Network Products.dmcalls provides voice dialling Digital Mail Limited has announced the public release of the world's first discount calling service with Voice Activated Dialling, dmcalls, dmcalls is a step towards the end of dialling in the conventional sense. In addition to Voice Activated Dialling, dmcalls offers on-line service features including real-time itemised billing and an address book with a capacity for 3000 contact numbers. It also offers a competitive standard tariff of 5p per minute (+VAT) currently encompassing some 750,000,000 people across 19 world destinations. The service is available from any existing phone, mobile or landline, within the United Kingdom. The subscriber initiates Voice Activated Dialling by calling via a 0800 access number. Once connected, the user is prompted to speak a name and location from their on-line address book e.g. `Call Mum Home'. Subscribers can use the service from their Mobile, Office and Home phones, dmcalls operates independently of any handset. www.digitalmail.com How Safe is Your Network? "The recent access gained into Microsoft's corporate computer network by computer hackers has highlighted the risk of unauthorised access to computer systems and the information which may be viewed or stolen," said James Cook of law firm Cobbetts. "On this occasion, a spokesman for Microsoft said that, "... there had been no compromise of the integrity of the source code ..." but it does send an important message to network owners that safeguards, both legal and technological, must be set in place if they are to protect their Intellectual Property and Confidential Information Noun 1. confidential information - an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" steer, tip, wind, hint, lead ." "Intellectual property rights are the crown jewels crown jewels Ornaments used at the coronation of a monarch and the formal ensigns of monarchy worn or carried on state occasions, as well as collections of personal jewelry consolidated by European sovereigns as valuable assets of their royal houses and the offices they of all IT businesses, and need to be safeguarded just like any other valuables. If Microsoft can be a victim then so can anyone. Safeguards are not just technical - although many companies are appallingly lax in their firewall and other security precautions - but legal. These include ensuring that companies can instantly prove their ownership rights to their software, proper internal company policies about security and copying, and a disaster plan that allows prompt action to be taken in the event of any breach. A victim of industrial espionage industrial espionage Acquisition of trade secrets from business competitors. Industrial spying is a reaction to the efforts of many businesses to keep secret their designs, formulas, manufacturing processes, research, and future plans. or any other form of cyber crime has to act within hours and be prepared to prove your case beyond reasonable doubt. The question is could your company pass this test?" www.cobbetts.co.uk First Global Virtual Network Enterasys Networks This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future events. It may contain tentative information; the content may change as the event approaches and more information becomes available. , has announced the Aurorean Virtual Network, a new class of enterprise infrastructure solutions that enable global virtual networking. Built on the technology of the RiverWorkSTM Enterprise VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. from Indus River Indus River Trans-Himalayan river of southern Asia. It is one of the world's longest rivers, with a length of 1,800 mi (2,900 km). Its annual average flow of 272 billion cu yd (207 billion cu m) is twice that of the Nile. Networks, which Enterasys Networks recently agreed to acquire, Aurerean offers a suite of virtual private networking solutions for mobile access, telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. , branch office and regional site connectivity. The Aurorean Virtual Network is a cornerstone of Enterasys Networks' Secure Harbour architecture, the industry's first holistic architecture for secure network infrastructure www.indusriver.com Major criticisms of ISPs and Networks Increased fraud, confusing pricing and major security issues wrong telecoms providers and networks are just three of the concerns of more than 400 senior business buyers and users of telecommunications services in the UK. These widespread concerns are revealed in the eighth annual survey of the Communications Management Communications management is the systematic planning, implementing, monitoring, and revision of all the channels of communication within an organization, and between organizations; it also includes the organization and dissemination of new communication directives connected with an Association (CMA CMA - Concert Multithread Architecture from DEC. ) whose members spend more than 10 billion [pounds sterling] on telecoms services each year. The survey research and analysis conducted by top international research company Total Research Ltd - is an annual barometer of the current stage of development of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. ) market in the UK. The results provide an in-depth undemanding of the opinions and attitudes of key ICT professionals in major organisations towards current and emerging technologies and services, usage of service providers, as well as detailed views and opinions of the performance of telecoms service providers. Their main concerns about Fixed, Mobile and On-line services are:-. * Fraud on the mobile network is on the increase * Fraud and security issues delay e-commerce take-up * Internet pricing remains confusing * ICT users believe Oftel has failed to deliver competition nationwide * Broadband roll-out is too slow * Broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. should be provided to anyone on demand * Mobile is not a viable alternative for broadband delivery short term * Mobile and Broadband Fixed Wireless auctions offer a poor deal to business users * Dial-up Interact access should be free For further information from E-mail carolem@totalres.co.uk IT directors shun `one-stop' carriers A survey of 150 IT directors by network services company, Vanco, has concluded that 70% believe a `virtual network' of multiple carriers and infrastructures is more likely to deliver the service benefits promised. The option of using a single carrier with its own infrastructure to provide end-to-end connectivity End-to-end connectivity is a property of the Internet that allows all nodes of the network to send packets to all other nodes of the network, without requiring intermediate network elements to further interpret them. It was for the first time implemented in the CYCLADES-network. was viewed as less efficient and more unreliable. In addition, a flexible and adaptable network contract was rated second only to speed of access to data, in terms of key service areas. Feedback suggests this is because customers want to take advantage of falling circuit prices in the deregulated market by being able to switch to the most competitive suppliers without being tied into a long term contract with one telco. The results demonstrate increasing customer expectation in a market that has seen the collapse of infrastructure-led telecoms companies including Iaxis and Oxygen. The suggestion is that IT directors are now purchasing their infrastructure separately from the operation of the network. Areas such as performance monitoring, ability to access a variety of technologies and service guarantees are leading the way. www.vanco.uk XTND XTND Extend XTND XML Transition Network Definition Connect View XTNDConnect View is a software solution designed to give wireless devices, including RIM wireless handhelds, WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. and HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) A specialized version of HTML designed to enable wireless pagers, cellphones and other handheld devices to obtain information from Web pages. HDML was developed by Phone. mobile phones, and Palm VII The Palm VII product family consisted of two products, the Palm VII and the Palm VIIx Palm Pilots. These were produced by Palm, Inc., before it was split into PalmOne and PalmSource. They had antennas for wireless data communication on the Mobitex network under the now defunct Palm. devices-secure, real-time, two-way access to groupware information. It is a companion product to XTNDConnect Server data synchronisation and management software, www.extendedsystems.co.uk Real-time Enterprise Connectivity Development Centura Software Corp. a developer of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. solutions, has announced the launch of CRMSoft for Information Appliances. The solution utilises Centura's mobile application ssrver, ESNAPP 2.0 and enables businesses to access customer information dynamically and in real- time. Working with ESNAPP, Tranziine is to provide corporations with secure access to the most up-to-date enterprise information. The combined solution delivers mobile data solutions, which can connect to enterprise systems and customers.. www.centurasoft.com Blueyonder Workwise Telewest Communications, and CobWeb (1) A Web page that has not been updated in a long time. (2) A Web page that is rarely downloaded because the references to it are obscure or the subject is simply uninteresting. Solutions, have formed a joint venture, called blueyonder workwise, to revolutionise the delivery of e-economy services to Britain's small businesses. The service, blueyonder workwise - will provide speeds 10 times faster than currently available through existing dial-up connections to the Internet and offer a permanent, always-on connection at a fixed cost, removing the requirement for logging-on every time an email needs to be retrieved or a website accessed. With four out of ten employees having to log onto the net more than 5 times a day, and one in ten more than 15 times a day, the average time wasted by each employee with a dial-up service is one hour forty minutes each day, that's over 400 hours a year. Translated nationally, this means the UK is losing a staggering seven billion pounds every year in lost hours waiting for downloads. On accessing the blueyonder workwise portal, www.byworkwise.com, the user will have the opportunity to select from a whole range of business services and applications including integrated finance and accounting packages for payroll, expenses, stock control, and invoicing, as well as additional services provided through strategic alliances with companies such as Netstore, who will provide secure online data back; and GroupTrade who will offer bulk purchasing Bulk Purchasing is when products are bought in large quantities. This often results in a lower price per item, or Unit price. Wholesale is selling or related to selling goods in large quantities for resale to the consumer. discounts blue yonder yon·der adv. In or at that indicated place: the house over yonder. adj. Being at an indicated distance, usually within sight: "Yonder hills," he said, pointing. workwise is also in discussion about the possibility of working with the Halifax to develop superior financial products for the small business community. www.telewest.co.uk Indus River Adds Network Address Translation to VPN Indus River Networks, has added network address translation, firewall and proxy traversal to its RiverWorks Enterprise VPN. This enables broadband users and project consultants to traverse corporate firewalls, proxy servers and NAT (Network Address Translation) An IETF standard that allows an organization to present itself to the Internet with far fewer IP addresses than there are nodes on its internal network. (Network Address Translation) devices when accessing corporate using the IPSec tunnelling protocol. To date, enterprises have faced a significant challenge when deploying IPSec VPN access to remote users who either utilise broadband services such as DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary or cable, or who function as project consultants and work from another corporation's LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. for a period of time. In these cases, networking devices such as firewalls, proxy servers or NAT servers either block or alter IPSec traffic preventing successful VPN connections. As a result, network managers' only solution has been to assign PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) A protocol from Microsoft that is used to create a virtual private network (VPN) over the Internet. Remote users can access their corporate networks via any ISP that supports PPTP on its servers. tunnelling to these users, which many enterprises consider less secure. Indus Riveils enhanced IPSec functionality allows enterprises to deploy IPSec to all users in the virtual network, achieving the strongest VPN security available. www.indusriver.com ImageShark Speeds Image Delivery While ACD Systems Incorporated in 1989, ACD Systems Ltd. evolved into a software developer for the nascent CD-ROM cataloguing industry. It was realized that a key technological advantage could be found if ACD provided the fastest software JPEG decoder on the market. Int. Inc. has released ImageShark, a solution for serving images on the Web faster. ImageShark has a suite of image development features and applications for servers, serve web images in over 30 image formats at high speed using low bandwidth. The program converts images to browser-friendly formats automatically, generating and displaying dynamic image thumbnails of any size from a single source on a web server. It also displays business documents like multi-page TIFF files from scanners or on-line fax systems and allows navigation of the thumbnail images. The software allows viewers to zoom in, zoom out and pan around images independent of the web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. deployed by the user. It can also convert over and underexpose images, correct gamma levels to optimize image quality for all platforms, provide custom watermarking for image previews and render high-quality black and white images using scale-to-grey processing. www.acdsystems.com iOra
The ioras are a family of small passerine bird species found in India and southeast Asia. They one of only two bird families that are entirely endemic to the Indomalayan ecozone. Mobile Intranet Improves Access for Mobiles iOra supplier of esolutions for Mobiles has added three new modules to its iOra Mobile Intranet product line to give mobile users access to their corporate Intranet information, even when they are completely disconnected from the Internet. The Enterprise Module allows unlimited numbers of mobile users to be supported, and adds new XML-based Auditing and Reporting. The Lotus Domino module adds support for Lotus Domino based Intranets or a mix of Lotus, Microsoft or Netscape based Intranets, and last, but not least, the Application Service Provider (ASP) Module allows ASP's to host iOra Mobile Intranet as a remote application. www.iora.com Zetafax 7. Equisys, has released Zetafax 7 - the latest version of its network fax software. Zetafax 7 provides users with "one-click" faxing from Microsoft Office. With the newly created Add-Ins for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Zetafax buttons are automatically installed on all standard toolbars within these applications; allowing users to have access to the powerful of Zetafax. A new feature is the ability to monitor the status of all sent faxes directly from within Outlook. The user will be provided with real-time information showing when the fax server is dialling, when the fax server has connected to the remote device and giving confirmation that the fax has been sent successfully. With the inclusion of Outlook forms for both sending and receiving faxes, network administrators can deploy a fax service to Outlook users without a separate fax client application. Zetafax 7 integrates with all standard SMTP/POP3 e-mail servers such as Eudora WorldMail by Qualcomm and PostOffice by Software. com. www.equisys.com NetLink Wireless Telephone System SpectraLink's advanced NetLink Wireless Telephone SySteM (NetLink WTS See Windows Terminal Server. ). is claimed to be the first in-building wireless telephone system to offer Wired Equivalent Privacy Wired Equivalent Privacy or Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP) is a scheme to secure IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. It is part of the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking standard. (WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) An IEEE standard security protocol for wireless 802.11 networks. Introduced in 1997, WEP was found to be very inadequate and was superseded by WPA, WPA2 and 802.11i. ) eneryption, which is fully compliant with the 802. 11 wireless LAN standard making wireless communications as secure as traditional fixed-line services without the loss of calling features or voice quality. The NetLink WTS now operates at 2Mbps, resulting in higher call density, improved efficiency, and flexibility. Combining voice over IP and wireless LAN technologies, the NetLink WTS allows on-site mobile workers to make and receive telephone calls over a shared wireless infrastructure. www.spectralink.com |
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