTON—The CEOs of Entrust Inc., RSA Security Inc., Microsoft Corp. and nine other major software companies Wednesday unveiled a task force to elevate the importance of cyber-security among top executives in the private sector and at government agencies. Other than tax breaks and class-action reform to protect them from frivolous lawsuits, the software executives are […]

WASHINGTON—Even as many software companies have outsourced jobs overseas in recent years in response to growing competitive pressures, some of those same companies were in Washington last week urging policy-makers to do more to protect American jobs and promote U.S.-based innovation and expertise. The tension between short-term corporate fiduciary duties and long-term market goals was […]