Thor Olavsrud

A component of Windows 2000 — installed by default on every Windows 2000 server — creates a serious security vulnerability on any machine running IIS 5.0, Microsoft Corp. revealed Tuesday. The vulnerability was discovered by Riley Hassel of eEye Digital Security. While working with Microsoft on the issue, eEye was able to use the vulnerability […]

Continuing to push into the broadband market, EarthLink Tuesday said it will roll out two-way high speed satellite service nationwide by the end of May. The service will be provisioned by DirecPC, and is called EarthLink Satellite Powered by DirecPC. The company said the service will provide broadband coverage to most of the continental U.S. […]

The Juno Virtual Supercomputer Network (JVSN), a distributed computing scheme thought up by engineers at Juno Online Inc. as a way to further monetize the company’s free subscriber base, signed its first customer Tuesday. Juno signed a letter of intent with bioinformatics incubator LaunchCyte LLC which set forth terms of use for LaunchCyte and its […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., looking to turn an IBM Corp. marketing gaff into a public relations coup for itself, announced Friday that it will help the City of San Francisco clean up the sidewalks Big Blue spray painted as part of its Linux eServer advertising campaign. Sidewalks in San Francisco and Chicago have been spray painted […]

Nortel Networks Monday unveiled plans to extend multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), from its current existence on data networks to the rest of the Internet, in an effort to streamline costs for ISPs and enable the creation of new, differentiated services like optical Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), bandwidth trading and bandwidth-on-demand. MPLS simplifies and improves IP […]

Eastman Kodak Co. Monday moved to expand its online photo offerings with a definitive agreement to acquire Emeryville, Calif.-based Ofoto Inc., which will serve as a connection between Kodak’s film scanning and uploading services and the output capabilities of its Qualex Inc. subsidiary. The acquisition is intended to help Kodak create a “complete online photography […]

The U.S. National Infrastructure Protection Center Friday warned that network administrators should be on the look out for increased hacker activity — originating in China — between April 30 and May 7. “Citing recent events between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, malicious hackers have escalated Web page defacements over the Internet,” […]

Forty some odd years ago, the U.S. brought together its best scientists with a goal straight out of science fiction. They intended to put a man on the moon. IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) Friday set out on its own moonshot: the creation of self-managing servers. The initiative is Project eLiza, and Big Blue said it […]

Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technologies, long confined to the U.S. due to the popularity enjoyed by the rival Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) standard, is making the leap to Asia. QUALCOMM Inc., holder of the narrow-band CDMA patent, Friday inked a multi-million dollar, royalty-bearing deal to license the technology to Mitsubishi […]

Following months of discussion, Juno Online Services Inc. Thursday nailed a deal with AOL Time Warner Inc. to offer broadband services across Time Warner’s cable lines. Juno is the second company to strike up such a deal with AOL. The Internet and media giant sealed a similar agreement with EarthLink Inc. last November. The discussions […]

Following through on steps first taken in February to sever its bonds with Sprint Corp., EarthLink Inc. Tuesday filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to allow the telecommunications giant to sell part of the 27.2 percent stake it holds in the ISP. Sprint will sell 12.5 million shares of EarthLink common stock, reducing its […]

AT&T Wireless Group Tuesday reported stronger than expected subscriber growth for its first quarter, which in turn fueled a revenue increase of 46.2 percent to $3.2 billion. The company said net subscriber additions to its mobility business were 585,000, a rise of 40 percent from the same quarter a year ago. That brings the company’s […]