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AT&T launches on-demand cloud storage
News The service will enable customers to store, distribute, retrieve and manage data through any internet connection. AT&T has also developed a web portal where customers can manage data storage and retrieval, as well as set policies to define security...
[May 18, 2009, 16:54]
Broadband Internet Access: Background and Issues
White Papers In addition to offering speed, broadband access provides a continuous, "always on" connection (no need to dial-up) and a "two-way" capability, that is, the ability to both receive (download) and transmit (upload) data at high speeds.
[August 30, 2005, 3:00]
Oracle lawsuit accuses SAP of spying
News SAP employees allegedly used log-in IDs of multiple PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers to access Oracle's Customer Connection system, but then supplied bogus email addresses, user names and phone numbers.
[March 23, 2007, 7:43]
GPRS: Next generation mobile system comes to Britain
News GPRS, or General Packet Radio Service, is a way of giving devices such as handhelds, mobile phones or laptop computers an "always on" connection to a network -- they can access the Internet or a corporate intranet, for example, without first...
[July 7, 2000, 15:17]
Microsoft blames own technicians for outages
News Microsoft blamed its own technicians for a crucial error that crippled the software giant's connection to the Internet, almost completely blocking access to its major Web sites for nearly 24 hours. In a statement issued late Wednesday, Microsoft...
[January 25, 2001, 8:35]
The great 3G data card road test
News O2 Connection Manager… will give business customers the most cost-effective, high-speed mobile data access where and when they want it," says O2. But we never managed to get a connection -- doubtless because by the time we'd clicked connect the...
[November 22, 2004, 18:20]
Plug into the Net
News This technology has the power to revolutionise communications in the home," he said, "and unlike traditional modem access, Digital PowerLine gives users a permanent connection to the Internet. Digital PowerLine will eventually provide Internet...
[March 26, 1998, 12:48]
Office 12 to take on BI market
News Excel desktop software, including tools for better visualising data as well as the ability to maintain a persistent connection to server applications including back-end software such as programs from Oracle,
[October 24, 2005, 14:55]
Broadband fulfilling its promise
News With access to a 100-megabit-per-second connection, the company could suddenly download critical data files in two or three minutes, where it had taken 8 hours before. Industry veterans say national broadband access will only lead to major changes...
[July 27, 2004, 11:50]
Sweaty Palms as supermodel attends developers conference
News Today's Palms use a slower infrared connection that can beam data only to other Palm-based handhelds in close range. In addition to ogling Schiffer, developers at the weeklong conference will be there to learn where Palm is heading as it tries to...
[December 11, 2000, 14:33]
Five years ago: Orange offers ISDN access
News Calls are charged by the second and connection times are claimed to be less than 6 seconds. Mobile communications company, Orange unveiled a direct access to ISDN service at the TMA conference in Brighton.
[November 24, 2001, 6:00]
Making sense of remote access
News In a Windows network, when using PPP for a dial-up connection, only one protocol is available for data encryption, the Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption Protocol (MPPE), as shown in Table C. Dialing up a connection
[December 10, 2002, 11:33]
Hackers put Net security watchdog out of action
News Our connection to the Internet has been largely saturated by this activity," Ian Finlay, an Internet security analyst for the CERT Coordination Center, said in a recorded statement. Unknown attackers inundated the US Computer Emergency Response...
[May 24, 2001, 9:30]
Secure wireless workers
News Right now a corporation is much more at risk of losing data with a lost laptop than with a home Internet connection. For new applications, consider the remote user's needs by designing applications that will work in a multitier environment where...
[August 15, 2002, 9:47]
Windows Wi-Fi attack discovered
Talkback Once connected to a user’s laptop, an experienced hacker can not only potentially access data on that laptop (all shared folders are immediately accessible) but can also potentially use the laptop’s authenticated connection to a wired office...
[January 20, 2006, 9:34]
Global DSL standard heralds UK datacomms revolution
News As a result of recent OFTEL changes to its licence, BT Networks - the part of BT that handles voce communications - can now provide an ‘IP Dialtone' service (a permanent high speed connection to the Internet).
[May 18, 1998, 9:26]
Intel updates vPro
News The key enabling component is an OS-independent 'out-of-band' network connection, run by an embedded processor with independent access to the computer's network hardware. If the laptop is stolen, Intel AT will automatically prevent unauthorised...
[September 22, 2008, 17:31]
Windows Wi-Fi attack discovered
Talkback Once connected to a user’s laptop, an experienced hacker can not only potentially access data on that laptop (all shared folders are immediately accessible) but can also potentially use the laptop’s authenticated connection to a wired office...
[January 20, 2006, 9:38]
BT bundles business wireless broadband
News The two standard business-broadband offerings — BT Business Total Broadband Option 2 and Option 3 — will now include a mobile-broadband connection "at no extra charge", the company said in a statement on Monday.
[October 20, 2008, 17:31]
Irish hack attack lands teenager in trouble
News A 17-year-old was arrested in connection with the incident on 27 August in County Wicklow by the Garda National Bureau of Fraud Investigation. Investigators said no one else is being sought in connection with the investigation.
[August 29, 2000, 10:10]
