Although we may take a wired world for granted, the consequence is that we rely on wires to connect us …
WLAN market shriveled globally in Q4 2008
The wireless LAN market shriveled at the end of 2008, according to new, if sketchy, data released by Infonetics. The …
Optical Ethernet for metropolitan nets
Ethernet has taken over sector after sector of the networking world, from workgroups to enterprise backbones. Now, a technology called …
10 Gigabit Ethernet is the one bright spot
The Ethernet switch market is feeling the effects of the sagging economy in a record-setting way, with Dell'Oro Group forecasting …
Android For Desktops? I Doubt It
For years, my friend Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols has been trying to turn Linux into something it is not: A successful …
Videophones dive into cool market
Tandberg and Polycom ventured again where many have failed before, each introducing a video phone for enterprise desktops. Image quality …
Motorola launches smaller rugged wireless devices
Motorola Inc. announced the smallest and lightest versions in its MC55 series of ruggedized enterprise digital assistants, offering two models …
Vendors face off in 11n ‘challenge’
When the wireless LAN controller architecture came into its own about half a decade ago, an exhausting, cutthroat features war …
Fibre Channel over Ethernet: allowing the big data-center synch
For the County of Los Angeles – with more than 10 million residents, the nation's largest county – the timing …
Moving to a unified wireless switch topology
Wireless access is quickly becoming essential in enterprise networks. With the arrival of 802.11n and its capacity of hundreds of …
Mobile browsers bring new security headaches
The new generation of mobile Web browsers is going to introduce for enterprise IT departments a rash of security challenges. …
Blackberry App Store Sets Recession-Defying Prices
Research In Motion (RIM) yesterday announced its application store for BlackBerry devices, now called as App World. The service, previously …
Users gain options for mobile voice encryption
U.S. President Barack Obama's dilemma over the security of his BlackBerry has given rise to an increased interested in systems …
Sybase unveils SMS services for mobile location and advertising
Sybase has announced two new mobile services based on SMS messaging, one for phone users to get turn-by-turn directions, another …