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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (52890)	12/7/1999 10:31:00 AM
From: Jenne	Respond to of 152472

Bluestone Takes Total-e-Business to Wireless Devices On Stage At Giga Emerging Technology Show; Bluestone's Comprehensive E-Business Platform Reaches Beyond the Browser to Unite Devices with All Corporate Database, Legacy and E-Business Applications Based on J2EE Platforms, Including JSP, XML, and XSL BUSINESS WIRE - December 07, 1999 10:04 PALM DESERT, Calif., Dec 7, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today in a live presentation made at Giga Information Group Inc.'s Emerging Technology Scene conference, Bluestone(R) Software, Inc., (Nasdaq:BLSW), a leading provider of Enterprise Interaction Management software, demonstrated the power of wireless device access in its Total-e-Business(TM) product suite. Incorporating wireless devices from Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL) and Qualcomm (Nasdaq:QCOM), the Total-e-Business demonstration illustrates the business advantage of real time integration and data exchange with mobile device users. "Our customers have long known the value of incorporating wireless devices into their business operations, and we've designed the mobile and wireless systems they need to gain competitive advantage," said Keith Kanneg, director of software marketing for Symbol Technologies. "With Bluestone pioneering the use of XML in our devices, working with Total-e-Business is a natural extension of our efforts to push applications beyond the desktop." To ensure complete e-business platform support and interactivity for any device, Total-e-Business employs an access methodology based on J2EE standards, including JavaServer Pages (JSPs), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and XML Stylesheet Language (XSL). Consequently, Total-e-Business solutions support a variety of devices and device platforms, including the 3Com Palm VII, Symbol Wireless LAN, Qualcomm PDQ Smart Phone, Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) Phone, Voice XML, and Wireless Markup Language (WML). With Total-e-Business solutions, companies can extend the reach of their e-business solutions beyond the browser and tie devices to corporate databases, legacy systems, and e-business applications that comprise a Total-e-Business solution. "The Emerging Technology Scene is a showcase for innovative IT solutions, so the Giga audience understands the value of extending real-time e-business activities to the rapidly growing pool of cell phones, palmtops, and other devices carried by customers, suppliers, partners, and employees," said John H. Capobianco, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for Bluestone. "Industry analysts anticipate one billion cell phones in use by 2003. Anticipating the e-business opportunities created by the exploding device market, Bluestone engineered Total-e-Business to support extreme access -- not only in terms of performance and fault-tolerance, but also in terms of devices." Taking Business Beyond the Browser with Total-e-Business The live, all wireless Total-e-Business demonstration at The Emerging Technology Scene served as a proof of concept to illustrate the feasibility and the benefits of integrating devices with Total-e-Business. For the Total-e-Business demonstration, a Bluestone representative went into the conference audience and -- using the ruggedized Symbol SPT 1740 RF PalmPilot -- scanned the bar-coded name tag of a randomly selected attendee and entered the attendee's cell phone number. Using Bluestone's ConXML application software, the scanned data was converted to XML and uplinked via wireless protocols to a Symbol Spectrum24 Wireless LAN receiver connected to the Total-e-Business server. Total-e-Business software, including the Sapphire/Web Application Server and XML Suite Integration Server, automatically personalized the data and displayed the attendee's name on a Web page. At the same time, the name was sent to a separate room (simulating an off-site manufacturing facility) where the name was custom printed onto a t-shirt. Simultaneously, the Total-e-Business software sent an email to an on-stage Qualcomm PDQ Smart Phone, which dialed the cell phone of the randomly selected conference attendee with notification of the customized t-shirt's completion. Nancy Lee, senior product manager for XML at Sun Microsystems, Inc., affirmed, "Java captivated the IT market with its 'write once, run anywhere' promise. With Total-e-Business, Bluestone delivers on that promise by creating an e-business platform that takes the run-anywhere philosophy to the exploding arena of intelligent, non-PC devices using XML." As the Total-e-Business demonstration suggests, the value of integrating devices into a Total-e-Business solution centers on dramatically expanding a company's e-business audience to include local and remote customers, partners, and employees using mobile devices. As suggested by Bluestone's Giga demonstration, using technologies that are available today, Total-e-Business solutions can leverage LANS, WANS, and radio frequency (RF) protocols to communicate with a wide range of devices. This allows corporations to integrate these devices into the IT infrastructure as they gain widespread usage. Consequently, Total-e-Business application scenarios allow businesses to maximize the cost saving and revenue generating opportunities that distributed wireless communication brings to e-business. The capabilities demonstrated at the Giga conference can be applied to diverse industries, including hospitals, manufacturing inventory control, retail, even tradeshow promotion. Total-e-Business can also integrate with wide area scenarios, including applications that open up corporate communications and knowledge bases to device users, as well as those that focus on reservation or delivery services, such as Food.com, the Internet's premier restaurant takeout and delivery service. For example, using Total-e-Business, Food.com plans to make its service available through Palm Pilots, Web phones, and TV set-top boxes, as well as standard PC browsers. About Bluestone's Total-e-Business Total-e-Business combines best-of-breed components for content management, personalization, and e-commerce with Bluestone's award-winning Sapphire/Web Application Server infrastructure and Bluestone XML Suite Integration Server -- based on JSP and XML standards. Total-e-Business makes a company's e-business a vital and seamless extension of its overall business strategy by consolidating all e-business interactions with business partners, suppliers, vendors, customers, and employees. By providing a global-class e-business platform, companies can place fundamental business control of the e-business enterprise in the hands of business experts, allowing IT personnel to concentrate on technology excellence.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (52890)	12/7/1999 10:38:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

QCOM also has small trend channel going with the 400 range as the top, but it's too soon to rely on such a short trend. So I'll rely on my years of watching. Just got a great deal on INSP. Milehigh it's the stock we have been looking for. greg

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (52890)	12/7/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

GSM Cracked Source Article=Wired Magazine--one of my favorites. JohnG Cell Phone Crypto Penetrated by Declan McCullagh 10:55 a.m. 6.Dec.1999 PST Israeli researchers have discovered design flaws that allow the descrambling of supposedly private conversations carried by hundreds of millions of wireless phones. Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir describe in a paper to be published this week how a PC with 128 MB RAM and large hard drives can penetrate the security of a phone call or data transmission in less than one second. More Infostructure in Wired News Read more about Gadgets and Gizmos Check back with Wired News for continuing coverage Read more Politics -- from Wired News Read more Technology -- from Wired News The flawed algorithm appears in digital GSM phones made by companies such as Motorola, Ericsson, and Siemens, and used by well over 100 million customers in Europe and the United States. Recent estimates say there are over 230 million users worldwide who account for 65 percent of the digital wireless market. Although the paper describes how the GSM scrambling algorithm can be deciphered if a call is intercepted, plucking a transmission from the air is not yet practical for individuals to do. James Moran, the fraud and security director of the GSM Association in Dublin, says that "nowhere in the world has it been demonstrated --an ability to intercept a call on the GSM network. That's a fact.... To our knowledge there's no hardware capable of intercepting." The GSM Association, an industry group, touts the standards as "designed to conform to the most stringent standards of security possible from the outset [and] unchallenged as the world's most secure public digital wireless system." Not any more. Shamir says the paper he co-authored with a Weizmann Institute of Science colleague in Rehovot, Israel, describes a successful attack on the A5/1 algorithm, which is used for GSM voice and data confidentiality. It builds on the results of previous attempts to attack the cipher. "It's quite a complex idea, in which we fight on many fronts to accumulate several small improvements which together make a big difference, so the paper is not easy to read or write," Shamir, a co-inventor of the RSA public key crypto system in 1977, said in an email to Wired News. Cell Phone Crypto Penetrated page 2 10:55 a.m. 6.Dec.1999 PST continued A group of Silicon Valley cypherpunks has organized previous efforts to highlight what they view as the poor security of GSM encryption standards. In April 1998 they reported that it was possible to clone a GSM phone, which the US Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association dismissed as more theoretical than practical. The North American GSM Alliance similarly dismissed cloning as a serious threat in a statement. Earlier this year, the group, which includes Marc Briceno, Ian Goldberg, and David Wagner, described how to penetrate the less-secure GSM A5/2 algorithm used in some Pacific rim countries in less than a second. In May 1999 they released the source code to A5/1, which the Weizmann Institute computer scientists used in their analysis of the cipher. "Because of Biryukov and Shamir's real-time attack against A5/1 and our group's 15 millisecond attack against A5/2, all the GSM voice privacy ciphers used worldwide can be broken by an attacker with just a single PC and some radio hardware," Briceno said. "Since the voice privacy encryption is performed by the handset, only replacing the handset would address the flaws found in the recent attacks," he said. The GSM Alliance's Moran said he needed time to review the paper, which has not yet been released. But he said it would be a topic of a discussion at the next GSM security working group meeting on 16 December. Previously the GSM encryption algorithms have come under fire for being developed in secret away from public scrutiny -- which most experts say is the only way to ensure high security. Moran said "it wasn't the attitude at the time to publish algorithms" when the A5 ciphers was developed in 1989, but current ones being created will be published for peer review.