Wayne Rash

In a 3–2 decision shortly before the departure of former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell, the FCC voted to approve a petition from BellSouth Corp. to suspend public utility commission regulations that required the company to provide unbundled DSL service to customers. Unbundled or “naked” DSL is a data-only service without the voice line […]

Picture the world of voice traffic on the Internet as a dark and forbidding place, rife with mobsters, con artists and shadowy sellers of dubious products. Now picture getting hundreds of calls from these people every day. Imagine your worst day ever of telemarketing, back before the Do Not Call list, and then magnify it […]

Citadel Security Software Inc. plans to move to a dramatically different pricing model with the next release of its Hercules software in May, CEO Steve Solomon told eWEEK.com in an exclusive interview. According to Solomon, the pay-as-you-go pricing model will make vulnerability remediation more affordable, especially to smaller companies. Solomon, who likened the program to […]

TriCipher will announce a new type of strong authentication Tuesday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco that it says will make authentication much easier to use and manage. TriCipher Inc., which was spun off from Japanese technology company Nippon Systems Development Inc. (site in Japanese) in Kansai, Japan, says its authentication technology uses a […]

If Carly Fiorina is to be remembered for anything at Hewlett-Packard, now that she has resigned effective immediately from her post as chairwoman and CEO, it is for some fundamental changes she brought to the company. The most obvious was the acquisition of Compaq Computer in May 2002. It was one of the biggest acquisitions […]

When the VOIP Security Alliance announced its existence on Monday, the group said that it was focusing on the kinds of threats we already see on the Internet. Things such as spam aimed at VOIP systems, denial-of-service attacks, perhaps exploits aimed at telephony equipment or at routers that move calls from place to place. Its […]

A diverse group of equipment and software vendors, security companies, and researchers has banded together to form a new organization aimed at keeping voice over IP threats from hurting the growth of the technology. The VOIP Security Alliance is intended to help companies with discussion lists, white papers and research efforts. The organization plans to […]

The city of Philadelphia will release details of its wireless expansion plan next week. The plan, according to city CIO Dianah Neff, is to cover the entire city from downtown to local neighborhoods with low-cost, wireless broadband access. “Were getting ready to announce how were moving forward with Wireless Philadelphia,” Neff said. She added that […]

Rand McNally has started delivering real-time traffic information to some wireless phone users, the company announced Wednesday. Rand McNally & Co. is working with Annapolis, Md.-based TCS (TeleCommunication Systems Inc.) to deliver the data. Initially, the traffic information will be made available to Java- and BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless)-equipped smart phones from Sprint […]

Theres a probably apocryphal story that floats around the VOIP community when the subject of emergency phone calls comes up. In that story, an office worker, some say a Cisco engineer, has a heart attack and dials 911. Paramedics arrive, but no one has any idea where the victim is. He dies before hes found. […]