Erin Joyce

You might say the experiences of Neal Creighton, the CEO and co-founder of GeoTrust, have taught him a thing or two about security. The West Point grad served five years as an Army officer and was a tank platoon leader in Desert Storm. From there, he branched into information security, identity verification and certification markets […]

Toys “R” Us is leaving Amazon.com. The children’s toy retailing giant said today that a Chancery Court in New Jersey ruled in its favor as part of a lawsuit against Amazon.com. The ruling effectively ends a 10-year, co-branded marketing marriage between the retailing heavies. In the end, the dispute — and the divorce — came […]

It’s that hip factor, that intangible tangible known as cool that the iPod confers. Software makers and sellers want a piece of that marketing power. And they want some of their space back on store shelves that iPod has swiped from them. Apple’s iPods are flying off the shelves so fast that retailers are adding […]

NEW YORK — Lenovo who? Oh, the guys that make the ThinkPad laptops. The world’s third-largest PC maker is on a quest to build both market share and mindshare with its products. It’s using the power of its ThinkPad lines as a launching pad. The China-based Lenovo is also gearing up to meet No. 1 […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Reporter’s Notebook: Attending the annual RSA Security Conference is like staying afloat in an ocean. You keep moving or drown in the information at the massive conference. Then there are the big ocean liners that steam through carrying big-theme-cargo, like two-factor authentication, which clearly is a technology ready to break into […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — What are the hot topics and trends with enterprise customers? Where are they putting their resources? Executives at the RSA Security Conference here say the answer depends on who’s doing the talking. Richard Palmer of Cisco Systems’s security technology group said SSL-based VPNs are very hot. In the firewall space, he’s […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Wake up, security industry. And get the back ends of Roman warhorses out of your thinking in order to meet the challenge of today’s enterprise security needs. That was just one part of a larger message to technology and security professionals at the RSA Security conference here. “Who among us believes […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Got green in your browser’s URL bar? If you do with the latest IE, the technology industry wants you to associate it with confidence in secure online transactions. Or at least give the user a visual clue if a site is actually spoofed. At a time when research suggests that more […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Authentication and encryption up and down the stack are the watchwords at the annual RSA Security Conference here. And not just for the usual suspects, such as government, financial services providers and defense. Every day, business users and eventually consumers will be moving closer to storing more of their digital identities […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — UPDATED: The network would like to know: Who are you? After a year of headlines about major data breaches at big-name data providers, IT managers and data sentinels in many networks are asking that question more aggressively. With good reason. Security vendors say enterprises need to be a lot more picky […]

We’re swimming in search engine providers: vertical search for that business sector, specialized search for everything from flow valves to blog topics. But Google still rules everyone’s minds (and market share, according to Neilsen//NetRatings)when starting a search. What’s a player with a unique approach to the technology to do? Exalead’s CEO, Francois Bourdoncle, recently chatted […]

Google and Dell are testing search and toolbar placement pilots that could put the search giant’s software in the catbird seat with the world’s number one PC maker. A Dell spokesman confirmed to internetnews.com that the computer maker is currently running a test with Google that includes some of Google’s products, including a Dell-powered home […]