George A. Chidi Jr

Articles by George A. Chidi Jr

Prototype phone boosts speech recognition

Motorola Inc. and speech recognition software maker SpeechWorks International Inc. have developed a prototype phone that they say will help computers better decipher wireless signals for clearer transmissions.

Nortel unveils new metro optical Ethernet gear

Nortel Networks revealed a new class of optical switches for the ever-more-attractive metropolitan area network market, touting the switches

Motorola announces executive layoffs

Heads continue to roll at Motorola Inc., with the network and telecommunication equipment maker reporting a 20...

Keyboard stroke capture okay, judge says

A federal judge in New Jersey rejected a defence motion last week to suppress computer evidence gained in a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case against an accused Mafia loan shark, possibly clearing a path for the government to use secretly installed keystroke logging tools to defeat encryption.

RedHat releases 64-bit Linux

Open source software company Red Hat Inc. released a version of its Linux operating system for Intel Corp.'s 64-bit Itanium processor, Red Hat said Monday.

Keyboard stroke capture OK, judge says

A federal judge in New Jersey rejected a defense motion last week to suppress computer evidence gained in a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case against an accused Mafia loan shark, possibly clearing a path for the government to use secretly installed keystroke logging tools to defeat encryption.

Telecom vendors reassessing their customers

Global competition drove a wedge in the cozy relationships between tele-communication and network equipment suppliers and the...

Excite@Home pulls the plug on AT&T cable Net

When cable Internet provider Excite@Home Inc. stopped answering the customer service calls from AT&T Corp.'s customers in the early hours of Saturday morning, AT&T knew for certain that the Internet service provider had pulled the plug.

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