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VPNs are well established as essential tools for corporate communications, but they are not all created equal. Here are six questions and their answers that can help you make decisions about which VPN technology to use.

Biometric e-passports will be issued to 23 million Taiwan citizens by the second half of 2008, under the new National Identity System (NIS) developed by Hewlett-Packard.

Although data encryption adds cost and complexity, business and government sectors are becoming wedded to it -- even though at times it's like an arranged marriage driven by regulatory compliance and fear of data-breach fiascos.

Electronic document giant Adobe Systems said that it was partnering with digital certificate company GeoTrust to provide technology that will allow documents that use Adobe's popular PDF (Portable Document Format) to be digitally certified.

Users of handheld devices and PDAs (personal digital assistants) that run PalmSource's PalmOS will soon be able to access a variety of Java-based applications through PalmSource's partnership with Insignia Solutions, the companies said Wednesday at TECHXNY in New York.

Computer security developer SafeNet plans to use Compaq encryption technology in its SafeNet security processors built for wireless devices.

VPN popularity is still on the rise, largely because of the stability, reliability, interoperability, and manageability IPSec brings to VPNs. The cost benefits of using the public infrastructure for communication are hard to beat, and the flexibility VPNs give employees helps improve their productivity.

With new security features and remote access options, Cylink Corp. is making it possible for companies to give remote laptop users safe access to VPNs even when they are traveling.

With the recent spate of viruses, hack attacks, and identity theft, cryptography and security has moved beyond the venue of mathematicians and technologists. But it's no less complicated.

If you're building a dial-up VPN so workers in home offices or small offices can connect to the company headquarters, you might want to consider using the VPN capabilities of Windows 2000 as a way to save money and time.

It's April Fool's Day, 2002. Glitches in air traffic controller screens nearly cause a collision above New York's LaGuardia Airport. Two weeks later, California Independent System Operator Corp., which controls California's power grid, somehow misplaces an electrical energy order to Southern California Edison, leaving two-thirds of San Diego in the dark. Then in May, a high-power microwave burst fries the electronics at an abortion clinic in Virginia.