Wayne Rash

A BellSouth spokesperson has denied reports that the company had agreed to turn over phone call records to the National Security Agency. “We have no contract with the NSA and we have not turned over any customer information to the NSA,” said Jeff Battcher, BellSouths vice president of corporate communications, in an interview with eWEEK […]

For the second time May 16, a major phone company named in a USA Today story about records being sent to the National Security Agency is denying that any such records were sent. Earlier on May 16, BellSouth issued a very strong denial that the company was even contacted by the NSA, much less asked […]

The White House on May 11 defended a newly revealed domestic intelligence program in which the National Security Agency has been collecting the domestic phone call records from tens of millions of Americans since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In a statement to the press, President George W. Bush said that the […]

Privacy groups responded with outrage to a May 11 news report that the National Security Agency is collecting records of billions of phone calls made in the United States. USA Today reported that the NSA secretly collected phone call records supplied by AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon. “A lot of us are starting to think the […]

LAS VEGAS—Wireless mobility provider Trapeze Networks has teamed with DaVitas Networks, a new provider of mobility software and appliances, to deliver the ability for handset users to roam freely between Wi-Fi and cellular networks without interrupting a call. DaVitas will deliver handset software and an appliance for enterprise networks. Together with the Trapeze Mobility System […]

Siemens Communications Enterprise, the communications subsidiary of Siemens AG, has begun enabling SOA in some of its major telephony applications. More applications will be enabled in 2006. In addition, the company will add Web services interfaces to any applications that wont have service-oriented architecture capabilities, or to applications to which SOA cannot be added. The […]

Novell bought security event management vendor e-Security April 19 in a $72 million cash deal. E-Security, based in Vienna, Va., is best known for its Sentinel 5 Security Event Manager. Executives for both companies say that the acquisition is a natural fit. “Novell has a very well respected identity management product and our architecture and […]

Despite a few potentially dramatic moments—the missed surprise regarding Microsofts Origami project in which the suspense was broken by Intel comes to mind—this years CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, had products that were best described as evolutionary rather than revolutionary: better security, more integrated supply chain solutions, VOIP everywhere. But that doesnt mean that this […]

Fighting against the ravages of nature and the extremes of weather has become part of the job for Jan Rideout, the vice president and sector CIO for Ships Systems at Northrup Grumman, the company that builds the latest, most powerful destroyers for the U.S. Navy. Rideouts IT operation has been based at the companys shipyard […]

Imagine what it must be like to attempt a phone call in the littered wasteland that was once the central Gulf Coast of the United States. Not only are there no phones, there are no phone lines, no central offices, nothing. While there is cell service—T-Mobile was apparently running at full capacity within a day […]