InternetNews Staff

SAN JOSE, Calif. — This was our second time picking the Best of Show for a Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo, and was certainly the toughest. The vendors on the exhibit floor are showing a range of quality products in a number of categories, any number of which could be a perfect solution in the […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its December 2003 survey from 45,980,112 sites. This is 1 million (about 2.3 percent) more sites than responded in November. Although it represents yet another peak in the number of responses received, the four top-four […]

Computerworld is reporting this week on the existence of a new piece of software that could trick users of hotspots into logging into the wrong place. Called Airsnarf, the Linux-based software is a “simple rogue wireless access point” that could be used by hackers to send out a Wi-Fi signal that any user would intercept […]

The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web sites, nearly 90 percent are “orphans” to which no other sites link. Security Space’s Web server survey counts only those servers […]

Enterprise Storage Snapshots offers a weekly wrap-up of what’s going on in the storage industry. Here are our storage news highlights for the second week of November: Nexsan gives birth to ‘ATAbaby Twins,’ CATC introduces a new protocol analyzer with SATA-I and SATA-II support, Winchester Systems launches a new ‘SAN-In-A-Box’ line of storage systems, Finisar […]

Research into the world of hotspots: ForceNine Consulting said this week that only 17% of the hotspots in the United States are in the places most likely to see major usage: hotels, airports, and convention centers. ForceNine, like most of the industry, thinks the business traveler is driving the hotspot market. They also said the […]

SRA International will provide a broad range of enterprise-wide IT services to support the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) technology infrastructure under a $328 million, six-year contract awarded by the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM). USAID is an independent federal agency that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance […]

Akamai Technologies and China Telecom are teaming to improve the speed and reliability of Internet service in China, the companies said this morning. Under a new partnership, Akamai will place its edge servers inside China Telecom’s network, improving the delivery of static and rich Web content and applications to subscribers and providing better use of […]

Borland Software Corp. has launched Janeva 6, an upgrade featuring security improvements along with a new “call back” functionality that is currently lacking in some Web services deployments. The release is the second time the Scots Valley, Calif., software company has upgraded its Janeva application since it first launched in May (version 2.5 came out […]

Nothing is free in a hospital — not the television, not the phone in the room, and not even in Canada. Hospitality Network (HN), which provides rental of such services to healthcare facilities around that nation, will soon be providing another service: wireless Internet access. It will be powered by FatPort, the Vancouver, B.C. based […]

As part of a restructuring announced in July, Redback Networks has filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan. If approved, the document would erase $467 million in debt and reduce operating expenses by a third, officials with the San Jose, Calif., broadband networking systems, the company said. Earlier, Redback tried to complete an out-of-court restructuring. […]

MCI’s reorganization plan has won court approval, clearing the way for the Ashburn, Va., telecom giant to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. “We have reached our confirmation faster than anyone expected,” said chairman and CEO Michael D. Capellas, who took on the task of rehabilitiating MIC after holding the top job at Compaq. The […]