Cisco has announced an alternative to the Web-services protocol SOAP and made it open source. Cisco says its Etch messaging protocol will be more efficient than the SOAP standard and the company will release the source code.
Businesses are not doing enough to secure their VoIP networks, according to a veteran IP telephony engineer, and the main reason is lack of knowledge.
Cisco is to offer a tunnel-less VPN, which could solve some of the challenges of securing WAN traffic.
At the start of last year, Bill Gates told the world's elite at an annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, that the problem of spam would be solved in two years.
An anti-spam technology that focuses on identifying forged e-mail addresses has been proposed as a standard by Cisco, Yahoo and partners.
Improving IT security is all about tearing down walls rather than building them up, says Paul Simmonds, Jericho Forum founder and chemical giant ICI's global information security director.
The world's e-mail network is no longer the friendly place it once was and authentication could mean the end for the platform as we know it.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
It is vital that the tech industry raises awareness of the scale of the problem of junk e-mail, industry experts said.
It's time for Microsoft to seek an annuity base that isn't as tied to the upgrade cycle as its current revenue model is.
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The proposed SIP standard is key to IM interoperability and to merging voice, data, video and messaging into a single system, says a Microsoft executive.
A technology that promises to bridge the worlds of data storage and networking has passed a key point on its path to becoming a usable standard.
Microsoft is expected to unveil a new instant messaging service aimed at corporate customers, jump-starting belated efforts by the software giant to tap a fast-growing, new market for the hugely popular technology.
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