Caron Carlson

WASHINGTON—Shes sleek and dazzling, with sparkling lights on top, luring passersby to her spot on the bustling floor of the FOSE Conference and Exhibition. Shes not the scantily clad “spokesmodel” who occupies the typical technology trade show, however. This siren is a bright, black, shining Hummer. The exhibition floor at this years FOSE, the annual […]

The Federal Election Commission, the publics window into campaign finance, is gradually shifting its IT infrastructure to a virtualized system of services managed remotely. In a five-year contract just signed with Savvis Federal Systems, the FEC will begin the migration with some of its server functions. Until now, the FEC owned an FTP server and […]

To help large enterprises and government agencies simplify the process of conforming to federal data-handling mandates, Brabeion Software released new compliance management software the week of March 6 at the VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Fla. The Brabeion Compliance Center 6.0 was designed to help reduce the cost of meeting the terms of regulations by implementing […]

AT&T is framing its planned acquisition of BellSouth as a way to become more innovative, nimble and efficient, but not all business customers may see direct benefits from the changes. For companies in BellSouths territory, the loss of one of the two major network suppliers would mean a significant reduction in choices, but the competitive […]

Do contemporary advances in technology entitle the president to ignore federal laws if he believes they might get in the governments way in time of war? That is the underlying question that lawmakers and legal scholars are grappling with as they attempt to address President Bushs stated justification for authorizing the National Security Agency to […]

The chief technology officers of 11 of the countrys largest software companies were on Capitol Hill March 2 to let legislators and administration officials know what theyre looking for out of Washington this year: More funding for research and development, more funding for patent reform and intellectual property protection, and more funding for math and […]

Fears that large network operators are planning actions that will undermine the Internets open architecture prompted a diverse coalition of content providers, applications companies and user advocates to turn to Congress on March 1 for help. The coalition of 64 organizations, including Amazon.com, eBay, Google, Expedia, EarthLink, Consumer Electronics Association and Consumer Federation of America, […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has agreed to a controversial litigation settlement with VeriSign, the operator of the Internets .com registry, outlining the future operation of the registry pending approval by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The ICANN board of directors, chaired by Internet co-founder Vint Cerf, on Feb. 28 voted 9-to-5 […]

A coalition of more than 50 charities, unions, health care groups, unions and other nonprofit organizations joined forces to oppose a plan by AOL to charge mass e-mail senders a fee for guaranteed delivery to AOL members in-boxes. Calling the proposed service an “e-mail tax,” the coalition is trying to drum up opposition among AOLs […]

The name for the federal electronic surveillance program designed to protect the nations borders keeps changing as the cost of the technology rises, but some of the same problems haunt the program from name to name. The Department of Homeland Securitys recently launched SBI (Secure Border Initiative) replaces the ASI (Americas Shield Initiative), which in […]