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San Francisco Pushes Forward with Municipal WiFi

April 6, 2006

San Francisco has selected a joint proposal from Google and EarthLink to run its citywide WiFi network. A panel of tech and municipal experts, which remained anonymous until the decision was announced, selected the two companies over MetroFi and four other bidders. Now city officials will begin neg...

EarthLink, Google Aim to Blanket San Francisco With WiFi

February 24, 2006

EarthLink and Google submitted a joint request for proposal this week to bring San Francisco workers and residents free citywide wireless access. As part of the deal, EarthLink would pay most of the projected US$15 million cost to build the wireless municipal network and would recover some of those ...

Helio Targets Young Users With MySpace Deal, New Handsets

February 16, 2006

Mobile brand Helio on Thursday announced plans to target the lucrative U.S. youth market with two South Korean-made cell phones and a content deal with popular social networking site MySpace. Helio's Hero and Kickflip multimedia handsets are set to debut this spring. "Helio is for those of us who wa...

MIT and Cambridge Team on Free Wireless Internet Access

February 2, 2006

Cambridge, Mass., is moving to become the latest U.S. metropolitan area entirely covered by WiFi wireless Internet access. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the major universities that call it home, said it would work with the city to bring Web access to all, including those living i...

Powering Up a New Broadband Option

November 22, 2005

A new combatant, Broadband over Power Lines (BPL), has entered the broadband Internet access services competition. This network option relies on electrical power lines to move information to users. While the universality of electrical power offers vendors hope in penetrating the broadband market, th...

Philadelphia Picks EarthLink for City Wireless

October 5, 2005

EarthLink will attempt to make the City of Brotherly Love the city of brotherly wireless access as well, with a deal to cover America's fifth largest city with WiFi mesh connectivity over 135 square miles, the largest municipal wireless rollout to date. The undertaking, described as a lifesaver for ...

Cisco, Yahoo Propose Anti-Spam Technology Standard

July 12, 2005

Cisco and Yahoo have joined forces with several anti-spam companies to propose a standard for filtering junk out of in-boxes. Software companies SendMail and PGP worked with the others on DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), which works through public key cryptography. Each message gets a signature, w...

Phishers Employ Keyloggers To Steal Internet Users’ Identities

May 5, 2005

Phishers are using a new bait to steal sensitive information from Internet users -- keyloggers. A new phishing trends report from Websense Security Labs and the Anti-Phishing Working Group reveals a sharp rise in schemes involving this type of malicious program. Keystroke logging, or keyloggers, are...

Yahoo, Earthlink Build Bulwark Against Spoofing

November 15, 2004

Yahoo announced enhancements to its e-mail service, adding search, more storage and its DomainKeys sender authentication technology -- which is also being deployed by Internet service provider EarthLink in a test roll-out. While the news of the DomainKeys deployment was welcomed by most, there were ...

Home LANs over Power Lines – Take Two

July 20, 2004

More and more digital devices are being put in homes as a result of consumers doing such things as moving audio files from PCs to home entertainment systems. In response to the upswing in demand for networked services in the home, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance is moving to make the technology to c...

Broadband Connections Eclipsing Dial-Up in Major Markets

March 12, 2004

A new, national report by comScore Networks indicates broadband Internet access is ready to overtake dial-up access as the top online subscription service in major metro markets in the United States. The study, released this week in the Reston, Virginia-based company's fourth-quarter market-share re...

Microsoft Releases Monthly Patches, Delays Explorer Fix

January 14, 2004

After skipping its December security update even after the publication of several new vulnerabilities -- some of which were used to perpetrate Internet crimes, such as identity theft and financial scams -- Microsoft has released several security patches as part of its new monthly security initiative...

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