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Businesses wrestle for control over IM
News Growth for enterprise IM will be guided by corporate IT managers rather than the service providers themselves, said Microsoft's David Gurle, product unit manager for the software maker's Windows Real Time Communications division and part of the...
[February 26, 2003, 8:01]
Flamenco dances into Web services
News It includes tools to secure communications, monitor the performance of applications and to automate the process of offering Web services to many business partners at once. By offering a hosted service, rather than a licensable product, Flamenco was...
[January 13, 2003, 15:30]
Microsoft and Qwest ink US DSL pact
News Under a five-year pact, Microsoft and Qwest will bring together the software maker's MSN Internet access, content and services with the phone giant's high-speed Internet network and communications services for consumers in Qwest's 14-state region.
[April 26, 2001, 14:53]
UK govt finds security flaws in VoIP and texting technology
News The flaws affect software and hardware that support the real-time multimedia communications and processing standard, known as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) H.323 standard. Specifically, a filter used in the server that secures...
[January 14, 2004, 7:30]
Trade groups steal antitrust show
News According to its Web site the CCIA has 33 members from industries such as computer manufacturing, Internet service providing, software development and telecom, including Microsoft rivals Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems.
[May 25, 2000, 8:36]
Barracuda bites back at Trend Micro patent claims
News Following months of legal communications with Barracuda Networks, Trend Micro is suing its rival over its use of ClamAV — a product maintained by US open-source company Sourcefire — on the grounds that Barracuda Network's use of the software in...
[January 30, 2008, 11:57]
Siemens to sell 51pc of enterprise comms business
News Under the deal, announced on Tuesday, Gores will take a 51 percent stake in Siemens Enterprise Communications (also known as SEN), which provides telecommunications hardware and software, such as switching equipment, for corporate customers.
[July 30, 2008, 13:40]
Cisco boosts collaboration-software portfolio
News Cisco hopes to bundle its communications hardware and software, creating collaborative infrastructure in a box, as it goes after more share of market and mind with its growing product portfolio. It's a major launch for us, including a comprehensive...
[September 25, 2008, 11:20]
Symantec lets small biz lock out hackers
News Security software maker Symantec announced Monday a new line of drop-in network appliances to protect companies against Internet attackers and to secure communications between offices. The technology is more secure than a dial-up connection and...
[October 9, 2001, 10:14]
Instant Messaging: Internal servers or public services?
News IM software has advanced beyond text messaging to offer a suite of communications and conferencing applications. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to open its AIM system to communicate with rival systems as a condition of approving its merger...
[December 15, 2002, 18:47]
Intel plugs new network processors
News The IXP 420 is a communications engine for broadband modems. The IXP 422, meanwhile, is a broadband communications chip with integrated algorithms for encryption, decryption and other security functions.
[February 20, 2003, 15:12]
Sun, AOL collaborate on instant messaging
News The software, which is being developed within the companies' iPlanet partnership, is called Project RAC (Real-time Asynchronous Communications), or iPlanet Instant Messenger beta 3.0 . AOL and Sun set up iPlanet after AOL acquired Netscape...
[July 16, 2001, 13:58]
Sun and IBM queue up wireless tracks
News It is a $100m investment in venture funding to nurture new companies, a new communications software platform, increased adoption of Java, and a preview of new technology in Sun's carrier-grade server platform targeting third-generation wireless...
[October 31, 2000, 8:34]
Skype broadens its calling scope
News The company said phone carriers Colt Telecom Group, iBasis, Level 3 Communications and Teleglobe have signed on to help it launch its SkypeOut service. In contrast, Verizon Communications, for example, will charge users on a monthly basis.
[July 26, 2004, 11:40]
Microsoft on Trial: Judge shortcuts 'cryptic' documents
News Netscape Communications Corp.and Sun Microsystems Inc.once hoped to challenge the software giant's dominance of the PC operating system market. The documents, produced by AOL investment banker Goldman Sachs last fall in relation to the AOL-Netscape...
[June 3, 1999, 9:09]
Microsoft merges corporate communications divisions
News The setting-up of a unified communications unit does not reflect an immediate decision to merge the two former units' products into a single server software line, Microsoft said. The company is combining the Exchange unit with the Real-Time...
[January 31, 2006, 9:50]
MS messaging tactics recall browser wars
News Instant messaging has emerged as the nexus this week as Microsoft prepares a test version of XP that will include a powerful new form of the communications software. In the case of instant messaging, Microsoft has embraced America Online's popular...
[June 7, 2001, 16:02]
Tech heavyweights team up on 3G
News Specifically, the companies aim to develop the chips and software for "the integration of music, video, broadcasting and other new technologies for Internet and high-speed, high-volume communications" in 2.5G, 3G and 3.5G handsets.
[July 28, 2006, 9:55]
Win CE 2.0 to launch November
News Microcom Inc.next week will introduce its Pocket Carbon Copy communications software for Windows CE 1.1, which lets mobile users access and control a desktop or notebook PC from a Windows CE-based handheld PC, said Microcom officials in Norwood...
[July 21, 1997, 9:26]
Report: US electricity grid hacked by spies
News Those security issues are mounting as utilities use more internet-based communications and software to control the grid through smart-grid technology. A report by security firm IOActive last month warned that people with $500 (£340) worth of...
[April 9, 2009, 9:25]
