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By Ed Finn As broadband competition heats up, the European broadband market offers some important lessons for U.S. providers thinking about data volume limitations, according to a new research report. Jupiter Research (which shares a parent company with this site) studied broadband service providers in both maturing and emerging European markets, and concluded that “veteran” […]

By Eva Marer Chip making giant Intel Wednesday said it would begin shipping silicon with the standard, known as 802.16a, or WiMAX by the second half of this year. In a room full of eager broadband and networking professionals at the Wireless Communications Association (WCA) annual symposium in San Jose, the company said it expects […]

By Jacqueline Emigh NEW YORK — Novell CEO Jack Messman says Novell is done with UnitedLinux. During the LinuxWorld Expo here, Messman's talked up the beta release of GroupWise for Linux; membership in the Eclipse developers' group; ELA3+ certification for the newly acqured SUSE Linux; and Linux porting relationships with BEA, Veritas and Egnera. During […]

By Alexander Wolfe NEW YORK — SCO Group’s legal moves over Linux will fizzle, but the IT world may soon feel a new chill in the form of patent lawsuits from other vendors, open-source advocate Bruce Perens predicted Wednesday. “SCO is not the real threat,” he said during the LinuxWorld Expo here. In a limited-invite […]

By Sean Michael Kerner A day after further protecting its users against potential IP infringement, the world’s leading Linux distributor is offering enterprise customers network-based provisioning tools. Red Hat announced Wednesday a new provisioning module that will be deployed as part of the Red Hat Network (RHN). RHN is Red Hat’s updating tool that allows […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Number one Linux distributor Red Hat announced today that all of its Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscribers will be protected under its Open Source Assurance program. The move comes less than a week after business software company Novell said it would offer indemnification protection to its customers in the face of alleged […]

By Sean Michael Kerner The minds behind the Mozilla Web browser have taken to fixing bugs in it’s latest version 1.6 (code-named SeaMonkey) released late Thursday. The platform from the Mountain View, Calif.-based consortium competes with Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer browser, which needs a handful of patches against a critical exploit that was discovered in […]

In a sign of burgeoning support for broadband wireless, 39 new members, including AT&T and Covad, have joined the WiMax Forum. The group now boasts 67 members, more than double its size five months ago. The WiMax Forum was set up to promote and certify equipment based on the IEEE 802.16 wireless metropolitan area networking […]

Australia’s SkyNetGlobal has signed a contract to provide wireless broadband service to GRIC Communications customers at its locations in Singapore, specifically 119 McDonald’s restaurant hotspots, as well as future locations in that country. — January 16, 2004 The New York Public Library has had wireless access in 53 branches located in the Bronx (34) and […]

By Sean Michael Kerner It’s not a surprise, but for some it still hurts. Users of Red Hat operating systems this week received an “end-of-life” (EOL) e-mail notifying them that support for the popular Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8 versions has ended. “We will no longer be producing security, bugfix, or enhancement […]

By Sean Michael Kerner While lawmakers recently passed the Can-Spam act to control the spread of unwanted messages and malicious code, industry groups are trying to do their part too. The newest such group, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), was announced today. Led by Openwave , the group includes telecoms and Internet service providers, […]

By Craig McGuire Targeting China’s blossoming online auction market, U.S. Internet and portal powerhouse Yahoo is joining with Chinese Web portal SINA.com to jointly launch a new web-based auction service. In a joint statement, Yahoo and SINA revealed that the auctions-based e-commerce service will be aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses and buyers and sellers […]