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Five-nines network uptime will be as important as phone uptime

It always amazes me when I read or hear that Canadians should accept less than 99.999 per cent uptime for their network/Internet systems. Would Canadians accept just 98 per cent uptime for their telephone systems, as a recent article (

Hackers deemed terrorists in U.K.

Hackers now have a new tag in the U.K.: cyberterrorists. Under the Terrorism Act 2000, people who...

Internet banking: an inside view

I just read Rob Ford's column in ComputerWorld Canada. ("Internet banking is a joke," Feb. 9,...

Researchers: Wireless LANs have serious security flaws

Computer scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have sounded new warnings about the vulnerabilities of...

Smart card makers team on SIM spec

Sun Microsystems Inc. is teaming with smart card manufacturers Gemplus International SA, Oberthur Cards Systems SA and...

Carrier briefs

Rochester, N.Y.-based Performance Technologies Inc. has announced Segway, a Signaling System 7/IP ...

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PureData Inc. recently announced six- and 12-port gigabit Ethernet switches aimed at bringing Layer 3 hardware-based routing...

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Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) of Waterloo, Ont., and IBM Corp. are making plans to jointly take...

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