Jim Wagner

Privacy advocates around the U.S. poured considerable outrage on Comcast Corp. last week, after discovering that the cable ISP was logging the IP addresses and Web surfing activities of its users. But the broader point here may be that ISPs’ terms of service (TOS) agreements — also known as an acceptable use policy (AUP) — […]

An international software solutions provider has tapped webMethods Inc. to provide the actual software for Web services applications going forward, officials announced Thursday. Lawson Software will use webMethods applications for its own e-Procurement solutions down the road. With the Web services application, Lawson clients can connect their system to other companies over the Internet, regardless […]

In Cannes, France this week, Nokia is putting on a show for 3GSM World Congress attendees. In addition to the usual deluge of product announcements Wednesday that are standard at any industry convention, the wireless phone maker issued a call to other wireless equipment vendors to open up standards for interoperability in a wide variety […]

AT&T WorldNet’s servers are in the middle of a spam attack right now that has essentially kept customers from sending and receiving emails since Monday morning. According to Janet Wyles, WorldNet spokesperson, email delays started Sunday mid-morning, the result of spam from email servers around the world flooding and overcoming WorldNet’s email servers’ ability to […]

There’s a new president and chief executive officer handling the day-to-day activities of retooled VerticalNet Inc. , a company that spent most of 2001 shedding unprofitable divisions from its operations and finding a new business model. The changes come just as the company gets ready to show off its new look to investors and the […]

It seems Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, isn’t happy with the current definition of an Internet service provider (ISP), and announced in a meeting Thursday afternoon his plans to define broadband ISPs as “an information service with a telecommunications component.” While the FCC’s notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) isn’t even public yet, […]

The federal judge presiding over the @Home bankruptcy proceedings accepted New Edge Network’s $1.5 million bid for the purchase of all the defunct broadband Internet service providers business customers and equipment, officials said Friday. Greg Mycio, director of research and analysis at Chicago-based New Paradigm Resources Group, said they have just now started looking at […]

On Wednesday morning, Microsoft released a new security enhancement for Visual C++.NET and Visual C++ 7 to prevent source code from buffer overflow attacks. Hours later, a Dulles, Va.-based software risk management outfit was on the phone with Microsoft explaining the design flaw in the new security enhancement. Gary McGraw, Cigital chief technical officer and […]

A new promotion by EarthLink, Inc. , giving away a $150 networking one-port gateway for free, is sure to bring in customers looking for a reason to sign up for broadband Internet access. Officials announced Thursday they would hand out 2Wire’s HomePortal 100 series to new digital subscriber line (DSL) customers through March 31. Or, […]

NeuStar, the controversial new registry for the .us country code top-level domain (ccTLD) extension, will soon open the doors for trademark holders, officials said recently. Starting March 4, the registry begins its Sunrise period on proprietary domain names before opening the domain extension to the general public April 9 on a first-come, first-served basis. Interested […]

Taking a page from their wired peers, wireless local area network (WLAN) providers Wayport Inc. officials announced Wednesday the acquisition of four Laptop Lane business centers at the Cincinnati/North Kentucky International Airport. The Cincinnati/North Kentucky acquisition is a sweetheart of a deal, serving as one of Delta Airlines major hubs and a gateway for most […]

The protocol used by the majority of Internet networks around the world is at risk from a new vulnerability discovered by the Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) in Finland recently. The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) issued an advisory to all network administrators of a flaw in the simple network management protocol […]