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Standards battles slow encrypted email use

Without universal standards, email encryption remains flawed, and leaves corporations open to attack.

Email may be the killer app of the online world, but it also represents the Achilles heel of corporate networks. Email-delivered viruses have been crippling servers for years, with no letup in sight.

A year-end report by tech security company Trend Micro, for instance, says

 
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Going mobile

Keeping at arm’s distance from your coworkers – and boss – seems to be catching on.

More than half of the 109 million households in the U.S. have a digital home office, according to a new report from the Yankee Group, a communications and networking research firm. This includes households with telecommuters, home-based businesses, or the employee who occasionally works from home. Europe and Asia are seeing similar trends.

In 2003

 
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Tech’s big dogs move in on WiFi

Once the domain of obscure startups, wi-fi has suddenly evolved into a multi-billion dollar marketplace that is attracting some of high tech’s biggest names.

Pioneer wi-fi equipment makers like Accton, Belkin, Envara, and Nomadix are having to make room in their ranks for blue-chip manufacturers like Intel, Cisco, AT&T, Dell, Apple Computer, Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, and SonyEricsson. Banking on

 
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