RIM has developed a knack for pulling customers into new BlackBerry devices. That's no mean feat. BlackBerry is the most …
Sun offers open-source encryption key management protocol
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced that it is throwing its hat into the standards arena, proposing that its open-source key management …
Alcatel-Lucent unveils new elements of LTE portfolio
To help wireless and converged service providers meet the accelerating demand for broadband wireless data services, Alcatel-Lucent today introduced a …
Microsoft, Red Hat sign interoperability agreements
In what came as a surprise to many Linux observers, Red Hat announced on the morning of February 16th that …
Loving the cloud
Back in 1991, before the Internet was a big deal, Ohio State University technologist Jerry Martin signalled the nascent Internet's …
Acer takes on smartphone market
Acer has jumped head first into the smartphone market with its Tempo family of devices. They are all touch-enabled and …
IBM leads IT out of the data center
IBM plans to help customers broaden IT's reach beyond the data center and into managing physical environments, cloud services and …
Cloud computing obstacles, opportunities
UC Berkeley researchers have outlined their view of cloud computing, which they say has great opportunity to exploit unprecedented IT …
WiMAX coverage to reach 800 million by 2010, Intel says
Intel expects WiMAX deployment to increase rapidly over the next year as the company projects that 800 million people worldwide …
IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy
Using cloud management software from IBM's Tivoli division and a Juniper network, the companies demonstrated a drag-and-drop interface for managing …
The incredible shrinking operating system
From the software concept called JeOS (pronounced “juice”), the Just Enough OS, to hardware concepts like Celio RedFly, an 8-inch …
IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy
IBM and Juniper on Monday provided a sneak peek at technology that lets enterprise IT managers easily reallocate computing resources …
Cisco’s new 11n gear
The new Aironet 1140 access point uses the same mounting hardware as Cisco's existing Aironet 1250 11n products. But it …
The WAN plan
Is WAN optimisation gaining popularity in the Middle East? What is driving the market? The Middle East market as a …
Extreme ships Summit X650
“With the Summit X650, Extreme Networks is the first and only network vendor to provide the market with a complete …
Quantum upgrades disk-based backup
Quantum last week upgraded its disk backup and remote replication DXi7500 device to include multi-site replication and direct tape creation …
Microsoft enhances office communication with better voice
Nearly 16 months after launching its unified communications platform and taking aim at replacing the venerable PBX, Microsoft now has …
Microsoft may go open source with Danger
Bloggers are abuzz about the possibility since one claims he received a query from a recruiter looking for a NetBSD …
Motorola to rely on Android to revive phone sales
Motorola said its mobile phone revenues fell by 51% in the fourth quarter of 2008, and said it plans to …
Trends that will change our lives
The past two years have been exciting ones for mobility, with the dawn of netbooks, 4G communications and the first …