Caron Carlson

Would you like peanut butter with your chocolate, or chocolate with your peanut butter? Thats the kind of conundrum enterprises sometimes face when trying to choose a system for converging voice and data traffic. At American Freightways Inc., there is no room for error in voice communications, so when the company began replacing traditional PBX […]

The American Antitrust Institute Inc. in Washington asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for a preliminary injunction to prevent the Department of Justice from closing the public comment period in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust settlement case. The 60-day comment period originally was scheduled to close Jan. 28, but AAI charges that […]

Telecommunications vendors and service providers have been pushing Internet Protocol-based products and converged networking for some time now, but they have discovered that network managers want to be able to differentiate among voice, data and video traffic, and control each path separately with varying degrees of quality of service, even if it is all moving […]

Aurigin Systems Inc., an intellectual property analysis software developer, has been operating without leadership, having lost its entire executive management team and board of directors earlier this month. The reasons for the mass resignation, which included six executives, remain unclear, but, according to several sources, they involve clashing opinions among investors regarding funding terms as […]

Dr. Rohit Keswani, a partner in a two-physician private rehabilitation practice in West Orange, N.J., is away from his office 90 percent of the workday. But for $13 a month, he and his partner can gain access to all their voice mail, e-mail, faxes and patients medical files at any time—from anyplace they can get […]

Although the cast is made primarily of well-known characters, mostly uttering already familiar lines, the latest scene in Microsoft Corp.s antitrust wrangling consists of thousands of pages of public comments, including some from renowned economists and politicians. After reviewing the comments in what is known as the Tunney Act proceeding, the court will determine whether […]

Aurigin Systems Inc., which develops intellectual property analysis software, is operating without leadership, having lost its entire executive management team and board of directors earlier this month. However, the Cupertino, Calif., company remains technically in business, and its servers, on which numerous Fortune 500 companies rely for IP asset management, are still running, according to […]

Longtime residential DSL service provider Speakeasy Inc. is trying to make inroads into the small- and mid-sized business market with the rollout this week of a new T1 connection package and dedicated customer service program. Today approximately 70 percent of Speakeasys customers are residential consumers, but the Seattle-based company aims to achieve an even split […]

Ron Nelson sunk roots at Ameron International Corp. as a data communications specialist, but when the manufacturer of industrial pipes eliminated five office management jobs, he was left in charge of voice telephony as well as data. Thats when Nelson decided it was time for convergence. Nelson confronted the dilemma many IT managers at small […]

In todays political climate, much of the discussion surrounding energy focuses on ways to increase the supply. However, both the Bush administration and Congress are working on ways to reduce energy demand by limiting the amount of power used by devices including computers, monitors and telephones. The Department of Energy in the next couple of […]