Caron Carlson

WASHINGTON–The Bush administrations request for broad new electronic surveillance powers cleared a major hurdle last week when a House of Representatives judiciary panel approved anti-terrorism legislation, teeing it up for a vote on the House floor this week. Lawmakers reined in many of the administrations requests regarding terrorist suspect detention as well as notification of […]

Imagine if lawyers in a courtroom could access all of the legal resources, such as the Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw research sites, from their wireless phones through their firms Web portal. Consider the potential time that could be saved in the over-burdened courts if lawyers didnt have to break for recesses to check documents. Just such […]

WASHINGTON — The American Antitrust Institute on Friday touted a package of conduct remedies it would like the government to impose on Microsoft Corp. to improve competition in the operating system market. The proposals focus on giving computer manufacturers the right to control the initial boot-up sequence of their products, requiring Microsoft to license DOS-based […]

Members of the House of Representatives charged with overseeing the judiciary approved an array of new electronic surveillance powers late Wednesday evening. However, wary of trampling on civil liberties as the government has done during past national crises, lawmakers reined in the Bush administrations anti-terrorism requests and set the new powers to expire at the […]

In an effort to make greater inroads into the service provider market, Cisco Systems Inc. today announced three products slated to give carriers new and cheaper means of selling high-end IP-based services to the enterprise. Together, the products aim to accelerate what Cisco envisions as a trend toward deeper integration of public and private, commercial […]

Banking on the accelerated adoption of IP gear at the network core, Lucent Technologies Inc. is once again rethinking its MPLS product line. Less than four months after introducing its multiservice ATM (asynchronous transfer mode)-based Multiprotocol Label Switching platform as the “new flagship product,” the Murray Hill, N.J., vendor last week said it was doing […]

Despite gains by privacy activists calling for restraint in the governments efforts to expand its surveillance powers, insiders say greater access to data traveling over private networks is inevitable. Nevertheless, efforts by the Bush administration to press Congress for swift enactment of new wiretap legislation in the aftermath of the terrorist hijackings last month were […]

Having secured government approval to shut off service this week, Rhythms NetConnections Inc. followed its fellow DSL pure play, NorthPoint Communications Inc., into the dustbin of failed broadband service providers. Although the digital subscriber line business is consolidating rapidly, a battle for the enterprises DSL business is shaping up between incumbent local telephone companies and […]

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives were slated to polish up an anti-terrorism bill drafted by the Department of Justice this week but decided to put it off until they have given the expanded police power provisions a closer look. The House Judiciary Committee heard from privacy advocates and from Attorney General John Ashcroft Monday […]

A week after devastating terrorist attacks in the United States, small and midsize enterprises in Lower Manhattan continued to seek new ways to patch their networks together as ISPs and local exchange carriers made further repairs to access lines and facilities. Actan Inc., a trading software developer on Broad Street in New York—about four blocks […]