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Telecom is among the top 10 costs for most businesses, according to industry experts, and for many it ranks in the top five. With that in mind, here are 10 tips for cutting your telecom expenses that range from organizing your bills better to rethinking how you support older technologies.

Symantec is considering developing a service that would position the company as a third-party broker of identity management services for the Internet.

The personal information of 196,000 Hewlett-Packard employees has been put at risk after a laptop containing the data was stolen last week.

Great ideas don't just happen, they need space, context and nurturing.

Boeing has been discreetly providing feedback to the Mozilla Foundation for the past year or so on features that might encourage enterprise adoption of the open-source Firefox browser. At the top of the list has been a tool kit to help IT departments distribute Firefox with custom configurations to end users.

IBM has agreed to buy network management software vendor Micromuse for US$865 million in cash, the companies announced Wednesday.

As the U.K. government moves ahead with a national identification card plan, it should be based on open standards, the executive director of the Liberty Alliance said at a press briefing in London.

Standards body the Liberty Alliance Project believes it can contribute something currently missing from the ongoing debate on tackling identity theft -- a lexicon of terms defining exactly what constitutes ID theft. The alliance, which focuses on developing open standards for federated network identity, revealed its work on the lexicon Tuesday.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a floor trader on Wall Street who isn't packing a BlackBerry or some other handheld wireless device. But on the whole, the financial services industry has trailed other industries in wireless adoption.

To make it easier to identify and react to new scam Web sites, Microsoft, eBay and Visa International are launching a program to share information about online identity theft scams known as "phishing attacks," they said Monday.

From the corporate boardroom to the enterprise data center, the 50 men and women on this list exercise power within the network industry to one degree or another. Some have the clout to sway the world's technology decisions, while others command attention within vertical industries, particular market segments or simply -- though not inconsequentially -- within their own organizational domains. We have ranked each of our 2004 power-brokers based on such stature, as well as on the person's visibility and the ways in which the person functions as a role model. To see how these 50 fit together, we've aligned them by category as well, from the titans to the standards-setters.