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Vonage, a broadband phone company, has teamed with Netgear to develop a suite of broadband telephony devices. These devices will incorporate the latest version of Texas Instruments' Voice over IP (VoIP) and wireless LAN chipsets. First available will be a VoIP-enabled 802.11g wireless router followe...
It's as jarring as former First Lady Nancy Reagan saying yes to drugs. The maker of the code hackers love to crack -- Macrovision -- is touting the sharing and copying features of the next version of its CDS-300 copy-protection scheme when it's released in this year's fourth quarter. Those features ...
A few technologies to fight the unsolicited and sometimes unsafe e-mail known as spam have emerged since the volume of the junk mail has increased beyond annoyance, but a Microsoft-backed effort to identify the senders of spam appears to be moving fastest of all the contenders. Joined by other spam ...
Cisco Systems today announced an agreement to acquire privately held P-Cube of Sunnyvale, California. P-Cube is a developer of Internet service control platforms designed to help service providers identify subscribers, classify applications, improve service performance and charge for multiple IP ser...
I come from a time when getting ready for school meant buying a couple of binders, some pencils and some new clothes you wouldn't be caught dead in. Transportation was a one-speed bicycle (no I didn't walk 10 miles in the snow, that was my grandfather), and high tech was a circular slide rule. My fi...
Many believe that "as California goes, so goes the nation." If such is the case, dark days await the nation's telecom sector. The problem stems from the iron grip of regulators on telecom providers. The 1996 Telecom Act set out rules that were supposed to create more competition by mandating that th...
In a dramatic ending that marks a beginning in scientific research, NASA's Genesis spacecraft is set to swing by Earth and jettison a sample return capsule filled with particles of the Sun that might ultimately tell us more about the genesis of our solar system. "The Genesis mission -- to capture a ...
A study on enterprise routers released today by Infonetics Research shows Cisco Systems rates better than the competition when it comes to pricing, security, technology, management features, product roadmap, financial stability and service and support. The study, "User Plans for Routers, North Ameri...
For the first time ever, the major providers of DSL broadband services garnered more new subscribers in a calendar quarter than their cable television competitors. According to figures released by the Leichtman Research Group (LRG) in Durham, New Hampshire, the top DSL providers added 895,336 net ne...
Scientific findings from the NASA rover Spirit's first three months on Mars will be published Friday, marking the start of a flood of peer-reviewed discoveries in scientific journals from the continuing two-rover adventure. Researchers using Spirit's toolkit of geological instruments from early Janu...
The Internet industry has been waging a quiet battle for bragging rights to being king of the e-mail security mountain in recent months. Proponents of a new e-mail security standard dubbed Sender ID might soon claim that title. More than 80 members of the E-mail Service Provider Coalition (ESPC) gat...
Nielsen//NetRatings is reporting that broadband connections for the first time reached 51 percent of the American online population at home during the month of July, as compared to 38 percent last July. Sixty-three million Web users connected to the Internet via broadband during July 2004 as compare...
Nielsen//NetRatings is reporting that broadband connections for the first time reached 51 percent of the American online population at home during the month of July, as compared to 38 percent last July. Sixty-three million Web users connected to the Internet via broadband during July 2004 as compare...
Viruses and spam -- and the techniques used to create, disguise and distribute both -- are converging into a single threat in which the two computer disruptions depend on one another in a sort of symbiotic manner, according to security experts. Security firm MessageLabs highlighted the convergence i...
Troubled Roxio, owner of the equally troubled Napster 2, is deceased. Or, rather, it's dropping the Roxio part and is taking a second shot at using the Napster name to revive its failing fortunes. The firm has been tottering along for months, issuing statements based more on hope than reality and cl...