New Internal Network Security Threats Encyclopedia
	The Internal Threats Encyclopedia was launched by the Israeli security company Promisec. According to the company, most of the threats which can put a network at risk are actually ... [read more >>]
	21 August 2008, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Launches Geo-Location Platform
	Yahoo! has announced the launch of Fire Eagle, an open platform that enables users to provide real-time information about their location and to update the data either automatically or manually via the Internet-based mobile or desktop applications. For those who consider the platform yet another technological gimmick set ... [read more >>]
	13 August 2008, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Home Servers Are the Way of the Future
	According to a Reuters piece, home servers will become the next standard for storing data, rendering CD racks obsolete. Even more, this is a trend that is believed to become increasingly noticeable by 2012, at least as far as the U.S. market is concerned. Be that as it may, this trend is also part of the digitalization of homes everywhere. The main factor behind the digitalization process is to be found in that home entertainm ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 04:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

CERN's LCG, a 15-Petabyte Network
	The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is on its way to switch on the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider in August. A super-high-bandwidth network will transfer data from the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) to 500 institutions around the world. About 5,000 scientists will have about 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of data coming their way every year for at least ten years. ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 04:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Experts' Way of Seeing Network Security
	If you were to choose a metaphor to compare network security with, what would it be? Would you compare it to a chain that is as strong as its weakest link, or would you compare it to an impenetrable fortress? Well, here are the opinions of some of the best known security specialists in the business. For Whitehat Security's CTO (Chief Technical Officer), Jeremiah Grossman, network security could be compared to placing seve ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AT&T Offers Services for Muzak, Cashes In $6.4 Million
	In the midst of the iPhone 3G-related craze, AT&T has announced that it will offer wireless services to Muzak, the well-known US provider of music and multimedia services. The new deal was made for three years and sealed for $6.4 million, which now reached AT&T's b ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motorola Invests in Industrial Wireless Network Company Apprion
	Motorola recently announced that it had made a $23.5 million investment in Apprion, Inc., a California-based company that has emerged as a leader in "open industrial wireless networks and applications." The investment was made via Motorola Ventures, Moto's strategic venture capital arm, and it's part of the second round of Aprpion funding, completed together with Chevron Technology Ventures, Anvil Investment Associates ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2008, 08:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Remote Desktop Client 2 Released for Mac. Download Here.
	Microsoft's new Remote Desktop Connection Client 2 for Mac has finally gone... final. After a year of being in public beta, Remote Desktop Connection Client 2 includes multiple session support, a new UI, offers you the ability to create keyboard shortcuts during sessions, and ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 05:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ericsson Improves Era's Network in Poland
	Ericsson announced today that it has signed a deal with PTC (Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa), according to which it will provide its Mobile Softswitch Solution to the Polish mobile operator, in order to increase its network's capacity, coverage and overall performance. PTC offers mobile services in Poland under the brand name Era. The Mobile Softswitch Solution provided by the Swedish company represents the prime step tow ... [read more >>]
	09 June 2008, 10:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LaCie Rolls Multi-Disc Remote Burning Software for Mac
	LaCie announced yesterday LaCie Remote Burn software for the Portable DVD±RW with LightScribe, designed by Sam Hecht and d2 DVD±RW, with LightScribe drives for FireWire, which include Toast Titanium. LaCie Remote Burn assists Mac users with fast write speeds from any Macintosh located on the local network. The software is exclusively available to the company’s LaCie, and it can burn files ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Huawei Extends the Largest Mobile Network in Bangladesh
	Huawei, the China-based leading telecommunications network solution provider, announced that it had singed a new deal with Grameenphone, the largest mobile carrier in Bangladesh, allowing the operator to expand and improve its GSM network. Huawei ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 09:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ericsson Deploying New Mobile Network in Honduras
	Ericsson announced that it has signed a deal with Digicel Group in order to build a brand new GSM/EDGE network in Honduras. This comes after other successful collaborations between the two companies, which led to the deployment of mobile networks in the Caribbean ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

T-Mobile USA Officially Offers 3G Services
	Gone are the days when T-Mobile was the only major North American mobile operator without a 3G network, because the "magenta carrier" went live and official with its very first UMTS/HSDPA network in New York (the city, not the state). After several d ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ping Tester Professional – See Your Network
	Networking is now an integral part of the computing experience that most users enjoy, or not, on a daily basis. Ranging in size and complexity from a few PCs in most homes and offices and going up to hundreds and even thousands of workstations when it comes to corporate and enterprise environments, networks are now the highways of data transfers and they link computers all over the world together. Sometimes, and maybe all too often, th ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 07:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Network Admins Use Quake to Troubleshoot Network Problems
	Managing a corporate network can be an extremely tedious task, especially when things go bad because of a novice computer user. However, fixing errors got a little more fun with the advent of a new diagnosis and troubleshooting tool based on the popular Quake Arena game. The software has been developed by a group of researchers at the Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, and is completely based on the Open Arena platf ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 08:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

McAfee Debuts New Security Application
	Security company McAfee announced the availability of Total Protection for Network, a suite of utilities which is supposed to bring another perspective over the networking security, other than the one provided by the applications currently on the market. McAfee Total Protection for Network is currently available in two flavors: for business and enterprises. "As enterprises deploy advanced network features and capabilities ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 17:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

WeFi Enhances Your Device's Wi-Fi Capabilities
	WeFi, a company headquartered in the US and Tel Aviv (Israel), is planning to create a global map of wireless hot spots which will be used as reference for community members who need to access the Internet on the go. More than that, WeFi is offering free software for laptop and handset users that can enhanc ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2008, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

3G iPhone Confirmed
	At least one in three iPhone news today contains the term "3G" in one context or another. Everyone's holding their breath for the day when Apple finally confirms its availability, but no one really knows when that is going to be exactly... except for AT ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Safari Is Bugging Network Administrators
	It looks like Apple isn't off the hook yet, as far as self-aware Safari is concerned. Last month, Apple's standard browser for Leopard and iPhone users has made its way onto Windows-running computers through the same program Apple uses to issue updates for iTunes and QuickTime users, &l ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 12:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GeoPedia Offers Location-Based Wikipedia on Your iPhone
	This time, we're actually talking about an iPhone exclusive app, since GeoPedia needs a network signal in order to provide positioning. GeoPedia takes advantage of the iPhone's geographic positioning functionality via ... [read more >>]
	25 March 2008, 10:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kerberos Authentication Protocol Ill
	Alcatel, Apple Computer Inc, AT&T, the Fedora Project, Fujitsu, the Hewlett Packard Company, the IBM Corporation, Juniper Networks, McAfee, the Microsoft Corporation, Novell Inc, Red Hat Inc, the Sony Corporation. All of these are examples of companies or corporations that use the Kerberos authentication protocol and are affected by the bugs that have been found to come along with it. So far, no exploits have been found, ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 11:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motorola and Zain to Conquer Saudi Arabia
	Motorola just signed a $335 million turnkey contract to deploy and manage a 2G/3G network in Saudi Arabia for Zain (formerly MTC), a leading mobile operator in the Middle East and Africa. Following the agreement, Motorola will supply its renowne ... [read more >>]
	03 March 2008, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Unreal Powered Game Announced
	The Unreal engine has been licensed for a variety of games. Most of them are games that focus on blood, weapons, destruction and death, much like the Unreal series itself does. But now, the engine technology has been licensed by a Korean developer named Nurien. And they want to develop "next generation social networking application" on it. Yup, you heard that right. A ... [read more >>]
	22 February 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

FBI Monitored a Network Worth of Email Instead of Just One
	Following the procedure (probably), the Federal Bureau of Investigation went to a secret intelligence court judge and got approval for surveying an email address of a suspect in an investigation going on at the time. Again according to protocol they went with the court decision to the Internet Service Provider, that served as host for the respective address, and access was granted. To all available, not just the one. Some might call it ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Download Free Tool for Troubleshooting Network Failures on Windows Vista
	Windows Vista is by no means barefoot when it comes down to offering users out-of-the-box support for troubleshooting networking problems. For the most part, the Network and Sharing Center will do all the heavy lifting automatically and deal with networking glitches, but will also provide the necessary guidance for the end user to step in and contribute to regaining connectivity. At the basis of the the Network and Sharing Center is the Ne ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 04:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Drobo Creators to Unveil DroboShare File Sharing Appliance
	Data Robotics, the makers of the successful Drobo, have just unveiled their newest creation to accompany the Drobo network attached storage unit. The DroboShare unit enables users to share files over an already existing LAN. This is a completely new approach to spare the user the usual hassle of storing, managing and sharing their digital goodies. Data Robotics has released its flagship product, called the Drobo, back in June ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 11:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Can Control Your Printer, Too
	Hackers are always looking for vulnerabilities, no matter if we're talking about software glitches or weak security measures set up by the computer/network administrator. And if there's a vulnerability in your printer configuration, they exploit it too. Today's piece of news is about what security researcher, Adam Weaver, entitled "cross site printing": a new type of attack that may be launched by some malicious pe ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Social Network Asks Whether You Are a Mentor or a Mentee
	With Social Networks popping out like mushrooms after a mild May rain, this is the one that is the most business oriented that I’ve seen coming out in the past two months, except for Yahoo!’s Kickstart. The iMantri comes to embrace the National Mentoring Month in the United States, something I myself have never ever heard anything about, but I guess you have to be in certain circles to have access to that kind of information. The main f ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 08:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

It’s Not Porn, It’s Freedom of Expression!
	Ning is a part of OpenSocial, as you might have read time and time again so far. What you might not have known until now is the set of statistics from Quantcast which point out that Ning’s biggest sites are porn related and that most surely got the zealots up in a riot. When I’m thinking of zealots, I don’t know why I’m picturing white (or black, but by no means brown) robes, hooded, holding religious symbols above their heads ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 21:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia Siemens Grabs Apertio for $206.3 Million
	Apertio, a company that employs 237 people and has offices in the United States, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia and China, provides customer management tools for mobile operators, such as O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone. The company also offers convergence tools, fact that makes it possible to deliver multimedia content onto subscriber's handsets. Apertio caters to landline operators as well, by offering tools that improve the access t ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 09:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pulse Shaping – The Secret Of Tomorrow's Quantum Networks
	The IT industry has worked hard during the time in order to achieve the fastest hardware in the tiniest space possible. Miniaturization was the key, but times are changing and things cannot be pushed beyond anymore, due to the materials' physical limits. Light is promising to offer what matter cannot; it's just a question of time and patience until it is completely tamed. Light has played an important role in networ ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 03:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ethereal to Convert HDMI to CAT5E/CAT6 Cables
	We live in a world that is under technology's rule. We pile up stocks of electronic appliances, either at home or at the office, and we tend to interconnect them into an intricate, yet very useful spider web. What's more and more annoying is the cabling system serpenting under and on the floor. Wireless links won't always do the trick, so you have to cope with this, or find more intelligent methods to re-use the ex ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

UK Gets Full 3G Coverage
	Some get lucky! One of the best examples of this kind is the full 3G network that will be available in Britain by the end of the year 2008. Thanks to the 3G network, users will be able to access a variety of multimedia applications. This action was possible after two of Britain's bigge ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Feeds Bebo with Social Applications as Bebo Grabs Facebook’s Platform
	Apart from the question in the subtitle, I have no further inquiries, your honor! It’s good to see where the big rivals meet and exchange impressions, and even services. Earlier today, I read about Bebo’s grabbing the Facebook platform for its own use, which gave rise to some very interesting questions like that if the OpenSocial platform is the one that will become the standard. By the looks of it… no, it won’t. Facebook opened ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 06:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Buy and Shutdown Tactics Used by Yahoo with Social Network
	What better way to close the week than with the destruction of a rival’s business? Yahoo seems to think this is the way to go about things, as it bought BlueLithium, an ad network and forced it to pull the plug on its social network, MingleNow. We know this because the blog that announced the closing down directs the network’s users to Yahoo owned sites: "Feel free to take your photos and friends with you to other commun ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ASUS WL-160N – The Wireless Card for You
	No one can deny that wireless networking is becoming increasingly popular over the older wired technologies and while most computer manufacturing companies are still lagging behind in adopting it as a default solution for connectivity, Asustek through its Asus brand takes the lead once more and introduces the WL-160N wireless card that is designed and manufactured with users satisfaction in mind. The Asus WL-160N wireless card comes as ... [read more >>]
	28 November 2007, 14:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How About Hacking a Network And Browsing the Web at No Cost?
	A recent survey conducted by security vendor Sophos revealed that 50 percent of the respondents are accessing the web at no cost by stealing the connectivity from other networks. Usually, this can be easily done through the Wi-Fi networks which are often unprotected, allowing any attacker to access and obtain a free Internet connection. But what happens after the hackers gain access to my network and are free to browse the web us ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Inbox 2.0 - New Social Network – AGAIN!
	Yahoo! 360, Yahoo! Mash, Yahoo! KickStart. All social networks, all from Yahoo! (though you might have gathered that by now), all new or closing. Nothing is really stable with the Sunnyvale, California based company. If you need another example, just check out the Yahoo Publishers Network, still in beta after many years. Some say it’s a matter of talent and continual innovation, all the networks are actually different and trying to l ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 06:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ericsson Powers World's Largest Casino
	The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel will be using Ericsson's in-building solutions to make itself a top reliable network. This is the largest single structure hotel in Asia and the second largest building in the world, which makes this partnership one with high stakes. The hotel will host the Mobile Asia Congress between November 12 and 15, leaving it up to Ericsson to take care of the telecom support for all event participan ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 08:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sprint and Clearwire Shred WiMAX Agreement
	The WiMAX network will not be coming from Sprint and Clearwire anymore. The two companies have failed to resolve complexities associated with the LOI and failed to reach final agreement on the terms of the transaction. That's a pretty disappointing result for Sprint ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 08:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ericsson Becomes WCDMA/HSPA Network Supplier for Pelephone
	Ericsson has just closed a deal with Israeli operator, Pelephone, to make the move to a new WCDMA/HSPA network from an existing CDMA network. This new technology should include the most evolved solutions resulting from Ericsson's long time experience in telecom ne ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 08:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World's First 900MHz WCDMA Network from Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson
	Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson and Elisa will launch the world’s first commercial WCDMA network in the 900 MHz frequency band. This will make it possible to extend the 3G coverage in a cost-efficient manner. Elisa’s new network is based on the WCDMA Frequency Refarming ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Record-Breaking Network Modernization from Ericsson
	Ericsson just completed T-Mobile Germany network modernization in record time. Whether it was intended, or things just ran better than planned, it's admirable just the same. T-Mobile has a new EDGE-compliant GSM radio network in record time. No wonder that Ericsson managed to finish the job earlier. The company holds many years of experience behind them to drive some rapid decisions and get things done in time. Not only t ... [read more >>]
	02 November 2007, 11:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AirLive WL-5470AP Comes With Multiple Operational Modes
	AirLive just announced the launch of a new access point aimed at home and small office users that are switching from wired to wireless networking technologies. The AirLive computer hardware manufacturing company is now presenting the WL-5470AP access point, a versatile piece of equipment that integrates eight operational modes into a single unit including access point, bridge, client, gateway and repeater that allows it to act as ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 11:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First WiFi 700Mhz Card
	Ubiquiti just announced the launch of a new wireless computer hardware device that is aimed at providing a viable and affordable replacement for today's wireless networking solutions. Available commercially under the XtremeRange 7 name, the new Ubiquiti product is using the patented technology from the same company called Frequency Freedom that allows a device greater range and transmission accuracy. The Ubiquiti XtremeRa ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 10:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

WiMAX Gains Some Speed
	The WiMAX mobile communication technology is finally ready to go from the lab to the field testing phase and this fact makes all major telecommunication companies face a few important decisions that they should undertake concerning their 4G strategies. According to the news site digitimes, the research firm ABI Resea ... [read more >>]
	08 October 2007, 11:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Largest WiMAX Network Contract for Motorola
	Motorola has just closed another big agreement in order to bring its WiMAX technology this time in Taiwan. This is actually made up of two contracts closed with Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecom (FET) as part of the operator's contribution in the national M-Taiwan project. The importance of this deal comes from the experience that the two companies have in telecom services. Motorola is the third leading handset manufactur ... [read more >>]
	08 October 2007, 09:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BlackBerry RIM Experiences New Outage
	It looks like Research in Motion (RIM) has got itself a great problem to handle, as its BlackBerry smartphones are driving them into a new outage. This is the second time when the company experiences problems and might prove to be a greater problem than initially thought. BlackBerry ... [read more >>]
	04 October 2007, 09:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia Siemens Networks Partners with IBM
	Nokia Siemens Networks has just transferred several parts of its Research and Development Center activities to a subsidiary of IBM. This includes four Business Lines of the Service Core and Applications Business Unit that will also come with the experience g ... [read more >>]
	02 October 2007, 11:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cisco May Step Into The WiMax Arena
	Wireless technology is starting to attract the big names from the traditional wired networking segment and while this may not be the best thing, it is certainly one of the facts. As the big companies are focusing their attention on the new technology, the smaller start-up outfit may get squashed or get assimilated as may very well be the case with a wireless technology promoting company that Cisco Systems, the BIG name of network ... [read more >>]
	02 October 2007, 08:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia