Thor Olavsrud

Sun Microsystems Inc. Thursday revealed its intentions to expand the deployment of Inktomi Corp.’s Search Software across its intranet, extranet and public sites. Inktomi said Sun would use its platform to manage searches of more than 40 million documents and 30,000 servers worldwide. “Our network is very demanding and requires incredible scale and flexibility from […]

In response to security issues raised by the San Diego Supercomputer Center Monday regarding certain Alcatel ADSL modems, the French communications equipment maker said Thursday that it is aware of vulnerabilities and is working with the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center to resolve the problems. Alcatel also said that it is not aware […]

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Thursday revealed plans to give EDUCAUSE, a higher education technology association, administrative control of the .edu registry. In a Federal Register notice NTIA said it would enter into a cooperative agreement with the association, a non-profit group with more than 1,800 college […]

The San Diego Supercomputer Center Monday revealed that it had found security vulnerabilities in certain ADSL “modems” manufactured by French communications equipment maker Alcatel. The flaws could allow an attacker to take complete control of the device, including changing its configuration, uploading new firmware and disrupting the communications between the device and the telephone central […]

Palo Alto, Calif.-based PAIX.net Inc., subsidiary of Metromedia Fiber Network, Wednesday showed that the trying times ISPs are currently experiencing will not slow its agressive build-out of Network Access Points (NAPs). The firm said Wednesday it would open two new Internet exchanges in Boston and Los Angeles in early third quarter 2001. PAIX.net is a […]

COVERT Labs at PGP Security, a division of Network Associates Inc., Tuesday uncovered “high-risk” flaws in the “globbing” process of a variety of FTP servers. The flaws allow for the creation of buffer overflows which in turn can allow remote intruders to execute arbitrary code on the FTP servers. Globbing is a process — common […]

In a bid to push its way into the managed hosting business, IT outsourcing firm Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) Tuesday contracted for fiber-optic infrastructure from Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). MFN has made its name rolling out dark fiber in key domestic and international metropolitan areas. CSC will use MFN’s fiber to connect clients to its […]

In a further sign of the Bluetooth wireless technology’s growing industry penetration, Motorola Inc.’s Motorola Computer Group unit Monday laid out plans to provide Bluetooth on embedded infrastructures running on three operating systems and two architecture processors. The move is intended to give OEMs the ability to add wireless capabilities to stationary equipment — not […]

Looking to bolster its enterprise relationship management (eRM) solutions, Kana Communications Inc. Monday inked a deal to acquire Broadbase Software, a provider of customer-focused analytic, marketing automation and e-service software applications. Kana will exchange 1.05 shares for each share of Broadbase . “Customers are demanding a relationship management solution that creates extraordinary relationships,” said Jay […]

Questions are swirling around the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) yet again Friday, and this time they involve the Department of Commerce and VeriSign Inc., the domain name industry’s biggest registrar and holder of the grail of the industry’s wholesale arm, the .com registry. Since its inception, ICANN, intended as a governing […]

Remember the Y2K bug? Well another time-related bug could cause problems between April 1 and April 8 for applications and Web sites built with certain versions of Microsoft Corp.’s Visual C++. Richard Smith, chief technology officer with The Privacy Foundation, calls it the April Fools 2001 bug. Smith discovered the bug in 1999, and Microsoft […]

Privately-held Seattle-based Shannon Technologies Inc. Thursday inked a deal to acquire ailing music destination audiohighway.com in an all-stock transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed, but audiohighway.com said that Shannon Technologies shareholders will own about 90 percent of its issued and outstanding stock at the merger’s close. The proposed merger is still subject to shareholder approval, […]