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...Boston-based start-up that turns the standard kidspace business plan on its head. ''What we are is a virtual private network designed specifically for kids,'' says founder Alan Rothenberg, with ''no advertising, no soliciting of the...
...whose culture was symbolized by the movie ''War Games,'' learned and earned their reputations by penetrating the private networks operated by phone companies, the government or corporations. They often dived into dumpsters for training manuals...
...Communications International Inc. to establish a virtual private network, linking several rural outpatient facilities in west...communities to share electronic data, establish a virtual private network with biometric security and provide centralized e-mail...
...deploy software to control access by subscribers. For-pay WiFi services may provide extra security with "virtual private network" software that encrypts network traffic. Many companies think they can make a profit from this -- even while some...
...cases, there's no need for voice traffic to ever move over what's considered the public Internet. On their private networks, companies can give voice packets priority. In fact, most analysts expect the big battle to be between existing...
...But some companies flatly refused, partly out of suspicion that the program could also allow the FBI to peek into private networks. The FBI could have allayed such fears by posting a copy of the source code -- a blueprint computer programmers...
...A more ambitious system was shown by Ten Square, which has inked deals with big oil companies to build a virtual private network across the nation that will bring advertising, ticket-ordering and even music-downloading capabilities to electronic...
...their money on this Alexandria, Va.-based wireless company. Intel is also an investor. Ecutel sets up virtual private networks for mobile workers and has landed some significant customers, including the Swedish parliament and Siemens Business...
...technology to monitor a huge chunk of the public Internet along with the internal nooks and crannies of its clients' private networks, looking for telltale signs of computer break-ins. Its software constantly compares current hacker activity with...
...printer cartridges. Others fear the concealment provision also could ban security firewalls, encrypted virtual private networks for telecommuters and systems designed to preserve anonymity and protect privacy. Supporters say the measures would...