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Airvana Upgrades Software For EV-DO Wireless Networks
The company's Release 7 enhances the current boradband infrastructure that has been developed by Qualcomm.
Aruba Posts Loss, Will Cut Staff
The wireless LAN vendor posted increased revenue, but its $6.4 million loss is making it join the long list of companies that will be cutting jobs.
Job Cuts At Akamai, Despite Net Usage Gains
Growth was driven by new undersea cable links, the launch of many global WiMax networks, and new fiber-to-the-premises services.
Tech Looks To Raise Bets On Health Care
One example is Intel, which earlier this month introduced a monitoring system that allows doctors to check in on patients with chronic conditions like diabetes from remote locations.
Readers Overwhelm EU's New Digital Library
Europeana.eu gives multilingual access to two million digitized books and other items of cultural and historical significance held in over 1,000 institutions in the 27 EU states.
Cell Phone Makers Go Green With Chargers
The companies have agreed to a common energy rating system that will enable customers to know which chargers are the most energy efficient.
YouTube Live Event Streamed From Virgin Airline
The demonstration will launch the airline's beta test of its Gogo in-flight Internet service.
Nokia Committed To TD-SCDMA Standard
By adhering to China's homegrown 3G standard, Nokia is poised to capitalize on the country's rapid mobile adoption rate.
CA To Overhaul Big Iron With Mainframe 2.0
The management company claims mainframes can represent only half the cost of distributed client-server architecture for light workloads.
Despite Downturn, Nortel CEO Keeps Upbeat Tone
Nortel's fortunes have soured as telecom companies scale back spending on the equipment it makes and the company faces intense competition from European and North American rivals.
Tech Researcher Slams 'Misleading' HP News Release
The Robert Frances Group said Hewlett-Packard misinterpreted its report on the advantages of upgrading old computer systems with energy-efficient ones.
Got IT Secrets? This Web Site Will Reward You Handsomely
Article One Partners is encouraging people to contribute their knowledge of "prior art" of important intellectual property.
Qualcomm To Use Skyhook For Hybrid Wi-Fi Positioning
Skyhook's software WPS detects Wi-Fi access points and then compares them against a database of geo-located points.
Sun To Cut 18% Of Jobs, Reorganize Software Business
Rich Green, executive VP for software since 2006, will leave the company, and the company's software operations would be divided between two new groups now focused on open source products.
Zenoss Monitoring Adds VMware Virtual Machine Visibility
Updates to the Zenoss 2.3 open source network management system include discovery and inventory of VMware-based virtual machines and detection of VM movement from one host to another.
VoiceCon Review: IT, Communications Can Help Weather Economic Storm
Unified communications, Microsoft, videoconferencing, cost savings, and the slowing economy dominated industry leaders' conversations in San Francisco this week.
ICANN Shutting Down EstDomains Nov. 24
Widely regarded as a haven for spammers and cybercriminals, EstDomains must now designate a recipient for the 281,000 domain registrations it manages.
Citrix Netscaler 9 Swats Web Spiders
Netscaler 9 helps Web apps attain fast response times for high-priority users, while fending off resource-consuming Web spiders, scrapers, and botnets, according to Citrix.
Google Introduces Search Crawler Caller
The software's control panel allows companies using Google's service to index their Web sites on demand.
Hyperic To Monitor Amazon Cloud From The Inside
The software will be installed as an Amazon Machine Image, a virtual machine file format based on Xen, and made available on Amazon's DevPay service.
IBM CEO Touts Smart Systems, Efficient Infrastructure
Supply chain inefficiencies cost the consumer products and retail industries an estimated $40 billion annually, or 3.5% of sales, IBM's Sam Palmisano pointed out.
25% Of DNS Servers Still Vulnerable To Kaminsky Flaw
Security researchers say that DNS will remain a primary exploit target because many people don't understand the Internet's domain name system.
Cray XT Jaguar Supercomputer Surpasses IBM Roadrunner
The official list of the world's 500 fastest computers, compiled by university and government scientists twice a year, is scheduled to be released next week.
VMware Brings Virtualization To Smartphones
The mobile virtualization platform could enable phone makers to bring handsets to market faster, and it could simplify migrating personal data off phones.
Web 2.0 Summit: HP, Cisco Chime In On Cloud Strategies
While some companies like Amazon have characterized cloud infrastructure as a low-margin business, HP sees infrastructure-as-a-service as "a big opportunity."
AMD, Red Hat Demo 'Live' VM Migration Across Platforms
The vendors posted a YouTube video showing the migration of a running virtual machine from an Intel Xeon-based server to one running AMD's quad-core Shanghai processor.
Avaya Pledges Continued Overhaul
Incoming CEO Kevin Kennedy is expected to hone Avaya's focus on usability of its IP telephony and unified communications systems to compete strongly against Cisco.
FCC OKs White Spaces, Spells Out Safeguards
While the move was promoted by Google, Microsoft, and Motorola and hailed by consumer groups, opponents warn that problems still lurk with the technology.
Cloud Computing Tools For Managing Amazon, Google Services
Getting the most out of Amazon's Web Services or Google's App Engine requires the right tools. We run down the benefits of Elastra, Coghead, Heroku, Enomaly, and Hyperic CloudStatus.
Sprint Won't Sell Nextel iDEN Network
The plan now is to partner with Motorola and move the iDEN spectrum out of the 800-MHz band in a way that will accommodate public-safety networks.
Avaya Appoints CEO As Giancarlo Becomes Chairman
Kevin Kennedy, currently CEO of communications manufacturer JDSU (formerly JDS Uniphase), will step in next January.
WiMax Coming To Remote Regions Of Vermont
FairPoint, Nortel, and Airspan Networks are investing in building out the 3.65 GHZ spectrum to help spur the use of fixed WiMax in many regions.
Aruba Launches Wireless Research Lab
One of the main focuses will be the environmental and societal impacts of an unwired enterprise, according to Aruba CTO Keerti Melkote.
LogMeIn Unveils Remote PC, Mac Access Over iPhone
Option settings include locking the remote computer's keyboard, blanking the screen, and modifying the screen resolution.
Cox's Wireless Service Links To DVRs, PCs
The announcement is something of a follow-on to Cox's pioneering use of the bundling of voice, video, and data, which it first announced in 1997.
7 Fantastic Internet Hoaxes
Despite our increasing technological sophistication, we can't help falling for email about Bigfoot, giant mutant cats, doomed tourists, and deadly butt spiders.
Sun Co-Founder Bechtolsheim Departs For Startup
Andy Bechtolsheim is leaving to focus on his latest startup, Arista Networks, which produces a high-speed Ethernet switch for cloud computing.
Wireless Carriers Increase Opposition To Free Wi-Fi Plan
Major mobile companies said the FCC's test results for nationwide wireless broadband are flawed and don't show how much nearby spectrum would be harmed.
Amazon.com Offers App Hosting On Windows Server
The offering is the latest in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service, which launched out of beta Thursday.
AT&T Completes Next-Gen IP BackBone Network
The 40-Gbps network will enable AT&T to keep up with the explosive customer demand for wireless Internet and IP-based services.
IBM, Intel Open Spec To BladeCenter Switch
By opening up the spec, IBM hopes more switch vendors will build products for the BladeCenter -- and it will sell more servers.
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds, Others Honored In Silicon Valley
The Computer History Museum also recognized Jean Bartik, one of the first programmers of ENIAC, and Bob Metcalfe, the father of Ethernet networking, at its annual Fellow Awards ceremony.
Google Told To Reveal Gmail 'Spybox' Account Info In CTO Espionage Case
A former iMerge partner is accused of installing a backdoor server in the company's hosting center to send proprietary and financial information to his Gmail account.
Australia May Allow In-Flight Cell Calls
The government's Communication and Media Authority is contemplating lifting existing bans on in-flight cell phone calls, texts, and GPRS data.
FCC Chairman Backs Use Of White Spaces
Advocates like Google say this spectrum can be used for innovative wireless service, but broadcasters and telecoms say it could interfere with nearby spectrum bands.
Intel Ships SSDs For Servers, Storage Systems
Intel plans to start sending samples of a 64-GB SSD this quarter to computer makers, with the larger drive set to go into production in the first quarter of next year.
Intel Acquires Ethernet Tech Maker NetEffect
NetEffect's products include 1-Gb and 10-Gb Ethernet adapters for servers and blade configurations.
Global Crossing Pushes Unified Communications Envelope
The company deployed Microsoft Office Communications Server to nearly all of its 5,000 employees, with nearly 20% of those workers making voice and video calls via the software.
Iomega Unveils Storage Appliance For Home, Small Businesses
The StorCenter ix2 includes 1 TB of storage, Bluetooth, an integrated iTunes server, and support for surveillance cameras.
Tech Stocks Slip While Wall Street Stabilizes
The leveling off occurred as the federal government announced that it would spend $250 billion to buy bank stock.
Verizon Business Offers Managed WAN Services
The service is already available on Juniper Networks offerings, and Verizon is including Cisco platforms as well.
Nearly 1 Million SMBs Are Candidates For 802.11n
Small businesses in the retail, real estate, warehouse, and trucking industries are good candidates for the wireless standard, according to a study from ABI Research.
Gartner Backtracks On Earlier IT Spending Growth Projections
Considering the world's current economic problems, Europe is now expected to suffer negative growth in 2009, while the United States and Japan will be flat, analysts with Gartner said.
U.S. Navy Intranet Realizes Big Savings Through Virtualization
EDS has helped the military in consolidating 1,200 x86 servers down to 200, each hosting multiple VMware ESX virtual machines.
Amazon To Cut S3 Storage Prices
Companies with more than 50 TB of data stored in the Internet giant's data center will see a price cut.
Huawei's Bid To Sell Mobile Unit Stalls
The company cited deteriorating financial market conditions as the reason for dropping the auction this week.
U.S. Wholesale IP Pricing Among World's Cheapest
Median monthly IP transit prices for 1,000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) in major U.S. cities were from $10 to $14 per Mbps in the second quarter, researchers found.
Contentonomics: HD Video Will Take Off When Its Business Model Works
With fast Internet connectivity, broadcasters have been reluctant to put video, particularly HD video, online, a panel of industry digital broadcasters suggests.
Wi-Fi May Help College Students Get Better Grades
But students can be distracted from classwork, too, as more than half in a survey said they checked Facebook or MySpace and sent or received e-mail while in class.
Dual-Band Router Showdown
Our reviewer picks the top networking gear from SMC, Apple, DLink, Linksys, and Netgear.
Sprint's Sale Of Nextel's iDEN Stalls
There are several hurdles to any acquisition of the Nextel digital network unit, not the least of which is its poor rankings in customer service polls.
Cisco, Microsoft Unveil Windows Server Appliance
In marketing the appliance, "Windows Server on WAAS" targets companies looking to avoid a full-blown deployment of the software, which is more than is needed in most branch offices.
Zenoss Aims Systems Management At Midsized IT
The Professional version of its open source systems management software supports the same 11 protocols as Enterprise Edition, including SMTP, RPC, HTTP, FTP, DNS, and POP 3.
IBM Launches Blade Storage System For SMBs
The BladeCenter S also can be used by large organizations looking to consolidate storage among branch offices.
Google Data Centers 'The Most Efficient In The World'
The company has launched a Web site to demonstrate its commitment to sustainable computing and encourage sustainable practices elsewhere.
Tech Sector Could Star In U.S. Economic Salvation
Universal broadband, spending on energy technologies, and alternative technologies could encourage the growth needed to come back from the Wall Street bailout, analysts conclude.
Snow Seen On Mars
The Phoenix Mars Lander detected snow falling from the Martian clouds about 2.5 miles above the planet's surface.
Space Station Invites Public To Very Long-Distance Chess Match
Students in kindergarten through third grade will get the first four moves against undefeated astronaut Greg Chamitoff.
Verizon Hits 100 Gbps In Optical Trial
The tests, conducted over the Verizon network in Dallas, paves the way for faster commercial services.
Google's Larry Page Calls FCC White Space Test 'Rigged'
The test back in August determined whether a prototype device for transmitting Internet traffic over the unused white space in the TV spectrum could interfere with microphones.
Cisco Broadens Its Web 2.0, Communications Portfolio
The company takes a swing at Microsoft and IBM with updates to WebEx Connect, Unified Communications System, and a partnership with Verizon.
Wi-Fi Network Launched For U.S. Soldiers In Iraq
The mesh network provides secure wireless Internet service for 20,000 U.S. troops serving at Joint Base Balad, the largest U.S. military base in the region.
IBM Upgrades Tivoli Dashboard For Monitoring Computer Operations
Systems Director 6.1 can reduce system administration and energy costs in a typical data center by nearly 30%, according to IBM.
HPC Helps Wall Street React Faster To Market Volatility
As the top-tier financial firms consolidate, their focus will turn inward, while second-tier firms are likely to turn to technology as a game-changer, not a cost-center.
Microsoft Opens $550 Million Data Center In San Antonio
The data center is one of a network of massive facilities being built to support Microsoft's push to offer cloud services.
Tech Bubble Figures Nacchio, Vilar Due In Court This Week
Both men played leading roles in the dot-com crash in which millions of investors lost vast sums of money.
Interop: Wall St. Turmoil Won't Slow Network Spending
About half of the respondents at the New York show reported that their budgets for security and network performance management are slated for increases.
Cisco To Acquire Jabber For Enterprise UC
Jabber's open source instant messaging and presence technology is expected to help Cisco's fight with Microsoft to become the leading supplier of real-time voice communications and data.
Interop: Networkers Want Tools To Separate Network, App Issues
An attendee survey found that the biggest concern about the network was quality of service, followed by lack of information about problems and their causes.
Google, General Electric Push Renewable Energy, Grid Technology
The companies are promoting development of hybrid electric plug-in vehicles and the electrical infrastructure necessary to support the so-called "smart grid."
Interop: Cisco Pushes Private Clouds
The company is bolstering existing services and consulting offerings for companies venturing down data center automation and virtualization paths.
Tech Spending Will Be Weaker In 2009 Than Predicted
The good news is that tech spending will be better than expected this year. The bad news is that next year things will be worse, said Forrester Research.
Interop: Juniper SRX Chassis Means Network Flexibility
Rather than having standalone devices stacked up, the SRX 5600 and 5800 chassis provide redundant power and cooling, and a fast backplane for moving data between ports.
InformationWeek 500 Trends: Web 2.0, Globalization, Virtualization, And More
What the InformationWeek 500 data tells us about the use of emerging technologies.
Company Offers Smartphone Deployment Manager
InterNoded's latest service enables IT departments to push applications to their fleet of mobile workers, as well as upgrade, activate, or wipe handsets.
Home Security Gets A Web Makeover
Forget the closet control panel, today's Internet- and smartphone-enabled home security systems allow browser-based management, SMS updates, live video feeds, and money-saving DIY options.
Japan Leads Broadband Study, U.S. Ranks 16th
The study predicts that download speeds of 11.25 Mbps and upload speeds of 5 Mbps will be necessary for good Internet experiences in a few years.
Alcatel-Lucent Launches Location-Based Service
The GMSP software will enable carriers to more easily offer location-based services like proximity social networking, mobile marketing, and family tracking.
10 Years Of Internet Images
Lumeta's arresting visual images represent the explosive growth of the online world. Between 1998 and 2003, the number of nodes on the Internet doubled. By 2008 nodes had increased five times.
Google-Backed 'O3b' Satellites Promise High-Speed Internet Access
Initially, 16 satellites will orbit near the equator to deliver connectivity to emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Sycamore Networks Continues Struggle With Sales
Sycamore said its revenue in the fourth quarter was $15.1 million -- down from $38 million in the fourth quarter in the previous year
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.
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