Caron Carlson

As routers become an increasingly popular target of attack for sophisticated hackers, several public and private Internet security organizations have joined together to offer a fix. The SANS (System Administration, Networking and Security) Institute, working with UUNet, Cable &Wireless plc, the National Security Agency and the Center for Internet Security developed a Router Audit Tool […]

Think back to your college dining hall and recall the 300-pound football player who paid the same board you paid but consumed three times the food. When it comes to bandwidth consumption, college campuses—and enterprises everywhere—can allocate resources much more fairly. At Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, Pa., students use the Internet to research term papers, […]

The technology group at Colliers International Property Consultants Inc.s Seattle office buys its PCs, notebook computers and edge servers from Dell Computer Corp. So, when Dell leapt into the telecommunications networking arena with a set of managed and unmanaged switches last fall, it made sense for Colliers to test the computer makers networking gear. “Dell […]

Eighty to 100 milliseconds may not sound like a lot of time, but when you shave that much off each time it takes a customer to do business on your Web site, it adds up. FreeMarkets Inc., a sponsor of business-to-business online auctions, is cutting its customers transaction time by 80 to 100 milliseconds by […]

Apart from appropriating a weighty increase in federal IT security spending in the coming year, the single most important step lawmakers can take to make the Internet safer is carve out a Freedom of Information Act exemption for enterprises that share information with the government, the White House cybersecurity chief said today. Richard Clarke, special […]

Because information technology is a cornerstone of the homeland defense initiative, the Bush administration seeks $52 billion for it in fiscal year 2003—a 15 percent increase over the previous budget. As a result, after a decade of leaving IT innovation primarily to the commercial sector, the federal government is reasserting its role as a driver […]

At American Freightways Inc. there is no room for error in voice communications, so when the company began replacing traditional PBX systems with VOIP platforms at some of its older customer centers, it chose an IP product line from a vendor steeped in telephony, Siemens AG. “The customer centers are pretty much where the rubber […]

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said today that she will hold a hearing as part of her review of the landmark Microsoft Corp./U.S. Department of Justice antitrust settlement proposal before she begins hearing a parallel case for tougher remedies brought by nine states that rejected the settlement deal. The judge said that the structure of […]

Dell Computer Corp. has extended its PowerConnect switch line to include two new products for small and midsized businesses. For small and medium businesses that want to upgrade to Gigabit Ethernet without adding to the complexity of their systems, Dell on Wednesday released the PowerConnect 2508. With eight ports, the 2508 provides traffic aggregation and […]

The federal governments antitrust settlement deal with Microsoft Corp. elicited an unprecedented number of comments from the public–so many that the settling partners are asking the court to limit third parties further participation in the settlement approval process, known as the Tunney Act review. The Justice Department received more than 30,000 comments, of which approximately […]