Caron Carlson

Over the coming year Microsoft Corp. will release more innovations into the marketplace than it ever has before, CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday. Addressing a gathering of government contractors in Washington, D.C., Ballmer said that the Redmond, Wash., company will release a host of new offerings over the next 12 months, including an accounting product […]

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

MCI Inc. Monday launched the NetSec Security Risk Management Service, a repackaging and automation of a number of security offerings the company has delivered in the past. The NetSec service allows enterprises to quantify, prioritize and minimize risks, helping them take steps to prevent security incidents and take action against threats. The service scans the […]

The government has fared poorly in implementing the 9/11 Commissions recommendations to reduce critical infrastructure risks and assess vulnerabilities, according to the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, which is made up of the 10 individuals who served on the commission. In its final report rating the countrys progress in implementing the 41 recommendations made to combat […]

Gearing up for next years midterm elections and looming federal compliance deadlines, state election officials are racing to test electronic ballot machines and implement safeguards against problems that have cast clouds over recent vote counts. Diebold Inc., the countrys largest provider of electronic voting equipment, came under particular scrutiny in California and North Carolina, where […]

The same week that a North Carolina judge refused to shield Diebold Inc. from criminal liability if it fails to comply with a new electronic voting system requirement, the states elections board certified Diebold to continue selling its machines in the state. The North Carolina State Board of Elections on Thursday also certified Election Systems […]

The American Civil Liberties Union today joined an expanding group of organizations filing lawsuits against a new rule that increases the FBIs power to conduct surveillance on the Internet. The rule being challenged is one the Federal Communications Commission adopted in September, granting an FBI request to expand wiretapping authority to online communications. The commission […]

Internet users can be spared up to 95 percent of the spam sent their way if their ISPs use anti-spam filters, according to a report released today by the Federal Trade Commission. In a five-week study, the FTC created 150 covert e-mail addresses and assigned 100 of them to two ISPs that use spam filters […]

Forging further into telecom territory, Microsoft Corp. this week will launch a new version of its Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration to give small and midsize businesses a way to get enterprise-class e-mail service, mobile device data access and other functions without having to invest in infrastructure. Version 3.5 of the hosted messaging software […]

To hasten the telephone industrys migration to IP infrastructure, IBM is heralding a new line of Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystems-based offerings. The IMS products and services aim to speed the migration from legacy telephone facilities to converged infrastructure by using open standards to integrate components from the two environments, according to company officials in Armonk, […]