EDS is aiming to make international roaming easier for subscribers and more profitable for wireless service providers with the release of its global roaming clearinghouse service. The service offers conversion and transmission of US and European...
The French government will announce in six weeks the method it will use to distribute the four UMTS licences. Speaking at the national assembly Laurent Fabius, finance minister, said the licences would be issued either through a beauty contest or...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has passed a treaty that will simplify and reduce the costs of the patenting procedure. WIPO director general Dr Kamil Idris welcomed the adoption of the PLT and explained that once it entered...
Microsoft uncovered three flaws affecting the Sun RPC (Remote Procedure Call) library in Microsoft's Services for UNIX (SFU) 3.0. Microsoft said the first new flaw discovered exploits a problem with ActiveX, the Microsoft technology that lets...
IIS is Internet Information Services (the web server part of Windows Server), SQL Server is Microsoft's database product, and RPC is the Remote Procedure Call component. A few years ago it was IIS, then SQL Server, then RPC, now it's the Windows...
The "moderate" bulletins covered an RPC Mutual Authentication problem and a TCP/IP problem in Windows. Amol Sarwate, the manager of the Vulnerability Management Lab at flaw management specialist Qualys, said: "There has never been a Microsoft...