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WiMax will soon be rolling into truck stops across the country, according to satellite network provider Broadcast International (BI) . The Salt Lake City-based company said that it will begin trials in the next three months to provide a video on demand service for truckers using the wireless metropolitan area networking (MAN) technology. Also known […]

Cheap is often seen as a disparaging word — it smacks of caveat emptor — let the buyer beware. But cheap can by synomynous with being a bargain, particularly in the case of the Satellite S270 wireless notebook PC, Toshiba’s latest low-end laptop introduced this week. Toshiba’s digital products division offers three different families of […]

By Sean Michael Kerner It’s difficult to have a week go by when there isn’t another virus alert for some new destructive malware variant and this week has been no different. Despite an increased focus on security this week, Trojans, worms, and virus continue to mutate into new variants and new attacks against internet users […]

By Ron Miller The latest in cutting edge wireless technologies on display this week focus mainly on making them friendly for the enterprise. At this week’s GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, the hot topics include digital rights management for wireless technology, browsers that can handle bigger pages on smaller devices (driven by a Linux […]

By Ron Miller AT&T and MCI have agreed to end their legal battle over whether MCI passed on fraudulent call-routing charges, as AT&T had alleged in lawsuits against the formerly-named WorldCom, which is emerging from bankruptcy as MCI. The two companies announced Monday they had settled the dispute, which arose while MCI was negotiating with […]

Ron Miller The Pentagon will use a 2132 processor Evolocity II cluster computing system from Linux Networx to equip the Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC), the Department of Defense (DoD) announced Friday. The cluster, which was purchased under the High Performance Computing Modernization Program, is the largest ever sold to the DoD […]

The Detroit Free Press says that two group are trying to catalyze community wireless networks in the Motor City. The first is called Detroit Wireless Project and will be holding meetings downtown to brief groups on the ease of setting up a hotspot. The other is DetroitCONNECTED, which wants to get hotzones into poor neighborhoods. […]

Until standards for quality of service and roaming on Wi-Fi networks are finalized, enterprises looking to deploy voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) systems must deal with proprietary gear. Of course, it’s helpful if they know up front that that equipment will work with their existing WLAN infrastructure, so some companies are taking it upon themselves to […]

Sean Michael Kerner Cisco plans to team with Singapore’s A*Star Data Storage Institute (DSI) to promote an IP-based storage area (SAN) network across the Asia-Pacific region. DSI is a national research institute established by the Singapore government in 1992 and is ranked among the top six storage research and development centers worldwide. San Jose, Calif.-based […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Taking aim at its conferencing rivals, Cisco today announced a barrage of new and improved products for its Internet protocol communications system. “It’s a very large release with a great deal of functionality in it,” said Hank Lambert, a product marketing director with the San Jose, Calif., company. The enhancements revolve […]

By Ron Miller Two of the nation’s largest Internet service providers (ISPs) filed civil actions against bulk e-mailers Thursday to combat the continuing spam flooding ISP servers. Dulles, Va.-based America Online (AOL) filed a $1.6 million civil law suit in Florida, claiming that a software firm conspired with international spammers based in Thailand to deliver […]

America Online’s executive vice president of brand marketing has stepped down from advertising responsibilities to take on special projects for the company. Len Short, who worked at AOL a little more than a year, has relinquished day-to-day advertising responsibilities. AOL’s Richard Taylor, now senior VP of brand advertising and promotions, will take over agency relationships, […]