Cisco Systems will make its long-anticipated entrance into the wireless mesh networking arena next week with a line of outdoor mesh products aimed at reducing the deployment costs involved in setting up indoor and outdoor networks, CRN has learned.

Solution providers have been expecting a wireless mesh product from Cisco since its

A new worm that attacks Linux systems and exploits several vulnerabilities in the operating system has been reported, and security firms are urging caution among users.
 
The worm has been dubbed "Lupper" by antivirus firm McAfee and "Plupii" by Symantec. Threat levels range from low to medium risk among security

It probably comes as no surprise that the spyware and adware scourge is only getting worse. However, a new study by Webroot Software reveals the full magnitude of the problem affecting a large proportion of enterprise PCs.

Calling the problem a global pandemic, Webroot notes that 48% of enterprise PCs are infected

A financial analyst predicts that the ubiquity of computer viruses, and Apple's success in its music ventures, will drive more and more Windows users to switch to Macs.
 
In a recent report, Needham & Co. analyst Charles Wolf downgraded Apple's stock from a buy to a hold because of the

Motorola Inc. on Tuesday unveiled two models of its sleek Razr cellular phone, both with digital cameras and one built for high-speed CDMA networks.

For the fashion conscious, the Schaumberg, Ill., company also released a pink and an ice blue Razr.

The CDMA Razr with Ev-DO includes a 1.3 megapixel

BEIJING - The entrepreneur who runs Yahoo Inc. 's China-based Web portal has announced a new strategy based on promoting the site as a search engine, saying he's ready to spend heavily in a battle with Chinese-language search leader Baidu.com.
 
Wednesday's announcement by Jack Ma, chief executive officer of Alibaba.com,

Verizon Communications Inc. sharply cut its prices for unlimited telephone service across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic on Tuesday, including markets where Cablevision Inc. has just boosted broadband Internet speeds.
 
The latest jockeying augurs an ever fiercer struggle ahead between the phone and cable TV industries, with consumers getting lower prices

Nervous consumers using anti-spyware to avoid having their Web surfing tracked by marketers are lessening the accuracy of customer data gathered by online retailers and other companies, a research firm said Tuesday.

The biggest impact is on third-party cookies, tiny files an advertiser will plant in a visitor's browser in order to

Bell Microproducts is now Apple's third distributor in the U.S.

The San Jose, Calif.-based distributor said in a statement Tuesday that it will distribute Apple's Xserve rack-mount servers and its Xserve RAID rack-mount storage arrays.

Executives from Bell and Apple weren’t available for comment. The statement, which wasn’t attributed

Toshiba's Digital Products Division, which previously had been providing access to wireless hotspots in the U.S. developed by other vendors, has expanded the service to include access in about 110 countries.

The company's MyConnect Internet access service now provides access to 23,000 hotspots across the world plus, roughly, an equal number of