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Microsoft forms council for software interoperability
News In these early days, much of the focus is around communications. Firstly collaboration, with companies all opening up communications between the product groups, which then leads to testing among the companies.
[November 14, 2006, 15:13]
Standards spat could cause MPLS downtime
News At Norton Rose, MPLS is being used to support its strategy of moving to a more collaborative global communications environment. An IP-based unified communications system supplied by integrator Affiniti uses MPLS to support a VoIP network and...
[September 6, 2007, 13:30]
Microsoft takes a SIP of office networking
News Microsoft and other enterprise software companies, such as IBM's Lotus, have touted SIP as the main driver for instant messaging interoperability and as a foundation for bringing together various forms of communications under one server system.
[April 2, 2003, 11:30]
Cable elite watching AOL-Time Warner progress
News The deal, if approved, would have broad implications not only over the cable industry, but over the entire communications sector. Competitors such as AT&T, Comcast and Cox Communications will learn many lessons from the combination depending on the...
[November 30, 2000, 15:31]
Microsoft urges support for IPv6
News The spread of broadband networking -- high-speed Internet connections to the home -- is "stalled," said Jawad Khaki, vice president of Windows networking and communications, blaming a lack of applications that truly need fast connections.
[April 18, 2002, 10:42]
Multiprotocol label switching makes for mainstream
News AT&T, British Telecom, BellSouth, Equant, Level 3, MCI and NTT Communications, among others, have already started using MPLS VPN services. In addition, Verizon Communications said that much of its 2004 capital budget will be spent on MPLS-enabled...
[February 9, 2004, 14:30]
Expect more stock option cases, warn Feds
News So far, the Justice Department and the SEC have filed civil and criminal charges against former top executives from two technology companies: Brocade Communications Systems and Comverse Technology. At a hearing here convened by the Senate Finance...
[September 7, 2006, 9:55]
PGP creator launches voice encryption for Windows
News Zimmermann said he believed Zfone would not be affected by US wiretapping legislation -- the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement (CALEA) -- as this law only applies to service providers, and only the end users of Zfone will have access...
[May 23, 2006, 13:15]
Instant messaging - better safe than sorry
News For example, you may also be in charge of a permanent record of all IM communications -- and you may not want that at all. Particularly when used in conjunction with Windows Dial-Up Networking, the .NET Passport is crackable, so this could lead to...
[October 4, 2001, 10:57]
Wi-Fi tweak catches dropped calls
News Nextel Communications and RadioFrame Networks on Tuesday launched a wireless service aimed at improving indoor coverage and capabilities for wireless voice and data services. Elliott Hoole, senior director of technology development at RadioFrame...
[August 20, 2003, 12:20]
PalmSource rewrites its OS for business
News PalmSource has licensed IBM's Web Services Toolkit for Mobile Devices so that Palm devices can take advantage of a suite of emerging Internet communications standards. PalmSource is working on a new operating system called Sahara that the company...
[June 19, 2003, 7:43]
Rupert Goodwins' San Jose Diary
Blog Stereotypes assert themselves: the Chinese are stoic and impassive, the Californian threatens to sue, the Aussies and I engage in cheery banter about the "endless possibilities" and the hotel manager's anatomy, and the New Yorker takes control of...
[September 19, 2003, 18:25]
Comdex Chicago: The world is wireless
News Other device makers, such as Palm and Handspring, have announced similar products that combine wireless communications with other functions, such as organiser capabilities, but Balsillie said the BlackBerry 5810 differs dramatically from them.
[March 6, 2002, 13:38]
MPs demand spam protection for businesses
News The DTI says that it chose not to protect businesses from spam because it didn't want to inhibit legitimate business-to-business communications but APIG is not impressed, believing that firms also deserve protection from spam -- which is thought...
[October 6, 2003, 17:05]
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]
Email is 'a choke point'
News Business communications software needs to have some kind of 'understanding' of the context of a message: who the individuals involved are and what they do, allowing it to categorise the message in some useful way.
[November 21, 2001, 9:49]
Intel unrolls Blueprints programme
News The chipmaker, under a programme it calls Solutions Blueprints, is offering corporations a series of designs for systems intended to perform jobs such as managing finances or employee communications. Intel worked with Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young and...
[March 26, 2002, 6:31]
RIM BlackBerry review
Reviews And there is no provision for voice communications, although we gather that adding this for the UK market has not been ruled out. The BlackBerry appears to be proof that a mobile communications device doesn't need high-tech bells and whistles in...
[January 29, 2002, 23:00]
US Congress votes for net neutrality
News That other bill, called the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement, or COPE, Act, says the Federal Communications Commission "shall have exclusive authority" to investigate violations of net neutrality principles.
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
Work together, IM giants told
News A flicker of hope for interoperability came when AOL, at the time of its Time Warner merger, was ordered by the Federal Communications Commission to open its instant messaging system to rivals. Time is money for these people, and having islands of...
[September 13, 2002, 13:23]
