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March 26, 2002 26 Mar'02
Microsoft sued over e-commerce patent

Online services company Network Commerce has been awarded a trial date in its patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft. The...
March 25, 2002 25 Mar'02
Hackers breach VeriSign "parked" domain server

Hackers last week broke into a server hosting thousands of "parked" domains that had been registered through VeriSign's Network...
March 21, 2002 21 Mar'02
Akamai content to deliver

Facing stiff competition from upstart content delivery network (CDN) rivals, Akamai Technologies is on the offensive with a raft...
March 20, 2002 20 Mar'02
Network Appliance unveils NAS device

Network Appliance has announced the first of an enterprise-class filer line for centralised, online back-up for data from...

March 18, 2002 18 Mar'02
Meta Group: security programmes ignore key infrastructure

Almost one in three organisations do not include key parts of their IT infrastructure - anything from servers and networks to PCs...
March 18, 2002 18 Mar'02
Network Associates to buy McAfee shares

Network Associates plans to acquire all publicly held shares in McAfee.com through a stock swap in a bid to merge the anti-virus...
March 13, 2002 13 Mar'02
3Com scalable Gigabit woos public sector

Network firm 3Com has introduced a new family of products aimed at providing users with low-cost scalable Gigabit Ethernet...
March 08, 2002 08 Mar'02
PGP will live on despite NAI, says inventor

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) will go on, despite a move by Network Associates (NAI) to shelve the encryption product after it failed...
March 06, 2002 06 Mar'02
Security vendors stand behind Tivoli Risk Manager

Network Associates (NAI), NFR Security, and Secure Computing announced this week that they have signed on to interoperate with...
February 20, 2002 20 Feb'02
Security boost for business P2P

Endeavors Technology is attempting to persuade corporates that they have nothing to fear from Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking.

February 14, 2002 14 Feb'02
New network management tools

Enterasys, 3Com and Cisco released new network management software last week, writes Antony Adshead.
February 14, 2002 14 Feb'02
PTC joins forces with Groove and Tibco

Product collaboration company Parametric Technology (PTC) has joined with Groove Networks and Tibco Software to offer real-time...
February 12, 2002 12 Feb'02
Harvard Cyberposium highlights hot trends

Security technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), third-generation (3G) networking, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and...
February 08, 2002 08 Feb'02
Sun looks to Liberty for network identity solution

Sun Microsystems is planning to launch a series of network identity products designed to tackle business problems around digital...
February 08, 2002 08 Feb'02
New York sues NAI over licence terms

New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has taken action against Network Associates (NAI) over alleged restrictions that...
February 06, 2002 06 Feb'02
Juniper walks on the edge

Juniper Networks announced a host of new features that it hopes will further expand its line of Internet core routers to the...
January 29, 2002 29 Jan'02
Nortel unveils new metro optical Ethernet gear

Nortel Networks has unveiled a new class of optical switches for the increasingly lucrative metropolitan area network market....
January 18, 2002 18 Jan'02
Novell bundles apps for security package

Networking giant Novell has unveiled a package of security-related products for enterprises in a bid to capitalise on the...
January 14, 2002 14 Jan'02
IT security incidents almost double

Security incidents nearly doubled in 2001 compared to 2000, according to statistics released by US computer and network security...
January 09, 2002 09 Jan'02
Compression breakthrough puts Tbytes on the desktop

A new data compression technique that promises to reduce demand on computer memory and network bandwidth to a fraction of its...
January 09, 2002 09 Jan'02
ASP pioneer files for Chapter 11

USInternetworking (USi), which led the ASP market in 2000 with more than $100m (£69m) in revenue, has filed for Chapter 11...
December 18, 2001 18 Dec'01
E-mail named the top corporate wireless app

IT managers in large companies are looking to deploy wireless data wide-area networks (WANs) mostly for e-mail, and are grappling...
December 16, 2001 16 Dec'01
It's official - Nas offers better value than San

Network Attached Storage systems are better value than Storage Area Networks claims a total cost of ownership study.
December 06, 2001 06 Dec'01
Forum seeks open network specs

A group of 20 carriers and vendors in network hardware and software has launched the Service Availability Forum (SAF), aimed at...
December 05, 2001 05 Dec'01
Mitel offers instant VoIP to SMEs

Mitel Networks has launched an IP-enabled voice and data system for SMEs.
December 05, 2001 05 Dec'01
Cisco launches Comet optical portfolio

Cisco Systems has introduced a new portfolio of networking solutions called Complete Optical Multiservice Edge and Transport...
December 04, 2001 04 Dec'01
Network Associates appoints new president

Network Associates (NAI) has appointed the head of the company's McAfee division, Gene Hodges, to the position of company...
November 05, 2001 05 Nov'01
Banks use data mining to beat card fraudsters

A specialist data mining and analytics company SPSS is working with cash point network, LINK in a bid to identify fraudulent...
November 05, 2001 05 Nov'01
Customers left cashless by NatWest fault

NatWest Bank has dismissed as insignificant a "technical glitch" that took its entire network of cash machines offline at the...
November 01, 2001 01 Nov'01
Human error is greatest threat to Lans

Most Lan problems result from a failure to plan properly or simple human error, according to a survey by networking software...
October 30, 2001 30 Oct'01
Groove launches XP version

Groove Networks' latest collaboration software adds support for products from its new industry partner, Microsoft, including the...
October 30, 2001 30 Oct'01
EMC stakes claim for interoperability

EMC claims its latest suite of software products offers IT managers a view of their network that includes all rival boxes,...
October 30, 2001 30 Oct'01
GiantLoop and Compaq form SAN partnership

GiantLoop Network and Compaq have announced a collaboration to extend SAN availability, using Compaq's Data Replication Manager...
October 22, 2001 22 Oct'01
Faulty cards cause most network complaints

Faulty Ethernet cards and badly configured routers are the main causes of networking problems, a recent survey has found.
October 12, 2001 12 Oct'01
Energis explores 3G alternative

Energis, owner of the national electricity grid, is exploring the use of new technology to create high bandwidth networks that...
October 11, 2001 11 Oct'01
Microsoft backs P2P enterprise

Microsoft has announced that it is to put up approximately $51m (£35m) to fund the ongoing operations of Groove Networks, a...
October 10, 2001 10 Oct'01
Sony Ericsson cautious about 3G prospects

Despite the billions of dollars about to be spent on 3G networks around the world, shipments of 3G handsets are expected to make...
October 08, 2001 08 Oct'01
IT network managers 'unaware of standards'

Wireless local area networks (Wlans) may be on the up and up, but it appears many managers don't know enough about relevant...
September 20, 2001 20 Sep'01
Extreme potential as Layer 7 switch improves performance

Extreme Networks has embedded Layer 7 performance into its latest Gigabit Summit switch and is claiming a tenfold improvement in...
September 11, 2001 11 Sep'01
Network Appliance updates product lines

Network Appliance has upgraded parts of its software and hardware lines in its continuing efforts to show the cost and management...
August 15, 2001 15 Aug'01
Kingston on fast track to e-government

Kingston Council is seeking to fast track its e-government plans with Cisco Avvid's voice and data converged network.
August 08, 2001 08 Aug'01
Cisco's troubles a taste of things to come

In the wake of networking giant Cisco System's disastrous fourth-quarter results, industry watchers say the worst is yet to come...
May 22, 2001 22 May'01
Network Associates to drop 10 products in move away from NT

Network Associates (NAI) is set to discontinue ten security products in its intrusion-detection software range as the company...
May 17, 2001 17 May'01
RealNetworks and Microsoft intensify media player war

The media player war between Microsoft and RealNetworks has heated up, with RealNetworks announcing new battlefronts on non-PC...
May 14, 2001 14 May'01
Windows 2000 management tools set to debut

For medium to large-size organisations, managing Windows 2000 networks will soon be made easier by the scheduled releases of two...
May 11, 2001 11 May'01
Nortel dials up new VoIP solutions

Nortel Networks, one of the world's largest providers of enterprise telephony, has released two new voice-over IP (VoIP) products...
May 01, 2001 01 May'01
Vendors bring network management under one roof

As corporate networks, and the traffic they carry, continue to grow in complexity, so does the need for management tools that...
April 30, 2001 30 Apr'01
Altiris acquires Carbon Copy from Compaq

Altiris, which makes software for managing PCs in networks, has purchased the file transfer software product Carbon Copy from...
March 07, 2001 07 Mar'01
Cisco aids move to optical networking
January 29, 2001 29 Jan'01
Prisoners' calls no longer very hush hush

An ingenious networking company has found a captive market for its latest Voice over IP product - jailbirds.
December 21, 2000 21 Dec'00
Streaming media giant issues profits warning

Real Networks, the streaming media software company has joined the profits warning club. It’s Q4 revenues were predicted to be around $59m. Despite 33%...
December 13, 2000 13 Dec'00
Bosses unaware of vulnerability of networks to security breaches

Bosses of UK organisations are unaware of how vulnerable their networks are to IT security attacks, reports vnunet.
November 20, 2000 20 Nov'00
Overland aims for sales rise via reseller scheme

Storage manufacturer Overland Data has unveiled a gold partner programme which it expects to triple its network of 20 resellers...
November 15, 2000 15 Nov'00
NAI criticised for bug in VirusScan update file

Network Associates (NAI) is being criticised for a bug in an update file for the McAfee VirusScan software which has been causing...
October 04, 2000 04 Oct'00
Is the shine rubbing off Gigabit Ethernet

The idea of 10 Gigabit Ethernet was seen as the glittering solution to network problems: a bigger, faster, even fatter pipe that...
August 30, 2000 30 Aug'00
Network Associates patches up PGP loophole

Bill Goodwin
Network Associates has issued a patch following the discovery of a loophole in PGP encryption software that could leave...
August 02, 2000 02 Aug'00
Cable & Wireless gets the boot from footwear firm

Antony Adshead
Footwear distributor Overland has swapped network suppliers after a string of problems with telecommunications giant...
June 21, 2000 21 Jun'00
Glotel bucks Y2k effect

Glotel, the telecommunications and networking industries specialist agency, has announced its first year-end results since floating on the London Stock...
June 07, 2000 07 Jun'00
Autobackup takes pressure off IT

A new network appliance for backing up PC data across a network could solve the problem of users failing to back-up critical data, writes Caroline...
May 17, 2000 17 May'00
E-dispute network running by summer

Keith Nuthall
A European Extra-Judicial Network, which allows consumers to solve cross-border disputes with e-commerce and distance...
March 29, 2000 29 Mar'00
E-commerce disputes could be resolved by Euro clearing houses

Alan Osborn
UK businesses embarking on e-commerce may get dragged into a European dispute resolution clearing-house.

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March 01, 2000 01 Mar'00
Software firm lays down a prize challenge to hackers

Wick Hill is so confident that its network security product cannot be broken into that it set a hacking challenge to CeBIT visitors last week.
Anyone...
March 01, 2000 01 Mar'00
Compensation claims likely as BT network crashes

Antony Savvas
BT faces compensation claims from some of the UK's biggest companies following last week's network crash.

Customers...
February 09, 2000 09 Feb'00
3Com to aid W2K roll-out

Antony Savvas
3Com is working with Microsoft to make it easier for users to install Windows 2000 remotely across a network.

Every...
February 02, 2000 02 Feb'00
Somerset's wireless data network will save £1.6m

Mike Simons
Somerset County Council is installing one of the UK's biggest wireless wide area data networks, aimed at saving the council...