Caron Carlson

Boston main streets, a cooperative initiative between Bostons Office of Business Development and 19 nonprofit neighborhood groups, is overseeing the deployment of a free public wireless access pilot project in four commercial districts. The objective is to promote economic rejuvenation in areas that need it without putting any strain on the citys budget. The installation […]

Ending a standoff that threatened to keep the U.S. Senate in Washington for the holidays, lawmakers agreed to a six-month extension of the USA Patriot Acts police powers that were about to expire, buying them more time to negotiate civil rights safeguards in the new year. The governments power to seize a companys sensitive customer […]

In another acquisition announcement, Sprint Nextel said it will buy Velocita Wireless, a wireless data service company that provides e-mail, messaging, vehicle location, point-of-sale and other services to about 400,000 enterprise and government customers. The acquisition brings Sprint Nextel much-needed spectrum in the 900MHz band to fill in gaps in the IDEN Walkie-Talkie-like network built […]

Ending a standoff that threatened to keep the Senate in Washington for the holidays, lawmakers agreed to a six-month extension of the USA Patriot Acts police powers that were about to expire, buying them more time to negotiate civil rights safeguards in the new year. The governments power to seize a companys sensitive customer data […]

Washington policymakers face several decisions in 2006 that will affect networking for years to come. The overarching challenge on Capitol Hill and at federal regulatory agencies will be to prevent rapidly evolving Internet services from clashing with the decades-old policy framework for security, privacy protection, law enforcement needs and communications subsidies. Lawmakers have two major […]

Nearly half of all adults in the United States avoid making purchases online because they are afraid that their personal information could be stolen, according to a new poll sponsored by the Cyber Security Industry Alliance. Seventy-two percent of the 1,151 respondents to the poll conducted in November said new laws are needed to protect […]

In a bipartisan vote, the U.S. Senate Friday blocked passage of a bill reauthorizing controversial surveillance provisions of the USA Patriot Act. Revelations last night that President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 authorizing spying on U.S. citizens without a court order spurred some senators to reject the bill. The bill would create a […]

Sens. John Ensign, R-Nev., and Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., on Thursday introduced a bill responding to the tech industrys plea for more federal investment in research and development and greater incentives for innovation. The National Innovation Act of 2005 would nearly double the National Science Foundations research funding level by 2011, and it would set up […]

Top executives from more than 50 corporations and universities around the country were in Washington last week to hobnob with members of President Bushs cabinet and to lobby for increased federal investment in R&D. The gathering took place at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where the National Association of Manufacturers hosted a discussion on ways […]

Adomo Inc. will add speech recognition capabilities and flexible call routing to its voice messaging technology this week to make communications smoother for enterprises with multiple sites and employees who are frequently on the road. Version 5.0 of Adomos Voice Messaging for Exchange software will come with a speech-enabled automated attendant, targeting users inconvenienced by […]