WAN optimization ranks among four technologies that research firm Gartner says have not been widely adopted in the midmarket – …
HP ProCurve network port Sales grows 20 percent
In a market that saw shipments decline for the majority of vendors of Layer 2 through Layer 7 switched ports, …
New smartphone controls may appeal to IT managers
Research in Motion Ltd. is hoping that the latest version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server will help convince skeptical IT …
Netbooks: All About the New Ultraportables
The term netbook, coined by Intel, conveys little useful information about this category of machines. Sure, they all have wireless …
Microsoft demos innovations at annual TechFest
If you've ever been frustrated with trying to determine who is speaking when listening to a conference call, help may …
3G netbooks: Are they the cell phones of the future?
Sometimes it seems that netbooks are everywhere. I've spotted them at airports, coffee shops and on commuter trains. No wonder …
Attackers exploit unpatched Excel vulnerability
For the second time in the past five days, security researchers are warning that hackers are exploiting a critical unpatched …
Check Point overhauls its security software architecture
Check Point is in the midst of a major overhaul of its security software architecture so customers can pick and …
More specialty Linuxes to the rescue
The day of the mold-your-own OS has come, and Linux is the clay. Linux provides free and open access to …
Collaborate on documents with Argone 7
In old times, you print out someone's work, scrawl all over it with pens and magic markers, and hand it …
‘Keep key projects off the chopping block’
There was a joke at the height of the Cold War: What should you do in the event of nuclear …
Ericsson, Orange deploy solar base-stations in Africa
Ericsson and Orange Guinea Conakry are deploying 100 mobile phone base stations in the African country of Guinea that use …
What does a real green data center look like?
Companies looking for a green data center model should take a look at the new facility Internap built in Somerville, …
Maintaining employee morale
As cutbacks abound, IT employees shoulder the burden of additional work and leaders struggle to maintain morale and employee productivity. …
Microsoft adds features to unified communications suite
The upgrade to Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 suite contains features targeted at driving IP-based communication within and outside of …
Nortel want to sell its application-delivery unit to Radware
Nortel wants to sell off its application-delivery gear to Radware, but to keep on selling it under an OEM agreement. …
Managed services faring well in bad economy
One market faring OK in the recession is managed services. As corporate IT staffing gets squeezed, more firms will find …
Intel goes to court in licensing spat with Nvidia
Intel went to court on Tuesday to resolve a licensing dispute with Nvidia over the latter's plan to build chipsets …
Early Mozilla mobile browser has ‘showstopper’ flaw
Perhaps pre-alpha was a bit too early for Mozilla to release its Fennec mobile browser for Windows Mobile. Early adopters …
Why Toshiba is buying Fujitsu’s HDD business
With the acquisition of Fujitsu 's hard-disk drive (HDD) business, Toshiba would position itself to become a leading contender in …