Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Device Authentication: Establishing Trust for PDAs, ATMs, EKGs and PS2 By Derek Brink Director, Product Management, Authentication Products RSA Security There's a quiet revolution going on, as manufacturers equip a growing range of every-day devices with Internet access capabilities. Whether a device is designed for business purposes (such as PDAs), financial services (ATMs), healthcare (EKG equipment) or consumer markets (Sony PlayStation 2), the promise of ubiquitous connectivity is spurring enterprises to envision how even the most familiar products and services can be re-imagined to achieve new efficiencies and deliver new functionality and value to users. The recent emergence of Web Services technology, which will make machine-to-machine communication easier to achieve, will only accelerate this trend.... 6:14:22 AM

Homebound but Plugged In Rolling Out Wireless Internet Access, Md. Firm Starts With Seniors By Yuki Noguchi, Washington Post Staff Writer, Wednesday, November 27, 2002; Page E01 5:56:58 AM

Broadband secrets revealed. Broadband users are less concerned about speed and more about being able to spend more time online[cedilla] a report has found. [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY] 5:08:37 AM

USA Today on open spectrum: ""My gut feeling," [David] Reed said, "is that in 10 or 20 years this will be as big as the Internet."" When USA Today starts covering software-defined radio, you know something is going on. But who came up with the headline -- "New multi-function gadgets may spark deregulation"? I guess that was their effort to simplify the concepts, though it's pretty misleading. [Werblog] 4:35:00 AM

Network World, quoting Vocaltec CEO Elon Ganor: "The vast majority of experts said by 2006 50% of the world's traffic would be using VoIP. I talked to carriers, the large carriers, and I can tell you that their view is about similar." [Werblog] 4:33:57 AM

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