The future of technology always has roots in the past. And the past is indeed long in the case of …
Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable?
A range of companies with wireless LANs are discovering that 50% to 90% or more of Ethernet ports now go …
Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance
It's time we faced it: The Year of the Linux Desktop, long foretold, isn't coming. Year after year, breathless pundits …
Cautious optimism for the future
In the last month alone, we have had Mark Templeton (Citrix), David DeWalt (McAfee) and John Chen (Sybase) in this …
Microsoft gives server app virtualization sneak peek
Microsoft demonstrated for the first time its server application virtualization technology designed to enable on-demand deployment of applications. The technology …
Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management
Microsoft opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of …
On the offense
Showtime Arabia is the leading Pay TV network in the Middle East and North Africa, with the significant subscriber base …
Windows Mobile to get voice command capability
Microsoft has high hopes that a new speech-recognition application for the forthcoming Windows Mobile operating system will be attractive enough …
Google’s unveils search tool to help make sense of public data
Want to see how your area's unemployment rate stacks up against those in other locales around the country? Or would …
IBM to resell Brocade’s Foundry switches
Brocade has extended an OEM relationship with IBM to include its recently acquired Foundry switches in a deal that appears …
Group proposes cloud management standard
The Distributed Management Task Force announced it had formed a group to tackle management and interoperability issues that will arise …
How Bluetooth got as fast as Wi-Fi
Bluetooth last week stopped being chained to the low-power, low-throughput radio that has been both its strength and its weakness. …
Hands on: Running Windows 7 on a netbook
Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter …
Seven burning security questions
There's no shortage of burning questions about IT security these days, some sparked by nasty threats, others by economic concerns …
Storage service evolution
Storage as a Service (SaaS) involves transmission of the data over a network, in most cases over the Internet to …
SaaS it up
The present prevalent economic downturn has slowly started impacting telco’s cost and ability to serve customers. This growing problem may …
Sun moves on cloud despite uncertainty
Sun Microsystems, soon to be part of Oracle is a planned merger goes through, is proceeding with plans to ramp …
‘First Android netbook to cost about $250’
The first netbook computer running the Google Inc.-backed Android mobile operating system on a low-cost ARM chip could become available …
Cloud security stokes concerns at RSA
Cloud security has dominated discussions and drove the entire action at RSA Conference 2009. Throughout the event, attendees — who …
VMware to embed RSA security into vSphere 4
VMware and RSA announced a strategic plan to embed RSA’s data-loss prevention (DLP) and encryption technologies into VMware’s new vSphere …