Thor Olavsrud

Despite speculation in June of an asset buyout or acquisition of failing national DSL provider Rhythms NetConnections, the company appears to have had little success in that area. On Thursday it announced that it and all of its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiaries voluntarily filed for reorganization in the Southern District of New York under Chapter 11 […]

So far, there is little evidence that the media-hyped Code Red Worm is ready to send the Internet into meltdown, though the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC), has reported increased activity from the worm. The worm made its first appearance on July 19, in nine hours infecting 250,000 machines running unpatched versions of […]

Not surprisingly, Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola Wednesday endorsed the new Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) standard developed by the WAP Forum, a group they co-founded together with Openwave (then Unwired Planet) in 1997. Since its founding, the forum has grown to more than 450 members, but Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola remain at its core, and their […]

Microsoft Corp. and AOL Time Warner are staking out digital photography as the newest skirmish area in the ongoing clash of the titans for consumer attention. Microsoft Tuesday hosted a Windows XP event gathering more than 20 digital photography hardware and software solutions vendors to demonstrate their wares on the Windows XP platform, which supports […]

With help from long-time partner Texas Instruments Inc. , Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking its UltraSPARC III 64-bit workstation-server processor — unveiled last fall — to a new level as it migrates the chip to high volume copper interconnect-based versions. The two companies unveiled the new chip — built with TI’s 0.15 micron process — […]

IBM Corp. Monday unveiled the ThinkPad T23, the first in its new series of high-performance ThinkPad T notebooks with a new security chip subsystem and integrated 802.11b capabilities. The T23 features the Mobile Intel Pentium III Processor-M, utilizing the SpeedStep technology which offers speeds of up to 1.13 GHz, and weighs in at 4.8 lbs. […]

Computer security organizations, ranging from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) to the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC), said Sunday they fear a relaunch of the Code Red worm which attacked servers around the world on July 19. “We really need to get the word on the street exactly […]

Do the developers of exploits used to break into networks have the right to copyright their programs? And, if so, do network administrators have the right to share those exploits, once they’ve been used to break into their networks, in order to obtain help in blocking it from attacking their networks in the future? That […]

Network administrators have been scrambling to secure their servers since news of a vulnerability in the Telnet program — used to remotely access servers — first came to the public’s attention last week when a group of network security enthusiasts called TESO Security posted advisories to several security mailing lists. On Tuesday, the Computer Emergency […]

Trouble began brewing on another front for embattled Microsoft Corp. Wednesday when a group of public interest and advocacy groups — including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Junkbusters Corp. and the Privacy Foundation, among others — said they will file a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday alleging that the […]

Amazon.com’s U.K. unit, Amazon.co.uk, Wednesday sealed a strategic alliance with U.K specialist bookseller Waterstone’s to relaunch that company’s site powered by Amazon’s e-commerce platform. Financial terms of the alliance were not disclosed. Amazon said the site will be relaunched in autumn 2001. It will continue to feature store locations, promotions and events information, but Amazon […]

Microsoft Corp. sat down with Department of Justice (DoJ) officials and 18 State Attorneys General Monday to discuss settlement of the government’s ongoing antitrust suit against the company. But now the software titan faces trouble on a new front as the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee — goaded to action by committee member Sen. Charles E. […]