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HP Launches Virtualization Hardware, Services
HP also released a new version of its Unix operating system -- HP-UX 11i V3 -- to help manage processors, memory, and applications together in order to shift resources.
Xerox Develops 3-D Visualization Software For Printing
The technology would let print shops show customers exactly what their document will look like, including texture, gloss, folds, and binding, before any ink is put to paper.
Adaptec Unveils 'Intelligent Power Management'
The RAID controller-based power management technology enables IT managers to custom-configure storage systems to reduce power consumption.
Alcatel-Lucent CEO Promises To Integrate The Firm's Two Units
Newly appointed executive Ben Verwaayen said he plans to spend the next few months talking with customers before zeroing in on some technologies.
Wireless Carriers Prepared For Hurricane Gustav
Some cell and landline services have been affected by the storm, but the impact is far milder than that of Hurricane Katrina, carriers in the area report.
Orange Caps iPhone 3G Speeds At 384 Kbps
Users have complained that the French wireless provider's capping of network speeds violates the company's service agreement.
Cisco To Buy PostPath For $215 Million
Privately-held PostPath, which develops and provides e-mail and calendaring software, will enhance Cisco's WebEx product line, the company said.
National Tech Medal Winners Include eBay, OS Creator, And Net Engineer
The National Medal of Technology and Innovation is the nation's highest honor for technological achievement.
Video Demand Spearheads 802.11n Wi-Fi At Colleges
Several vendors led by Aruba, Cisco, Meru Networks, and Trapeze Networks are deploying 802.11n networks on campuses across North America.
N.Y. Comptroller Advises To Scrap $2 Billion Network
The biggest ever New York state technology contract awarded to M/A-COM in 2005, is a year and a half behind schedule and has suffered from technology problems.
Alaska Air's CIO Weighs In On In-Flight Internet Services
As American Airlines begins to offer passengers Aircell's Gogo, Alaska Air is going with a satellite service. CIO Robert Reeder explains why.
Microsoft To Build $500 Million Iowa Data Center
The facility will house about 75 workers employed at an average annual salary of $70,000.
Intel Demos Wireless Power, Robotics, 'Programmable Matter'
Justin Rattner, Intel's CTO, showed off the company's up-and-coming technology at the final keynote of the chipmaker's Developer Forum.
IBM Invests $300 Million In Backup Centers
Big Blue aims to keep its customers safe by employing cloud computing standards.
Dell Cuts Transport Costs Using Probability Theory
Beyond saving money, the supply routing system developed for Dell by MIT researchers has made the computer maker more nimble in its movement of goods.
Google Wants The Airwaves
The Free The Airwaves campaign is rallying support to open unused TV spectrum, called white space, to carry high-speed wireless Internet signals.
Kansas Man Seeks Cable-Box Choice, Sues Time Warner
The antitrust lawsuit claims it's unfair that customers can't get premium cable service from Time Warner unless they use the company's box and pay a monthly rental fee.
McCain Unveils Tech Policy, Opposes Net Neutrality Regulations
The presidential candidate outlined his vision for tax breaks and incentives for research, workforce training, open trade, a reduction in business regulations, and protection of intellectual property.
HP To Acquire Colubris Networks
Colubris products provide wireless access, management, and security, as well as 802.11n capabilities.
Interest Increasing In RFID Applications, Survey Shows
Nearly half of IT companies worldwide say their customers have implemented at least one radio frequency identification project.
Juniper Centralizes And Unifies Network Management
Network and Security Manager 2008.1 is a centralized network manager for Juniper's NetScreen Firewall, IDP appliance, M-Series routers, and EX-Series switches.
Tech Industry's Financial Results Show Sky Isn't Falling
An analysis of second-quarter results for Cisco, SAP, IBM and others shows that businesses are still spending on IT despite the poor economy.
AT&T Jumps Into Cloud Computing With Synaptic Hosting
Synaptic Hosting will allow companies to host Windows Server or Linux client-server applications and Web apps in AT&T's data centers, rather than in their own data centers.
Dell Seeks, May Receive 'Cloud Computing' Trademark
The company now has six months to file a statement of use -- a document backing up or solidifying Dell's use of the term cloud computing -- or request for extension.
Interop New York To Shine Spotlight On Mobility, Cloud Computing
The industry's premier networking event, held in New York Sept. 15-19, will host keynotes from Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com, Marie Hattar of Cisco, and Ronald W. Hovsepian of Novell. Also on tap are deep dives in virtualization, green IT, and security, and the Mobile Business Expo.
With Microsoft Midori, Platforms Take Shape In The Cloud
The advent of browser-based thin clients like CherryPal and projects from Microsoft, Google, and others indicates that fully cloud-based computing will make its way to the masses.
Amazon Offers Online Payment Service For E-Commerce Sites
Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay will compete with PayPal and Google Checkout for a piece of the online payments pie.
EPA Asks Whether Energy Star Ratings Would Work For Data Centers
About 240 data centers will provide the EPA with power consumption information over the next year with the aim of creating possible Energy Star specifications for energy-efficient data centers.
Siemens, Investor Group Form $545 Million Joint Venture
The Gores Group will get a majority stake in the new venture, which will combine Siemens technology with other Gores holdings.
HP, Intel, Yahoo Join Government, Academia In Cloud Computing Research
Each of the founding members will host a cloud-computing infrastructure largely based on HP computers and Intel processors in six data centers.
Motorola Once Again Reshuffles Business Units
The handset and networking vendor said it will split its Home & Networks Mobility group into three separate businesses.
Sprint Sells Cell Towers For $670 Million
The deal will allow Sprint to focus on its core services and provide a much-needed cash infusion.
San Francisco Computer Tech Set Booby Trap In City Network
Prosecutors say Childs set the network to delete numerous files during a scheduled maintenance of the system.
Cisco To Acquire Pure Networking For $120 Million
The purchase puts Pure's home networking management software under the umbrella of Cisco's Linksys unit.
Canadian Carriers May Switch To GSM
The move from CDMA could allow Bell Canada and Telus to offer customers the iPhone 3G.
Dell Launches Rack Workstation
The company also introduced a PC-over-IP remote access device that offers hardware-based encryption and compression without compromising system performance.
GM, Power Companies Join To Make Plug-In Vehicles Work
The automaker wants to be leading the pack when electric cars reach the nation's roads.
Virginia Tech's Supercomputing Site Gets InfiniBand Upgrade
Mellanox Technologies adds 40-Gbps interconnects to the university's 29-Tflop computer systems research cluster.
$3 Billion Brocade-Foundry Networks Merger Has Eye On Cisco
In acquiring switch maker Foundry, Brocade is creating a networking powerhouse that could become a much stronger rival to Cisco.
Cuba To Get High-Speed Internet In 2010
The undersea fiber optic cable being built from Venezuela to Cuba represents a departure from prior Cuban policy impeding Internet access.
Convergys Acquires Voice Systems Provider Intervoice For $335 Million
Intervoice's speech automation, Web self-care, and mobile applications will be combined with Convergys' existing relationship management business.
Google Search Security Mistaken For Censorship
By warning users of a hack on a net neutrality opponent's Web site, Google was accused of trying to silence critics of a policy it supports.
Samba 3.2 Emerges Under GPLv3; Team Adds First Woman
In addition to the license change, Samba 3.2 brings support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, better conservation of memory, and a registry-based configuration system.
Verizon Business Teams Up With Virtusa To Streamline IT Operations
The telecom company says its new IT asset management program can reduce its 1,000 key IT systems by 40%.
Comcast Again Chided For Allegedly Blocking Internet Traffic
The company's agreement to smoothly deliver Vonage's VoIP services raises critics' questions about the ISP's network management practices.
Airvana Updates Its CDMA EV-DO Clustering Technology
The upgrade lets carriers increase the number of sites than can fit in a cluster so sessions can be managed as subscribers move across different cell boundaries.
Microsoft DNS Security Fix Knocks ZoneAlarm Users Offline
The vulnerability is widespread and affects products made by numerous networking and software vendors beyond Microsoft.
Mobile E-Mail For Cost-Conscious Enterprises
No high-end smartphone? No problem. Standard consumer-grade mobile phones from Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung, and other vendors are capable of syncing with Exchange servers, empowering mobile e-mail for nearly anyone who needs it.
Forget DSL Or Cable, Broadband Users Want Their Fiber
Some 4.2 million high-speed Internet users received fiber in the first quarter of 2008 versus 2.5 million who received cable, Point Topic analysts said.
Avocent Restructures, Announces Acquisitions
The acquisitions will bring Avocent into closer competition with full-spectrum IT infrastructure management vendors, such as IBM and HP.
VMware Completes Acquisition Of B-hive Networks
B-hive Conductor will allow VMware to add proactive management of applications running in virtual machines.
RFID Can Have "Hazardous" Impact On Hospital Equipment
A recently published study could prompt the medical industry to re-evaluate its growing use of RFID.
Virtualization Key Enhancement To Cisco Data Center 3.0
The company updates its Cisco Wide Area Application Services, Cisco VFrame Data Center, and Cisco Application Control Engine software for data center operators.
Moving To The Cloud, Businesses Encounter Turbulence
A "thought shift" is required before big business will shift core business databases to the cloud, said a Google software engineer.
Credit Suisse Spin-Off Launches Virtual Machine Manager
DynamicOps' VRM is a cross-vendor management tool, handling provisioning and decommissioning tasks on virtual machines.
Google, Salesforce Expand Integration Of Cloud Computing Platforms
The Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs merges content from Google services with Salesforce.com's database, logic, and workflow capabilities.
First Certified Mobile WiMax Gear Arrives
The WiMax Forum projects that the number of certified products will grow from 10 today, to 100 by the end of the year, and more than 1,000 by 2011.
Verizon Says Fiber Network May Be Too Expensive For Some Areas
The company is exploring alternatives so it can roll out high-speed broadband Internet and video to rural areas where it may be too expensive to deploy its FiOS service.
Verizon Challenges AT&T For Residential Services
Verizon said it will expand its fiber-optic network into AT&T's U-verse territory in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for the first time.
Once-Doomed, NAC Revives Philadelphia's Wi-Fi Network
The original project ran into financing problems, and EarthLink pulled out of the effort after spending an estimated $20 million on its early deployment stage.
Tandberg Hopes VoIP Desk Phone Will Spur Unified Communications
The company is betting that the high-resolution video feature will help drive mass personalization of video communications in enterprises.
Dell Launches Storage Array With 2.5-Inch Drives
The PowerVault MD1120 delivers twice the I/O performance per 1U system as a similar device with 3.5-inch drives.
HDTV Home Theater Summer Blockbusters
Now playing: HDTV movies in your home, with a little help from Apple TV, Blu-ray, Netflix Player by Roku, Vudu, and Xbox Live Marketplace.
Intel Attacks Energy Waste
The company is collaborating with industry groups and vendors to build standards around advanced power management technologies.
NXP, Motorola, Nortel Boost Drive For LTE
The 3G-based wireless technology is popping up in networking equipment including ones capable of downloading an entire HD feature movie in less than 7 minutes.
Oregon State Wins 2008 Mars Rover Challenge
The team was commended for the way they used common household products in the competition, which involved geology, biology, basic engineering, construction, and emergency navigation.
Terremark Launches Utility Computing Service For Enterprises
Based on the Infinistructure virtualized utility platform, the company is billing the compute cycles and storage as a lump sum at the beginning of a multi-month contract.
Enterprise 2.0: Google, Amazon, Salesforce Push 'Cloud' Vision
Vendors at the Enterprise 2.0 conference tried to convince a group of seasoned IT pros that they should put all their data in the so-called cloud and leave it to outsiders to manage.
Microsoft, Kaiser Permanente Launch E-Health Record Pilot
The program will test the exchange of patient health data from Kaiser Permanente's My Health Manager e-health record system to Microsoft's HealthVault platform.
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UC Berkeley seeking Helpdesk Team Lead in Berkeley, CA
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